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Intersectionality
Oppression can be fragmented but it usually acts in a multilevel of power dynamics. Sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, ableism, sizeism; these are some forms of oppression that people experience in our culture everyday. We can be easily aware of all these separately, but sometimes these individual forms of oppression can be combined with others…
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Εικαστική ψυχοθεραπεία: ιστορία και προσεγγίσεις
Ιστορία της εικαστικής ψυχοθεραπείας Η δημιουργική παρόρμηση του ανθρώπου αποτυπώνεται ήδη από τα 30.000 με 10.000 περίπου χρόνια π.Χ., όταν ο Homo Sapiens άρχισε να σχεδιάζει στους βράχους και να φτιάχνει αντικείμενα. Από τα πιο αντιπροσωπευτικά έργα της εποχής είναι οι ζωγραφιές στις παλαιολιθικές σπηλιές στο Lascaux της Γαλλίας. Οι διάσημοι ταύροι, επιζωγραφισμένοι πάνω σε…
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The psychological aspects of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
*I want to start with a declaration. Female Genital Mutilation is not something that happens only in non – Western countries. Europe is very much affected as well, counting around 600.000 women living circumcised. While the main (western) human rights campaigns focus mostly on Africa, underlying the undoubtedly devastating consequences of FGM on women’s lives,…
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Let’s talk about perinatal intimate partner violence and obstetric violence
Many women have experienced and continue to experience perinatal abuse, which consists of violence prior and during pregnancy, obstetric violence and postpartum violence. This phenomenon is quite complicate, since the literature talks about perinatal intimate partner violence (e.g. Silverman et al., 2006; Alhusen et al., 2013; Brown et al., 2008; etc.) and obstetric violence (e.g…
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To see and be seen; the gaze in cinematic narratives
“When you look at somebody they’re also always looking at you. . . Of course, it’s political but it’s also about cinema”i. While I was in the Netherlands as an Erasmus exchange student, I enrolled in some gender studies courses, trying to dig deeper into feminist theory and history. “Sexuality in contemporary media culture” definitely…
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Femicides: a new challenge to human rights law?
Abstract This essay is about the phenomenon of femicides, the most extreme act of gender – based violence. Through an exploration of the ongoing subject of femicide versus homicide and the placement of the feminist theory for this subject, the challenge for the phenomenon to be seen as real and not a radical feminist idea,…