SUMMARY FOR GLOBAL SEXUALITIES

Western human nature is a product of social technology that reproduces the equation “nature = heterosexuality” on our bodies, architectures, and discourses. The heterosexual system is an epistemic regime and social apparatus that produces femininity and masculinity and operates by dividing and fragmenting the body: it cuts out organs and generates zones of high senseContinue reading “SUMMARY FOR GLOBAL SEXUALITIES”

ASSIGNED RESOURCES FOR GLOBAL SEXUALITIES

Leila J. Rupp is a historian, feminist, and professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is an alumna of Bryn Mawr College, a member of the well-known Seven Sisters women’s colleges in the US, where she received her Ph.D. in history. Together with Verta Taylor and Nancy Whittier, Rupp isContinue reading “ASSIGNED RESOURCES FOR GLOBAL SEXUALITIES”

ASSIGNED RESOURCES FOR FEMINIST FUTURES

In this assigned chapter—the concluding chapter to her 2012 book Feminisms Matter—Victoria Bromley describes the ways in which gender inequalities continue to impact women’s lives. Her focus is on violence against women, reproductive rights, paid and unpaid work, and broad feminist struggles for equality. Though the chapter emphasizes how inequality persists in Canada and theContinue reading “ASSIGNED RESOURCES FOR FEMINIST FUTURES”

BIG IDEAS + LESSON FOR GLOBAL SEXUALITIES

The Orient, once conceived in Foucault’s ars erotica and Said’s deconstructive work as the place of original release, unfettered sin, and acts with no attendant identities or consequences, now symbolizes the space of repression and perversion, and the site of freedom has been relocated to western identity. Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in QueerContinue reading “BIG IDEAS + LESSON FOR GLOBAL SEXUALITIES”

BIG IDEAS + LESSON FOR FEMINIST FUTURES

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. Arundhati Roy, Confronting Empire, 2003 Visionary thinking has often been central to feminist scholarship, literature, and activism. Take for instance the world making gesture that drives Christine de Pisan’s The Book of the City ofContinue reading “BIG IDEAS + LESSON FOR FEMINIST FUTURES”

SUMMARY FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

Reproduction through an Intersectional Lens This module has explored a central concern of feminist scholars and activists: reproductive justice. Although the first part of the module focused on women’s fight for reproductive rights in Canada, we also saw that women of colour collectives have developed the concept of reproductive justice to be more capacious thanContinue reading “SUMMARY FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE”

ASSIGNED RESOURCES FOR FAIRY TALES

. . .the feelings of love and happiness we associate with Disney Princess films bind us to particular representations of femininity. Julie Garlen and Jennifer Sandlin, “Happily (N)ever After” in Feminist Media Studies, vol. 17, 2017, pp. 959 The article that we’re reading for this module was published in an issue of the feminist scholarlyContinue reading “ASSIGNED RESOURCES FOR FAIRY TALES”

BIG IDEAS + LESSON FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

Introduction This module is divided into two sections. While the first section will provide an overview of reproductive rights and abortion debates in Canada, the second section will focus on the concept of reproductive justice. Abortion Politics and Law in Canada This part of the module covers the following two issues: A note on language:Continue reading “BIG IDEAS + LESSON FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE”