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Cologne, Scene of Fantasies
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 64–66.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., wants, desires, but cannot accept. The West is viewed through the lens of the female body; women’s freedom is regarded through the religious categories of licentiousness versus “virtue.” A woman’s body is seen not as the very site of essential freedoms that represent Western values, but as decadence: so...
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Women and the New Global Order: A Conversation with Anne-Marie Slaughter
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 51–57.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the dynamic quite a bit. There are various African conflicts as well. Secretary Clinton always told one about a local conflict where negotiations weren’t going anywhere, and when a woman joined the negotiations she pointed out that the river the two sides had been arguing over had dried up some time ago...
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The Unintended Consequences of India’s War on Sex Selection
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 71–79.
Published: 01 March 2016
... toward gender equality in what she classifies as a stubbornly patriarchal society. These days, though, if a pregnant woman comes to her and needs an abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy, Kharat gives her two options: Get sterilized along with the abortion procedure, or don’t get the abortion...
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Terror and the Family: How Jihadi Groups Are Redefining the Role of Women
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 41–44.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of the Pakistani Taliban, has as its central feature a story of rebellion. Written in the first person, it begins with the narrator, a single woman named Khaula, waiting at an airport in the West. She is eager to leave, abandon the land of the infidel, and make her way to Khorasan, the name used by the Taliban...
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Indian Women: No Friends Online
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 85–91.
Published: 01 June 2015
.... this is a country where a majority would seek to justify rape and blame it on the attire and outgoing nature of awoman. It seems that being a woman and having an Internet connection are the only two requirements needed to attract abusive online commentary. Here are some of the popular threats being...
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Lgbtq Ugandans Balance Hope and Fear: Four years after an anti-gay bill attracted global notoriety, queer Ugandans are cautiously coming out from the shadows
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 70–83.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Jake Naughton PORTFOLIO
Javan, a transgender woman, sits in the
doorway of her mother’s home with her
niece and sister. Javan spent six months in
Kenya as a refugee after she was attacked
by a homophobic mob. She is one of the
rare young LGBTQ people in Uganda who
has the support...
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Latin Women Take the Helm
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 39–47.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... “It was glorious, like a party.” And Bachelet’s speech was inspirational—particularly when she asked the crowd, “Who would have thought… 20, 10, or five years ago, that Chile would elect a woman as president?” Although critics suggested Bachelet’s election would mean little for gender equality, many Chilean...
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The Accidental President: A Conversation with Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, President of Mauritius
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 35–38.
Published: 01 December 2016
... being called a Muslim woman president—why should I? We ensure that there is diverse representation in our country, and that’s very important for social harmony. I make it a point to celebrate with everybody, to build bridges with everybody. We should not build walls; we should be building bridges...
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Crashing the Party: The radical legacy of a Soviet-era feminist
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 70–74.
Published: 01 June 2018
... to support themselves, women had no choice but to sell themselves to men, either as wives or prostitutes. In her 1909 pamphlet, “The Social Basis of the Woman Question,” Kollontai asserted that this gender oppression had its roots in the family. “In the family of today, the structure of which is confirmed...
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Haiti, Violated
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 93–102.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Clancy Nolan © 2011 World Policy Institute 2011 World Policy Institute P ort-au-prince —When the earthquake struck Haiti last January, a lanky 26-year-old woman, who asked to be called Rolonda, gathered her belongings and moved with her mother, her brother and her five-year-old daughter...
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The Big Question: How Do Sex and Sexuality Affect One’s Role in Society?
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 3–8.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the nature of societies and governments. But only recently, within the past century or less, has the competition or selection of man vs. woman determined the nature of government, its citizens, and the way the two interact. We asked our panel of global experts how the interplay of gender and sexuality has...
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Blood Ties: Intimate Violence in Shinzô Abe’s Japan
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 28–35.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of the need for protection against intimate violence. Attorney Yukiko Tsunoda recalled the difficulties she faced in the late 1980s while constructing a case of self-defense for a client, a woman who had killed her abusive husband while he was asleep. Writing retrospectively in a 1995 article...
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“Not Blacks But Citizens”: Race and Revolution in Cuba
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 23–29.
Published: 01 March 2016
... frustrations with previous administrations and her expectations for the new government as a black person, a Cuban , and a woman . She felt entitled to certain rights, like other citizens, and was aware and proud of her blackness. While some Cubans of color agreed with the revolution’s raceless sentiments...
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Passing the Test
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 22–32.
Published: 01 March 2012
...,” says one immigrant woman in the video. “I thought, my goodness, they really are white!” Though the video shows some contented immigrants, its goal appears, in large part, to shatter any illusions of Holland as an ideal place to live, focusing on problems related to immigration, poverty, and social...
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A Seat at the Table: The Fight for Gender Parity in Kenya and Somalia
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 10–15.
Published: 01 December 2016
... she got was a primer in protecting herself from sexual assault by male politicians and putative voters. “I was shocked,” she recalled. “One woman told me that I had to dress in a matronly way, because voters always think that youthful looking women are sleeping their way through the party. Another...
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The Patriarchy’s Revenge: How Retro-Macho Politics Doomed Dilma Rousseff
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 82–91.
Published: 01 March 2017
... from office, she minced no words about the role gender played in her downfall: “There are certain elements of machismo and misogyny in this impeachment . . . I have always been described as a hard woman. Yet I have never heard a man described as a hard man.” Brazilian politicians and media drowned...
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A Cry from Crimea
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 85–96.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... On April 3, weeks after Misha had been released and moved to Kiev, I went back to House Number 11. A woman who answered the intercom at the door said she didn’t know anyone named Alina, and hung up after I introduced myself as a reporter. I knocked on the black gate next door, and a man wearing military...
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Yemen: Descending into Despair
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 62–72.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... She finds no one. Sallam At last, someone finds her. An old woman stops to help the weeping child but is unable to discover who she is. The traumatized girl cannot give her own name or the name of anyone in her family. “I will be your grandmother,” the woman, Mariam Hadi Ali, says...
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Emboldened by Outsiders, Restricted At Home: How Sexism Holds Back Queer Women in West and Central Africa
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 75–80.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to overcome the domestic structural barriers to charting paths that may involve novel living arrangements or family models. For this reason, activists like ADO Jr. are increasingly focused on facilitating a second phase of queer women’s liberation in the region: Once a woman declares an alternative sexuality...
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Honor Killings: Telling their Stories Won’t End the Crimes
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 70–76.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of the solution. If the project is to effect change for the better, then the issue of complicity, of how the manner and mien of storytelling fails to produce the promised moral shift, is crucial. In the summer of 2002, a woman named Mukhtar Mai, in the village of Meerwala in southern Punjab, did...
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