Conduct research on how 3 non-profit organizations address a women’s/feminist issue on the local, state, and national levels.

Domestic violence against women

Conduct research on how 3 non-profit organizations address a women’s/feminist issue on the local, state, and national levels.

 

What places Illinois woman at risk for HIV/AIDS? What are the symptoms of HIV/AIDS in women? How can a woman reduce her chances of contracting HIV?

Woman and AIDS

This is a research paper that is talking about woman and AIDS and the thesis that I want to develop are:

  • What places Illinois woman at risk for HIV/AIDS?
    What are the symptoms of HIV/AIDS in women?
    How can a woman reduce her chances of contracting HIV?

According to Hunt ( 2004)Gender Analysis can be used to ensure that men and women are not disadvantaged by development activities, to enhance the sustainability and effectiveness of activities, or to identify priority areas for action to promote equality between women and men. Discuss.

GENDER

According to Hunt ( 2004)Gender Analysis can be used to ensure that men and women are not disadvantaged by development activities, to enhance the sustainability and effectiveness of activities, or to identify priority areas for action to promote equality between women and men. Discuss. *(25 Marks)*

What are the environmental implications of these activities and the relational systems they represent in your life?

Day In Your Life and Environmental Impacts

Take a journal or notepad with you throughout a single day that you choose in a time frame that will enable you to complete this assignment on time (see the Class Schedule in the Syllabus for due dates). Make note of your activities throughout the day and how they are enmeshed in local, regional, or even international relational systems.

What are the environmental implications of these activities and the relational systems they represent in your life? Submit your results here and to the “Assignments” forum in the Discussions tool.

You should aim for a paper that is 750-1000 words (3-4 pages) in length, not including references or your journal, which you make include as an appendix.

In your post to the “Assignments” discussion board, outline the most important learning you discovered.

 

How does blaming victims of sexual and physical abuse contribute to the enforcement of gender norms established in a patriarchal culture? What challenges do women face when they choose to prosecute a rapist? What about men who choose to prosecute? How are gender roles and the social construction of gender replicatchoed in the U.S. court system?

Social construction of gender replicatchoed

How does blaming victims of sexual and physical abuse contribute to the enforcement of gender norms established in a patriarchal culture? What challenges do women face when they choose to prosecute a rapist? What about men who choose to prosecute? How are gender roles and the social construction of gender replicatchoed in the U.S. court system?

 

Analyze the lack of closure “Confession” offers, i.e. none. What gendered conflicts does the ending of this plot refuse to resolve? What is the story using this open ending to say about gender stereotypes, assumptions, expectations and/or anxieties, e.g., with respect to women’s capacity for violence? What, by extension, is the story saying about the Borden case?

Confession analysis

This assignment asks you to analyze “Confession” by Edith Wharton in relation to the gender stereotypes, assumptions, expectations and/or anxieties surrounding the Lizzie Borden case. You’ll focus on a particular aspect of your chosen story, and use it to make an argument about the story’s engagement with the Lizzie Borden case and its associated gender issues. Specifically, you may choose to analyze one or more characters, the use of dramatic irony, or the ending of your chosen story. Full details regarding suggested topics may be found below.

1) Analyze one or more of the main characters in “Confession” in terms of gender. (Think about the attributes the characters are assigned and how those attributes reflect or depart from the stereotypical attributes of conventional femininity/masculinity in the 19th century. Think about how things end up for each of them, too.) What is the story using these characters to say about gender stereotypes, assumptions, expectations and/or anxieties, e.g., with respect to women’s capacity for violence? What, by extension, is the story saying about the Borden case?

2) Analyze the use of dramatic irony in “Confession.” (Find all the places where Severance’s perspective is limited compared to other characters’ and or readers’ perspectives.) What purpose does dramatic irony serve with respect to the meaning of this work? What is the story using this literary device to say about gender stereotypes, assumptions, expectations and/or anxieties, e.g., with respect to women’s capacity for violence? What, by extension, is the story saying about the Borden case?

3) Analyze the lack of closure “Confession” offers, i.e. none. What gendered conflicts does the ending of this plot refuse to resolve? What is the story using this open ending to say about gender stereotypes, assumptions, expectations and/or anxieties, e.g., with respect to women’s capacity for violence? What, by extension, is the story saying about the Borden case?

Some questions that you might want to answer include: what does feminism mean to you? How has your understanding of feminism been impacted by the world around you? What are your most memorable experiences of feminist activism?

Feminism In Daily Life

Feminism in Daily Life Assignment (750 – 1000 words)

In Living a Feminist Life, Sara Ahmed bring feminism home.

Make a link between something in the world around you (a newspaper article, meme, piece of artwork, movie, tv show, etc.) and a topic or issue from the course. This may be a personalized account or more centred on social/educational observation, but must draw on at least one course reading.

Some questions that you might want to answer include: what does feminism mean to you?

How has your understanding of feminism been impacted by the world around you? What are your most memorable experiences of feminist activism?

Your paper should meet the following criteria:

  • State the problem, question or concern you have decided to explore.
  • Clarify how this inquiry connects to your own experience/interests and relates to course content.
  • Draw on at least three sources.
  • One of these sources must be a resource from class material (it does not have to be something we have read already).
  • In your final paragraph, you might want to pose some questions or areas of further exploration

 

Prepare and submit a 500- to 750-word “reflection” on one or more of the readings assigned for a given week twice during the semester.

Review on Article(The Everyday Life of Queer Trauma)

2 Reflection Papers (7.5% each; 15% in total – one responding to your choices of weeks 2-4, the second for any other week of the course)

Prepare and submit a 500- to 750-word “reflection” on one or more of the readings assigned for a given week twice during the semester.

Generate provocative questions; ones that will stimulate discussion among members of the class.

 

Identify an issue that is relevant to one of your communities begun to explain the various forces at work in the context of that environmental issue.

Mapping Terrains of Feminist Knowledge Building in Eco-Gender Studies

Complete a conceptual map and submit your drawing, PPT, Word Doc, etc. as an attachment here. Please also post a copy to the “Assignments” forum in the Discussions tool.

Conceptual mapping can be a useful tool to illustrate, or create a diagram of, the broad components of any particular concept or issue.

In the case of this exercise, you have the opportunity to create a visual representation of the forces impacting a particular eco-feminist/environmental issue for the purpose of informing others about the problem and generating discussions.

1) identify an issue that is relevant to one of your communities (e.g., the campus community, your home community, a region of the province that has significance to you) and

2) begun to explain the various forces at work in the context of that environmental issue.

Use a form that makes sense to you, and one that you can imagine yourself using to explain your issue to another student. If you are familiar with the practice of concept or mind mapping (Links to an external site.), (Links to an external site.) you can certainly apply those skills to this assignment.

 

What is activism for labor rights, civil rights, welfare rights, and immigrant right? How was gender tied to racial, class, religious, sexual, and other identities? How was the liberation movement spearheaded by women of color in US 1970s? How was Liberation movement characterized by international perspective with attention to interlocking oppression and support of coalition politics?

Activism/Feminism

Rubric Paper # 2 19th 20th Century Feminism.docx

1. What is activism for labor rights, civil rights, welfare rights, and immigrant right?

2. How was gender tied to racial, class, religious, sexual, and other identities?

3. What is multiracial feminism and does it call for justice-based vision for societal change.

4. How was the liberation movement spearheaded by women of color in US 1970s?

5. How was Liberation movement characterized by international perspective with attention to interlocking oppression and support of coalition politics?

6. Chinese, Asian American, Native American, Black groups.

7. How is fighting stereotypes, discrimination in workplace, myths about matriarchs, beauty, and self-esteem part of feminism?

8. What were the stands taken against white supremacy and imperialism?

9. Envision the revolution as a necessary outcome of political struggle.

10. Show how white women were to be allies – anti racist white women.

11. What did historians typically treat as a decline within the movement is the period of mass mobilization among anti racist women?

12. What is the 2nd wave classified as 1960s/1970s?

13. What is the multiracial feminism movement that occurred from mid 1970s to 1990?