While African women theologians have, at different points, identified the patriarchal forces in these three spheres, an intentional intersectional approach has not always successfully challenged the colonial meta‐narratives of the construction of the African man. Decolonization and decoloniality offer a ...
This general survey of the lives of women in pre-colonial East Africa draws upon recent innovative scholarship in multiple fields, especially that of historical linguistics. Based on the longue durée approach, this scholarship is giving us glimpses of h
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...
At the end of 2021, the largest number of domestic foreign helpers in Hong Kong came from the Philippines, with a total of 191,783, followed by Indonesia, with 140,057 domestic helpers (Data.Gov.HK 2022). Figures from the end of 2020 showed that only 1.5% of the foreign domestic ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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