Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination. Documents menu Black feminist thought demonstrates Black women's emerging power as agents of knowledge.
By portraying African-American women as self-defined, selt-reliant individuals confronting race, gender, and class oppression, Afrocentric feminist thought speaks to the importance that oppression, Afrocentric feminist thought speaks to the importance that knowledge plays in empowering oppressed people. One distinguishing feature of Black feminist thought is its insistence that both the changed consciousness of individuals and the social transformation of political and economic institutions constitute essential ingredients for social change.
New knowledge is important for both dimensions ot change. Lorber-night-to-his-day. Reproductive Justice Virtual Library - BerkeleyLaw. CRRJ Reproductive Justice Virtual Library Now, there's a simple way to begin or deepen your understanding of reproductive justice You can introduce yourself to RJ or deepen your understanding of it right here.
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Flor Alicia's is one of many cases of relatives threatened or murdered for the human rights activities of their family members. It's All In the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation - COLLINS - 2009 - Hypatia. Women's Studies. Women as Academic Authors, 1665-2010 - Special Reports. 1665-1970321,368 authors 1971-1990609,635 authors 1991-20101.1 million authors All years2.0 million authors Anthropology 27.2% female authors(45,099 authors) 32 subfields Classical studies 19.6% female authors(21,069 authors) 22 subfields Cognitive science 30.2% female authors(17,584 authors) 6 subfields Demography 32.5% female authors(15,201 authors) Ecology and evolution.
Understanding the Complexities of Gender: Sam Killermann at TEDxUofIChicago. The social paradox of gender. The Feminization of Poverty. "Poverty is the worst form of violence.
" –Mahatma Gandhi What is the "feminization" of poverty? The feminization of poverty is the phenomenon in which women experience poverty at rates that are disproportionately high in comparison to men. Though in industrialized nations a great emphasis is placed on women shattering the glass ceiling and climbing the corporate ladder (and rightly so), the most unquestionably pressing and widespread socioeconomic issue faced by women around the world is poverty--and often extreme poverty at that.
Feminization of Poverty .pdf. Biocolonialism as Imperial Science. Feminism 101: Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination. Posted by Winter in Feminism 101.
Trackback This is the second in a series of posts offering readings in feminist theory. We hope that these posts will make some important feminist ideas more accessible to people who haven’t read much theory. International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. The failure to protect indigenous women from violence. Forced Sterilization of Native Americans: Late Twentieth Century Physician Cooperation with National Eugenic Policies.
California Seeks Answers On Questionable Prison Sterilizations. Hide captionLawmakers in California have called for an internal audit after an investigation revealed that women were receiving sterilization procedures improperly at several state prisons, including the Valley State Prison for Women, pictured here in 2000.
Gary Kazanjian/AP Lawmakers in California have called for an internal audit after an investigation revealed that women were receiving sterilization procedures improperly at several state prisons, including the Valley State Prison for Women, pictured here in 2000. Sitting in her San Francisco living room, Kimberly Jeffrey is combing her son Noel's hair. He groans, but she meets his energy with calm — and adoration. Noel's birth was not an easy time. "As I was laying on the operating table, moments before I went into surgery, [medical staff] had made a statement," Jeffrey recalls. 'A Real Conflict Of Direction'
Excerpt Forced Sterilization in Multnomah County, OR. Sterilization Racism and Pan-Ethnic Disparities of the Past Decade The Continued Encroachment on Reproductive Rights. Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. Female Presidents. Born into a rich Christian family, she was educated in the USA.
Louis.Theroux.Under.The.Knife.WS.PDTV.XviD-REMAX.avi. Eugenics: Compulsory Sterilization in 50 American States. Lutz Kaelber, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Vermont Presentation about "eugenic sterilizations" in comparative perspective at the 2012 Social Science History Association: 1, 2.
American eugenics refers inter alia to compulsory sterilization laws adopted by over 30 states that led to more than 60,000 sterilizations of disabled individuals. Many of these individuals were sterilized because of a disability: they were mentally disabled or ill, or belonged to socially disadvantaged groups living on the margins of society. American eugenic laws and practices implemented in the first decades of the twentieth century influenced the much larger National Socialist compulsory sterilization program, which between 1934 and 1945 led to approximately 350,000 compulsory sterilizations and was a stepping stone to the Holocaust.
Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's The Eugenics Archive utilizes Flash for enhanced search features, cross referencing, and interactive images created with Zoomifyer.
Get the Flash plugin at Adobe.com. The Eugenics Archive will open in a new window. I prefer the original, HTML-only Eugenics Archive site, take me there. Eugenics Archive Blog Sterilization Laws Based on a task force recommendation, the North Carolina legislature is considering paying $50,000 to living individuals sterilized by the state against their will or without their knowledge.
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