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				<title>The Role and Weaponization of Scientific &#39;Objectivity&#39; in Gender Discourse and the Debate Over Transgender Rights</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1963/the-role-and-weaponization-of-scientific-objectivity-in-gender-discourse-and-the-debate-over-transgender-rights</link>
				<description>By Esme I. Smithson Swain - The label of &amp;lsquo;science&amp;rsquo; or &amp;lsquo;biology&amp;rsquo; can become somewhat of a trump-card in excluding trans people from civil rights, because many scientific (and pseudo-scientific) opinions are weaponized during transgender rights debates. This paper will therefore explore three dominant fields of thought in the gender/sex divide: biology, cognitive neuroscience, and queer theory. All three fields contribute immensely to our understanding of gender and sex, but the belief that any one discipline can objectively and unequivocally explain &amp;lsquo;gender&amp;rsquo; can be dangerous. The theories...</description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2022 09:29 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>#ItsNotMyPeriod: Hashtag Activism&#39;s Challenge to Narratives of Menstrual Stigma</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1962/#itsnotmyperiod-hashtag-activisms-challenge-to-narratives-of-menstrual-stigma</link>
				<description>By Jessie J. Liu - Perceptions of menstruation as a taboo subject have historically characterized Western and non-Western societies alike and persist today, both perpetuating harmful cultural understandings of women&amp;rsquo;s abilities and normalizing institutional practices that exacerbate gender disparities. With the advent of viral social media movements or &amp;ldquo;hashtag activism,&amp;rdquo; however, challenges to these oppressive, misogynistic mainstream narratives have become increasingly powerful. Centered on menstrual activism and dismantling menstrual stigma, #ItsNotMyPeriod is one such movement. This paper argues...</description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:02 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Past is Female: Exploring the Socio-Sexual Liberation of Historical Women in Carol Ann Duffy&#39;s &quot;The World&#39;s Wife&quot;</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1949/the-past-is-female-exploring-the-socio-sexual-liberation-of-historical-women-in-carol-ann-duffys-the-worlds-wife</link>
				<description>By Nandini  Sood - British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy&amp;rsquo;s The World&amp;rsquo;s Wife presents a fresh outlook on myths and fairy tales, by retelling them through sociosexually liberated women. The poems feature many themes such as murder, sexuality and childhood that are presented in a dark light and have been individually studied by previous researchers. Other studies have also investigated the feministic political purposes of Duffy&amp;rsquo;s poetry, but have disregarded the present liberated perspective of women shown. Consequently, this research focuses on Duffy&amp;rsquo;s manipulation of well-known texts to induce...</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:19 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>&quot;Lesbianing together:&quot;  Images of Incarcerated Women in &quot;Orange is the New Black&quot;</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1943/lesbianing-together-images-of-incarcerated-women-in-orange-is-the-new-black</link>
				<description>By Anna  Curtis - Using content analysis, this article focuses on the portrayal of female prisoners in the first two seasons of the Netflix show&amp;nbsp;Orange is the New Black (OITNB). There are two main findings. First, the word &quot;lesbian&quot; frequently signals homophobia rather than a self-claimed sexual identity. That is, the word &quot;lesbian&quot; primarily appears in scenes that highlight various characters&#39; homophobia. Throughout the first and second seasons of the show, the scriptwriters show no mercy to homophobic characters, a characteristic of the show that differentiates it from earlier women-in-prison novels and...</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2022 02:07 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Structural Violence in the Queer Community: A Comparative Analysis of International Human Rights Protections for LBTIQ+ People</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1928/structural-violence-in-the-queer-community-a-comparative-analysis-of-international-human-rights-protections-for-lbtiq-people</link>
				<description>By Misty  Farquhar - This paper discusses the structural violence experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, or queer (LGBTIQ+) people and people with disabilities (PWD), and reviews the international human rights protections available to each group through United Nations (UN) processes. It begins by exploring the human rights issues faced by LGBTIQ+ people, the impacts on their health and wellbeing, and the lack of international systems in place to protect them. It then repeats the process for PWD and highlights the efficacy of the protections afforded them. A comparative analysis contextualises the...</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 09:19 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Sisters in Solidarity: The Fight for Feminism in Modern Day China</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1888/sisters-in-solidarity-the-fight-for-feminism-in-modern-day-china</link>
				<description>By Ashley  Tan - Feminism has grown to be a complex, multifaceted topic of conversation in China. It has witnessed a series of peaks and troughs that have both advanced and regressed the women&amp;rsquo;s movement since Mao&amp;rsquo;s era. This paper aims to evaluate the extent to which feminism in modern day China has been curtailed by the state, and the reasons underpinning this phenomenon. It concludes that the state&amp;rsquo;s adoption of certain state laws, initiatives and fostering of a culture that normalises working women rather than portraying them as misfits or anomalies have created a more equalised environment...</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 09:12 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Deconstructing and Renouncing the Conditioned Identities of Gender and Nationality in Modern Society</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1833/deconstructing-and-renouncing-the-conditioned-identities-of-gender-and-nationality-in-modern-society</link>
				<description>By Anna . Militsi - This paper investigates the convoluted societal processes to which the individual is exposed from an early age in order to form and acquire their sense of identity, and aims at dismantling these very processes by exhibiting their flimsy and unsubstantiated underpinning rationale. The compelling role of gender has often been excluded from deliberations and studies regarding the issue of national identity and nationalism as culturally constructed forms of identity and &quot;imaginary&quot; figments of historical unity (Rod&amp;oacute;-Z&amp;aacute;rate, n.d.). In this light, the scope of this paper is threefold;...</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2020 09:04 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Resurrecting the Bog Queen: Exploring the Gender Politics of Ireland&#39;s Bogs in Postcolonial and Nationalist Literature</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1826/resurrecting-the-bog-queen-exploring-the-gender-politics-of-irelands-bogs-in-postcolonial-and-nationalist-literature</link>
				<description>By Rosie  Ryan - Bogs are one of Ireland&amp;rsquo;s most notable and mysterious landscapes. As explored in the work of Seamus Heaney, the bog&amp;rsquo;s capacity to preserve memory across generations makes it a melancholic terrain that is uniquely suited to explorations of Ireland&amp;rsquo;s national identity, particularly as Ireland emerged out of the grip of British colonialism. This paper draws upon postcolonial, feminist, and literary theory to explore why the bog has become such a provocative terrain for the exploration of Irish identity and Irish femininity. Beginning with the writings of colonial administrators,...</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:41 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Flipping the Cultural Script: Papaya Soap and Skin Color Stratification in the Philippines</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1820/flipping-the-cultural-script-papaya-soap-and-skin-color-stratification-in-the-philippines</link>
				<description>By Aimiel Trisha W. Casillan - Centuries of subjugation under Spanish and American colonial rule have embedded an idealistic view of white beauty in the minds of Filipinos. It continues to be deeply rooted in Philippine culture due to the constant exposure of Filipina bodies to the advertisements of the massive skin lightening industry. Papaya soap, one of the many objects produced by the industry, has perpetuated social stratification in the Philippines. In the following critique, I explore the origins of papaya soap while using a feminist consumerist lens to reveal how it has been marketed to promote a colonial mindset of...</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:14 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Sanctity and Disgust of the Female Body in &quot;Rosemary&#39;s Baby&quot;</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1810/the-sanctity-and-disgust-of-the-female-body-in-rosemarys-baby</link>
				<description>By Leina  Hsu - This paper explores the woman&amp;rsquo;s body as a site of sanctity and disgust in the film Rosemary&amp;rsquo;s Baby. The character of Rosemary Woodhouse is depicted as a pure, virtuous, and feminine figure. She is positioned against other corrupted, sinful women, which reinforces a binary of womanhood. When Rosemary is sexually violated, her sanctity is vandalized. Her subsequent pregnancy introduces a new dimension to the binary: that between sacred motherhood and &amp;ldquo;disgusting&amp;rdquo; pregnancy experiences. Rosemary struggles to reconcile her ideals of purity with the horrific transformation her...</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2020 04:50 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Affective Gender Communication: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Toddler Behavior</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1808/affective-gender-communication-an-interdisciplinary-analysis-of-toddler-behavior</link>
				<description>By Suzannah R. Gifford - Conversations about the gender expression of young children are often characterized by confusion, as parents, educators, and even child psychologists have a hard time determining where exactly children&amp;rsquo;s strong gendered beliefs and behaviors come from. Children as young as two have been observed exhibiting behaviors and expressing beliefs that align with the gender binary, yet there are usually no obvious moments when these messages have been translated to them. In an attempt to illuminate these hidden instances of gendering, I take an interdisciplinary approach to this paper that brings...</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2020 03:20 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Abu Ghraib, Homonationalism, and the Rationalization of Modern Torture</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1801/abu-ghraib-homonationalism-and-the-rationalization-of-modern-torture</link>
				<description>By Emma D. Rosner - Drawing on Jasbir Puar&amp;rsquo;s analysis of homonationalism in the post-9/11 United States, I investigate the Orientalist and Islamophobic discourses present in liberal and LGBTQ news articles and human rights reports responding to the release of torture photos from Abu Ghraib prison in May 2004. This study looks at how Western journalists and human rights organizations from diverse political and social identifications bolstered the homonationalist project in their responses to torture at Abu Ghraib. In doing so, it reveals homonationalism as a discourse with multiple iterations that differ across...</description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:18 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Terry Richardson and the Celebration of &quot;Porn Chic:&quot; A Critique of Fashion Photography</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1791/terry-richardson-and-the-celebration-of-porn-chic-a-critique-of-fashion-photography</link>
				<description>By Yasmeen  Sabet - In On Photography, Susan Sontag derides photography for generating a sense of false objectivity. Focusing on the moral implications of taking a photograph, she explores the relationship between artist and subject, exposing photography as a medium contingent upon violating its subjects.[1] Engaging with Sontag&amp;rsquo;s text, the following analysis studies fashion photography as a site embodying this exploitation, revealing the disturbing power dynamic between a defamed fashion photographer and his underage subject. In deconstructing Terry Richardson&amp;rsquo;s 2011 image of Lindsey Wixson (fig 1),...</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2020 10:51 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1791/terry-richardson-and-the-celebration-of-porn-chic-a-critique-of-fashion-photography</guid>
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				<title>Toxic Royalty: Feminism and the Rhetoric of Beauty in Disney Princess Films</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1788/toxic-royalty-feminism-and-the-rhetoric-of-beauty-in-disney-princess-films</link>
				<description>By Stephanie X. Hu - At Disneyland&amp;rsquo;s Magic Kingdom, light cascades across the night sky before spiraling down through the stars. The castle that towers within the dark shines bright amongst the fireworks&amp;rsquo; sparkling ceruleans and violets. Once the night show rises to a crescendo of color and song, the snaps of cameras coalesce with the symphony as spectators strive to capture the moment in time. Such a scene stands as a cherished childhood dream, cemented at the heart of the contemporary American identity. Since the birth of Walt Disney&amp;rsquo;s animation studio, countless children have become spellbound...</description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:11 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1788/toxic-royalty-feminism-and-the-rhetoric-of-beauty-in-disney-princess-films</guid>
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				<title>The Process and Barriers to Legal Gender Transition: A Case Study Analyzing the Yogyakarta Principles</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1787/the-process-and-barriers-to-legal-gender-transition-a-case-study-analyzing-the-yogyakarta-principles</link>
				<description>By Christian  Borkey - Trans people experience a wide range of social and legal disadvantages, including an inconsistent, patchwork system - where one exists at all - to attain legal recognition of their gender. In the absence of such legal recognition, transgender people face more difficulty in navigating social or organizational institutions (ie bars, locker rooms, airports, care facilities, prisons, and other places that are sex-segregated or require an ID), less control over their healthcare, and a lower ability to gain and retain employment. Many states require one or more surgeries (including but not limited to...</description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 01:55 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1787/the-process-and-barriers-to-legal-gender-transition-a-case-study-analyzing-the-yogyakarta-principles</guid>
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				<title>Women&#39;s Erotic Consumption: Articulating the Sexual Self Under Late Capitalism</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1785/womens-erotic-consumption-articulating-the-sexual-self-under-late-capitalism</link>
				<description>By Ella  Agoos - From a very young age, women are taught to suppress their sexuality. Sex, we are told, is deeply personal; a private act that must be sequestered within the four walls of a bedroom and never see the light of day. However, as we grow up we are steeped in a culture of sex that permeates Western society. Gyrating hips in music videos, subtle and not-so-subtle innuendos peppered throughout song lyrics, hardcore internet pornography available at the click of a mouse, sexy fembots complete with large titanium breasts as the faces of vodka advertising campaigns&amp;ndash; sexual imagery of women and their...</description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2020 08:41 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Why are Women More Religious than Men?</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1770/why-are-women-more-religious-than-men</link>
				<description>By Mie A. Jensen - Scholars have since the 1980s tried to explain why women are more religious than men, but contradictory evidence complicates a precise answer (Pew Research Center 2016:54), so this essay evaluates some theories to explain women&amp;rsquo;s increased religiousity. It first critically analyses Woodhead&amp;rsquo;s (2007) theory of double deprivation. Next, I evaluate gendered religiosity in relation to Judaism. I explain how motherhood makes women more religious due to their socialisation. Then, I show how practices related to behaviour affirm women&amp;rsquo;s religious role in the family. Finally, I examine...</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2019 08:33 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Status of Women in Late Antiquity: Examining the Sociopolitical Climate, Societal Values, and Gender Roles</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1765/the-status-of-women-in-late-antiquity-examining-the-sociopolitical-climate-societal-values-and-gender-roles</link>
				<description>By Taylor A. Marcusson - The status of women and their role in Late Antiquity has been a topic of inquiry among historians. It is a particularly challenging study to achieve a degree of certainty because of the biases present in historical evidence. This paper shall explore the position of women in Late Antiquity as defined by the 4th to late 6th centuries by examining how the complicated sociopolitical context, values of the Late Roman Empire as seen through written works, and roles in various spheres that women occupied worked together. This study does not seek to evaluate the prominence of women in Late Antiquity;...</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2019 09:20 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1765/the-status-of-women-in-late-antiquity-examining-the-sociopolitical-climate-societal-values-and-gender-roles</guid>
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				<title>Gender-Based Violence in Refugee Camps: Understanding and Addressing the Role of Gender in the Experiences of Refugees</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1757/gender-based-violence-in-refugee-camps-understanding-and-addressing-the-role-of-gender-in-the-experiences-of-refugees</link>
				<description>By Mie A. Jensen - The discussion of &#39;women&#39;s rights&#39; is often subsumed into the broader consideration of &#39;human rights,&#39; but when it comes to understanding the experiences of the world&#39;s most vulnerable people &amp;mdash; refugees &amp;mdash; the issue of gender cannot be ignored. The experiences of refugees depend on one&amp;rsquo;s gender, where women are significantly disadvantaged. Globally, 80% of the refugee and internally displaced people are children and women, which leaves them in a vulnerable position (Qayum, Mohmand and Arooj 2012:63); this includes vulnerability to physical attacks, sexual assaults, and transactional...</description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 09:10 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>The Criminal Justice System&#39;s Mistreatment of Transgender Individuals: A Call for Policy Reform to Assist a Marginalized Prisoner Community</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1753/the-criminal-justice-systems-mistreatment-of-transgender-individuals-a-call-for-policy-reform-to-assist-a-marginalized-prisoner-community</link>
				<description>By Stephenie  King - While media coverage and politicians constantly acknowledge the inadequacies of the criminal justice system in managing victims and offenders of color and low socioeconomic status, the discussion about the failure of the criminal justice system towards transgender individuals, victims or offenders, is an issue that is rarely discussed. Transgender individuals have experienced a history of mistreatment and prejudice by traditional society, including judicially, but with contemporary acceptance movements and a rise in openly trans figureheads and celebrities, some may think the history of mistreatment...</description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 09:45 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1753/the-criminal-justice-systems-mistreatment-of-transgender-individuals-a-call-for-policy-reform-to-assist-a-marginalized-prisoner-community</guid>
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				<title>Challenging the Gender Dichotomy in the Victorian Era: Reading Hemingway&#39;s &quot;Up in Michigan&quot; and Mansfield&#39;s &quot;Frau Brechenmacher&quot; Together</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1732/challenging-the-gender-dichotomy-in-the-victorian-era-reading-hemingways-up-in-michigan-and-mansfields-frau-brechenmacher-together</link>
				<description>By Kimberly  Taylor - Sexual violence and coercion became hot topics in 2017, with endless headlines. However, these problems and issues are not new, nor are they confined to a single segment of society. Rather, they have longstanding roots within patriarchal society viewing the sexes as opposite ends of an oppositional dichotomy. This dichotomy is highlighted in two short stories, one by Hemingway and one by Katherine Mansfield. These stories contextualize sexual violence and coercion within Victorian era patriarchal societies revealing the perceived and taught active male/passive female dichotomy such societies were...</description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 03:50 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>One Pronoun at a Time: Gender-Specific Pronouns Improve Reading Comprehension</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1728/one-pronoun-at-a-time-gender-specific-pronouns-improve-reading-comprehension</link>
				<description>By Morgan S. Burke - The current study focuses on the effect of gender-specific (he, she) and gender-neutral (they) pronouns on male and female recognition ability. Crawford and English (1984) showed male pronouns (he) better aid male recall and gender-neutral pronouns (they, he or she) better aid female recall. The effect of female pronouns (she) on recall ability was not studied (Crawford &amp;amp; English, 1984). The current study recognizes this gap and extends Crawford and English&amp;rsquo;s (1984) study to include female pronouns. 151 participants (75 male, 75 female, 1 unidentified) were identified via convenience...</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:52 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Come, Sir Boy: Subverting Masculinity Through Cross-Gender Performance</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1710/come-sir-boy-subverting-masculinity-through-cross-gender-performance</link>
				<description>By Rachel  Chung - I was the wounded soldier in the opening scene of Macbeth, lying spread-eagled on the stage, flaunting my unsightly gashes. I closed my legs self-consciously. Even portraying a hyper-masculine character, I found myself subject to the parameters of feminine performance. Later in the same production, I gave what was, for high school, a raunchy and riotous performance as the Porter. I referenced what would be my male genitalia, indicating what would be a beer belly, leaning heavily into the masculinity of the scene. I found the humor not just in the words themselves, but in the fact that they were...</description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:49 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Walking Gendered Lines: The Contradictory Expectations of Men Who Work in Early Childhood Education</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1708/walking-gendered-lines-the-contradictory-expectations-of-men-who-work-in-early-childhood-education</link>
				<description>By Isabella  Scurfield - This paper aims to look at the expectations set forth for males working in ECE and how they affect the men&amp;rsquo;s willingness to enter the field, as well as the level of care they are able to provide once there. In order to fully address these issues, the ways in which traditional values and ideas of hegemonic masculinities affect men&amp;rsquo;s (and larger society&amp;rsquo;s) view of childcare influence men&amp;rsquo;s perceptions of this field as a career choice must also be addressed. Acker&amp;rsquo;s theory of gendered occupations will be used as a starting point through which these issues can be addressed...</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:48 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Domestic Violence and the Indian Women&#39;s Movement: A Short History</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1702/domestic-violence-and-the-indian-womens-movement-a-short-history</link>
				<description>By Kaamila  Patherya - The Indian women&amp;rsquo;s movement, from the 1920s until the 1970s, was heavily influenced and directed by the external economic and political forces of the nation, to the effect that women&amp;rsquo;s issues were effectively sidelined, never occupying central concern in the minds of people. The period from the 1920s until Independence saw the imbuement of the women&amp;rsquo;s movement with nationalist politics, its contours shaped by the on-going struggle for freedom from British imperialism. This period, from the 1920s to the 1970s, was characterized by the inception of various local women&amp;rsquo;s associations...</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:33 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Arab Feminism in the Arab Spring: Discourses on Solidarity, the Socio-Cultural Revolution, and the Political Revolution in Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen</title>
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				<description>By Stephanie  Maravankin - Over the last couple of decades, women-spearheaded social movements have mobilized to leave a lasting impression on civil societies across the globe. The Arab Spring challenged old ideas of oppressive regimes and signaled possibilities for change, originating in Tunisia and spreading to Arab countries throughout the Middle East. This paper explores the existing literature on political opportunity structure, resource mobilization theory, and framing theory as a means to understand the question: How did collective action frames during the Arab Spring shape the discourses on Arab feminism? My research...</description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2017 12:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>A Tale of Mattel&#39;s Two Dolls and the Politics of Dollplaying: A Critical Examination of &quot;Barbie&quot; and &quot;American Girl&quot;&#39;s Roles in Educating Young American Girls</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1630/a-tale-of-mattels-two-dolls-and-the-politics-of-dollplaying-a-critical-examination-of-barbie-and-american-girls-roles-in-educating-young-american-girls</link>
				<description>By Xiaoyi  Xu - individuals who provide &quot;a point of recognition widely shared with other members of one&#39;s society&quot; and let people &quot;imaginatively explore race, sexuality, and femininity&quot; (Rogers, 1999, 2-3). Barbie is an icon intended to have more direct personal connection through possession with girls, allowing a sense of autonomy and ownership (Lord, 1994, 1). This unique attribute of Barbie could potentially amplify the doll&#39;s power unintentionally, by influencing little girls&#39; early childhood development, molding certain aspects of their identity, attitudes, values, and ideology in both positive and negative...</description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2017 12:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Sex and Sexual Violence in Mary Shelley&#39;s &quot;Frankenstein&quot;</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1553/sex-and-sexual-violence-in-mary-shelleys-frankenstein</link>
				<description>By Rachel  Chung - Told through the framed account of a Captain Walton, who encounters Frankenstein in pursuit of his monster across the frozen northern sea, Frankenstein begins with a brief account of his picturesque childhood. Frankenstein begins his great experiment at university in Ingolstadt, where he brings his horrifying creature to life. A year after panicking and abandoning the monster, Frankenstein learns that his brother, William, has been murdered. Frankenstein&amp;rsquo;s conviction that his monster is the murderer is confirmed when he encounters the creature in the mountains outside of Geneva. In another...</description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:26 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Gender Equality in International Institutions: Progress and Challenges in Moving Toward Gender Parity</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1539/gender-equality-in-international-institutions-progress-and-challenges-in-moving-toward-gender-parity</link>
				<description>By Lyndsay B. Thompson - The International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda, for the first time in international law, recognized sexual violence in conflict as crimes against humanity and grave breaches of international law. Subsequently, the International Criminal Court was created with a gender-mainstreamed focus on international issues, and UN Resolutions required states to make gender parity in representation and gender equality national goals. However, when faced with changes in formal rules, institutions often react to reinforce old traditional gender norms...</description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2017 09:01 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Juxtaposing Sexist and Feminist Understandings of Pro-Life: An Analysis of Reproductive Rights Rhetoric</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1508/juxtaposing-sexist-and-feminist-understandings-of-pro-life-an-analysis-of-reproductive-rights-rhetoric</link>
				<description>By Caroline B. Connor - Near the end of 2015,  in the midst of recent presidential and congressional debates, House Republicans proposed a bill to defund Planned Parenthood, blocking all of the organization&amp;rsquo;s federal funding, after the release of videos discussing Planned Parenthood allegedly selling fetal tissue. Sources suggest that after the release in these videos, there was also a rise in death threats against abortion providers, which has been primarily linked to the rhetoric revolving around the fetal tissue controversy (Alter). After a shooting in a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in November of 2015...</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2016 04:24 EST</pubDate>
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