Third gender

Multicultural Education Autobiography and Reflection Throughout the entire course, as a class we have covered a variety of different topics ranging from ethnicity to gender and sexual orientation. Some of the topics covered in our class were easier to discuss while being able to express our own thoughts. Other topics were topics that we had been aware of, yet we did not feel so comfortable discussing because as humans we tend to care what others might think of us when we speak up. For example,…

leadership is needed to make a change, and the leaders in North Carolina need to realize the issue they are bringing to light. Much more harm than good will come from thins bill. There are different steps that could be taken to reduce the risks of other genders in the restroom besides removing their anti-discrimination rights completely. I think although this is an awful situation we have at this time, there are many changes we can take to stop it. We can advocate for the LGBT…

more focused on gender relations as they go over the meaning behind feminism, feminist movements, and feminism’s involvement in development. Peet and Hartwick explain that there are three important movements that describe feminists’ struggles throughout history. The first movement occurred between the 19th and 20th centaury, in which people focused on women’s rights, such as the right to vote, property rights, and overall equity. The second movement shows how capitalism is a very gender-biased…

When discussing the successes of development in Third World countries, subjectivity plays a key role in its determination . What a person in a First World country considers development and that of a person who lives in a Third World country will vary greatly due to their individual ideas of what constitutes development. In its planning, “poverty,” “education,” “[gender] equality,” “environmental sustainability,” among others, are listed as goals to be met (United Nations MDG Report 2014). These…

the third world. Mohanty’s purpose is not to question the knowledge and value of Western feminist writings on women in the third world, but to uncover ethnocentric universalism (presuppositions and implicit principles). She claims that women in the third world are portrayed as sharing a homogeneous oppression. Instead, she asks Western feminists to take into account the complex interaction between social, economic, class, religion, culture, etc. frameworks before describing women in the third…

In most third world countries they do not have as much freedom as we do in America, and they are limited to a lot of things such as work, education system, and dressing in some manner. In America we able to do all these things without punishment or restriction,…

A Reaction to Narayan’s Dislocating Cultures. Uma Narayan’s article raises multiple questions about how third world issues are perceived by western bodies. In her article, Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism, she looks at the “‘effects’ that national contexts have on the construction of feminist issues and the ways in which understandings of issues are then affected by border crossings across national boundaries” and how culture is invoked in explaining the…

disabilities. Whereas other people think that normal means to be living life to the fullest, with no restraints. I on the other hand believe that there is no such thing as normal. I will be discussing the effects that dominant groups, cultural and gender norms have on the term “normal”. Dominant groups are those of the majority, and they hold a higher social status, power and privileges; than those of subordinate groups. The dominant group in the United States are those who are men, Caucasian,…

Members of the LGBTQ community should not be discriminated against because of their gender and sexual preferences. They should be able to marry the person they desire and be able to live as the gender they identify with, without having to worry about how their peers will treat them. Discrimination against gay and transgendered people is as equally important as any other civil rights issue.…

prevalent as Huckleberry Finn was still a small hindrance to my enjoyment of the piece, I find I would be much more invested if I were to read the complete text. Green 4 In the extracts that use third-person point of view, which character is the focus of the writer's attention and interest? The extracts that used third person point of view were “Lord of The Flies” and “A Little Bush Maid”. I found the extract from “Lord of the flies” was interesting because of it following “Ralph” and “Jack”.…