The role of Categorization in Cultural Hegemony—Hierarchical Polarization Processes in Colonization
November 3, 2008 at 3:02 am
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Categorization 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 [...]
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“Feminist” Economics?
chealy November 3, 2008 at 12:44 am
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Economics 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 [...]
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Seven Processes are Better than One!
margauxr November 3, 2008 at 12:44 am
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“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 [...]
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Injecting the Feminine into the Economy: Valuing Care and Morality in the Markets
mshariat November 3, 2008 at 12:19 am
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Hardly 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 [...]
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spatel November 3, 2008 at 12:04 am
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Taking 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. [...]
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The Alternative Economy
msung November 2, 2008 at 11:09 pm
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My 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 [...]
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Parenting the Professionals
akim November 2, 2008 at 11:03 pm
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In 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 [...]
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Walking in My Mother’s Shoes
naanaju November 2, 2008 at 10:09 pm
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Walking in my mother’s shoes
Should I be ashamed of the kind of life I lead? Should I have looked down on the life my mother led?
Growing up as a child in a rural village, I saw the kind of woman my mother was and vowed never to be like her. [...]
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Weaving Feminism into Rural Thailand
Alison M April 14, 2008 at 9:46 am
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When we signed up to spend four months in rural northeast Thailand studying community development for our junior semester abroad, pretty much all my 23 American classmates and I knew about what we were getting ourselves into was just that: we were about to spend four months in rural northeast Thailand (also known as Isaan). [...]
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What do your parents do?
eeyore7485 April 7, 2008 at 1:35 am
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Age 5, Kindergarten:
My daddy is a doctor, but not the kind that gives you medicine…people call him Dr. Shin. He has a boring job at a desk with lots of papers. My mommy does nothing. She stays at home.
Age 10, Fifth Grade:
I went to Take Your Daughter to Work Day with my dad. [...]
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