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walks of life whose votes brought us to victory. They defended me. They worked with me. They prayed for me. It is the women who labored and advocated for peace throughout our region.”—Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first elected woman president in post-colonial Africa (...
Born and based in Tiohtià:ke, colonially known as Montreal, with roots in Cebu, Philippines, I combine all my different areas of experience and knowledge to create and develop communities where people (especially BIPOC women/x) can remember and reclaim who they are, discover and embody their...
Our analyses were informed by a post-colonial feminist perspective. Post-colonialism is the resistance against the after-effects of colonialism; the struggle against inscribing inferiority to once colonised people [36]. However, the theory is considered male-centric. Post-colonialfeminism(PCF) recognis...
if they themselves are not interested in double eyelid surgery, they experience pressure from their parents to have the procedure done. There has also been an increase in ‘medical tourism’, where people travel to countries such as Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, India, and Korea for ...
How then did the comfort women come to the fore in 2015 as a target of renewed government denial in Japan; a sharpened diplomatic weapon in South Korea, even overshadowing for a moment the ever sore point of Japanese colonial rule; an issue evoked in China together with the Nanjing Massacre...
such as comfort stations, for a certain period during wartime in the past and forced to provide sexual services to officers and soldiers.” Young teenage girls were kidnapped or lured with false promises of the employment in their homelands of China, Indonesia, the Philippines and North and Sou...
Puri , J. 1999 .Women, body, desire in post-colonial India, New York : Routledge . Google Scholar Sodhi , G. and Verma , M. 2003 . “ Sexual coercion amongst unmarried adolescents of an urban slum in India ” . InTowards adulthood: exploring the sexual and reproductive health of adole...
way to carry food for a journey. This practice is also found in the Visayan Islands of the Philippines and in Indonesia, and is called by the same name. While most fishing was done by men, women fished in shallow lagoons and tidal pools, feeling among the rocks and catching the fish ...
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