Tag: feminism
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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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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,…
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The experience of immigrant African women with the western maternity care system; a feminist analysis of the female body
Abstract In this paper I look onto the experiences of immigrant African women with the western maternity system. I start with a short exploration on the difference between the Western and the African maternity care system. I use the papers of Berggren et al. (2006) and Brown et al. (2010) as primary references and I…