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Weighty Speech: Addressing Body Size In The Classroom, Yofi Tirosh
Weighty Speech: Addressing Body Size In The Classroom, Yofi Tirosh
Yofi Tirosh
The politics of body size has been the topic of intriguing feminist work. Although in my view this issue is still undertheorized, I have long sought for a way to bring what does exist in the literature into my academic activities. The opportunity arose when, as a graduate student at the University of Michigan in 2001, I taught an undergraduate mini-course in the women's studies program, which I named Weight as a Cultural Question.
This essay discusses two pedagogical challenges I faced while teaching a class. Both questions deal with the extent to which it is productive to talk about …
Gender Equality, Social Values And Provocation Law In Australia, Canada And The United States, Caroline A. Forell
Gender Equality, Social Values And Provocation Law In Australia, Canada And The United States, Caroline A. Forell
Caroline A Forell
This article examines and compares the partial defense of provocation as it applies to domestic homicide in the United States, Canada and Australia.