ANTH 23 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Individual And Group Rights, Female Genital Mutilation, Purity Ball
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Coming of age: female genital mutilation: this traditio(cid:374)al afri(cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g-of-age ritual can involve removal of clitoris, labia, and/or sewing the vagina shut, (cid:1009)(cid:1004)(cid:1011)k (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) i(cid:374) the u. (cid:449)ere li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith or at risk for. 51% of us foreign born population is female. The gender wage gap is relatively small among most immigrants. Yen le espiritu: o(cid:272)iologist a(cid:374)d professor eth(cid:374)i(cid:272) tudies at. Ucsd since 1990: pe(cid:272)ializes o(cid:374) asia(cid:374) a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374) ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455, tea(cid:272)hes (cid:272)lasses o(cid:374) viet(cid:374)a(cid:373)ese-american and filipino-american identity, and will teaching a class on ethnography next quarter. Constructing filipinas: co(cid:374)stru(cid:272)ted as opposite of filipi(cid:374)o stereot(cid:455)pes of white women, thus, filipi(cid:374)as become stereotyped as hyperfeminine subservient wives in contrast to headstrong, independent white women, (cid:862)ig(cid:374)ores (cid:272)o(cid:373)peti(cid:374)g se(cid:454)ual pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)es i(cid:374) the. Filipino communties and uncritically embraces the (cid:373)(cid:455)th of (cid:858)orie(cid:374)tal fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)i(cid:374)it(cid:455)(cid:859)(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1008)(cid:1006)(cid:1011)(cid:895: thus filipi(cid:374)as are partially conforming to an. American stereotype of themselves: daughters (cid:894)(cid:271)ut (cid:374)ot so(cid:374)s(cid:895) (cid:373)ust (cid:271)e stri(cid:272)tl(cid:455) controlled to enforce these norms (428)
