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Women's Bodies in Theory and Practice
This blog is created by students from Clemson University's spring 2009 course Women's Studies 459 - "Building Bodies: Women's Bodies in Theory and Practice." This class explores the construction of bodies from various methodological perspectives, focusing on five specific areas: theories of bodies; bodies and genders and sexes; “misbehaving” bodies; politics of bodies; and constructing bodies. We welcome comments and contributions to our posts and discussions.
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- Bodies Exhibit
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- how young is too young to decide?
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from the mouths of others...
"Well-behaved women seldom make history."
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
-Madeleine K. Albright
"It is not possible to address society's needs at any level while ignoring the perspectives, priorities, and knowledge of more than half of the world's population."
-Rosina Wilshire of UNDP
"Women give life. We have the capacity to give life and light. We can take up our brooms and sweep the earth."
-Isabelle Letelier
"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."
-Alice Walker
"Violence against women will end when legal, philanthropic, governmental and non-governmental organizations and impassioned individuals unite and stand up to say it is a priority, to say that the time for ending violence is now."
-Eve Ensler
"And ain't I a woman?"
-Sojourner Truth
"Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is frightening."
-Gertrude Stein
"Also we've found that when we discuss women's problems, we need the men to be present, so that they can contribute by giving their opinions of what to do about the problem. And so that they can learn as well. If they don't learn, they don't progress."
-Rigoberta Menchu (222)
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
-Madeleine K. Albright
"It is not possible to address society's needs at any level while ignoring the perspectives, priorities, and knowledge of more than half of the world's population."
-Rosina Wilshire of UNDP
"Women give life. We have the capacity to give life and light. We can take up our brooms and sweep the earth."
-Isabelle Letelier
"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."
-Alice Walker
"Violence against women will end when legal, philanthropic, governmental and non-governmental organizations and impassioned individuals unite and stand up to say it is a priority, to say that the time for ending violence is now."
-Eve Ensler
"And ain't I a woman?"
-Sojourner Truth
"Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is frightening."
-Gertrude Stein
"Also we've found that when we discuss women's problems, we need the men to be present, so that they can contribute by giving their opinions of what to do about the problem. And so that they can learn as well. If they don't learn, they don't progress."
-Rigoberta Menchu (222)
for reading, watching, and so on...
The Body: A Reader. Mariam Fraser and Monica Greco, eds. (Routledge, 2005).
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. Marjane Satrapi (Knopf, 2004).
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. Marjane Satrapi (Knopf, 2004).
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I like this video and I think that the issues in here are very important to the transgender community. But I wonder how the Equal Employment Opportunities laws do not help those who are transgendered. I know that some cases have been won citing the EEO laws. Perhaps this was solely people who were discriminated against when they had actually had a sex-change operation. I'm not sure. However, I think that it's sad that there is very little protection in the workplace and that so many are afraid to speak up about discriminatory practices.
ReplyDeleteBecca - there is another interesting story you might want to look up kind of related to this. There was an elected councilman or mayor in Florida, I think last year or the year prior, who had a sex change operation and was thrown out of office because of it. The justification is that s/he was not the person the community had not elected.
ReplyDeleteSomething interesting you might want to refer to in your research too -- sex is not a suspect class as defined by the Supreme Court, meaning, discrimination based on sex has much higher standards of proof than those of religion or race.