Alexander & Hines’ (2002) research has contributed to the highly controversial topic on the origin and development of sex (or gender) – related preferences in toys. According to their findings, vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus) show sex – related differences in toy preferences, like the ones human children do. Although, their sample was large (88… Continue reading A feminist critical review of Alexander & Hines’ research paper
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The embodiment of patriarchy into docile female bodies; from ancient Mesopotamia to today’s West Nepal
From the biology of the sexes to the social construction of gender “Sexual attributes are a biological given, but gender is a product of historical process. The fact that women bear children is due to sex; that women nurture children is due to gender, a cultural construct. It is gender which has been chiefly responsible… Continue reading The embodiment of patriarchy into docile female bodies; from ancient Mesopotamia to today’s West Nepal
Book review: “The securitization of rape: women, war and sexual violence”, by Sabine Hirschauer
The securitization of rape: women, war and sexual violence. By Sabine Hirschauer. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. €96.29. ISBN 978 1 13741 081 8. Available as e-book. I. Introduction Wartime rape is something much more than single incidents of rape during war. This phenomenon is also called mass wartime rape, indicating the extra – ordinary numbers… Continue reading Book review: “The securitization of rape: women, war and sexual violence”, by Sabine Hirschauer
The development path of Singapore since 1965; from an absurdity to a matured economy
Abstract This paper examines the development path of Singapore since 1965, the year when Singapore gained its independence. This study is a non – extensive literature review using data from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Department of Statistics and the Monetary Authority of Singapore and information from other scholars’ studies. The objects… Continue reading The development path of Singapore since 1965; from an absurdity to a matured economy
What will be the future of international protection of human rights?
Human rights, along with peace and development, have constituted one of the three pillars of the Charter of the United Nations (UN), since it was signed in 1945. Much progress has been made by now, although some emblematic failures tend to prove some major shortcomings on the international protection of human rights. Even though the… Continue reading What will be the future of international protection of human rights?
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… Continue reading Intersectionality
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… Continue reading Εικαστική ψυχοθεραπεία: ιστορία και προσεγγίσεις
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,… Continue reading The psychological aspects of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
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… Continue reading Let’s talk about perinatal intimate partner violence and obstetric violence
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… Continue reading To see and be seen; the gaze in cinematic narratives