including persons with disabilities. Equality, human rights and sustainability must be core principles for promoting decent employment and universal social protection. Affirmative action should be taken for women with disabilities considering the intersectionalities between gender and disabilities. Analysis and comments
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Sterilization of Women and Justice During the 1960s and 1970s, Chicana women in Los Angeles went to the LAC+USC Medical Center to give birth. While there, these women were coerced into signing certain forms. They would be asked to sign these consent forms at inappropriate times, such as during labor, or would be threatened with their death or the death of their child if they did not allow consent for certain procedures. These consent forms allowed doctors to perform a tubal ligation on these women
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At the Ballet: The Experiences of the Black Ballerina Historically, there have been strict norms for femininity in ballet which have remained relevant in modern times; ballerinas are expected to be lean and willowy, tall and blonde, in which is reflection of the traditional body ideal of classical Russian ballet. They are expected to use light, graceful, and fluid movements, which in turn established the body ideal. Uniformity is desired among the female dancers, as the art form requires symmetry
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activist, but, after being suspended from her high school in San Antonio and rejected from a college scholarship because of her pregnancy, she had to take a stand for herself and others. One of the biggest take always from Lorretta Ross is her intersectionality among racism, women’s issues, and human rights. Ross, being an activist, started Reproductive Justice along with eleven other women in 1994. After a health care reform tried to exclude women’s reproductive health care, Ross and the other women
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In “Invisible Black Women Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement: The Triple Constraints of Gender, Race, and Class,” by Bernice McNair Barnett, Barnett explores the intersectionality of race, gender, and class and its effects on African American women and their unique experience in the Civil Rights Movement. During the Civil Rights Movements, women were allowed to participate, and they even played essential roles that helped to further the movement. From helping to organize the famous Bus Boycott
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Middle Childhood Growing up, I had to learn to be more mature than what my age depicted. I was adept at taking care of not only myself but my three younger brothers; being assigned this role around the "middle childhood" age was challenging, causing me to acquire the development for new capabilities. My social development was not necessarily flourishing at this point in time, due to cumulative disruption in my home-life. This led up through my adolescence and even has a tendency to continually
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According to Heldke & O’Connor (2004:530), oppression means the unfair treatment of people by the ruling group. People are not always oppressed by cruel tyrants with bad intentions. Oppression also creates injustice in other circumstances, as well. In many cases, a well-intentioned liberal society can place system wide constraints on groups and limit their freedom. Oppression can be the result of a few people’s choices or policies that cause embedded unquestioned norms, habits, and symbols These
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majority race; (5) Voices of colour, occurs when the dominant group’s recollection of historic events excludes racial and other minority perspectives to justify and legitimise its power; and (6) Anti-essentialism/intersectionality, occurs when critical race theory recognises the intersectionality of various oppressions and suggests a primary focus on race can obscure other forms of exclusion (Abrams & Moio,
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It was incredible watching the faces around me as the panellists spoke, it included faces of wonder and learning, as well as, faces of pride. This event links to many topics in the course, some include oppression, resistance, and intersectionality. This event links to the concept of oppression because they discussed the historical aspect of oppression towards the Black community, both through systems such as the government including education, in addiction too oppression caused by racism
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Destiny J. Green SOC 501 Critical Reaction: Critical Race Theory “Waiting to Exhale…” While delving into the assigned literature for this week, I noticed that it controlled me—my soul sometimes evoked a sense of pride, waves of applause, but most of all, anger. I immediately became aware of the forced sense of solidarity that I am assigned, the voice that always whispers to me when one of “us” appears intelligent: “Yes, these authors made us look like we had some sense! Look how analytical they
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