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Along the last years of Franco’s dictatorship, social and political conflicts extended beyond main industrials areas of Spain and took strength also in the outlying regions, where low intensity conflicts had been characteristic until... more
QUESTIONS FROM THE INTRUSION by SASHI DESPANDE
In 2011, in the wake of Egypt’s uprising, an Egyptian self-styled feminist by the name of Alia El Mahdy decided to post pictures of herself nude on her Facebook page in an act of ‘freedom’. This bellow for ‘freedom’, and the subsequent... more
Naked, Protesting and Ready to Challenge You The recent surge in nudism in feminist protest: regress or progress? Here is some red meat for thought, as nudist activists say. On the occasion of the presentation (or Unveiling) of the... more
This thesis contains a presentation and reflection on my MFA project Valluse which contains a written fairy- tale with eight accompanying paintings and two painting installations. The work process and the theoretical and artistic studies... more
Uma Chakravarti in her book, Gendering Caste, states, "Caste and gender, as we have been arguing, are so closely tied that regarding them as two discrete systems have been our limitation, a limitation of our scholarship-as systems they... more
El presente artículo reflexiona críticamente en torno al carácter interrumpido que ha experimentado el feminismo en Chile como movimiento social en el transcurso del siglo XX. Heredando tareas pendientes en materia de clase, raza y género... more
This paper has been presented at the conference (Iranian Renaissance/رنسانس ایرانی) in San Diego on September 2014
In the epoch of modern globalization, knowledge economy has become a prolific approach in the 21st century because of its self-sustaining capability to survive in the coming global economic battle and its growing importance as one of the... more
This article examines the story of the death of Rachel (Genesis 35:16-19) and argues that the matriarch died of breech delivery. But a mistranslation of the Hebrew text by standard English translations has obscured this diagnosis,... more
Comment la nudité peut-elle encore être subversive, alors que les corps dénudés se sont très largement banalisés dans la publicité et à la télévision ? C’est sur cet étonnement que s’ouvre le livre d’Hubert Prolongeau, écrivain et... more
Estamos en tiempos de globalización y de crisis. Pero también estos son tiempos en donde la ciudadanía se ha venido imponiendo con formas de protesta y de tomar la calle, bien creativas.Hoy la contracultura adquiere nuevos signos de... more
The aim of this article is to present the main lines of postcolonial feminism, which is articulated today as a theoretical critical alternative to the hegemonic or ethnocentric feminism. We analyze the main conceptual and epistemological... more
Why do people strip naked in the public space? Under French law, public nudity is considered a form of indecent exposure, however more often than not it is in fact about the pleasure of a lifestyle or about conveying a message.
The film Levantinit by Rafael Balulu is a deeply insightful look at the life of an inspirational Levantine Author, Jacqueline Kahanoff. She was a deep thinker, and for her time was able to see the shared aversities, and probable future... more
The majority of people in Thailand are devout Buddhists, with over 95 percent of the country following Buddhism and its entailed traditions and practices. Buddhism therefore, of course, plays an integral part in the culmination of Thai... more
This paper is a part of the Women's Studies in Communication Forum: Conversation and Commentary: FEMEN’s Sextremism as (Imperialist?) Feminism
La ciudad islámica, en su origen, es una ciudad hecha por y para Agar, la mujer esclava, exiliada y marginada. En otras palabras, la ciudad y la civilización islámicas, en su germen, han sido formadas por y para las minorías en el proceso... more
Neste trabalho, observamos a utilização da imagem do corpo feminino como uma estratégia recorrente em ações ativistas em diferentes partes do mundo. Os elementos estético-políticos do corpo, historicamente utilizados pelas artes, tais... more
In the last years we are witnessing a revolution of the television shows (specially in the area of the independent fiction), that is enriching this media with some proposals that are out from the traditional narratives and contemporary... more
Alguna vez, como lector, ¿se ha cuestionado algunos interrogantes como si existen masonas en la ilustración?, ¿cuáles son los ritos de las logias femeninas?, ¿cómo es la feminidad en los siglos XVIII y XIX? o, incluso, ¿las mujeres... more
تابستان سال 1353 بود که زندان قصر شاهد نخستین بار دستگیر شدن زنانی بود که به جرم فعالیت سیاسی بازداشت میشدند. زنانی که نه تنها خانهها بلکه کارخانهها و ادارات هم برایشان تنگ شده بود، آنها آنقدر از گوشههای امن تدارک دیده برایشان بیرون... more
Llegamos al mundo como un cuerpo rechazado por el cuerpo de la madre, en el que tuvimos nuestro refugio durante nueve meses. Toda nuestra vida es un intento de demarcar nuestro espacio en este mundo inmenso. Lo único que tenemos, en todo... more