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A Dangerous Professor Loses A Friendship, Michael C. Vocino
A Dangerous Professor Loses A Friendship, Michael C. Vocino
michael c vocino
A brief essay/short story based on the author's experience as a gay university professor and how creative teaching methods ended one of his vital friendships.
The Politics Of Sex: Analyzing The Relationship Between The State And Gender Identity And Desire, Rachel Mayer
The Politics Of Sex: Analyzing The Relationship Between The State And Gender Identity And Desire, Rachel Mayer
Honors Theses
The disenfranchised experiences of women are central to feminist understandings of identity. Crucial to this understanding is the question of what is the cause of female oppression and how to remedy the situation. This introduces the concept of state power and its relationship to women. The state, as the seat of legal and political power, has the ability to serve as both protector and oppressor. The thesis is devoted to exploring feminist perspectives and critiques on state power such as arguments for state intervention in the protection of women through concrete action such as gender-specific laws. Opposing this view is …
Course Syllabus: Harry Potter And International Politics - Identity, Violence And Social Control, Emma Norman
Course Syllabus: Harry Potter And International Politics - Identity, Violence And Social Control, Emma Norman
Emma R. Norman
The themes we draw from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series are used to illuminate parallels in contemporary world politics and to apprehend in detail some of the key problems that revolve around the three core themes of the course (identity, violence, and social control). How, for instance, does life in Hogwarts help to illuminate the multiple, crosscutting identities produced by globalization? How does the divide between wizards and muggles, or Hermione’s obsession with elvish welfare, serve to illuminate continued discrimination in current liberal democracies and do these narratives help to widen our options when it comes to minimizing it? What …