Female genital cutting

Do we really have the right to speak up about female genital mutilation, cutting, or circumcision? In Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s article, Under the Western Eyes, she critiques the western feminist literature. In her article, she points out that these feminist literatures tend to assume that all women are the same globally. After rereading Mohanty’s article as well as articles by Richard Shweder and Christine Walley, I was able to compare them to the sources Georgina and I used for our class…

for humans, or women, rights and traditional customs. * What is female circumcision? Female circumcision refers to a range of procedures performed on the genitals of females of all different ages, though mainly on teenage girls aged from 4 to 12 years old before they go through puberty. It basically consists of the partially or totally removal of female external genitals. According to Alison in her article “Female Circumcision: A Critical Appraisal”, published in 1988, this practice…

Human nature has a dark and violent side, which includes the female species. A new set of studies suggests it’s a “Mean Girls” world out there, and aggressive competition may be rooted deep in evolution. Women willing to duke it out, hence Jerry Springer’s career fascinates humans. We love when women who go ballistic and throw chairs at female enemies. However, we also tend to downgrade aggressive behavior in women, dismissing it as unusual. Women of all ages have shown a side of them that is…

2016, 177). The story explicates how a figurehead named Bata describes himself as a woman after cutting off his own penis after having been accused of adultery (Matić 2016, 177). Matić concludes that binary gender norms are reaffirmed through this story as rather than evidence for additional genders through the logic that one is a male with a certain set of secondary sexual characteristics, and one is female with a different set of secondary sexual characteristics.…

Aristophanes hoped to lead them to a certain view point on love. Apart from the repeating themes of myth and folklore, in his speech Aristophanes also repeatedly uses examples of the changes in the size and shape of human beings, changes in the genitals' positions, changes when split in half, and the origins of sexual orientation. Aristophanes describes the feeling of the inability to describe what makes humans beings feel whole when they are with their other halves. He sees the finding of the…

The will to decimate spiritual purity and completely shame women through physical and emotional destruction is deeply imprinted within the imbalances of the world. Female genital mutilation, breast ironing, honor killings, acid attacks, sex trafficking, underage marriage, forced illiteracy and rape as weapons of war are just some of the atrocities forced upon women globally. These brutalities that women and children endure around the world not only show the wicked placement of power, but also…

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In society, people are expected to look and act a certain way depending on if they are male or female. The physical differences of the body that helps determine if someone is male or female are known as a person’s sex. While a person’s sex focuses more on telling a woman and man apart physically, gender is what a person concentrates on more when determining the type of behavior that is appropriate for each sex. An example of gender is the expectation of men being masculine while women are…

woman’ and ‘strong female character’ have undertones of the patriarchal division of gender roles. The idea of this empowering woman is not a new concept and can be seen as early as the late 1960s. “…the new, liberated woman can today be found on every college campus and in every sizeable American city… the politically alert, fiercely autonomous, and…

unfinished bedroom, the foxes, the calendars as well as their placement and the horses, along with the narrators slow seperation from the male world, Munro 's story is one that attempts to illuminate the cultually built distinction between male and female. Before we are told the gender of the narrator, she is introduced by speaking of her fathers fox skinning business admiringly, and she even suggests that the smell of the dead fox is “reassuringly seasonal”, which is to say, it is a…