ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Female Genital Mutilation, Double Consciousness, .Local
11 Apr 2016
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Essay style, total 9 pages double space: one week to write. 6/7 essay style, select 3: more about wriing, coherence, and correctness of wriing, construct argument, 3, 3 page quesions. Merry not strictly a relaivist: inconsistent with post colonialism trend but holding to a human rights universalism, how do you balance universalism and sill maintain an awareness that human rights is related to these binaries. Hodgson, dorothy gender and culture at the limit of rights. Internaional and state laws at once relect and produce prevailing gendered moral codes, including approved and proper relaionships and pracices. Certain cultural assumpions about appropriate gender ideologies and shape the formulaion and enforcement of rights. Umoja: oriented to quesioning the powerful but looking at their own families and quesioning the pracices that have constrained them and let them powerless. Nearly 30 years, hundreds of women living in umoja say they were raped by briish soldiers in northern kenya.
