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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 13–17.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Enzo Traverso In his racism, misogyny, and xenophobia, Donald Trump resembles a 20th-century fascist-but historian Enzo Traverso argues the likeness is superficial. Trumpism is the product of recent transformations of capitalism, and thus he embodies something new, dangerous, and not yet fully...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 82–91.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Omar G. Encarnación Professor of political studies Omar Encarnación details the sexism and misogyny leveled at Dilma Rousseff throughout her career in Brazilian politics. He argues that her impeachment was part of a growing backlash against women and people of color. Copyright © 2017 World Policy...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 59–65.
Published: 01 June 2017
... aside from destroying its culture with senseless killings, divisiveness, misogyny, and disregard for the rule of law. Filipinos should demand from him what we deserve—someone who truly looks after the welfare of our people and country. Lima: There is no other way to challenge Duterte and his...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 42–47.
Published: 01 March 2018
... had felt relatively safe suddenly did not feel safe in the same way. We had previously made a lot of assumptions about what was settled in terms of gender equality and misogyny. Turns out, things weren’t settled at all. That’s why you saw this huge outpouring of people at the Women’s March the day...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2017
... foundation for gutting public funds for elder and child care, thereby “increasing the burden of care work already disproportionally borne by women.” Right-wing visions of family are often directly connected to economic reforms. Schieder catalogs the ways in which misogyny is built into Japan’s...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 1–3.
Published: 01 December 2016
....” At the same time, Trump’s well-documented misogyny, sexual abuse, racism, and ineptitude weren’t enough to keep him from the White House. As long as men dominate institutions and nodes of power, we will continue to turn to men as authorities. We will continue to seek male approval, male opinions, and male...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 3–8.
Published: 01 March 2014
... these two stories together not because they are especially Congolese, but because they are universal. To be a woman in the world is to experience, by submission or resistance, the entitlement of men to your body. It is to experience the illusion that you can opt out of misogyny—to be told that if you...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 103–107.
Published: 01 March 2005
... misogyny of the Christian West’s obsession with witches. Curiously, it was not during the Dark or Middle Ages, but during the Renaissance and Reformation that the obsession with witches raged through Europe, beginning with Pope Innocent VII’s notorious papal bull in 1484. During the next three...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 112–118.
Published: 01 December 2017
... that originated after people saw whales—a symbol of longevity—eat the algae. In the West, meanwhile, misogyny lurks in the mythology around seaweed. Greek and Roman literature reflect a deep fear of the sea, which, teeming with female dangers—such as the Nereids, sea nymphs who wore seaweed skirts and seduced...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 28–35.
Published: 01 September 2017
... that institution can hinder enforcement of existing laws. The misogyny that contributes to this violence is embedded in Japanese bureaucratic structures. Each time I teach my Introduction to Sociology course to a class of almost 50 Japanese students, I ask them to identify the setainushi —literally...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 70–76.
Published: 01 June 2016
... interchangeable with it. Bounded by the mechanisms of advocacy, of political and journalistic championing, she must tell her story again and again, and with as much heart-rending detail as possible. She must be the authentic (and, ideally, visibly exotic) voice of the misery inflicted by misogyny. Within...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 14–21.
Published: 01 June 2018
...-Islamization” of France. Giorgia Meloni is a new phenomenon in Italy, but she is also part of a larger political movement that aims to broaden the far right’s appeal and challenge accusations of misogyny. As the campaign wound down, Meloni’s rhetoric intensified. About a week after the Macerata shooting...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 71–79.
Published: 01 March 2016
... in the 1990s; by the 2000s, researchers estimate there were at least 3.1 million and as many as 6 million sex-selective abortions in India. The cause of sex selection isn’t only generalized misogyny, although, like everywhere else in the world, Indian women and girls face entrenched and systematic sexism...
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