Download or read book Abortion and Democracy written by Barbara Sutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abortion and Democracy offers critical analyses of abortion politics in Latin America’s Southern Cone, with lessons and insights of wider significance. Drawing on the region’s recent history of military dictatorship and democratic transition, this edited volume explores how abortion rights demands fit with current democratic agendas. With a focus on Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, the book’s contributors delve into the complex reality of abortion through the examination of the discourses, strategies, successes, and challenges of abortion rights movements. Assembling a multiplicity of voices and experiences, the contributions illuminate key dimensions of abortion rights struggles: health aspects, litigation efforts, legislative debates, party politics, digital strategies, grassroots mobilization, coalition-building, affective and artistic components, and movement-countermovement dynamics. The book takes an approach that is sensitive to social inequalities and to the transnational aspects of abortion rights struggles in each country. It bridges different scales of analysis, from abortion experiences at the micro level of the clinic or the home to the macro sociopolitical and cultural forces that shape individual lives. This is an important intervention suitable for students and scholars of abortion politics, democracy in Latin America, gender and sexuality, and women’s rights.

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Download or read book The Equality Illusion written by Kat Banyard and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Equality Illusion, 'the most influential young feminist in the country' ( Guardian) and UK Feminista founder Kat Banyard argues passionately and articulately that feminism continues to be one of the most urgent and relevant social justice campaigns today. Women have made huge strides in equality over the last century. And yet: Women working full-time in the UK are paid on average 17% less an hour than men 1 in 3 women worldwide has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused because of her gender Of parliamentary seats across the globe only 15% are held by women and fewer than 20% of UK MPs are women 96% of executive directors of the UK's top hundred companies are men Structuring the book around a normal day, Banyard sets out the major issues for twenty-first century feminism, from work and education to sex, relationships and having children. She draws on her own campaigning experience as well as academic research and dozens of her own interviews. The book also includes information on how to get involved in grassroots action.

Download or read book Engaging People in Sustainability written by Daniella Tilbury and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].

Download or read book Sociology and Social Justice written by Margaret Abraham and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superbly conceptualises and contextualises social justice in and for our global age. The stellar cast of sociologists connect concepts to practices and outline the challenges we face, as well as providing necessary responses." Gurminder K Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, University of Sussex" A collection of brilliant essays by international scholar-activists, examining concepts and practices from diverse contexts." Mary Romero, Professor of Justice Studies and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University "An excellent set of chapters bringing to the fore new perspectives on the social injustices and inequalities facing a world in crisis." Kammila Naidoo, Professor of Sociology, University of Johannesburg By using contextual global sociology, Sociology and Social Justice explores: Historic and contemporary sites and contexts around the world Sociological insights on topics ranging from social movements, to cyber space. International struggles, processes, and outcomes Written by distinguished international scholars, this is an essential text for those looking at issues of: Human Rights, Public Sociology, Democratization, Gender, and Globalization.

Download or read book Plan de sexualidad responsable para personas con discapacidad intelectual written by Belén Gutiérrez Bermejo and published by EDITORIAL SANZ Y TORRES S.L.. This book was released on with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La salud sexual, la seguridad en las relaciones y una vida social e íntima plena y significativa son derechos reconocidos para las personas con discapacidad, incorporados en la Convención de los Derechos de las personas con discapacidad. En particular, los Estados Partes están obligados a asegurar que todos los derechos de las personas con discapacidad se mantengan en todos los asuntos relacionados con el matrimonio, la familia, la paternidad y las relaciones de pareja y que se les aseguren los estándares más elevados de salud, sin discriminación, incluida la salud sexual y reproductiva (Organización de las Naciones Unidas, 2006). Si bien, existe una conciencia creciente acerca de estos derechos, se ha logrado un progreso muy limitado en el apoyo a estas personas para crear y mantener relaciones íntimas y personales (Karellou, 2017). Cuando los jóvenes con discapacidad intelectual comienzan a explorar su sexualidad se enfrentan a una serie de desafíos y obstáculos para acceder a la información y al apoyo. A diferencia de la mayoría de sus compañeros sin discapacidad, estos jóvenes se enfrentan al desafío de desarrollar su sexualidad y sus relaciones dentro de una vida social y privada muy limitada y regulada (Frawley, 2016). Como consecuencia, sus conocimientos sobre estos temas son también escasos (Burns y Davies, 2011). Pese a reconocerse que la sexualidad es una parte integral de la vida adulta de cualquier persona, dicha parte resulta inaccesible o es negada a las personas con discapacidad intelectual (Noonan y Gómez, 2011). Las oportunidades que tienen estas personas para expresar su sexualidad son escasas y se encuentran controladas por otros, ya sean profesionales o familiares (Wilkinson, Theodore yRaczka, 2015). No se les proporcionan oportunidades para que tengan experiencias sexuales y no se les ofrece privacidad (Healy, McGuire, Evans y Carley, 2009; Evans, McGuire, Healy y Carley, 2009; Lesseliers, 1999). Tampoco se permite a las parejas estar solas o se les imponen restricciones (Lesseliers, 1999; Lofgren-Martenson, 2011). Los profesionales de los centros apenas hablan sobre la sexualidad con los usuarios (Abbott y Howarth, 2007) o cuando lo hacen, es de forma reactiva (Abbott y Burns, 2007; Schaafsma, Kok, Stoffelen, Van Doorn y Curfs, 2014). Debido a sus circunstancias, muchos adultos con discapacidad intelectual viven en residencias, pisos tutelados o con sus familias. Estas formas de vida suponen la presencia continua de un adulto y como consecuencia suponen una falta absoluta de privacidad. Las personas no eligen con quien quieren vivir, ni sus rutinas, ni sus actividades diarias; a veces, ni siquiera eligen la ropa que se ponen diariamente (Brown y Brown, 2009; Lippold y Burns, 2009). Las necesidades sexuales de hombres y mujeres que requieren apoyos se obvian; no existe una preocupación por que establezcan relaciones de amistad y de pareja, ignorándose tanto su sexualidad como su necesidad de privacidad (McCarthy, 1996). Las actitudes de los cuidadores influyen directamente en las actitudes y experiencias de las personas con discapacidad intelectual y entran muchas veces en conflicto con los deseos sexuales de estas personas y con sus derechos a vidas sexuales (Cuskell y Bryde, 2004; Healy, McGuire, Evans y Carley, 2009). Los servicios para personas con discapacidad intelectual suelen carecer de políticas que apoyen las experiencias sexuales en esta población. Así también, los profesionales carecen de formación respecto a la sexualidad y al desarrollo sexual satisfactorio de las personas a quienes atienden diariamente (Davies, 2000). Las actuaciones del personal se limitan a evitar que se produzcan relaciones sexuales en los entornos donde se desenvuelven, actuando a veces como «policías» y censores de cualquier manifestación sexual por parte de las personas con discapacidad intelectual. A pesar de todas estas barreras, las personas con discapacidad intelectual buscan la manera de tener sexo y de expresar su orientación e identidad sexual, debiendo hacer frente a prejuicios, falta de información y de apoyos (Abbott y Burns, 2007; Eastgate y Lennox, 2003, Cambridge y Mellan, 2000; Löfgren-Mårtenson, 2009; McCann, Lee y Brown, 2016; Stoffelen, Kok, Hospers y Curfs, 2013; Thompson, Bryson yde Castell, 2001). Incluso, en numerosas ocasiones, las actuaciones de los profesionales y del propio sistema que ofrece alternativas residenciales, o vestuarios y aseos en los centros de día o de trabajo sólo para hombres o sólo para mujeres, favorecen el desarrollo de un mayor número de relaciones con personas del mismo sexo, debido a una mayor facilidad de acceso. Las respuestas ante situaciones en las que personas con discapacidad intelectual son encontradas manteniendo relaciones sexuales en los centros (de trabajo, residenciales, etc.), son también insatisfactorias (Abbott y Burns, 2007; McConkey y Ryan, 2001). Las personas con discapacidad intelectual tienen una información muy limitada sobre la manera de comportarse sexualmente y sus modelos presentan importantes sesgos (Aylott, 1999; Cuskelly y Gilmore, 2007; McConkey y Ryan, 2001 y Yool, Langdon y Garner, 2003). Una gran cantidad de ellos aprenden los roles sexuales a través de la pornografía. Sin embargo, la presencia de conductas sexualmente inapropiadas se interpreta como problemas y no como la expresión de una necesidad, de información, de contacto o de relación sexual, no satisfecha (Noonan y Gómez, 2011). La masturbación es la única expresión sexual que se permite a los hombres con discapacidad, destinándose las intervenciones a que aprendan a hacerlo en un lugar privado (Gill, 2012). Si bien el tema de las relaciones sexuales supone una gran preocupación para profesionales y padres (Cuskelly y Bryde, 2004) y las actuaciones que se ponen en marcha persiguen proteger a las personas con discapacidad intelectual de abusos, de enfermedades de trasmisión sexual o de embarazos, es cierto que se les está negando un derecho, un deseo y una necesidad que sienten al igual que las personas sin discapacidad. A esta preocupación se une que no existen acuerdos ni directrices claras sobre las relaciones sexuales de esta población. También son muy escasos los programas preventivos o de intervención que trabajen sobre aspectos más allá de los programas sobre sexualidad basados en una perspectiva biológica y médica. En dichos programas se enseñan aspectos como la denominación de los aparatos genitales femenino y masculino, la utilización de preservativos y otros métodos anticonceptivos y las enfermedades de trasmisión sexual (Rojas, Haya y Lázaro-Visa, 2014; Löfgren-Mårtenson, 2011). Aunque estos programas son muy necesarios, no son suficientes. Salvo escasas excepciones, existe una gran carencia de programas que vayan más allá de estos aspectos funcionales y trabajen otros conceptos que sirvan para prevenir el abuso en esta población (Chivers y Mathieson, 2000; Frawley, 2016; Gardiner y Braddon, 2009). Reconocemos que es un reto encontrar un equilibrio entre proporcionar a la persona la supervisión protectora necesaria para que no sea víctima de abusos y permitirle al mismo tiempo disfrutar de sus derechos y libertades. La necesidad de protección del abuso en las personas con discapacidad intelectual no se puede basar en la negación a un derecho fundamental: el derecho a vivir su sexualidad. Ambos aspectos van de la mano. Es la información y formación sobre aspectos relacionados con una sexualidad sana lo que les enseñará a discriminar situaciones de abuso y a decir que no ante situaciones a las que quieran negarse. En definitiva, con una educación adecuada y unos buenos apoyos,las personas con discapacidad intelectual son capaces de una expresión sexual segura y constructiva y de unas relaciones sanas (Eastgate, 2008). El problema al respecto es que hay una muy limitada evidencia científica sobre qué métodos son efectivos para enseñar educación sexual a las personas con discapacidad intelectual (Schaafsma, Kok, Stoffelen y Curfs (2015). Con respecto a lo que se necesita enseñar, la literatura muestra que las personas con discapacidad intelectual experimentan una serie de problemas en su salud sexual. Estos problemas no son necesariamente diferentes de los de las personas sin tal discapacidad, pero el grado en que los experimentan es mucho mayor. Uno de los principales problemas que se han investigado es el abuso sexual. Las personas con discapacidad intelectual reportan experiencias de abuso sexual tres veces más a menudo que sus iguales sin discapacidad (Eastgate, van Driel,Lennox y Scheermeyer, 2011; McCarthy,1996;Stoffelen, Kok, Hospers y Curfs, 2013 y Yacouby Hall,2009). Además, experimentan más dificultades para encontrar, formar y mantener las relaciones que tanto desean (McCarthy,1996 y Abbott y Burns,2007). Estos problemas se han encontrado asociados a déficits en conocimientos sobre la sexualidad (Healy, McGuire, Evans y Carley, 2009; Kelly, Crowley y Hamilton, 2009; Leutary Mihokovic, 2007; McCarthy, 2009; Murphy y O’Callaghan, 2004; Siebelink, de Jong, Taal yRoelvink, 2006) y una falta general de habilidades sociales, de comportamiento y de toma de decisiones (Egemo-Helm, Miltenberger, Knudson, Finstrom, Jostad y Johnson,2007; Hayashi, Arakida, Ohashi, 2011; Khemka, Hickson y Reynolds, 2005). Pero ante la pregunta de qué es lo que debe incluir esta educación sexual integral, no existen programas desarrollados que lo especifiquen y trabajen directamente. Desde nuestro punto de vista, un programa debe vertebrarse en torno a los principios que garantizan unas relaciones sexuales consentidas y que son aplicables a toda persona con discapacidad intelectual, con independencia de la severidad de ésta. Dichos principios parten de la propuesta originariamente desarrollada por Ames y Samowitz (1995) quienes apelan a la voluntariedad, no explotación, seguridad, no abuso, capacidad para decir «no» y adecuación social al momento y al contexto (Lyden, 2007). Es decir, en el presente programa abordamos el consentimiento desde un sentido etimológico y no jurídico o, si se quiere, desde una perspectiva más social, que es a su vez más acorde con los derechos que emanan de la Convención de los Derechos de las personas con discapacidad (Organización de las Naciones Unidas, 2006). Dejamos a un lado la normativa legal que regula la capacidad o que establece los pasos para dictaminar la incapacitación de una persona, aspectos también complejos (Orell, 1998; Cea y Fisher, 2003; Krynski, Tymchuk y Ouslander, 1994), pero alejados de la perspectiva social y educativa aquí propuesta. Así pues y a partir de las premisas de los autores previamente indicados, en este programa acentuamos la importancia de garantizar, en toda relación sexual, el cumplimiento de los criterios señalados y que son desarrollados en mayor profundidad a lo largo de estas páginas. Belén Gutiérrez Bermejo Cristina Jenaro Río

Download or read book Sexualidad discapacidad y educaci n written by Sánchez Santamaría, Elisa and published by Universidad Pontificia Comillas. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El contenido de este libro pretende servir de guía par todos aquellos profesionales, familiares e instituciones que deseen apoyar a las personas con discapacidad intelectual en el desarrollo de una educación afectivo sexual de calidad. Tras un análisis de la realidad, la obra propone un plan estratégico de intervención, basado en criterios comunes, programas específicos, planes individualizados y trabajo con la familia.

Download or read book Anti Gender Campaigns in Europe written by Roman Kuhar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of steady progress in terms of gender and sexual rights, several parts of Europe are facing new waves of resistance to a so-called ‘gender ideology’ or ‘gender theory’. Opposition to progressive gender equality is manifested in challenges to marriage equality, abortion, reproductive technologies, gender mainstreaming, sex education, sexual liberalism, transgender rights, antidiscrimination policies and even to the notion of gender itself. This book examines how an academic concept of gender, when translated by religious organizations such as the Roman Catholic Church, can become a mobilizing tool for, and the target of, social movements. How can we explain religious discourses about sex difference turning intro massive street demonstrations? How do forms of organization and protest travel across borders? Who are the actors behind these movements? This collection is a transnational and comparative attempt to better understand anti-gender mobilizations in Europe. It focuses on national manifestations in eleven European countries, including Russia, from massive street protests to forms of resistance such as email bombarding and street vigils. It examines the intersection of religious politics with rising populism and nationalistic anxieties in contemporary Europe.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories written by Lorraine Code and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The path-breaking Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories is an accessible, multidisciplinary insight into the complex field of feminist thought. The Encyclopedia contains over 500 authoritative entries commissioned from an international team of contributors and includes clear, concise and provocative explanations of key themes and ideas. Each entry contains cross references and a bibliographic guide to further reading; over 50 biographical entries provide readers with a sense of how the theories they encounter have developed out of the lives and situations of their authors.

Download or read book Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood written by Kristin Luker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985-08-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important study of the abortion controversy in the United States, Kristin Luker examines the issues, people, and beliefs on both sides of the abortion conflict. She draws data from twenty years of public documents and newspaper accounts, as well as over two hundred interviews with both pro-life and pro-choice activists. She argues that moral positions on abortion are intimately tied to views on sexual behavior, the care of children, family life, technology, and the importance of the individual.

Download or read book Life is Hard written by Roger N. Lancaster and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-08-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rambo took the barrios by storm: Spanish videotapes of the movie were widely available, and nearly all the boys and young men had seen it, usually on the VCRs of their family's more affluent friends. . . . As one young Sandinista commented, 'Rambo is like the Nicaraguan soldier. He's a superman. And if the United States invades, we'll cut the marines down like Rambo did.' And then he mimicked Rambo's famous war howl and mimed his arc of machine gun fire. We both laughed."—from the book There is a Nicaragua that Americans have rarely seen or heard about, a nation of jarring political paradoxes and staggering social and cultural flux. In this Nicaragua, the culture of machismo still governs most relationships, insidious racism belies official declarations of ethnic harmony, sexual relationships between men differ starkly from American conceptions of homosexuality, and fascination with all things American is rampant. Roger Lancaster reveals the enduring character of Nicaraguan society as he records the experiences of three families and their community through times of war, hyperinflation, dire shortages, and political turmoil. Life is hard for the inhabitants of working class barrios like Doña Flora, who expects little from men and who has reared her four children with the help of a constant female companion; and life is hard for Miguel, undersized and vulnerable, stigmatized as a cochón—a "faggot"—until he learned to fight back against his brutalizers. Through candid discussions with young and old Nicaraguans, men and women, Lancaster constructs an account of the successes and failures of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution, documenting the effects of war and embargo on the cultural and economic fabric of Nicaraguan society. He tracks the break up of families, surveys informal networks that allow female-headed households to survive, explores the gradual transformation of the culture of machismo, and reveals a world where heroic efforts have been stymied and the best hopes deferred. This vast chronicle is sustained by a rich theoretical interpretation of the meanings of ideology, power, and the family in a revolutionary setting. Played out against a backdrop of political travail and social dislocation, this work is a story of survival and resistance but also of humor and happiness. Roger Lancaster shows us that life is hard, but then too, life goes on.

Download or read book Xenotransplantation written by Sheila A. M. McLean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2005. One of the leading causes of death is organ failure, that is, when one or other of the organs that run the machine we call the body gives out. However, whereas with a machine spare parts can usually replace faulty parts, in the case of humans the supply of these is limited as it is dependent on organs being obtained from living or dead donors. Due to the limitations of supply, increasing attention is being paid to alternative schemes for obtaining organs. One of these possibilities is xenotransplantation: using organs from animals. In this book, the authors examine the legal and ethical issues surrounding xenotransplantation and consider the implications for the future. As they point out, xenotransplantation represents a major deviation from standard medical practice and the possibility of transplantation of large segments of tissue, or whole organs, from animals into humans poses an entirely novel set of considerations - ethical, legal and scientific - which it is necessary to evaluate and understand.

Download or read book Conceiving the New World Order written by Faye D. Ginsburg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-07-31 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. Using reproduction as an entry point the authors examine how cultures are produced, contested, and transformed as people imagine their collective future in the creation of the next generation.

Download or read book Negras in Brazil written by Kia Caldwell and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the twentieth century, Brazil was widely regarded as a "racial democracy"-a country untainted by the scourge of racism and prejudice. In recent decades, however, this image has been severely critiqued, with a growing number of studies highlighting persistent and deep-seated patterns of racial discrimination and inequality. Yet, recent work on race and racism has rarely considered gender as part of its analysis. In Negras in Brazil, Kia Lilly Caldwell examines the life experiences of Afro-Brazilian women whose stories have until now been largely untold. This pathbreaking study analyzes the links between race and gender and broader processes of social, economic, and political exclusion. Drawing on ethnographic research with social movement organizations and thirty-five life history interviews, Caldwell explores the everyday struggles Afro-Brazilian women face in their efforts to achieve equal rights and full citizenship. She also shows how the black women's movement, which has emerged in recent decades, has sought to challenge racial and gender discrimination in Brazil. While proposing a broader view of citizenship that includes domains such as popular culture and the body, Negras in Brazil highlights the continuing relevance of identity politics for members of racially marginalized communities. Providing new insights into black women's social activism and a gendered perspective on Brazilian racial dynamics, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American Studies, African diaspora studies, women's studies, politics, and cultural anthropology.