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What really struck me in the readings this week was how much change and progress occured on the local and personal level. With the exception of Cuba, there were few states discussed that underwent real legal and judicial reform in the area of women’s rights and reproductive rights. The widespread family planning efforts that MooneyContinue reading “Quarantine Week 3 Post”

April 6-10: In both nascent liberal states and dictatorial states, we see a clear and deliberate effort to regulate the personal lives of men, women, and families. These attempts essentially stem from the same impulse: control. It can be argued that a newly independent state is only attempting to regulate the personal lives of itsContinue reading “Missing Blog Posts(Weeks April 6-10 and April 13-17)”

In Bliss’ article, I was fascinated by women’s use of the mirrored ideas of sacrifice as an inherently female and revolutionary act, in terms of gender roles and the business of prostitution. In previous readings we’ve done, where often women subverted gender roles (or were victims of sexual abuse and assault) during the process ofContinue reading “Week Six: Reading Response”

The imagined roles of women were, practically, not that different in the struggles for Independence and the New Republics. They rest on the idea of “republican motherhood” that Chambers refers to in her article. During the civil wars for independence, women were asked to have very different practical roles in order to help the causeContinue reading “Week 5: Women and Nation”

When people attribute gender inequality in Latin America to European conquest they mean that the historical patriarchal and hierarchical structures that existed and oppressed women within Europe were then moved over to Latin America during conquest and used to oppress women in the “new world”. While the conquest certainly provided more than enough oppression ofContinue reading “Reading Response: Latin American Women and the Myth of (Colonial, Cultural) Patriarchy”

When reading the first two articles listed on the syllabus, written by Nina Lakhani and Paula Godoy, I was horrified but not surprised about the content. These two articles deal with the more explicit elements of the perversion and struggle both over women’s bodies and physically on them. Historically, women’s bodies have always been contestedContinue reading “Gender Violence and Research on Women/Gender/Sexuality Reading Response”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”