rovaira November 5, 2008 at 11:44 am
# No Comment YetThis class is an emotional rollercoaster.
I’ve said it once; I’ll say it again.
Every Thursday I can expect to reach a level of understanding of society that I’ve yet to experience before. And then, subsequently, I fall to a gloomy state of depression when that inevitable question arises: “How can we fix this?”
Because yes, things need [...]
November 3, 2008 at 3:02 am
# No Comment YetCategorization and social classification are the first steps towards hierarchical polarization.[1]They have been frequently applied in many processes of devaluing people, cultures and societies. Throughout history, we have constantly witnessed a dominant group play this tactic to trigger power dynamics and create hegemony. Whether it is used as the excuse of a patriarchic society’s rejection [...]
chealy November 3, 2008 at 12:44 am
# 3 CommentsEconomics as taught in the United States today is rarely presented as a divided field. Though students may be taught about controversies such as how the environment should be valued in a traditional economic model, competing theories to capitalism as it is practiced in the United States are almost never presented. If [...]
margauxr November 3, 2008 at 12:44 am
# 2 Comments“The feminist Equal Opportunity process, when not complemented by the other feminist transformative processes, is a trap which prevents the full liberation of women.”
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“Equal opportunity” has been shoved down the throats of women since the women’s suffrage movement when women gained the equal in opportunities of men in the right to vote in politics and [...]
mshariat November 3, 2008 at 12:19 am
# 4 CommentsHardly a day goes by without multiple articles being published on the economic crisis. The markets are unstable, and no one is quite sure what is going to happen. As the government tries to help the economy with many plans, few are talking about the greed and immorality that helped cause the economic [...]
spatel November 3, 2008 at 12:04 am
# No Comment YetTaking Feminist economics has reminded me of the long struggle that women went through and are still going through to create an equal world. At the same time it has been a person trip down memory lane because it has reminded me of the struggles that my mother encountered throughout her career. [...]
tangkai November 2, 2008 at 11:43 pm
# No Comment YetThe Super mom. The image comes to the mind of this individual is that super mom able to be a have finished her legal brief, cooked breakfast, dropped the kids, set up an appointment with the prosecutor and dropped food for Meals on Wheels and picked up the dry cleaning all before 9:00. She values [...]
msung November 2, 2008 at 11:09 pm
# 2 CommentsMy mother and I were walking to the department store one afternoon while we were living in Shanghai. It was a short enough distance from the subway stop to the store, but my mother refused to let me travel alone in that particular area—foreigners were often targeted by thieves, and even though my [...]
akim November 2, 2008 at 11:03 pm
# 3 CommentsIn a July 1999 issue of the Financial Times, Thomas Barlow in his article “Tribal Workers” states, “Today’s generation of high-earning professionals maintain that their personal fulfillment comes from their jobs and the hours they work. They should grow up…” I never fully understood what he meant until I interned this past summer at an [...]
laura.pinheiro November 2, 2008 at 10:58 pm
# 3 CommentsThe social constructs of our culture have created “hierarchical polarization,” which essentially divides people into distinct, polarized categories and then places one above the other. Examples of this include men versus women, black versus white, gay versus straight and rich versus poor. In my feminist economics class, we’ve been learning about the feminist transformative movement, [...]