Category: academic
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A feminist critical review of Alexander & Hines’ research paper
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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,…