Political Econ of Gender Blog

An article about a 10-year old who was raped by her stepfather has fueled ongoing abortion debate in Mexico.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/04/19/mexico.abortion/index.html?hpt=T2

An interesting article in the New York Times today about the decline in maternal deaths

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/health/14births.html?pagewanted=1&ref=todayspaper

I know this is not directly related to the class, but I found this to be fairly interesting. The Anti Gay Movement group  in Malawi wants to hold referendum on homosexuality because of recent event and the country such as the arrest of the gay couple...

http://www.africanews.com/site/Malawi_to_have_referendum_on_homosexuality/list_messages/31180

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT-4tlAcuUU

Just to give a bit of insight for tomorrow's presentation if anyone is interested-

Here's a before/after report on the Maria da Panha law and its implementation as

reviewed by the Special Secretariat for Women’s Policies Presidency of the Republic, a body of the Presidency of

the Republic with Ministry status:

http://webapps01.un.org/vawdatabase/uploads/Brazil%20-%20Maria%20da%20Penha%20Law%20%282006%29.pdf

It's Reese Witherspoon! The caption on the first page is sort of funny...

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/_QHra4HzCl5/Reese+Witherspoon+Domestic+Violence+Press/-QzoQn87jQm/Maria+da+Penha+Maia+Fernandes

Great piece:
"Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704100604575145810050665030.html

I wanted to recommend this film in class yesterday but I couldn't recall the title.  I think it really captures how both men and women are victimized by dominant constructs of masculinity.  Here's a link to the trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTSi0pKjC5g

I came across this article while doing research for my final project.  It discusses some of the motivations behind plastic surgery in Brazil - pretty interesting. 

http://www.cghi.nl/uploaded_files/publications/Edmonds_JRoyAnthrInst_2007.pdf

A new report shows wealth discrepancy between women: once race is taken into account, marriage impacts women very differently. it turns out that white women can afford staying out of marriage more than women of color, who rather benefit economically from it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/11/women-of-color-have-media_n_495238.html

http://www.ips.org/TV/beijing15/qa-men-need-to-mobilise-men-for-gender-equality/

An interesting article in the LA Times about the promotion of sterilization in exchange for land as a way to reduce poverty in Colombia.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-nu-birth-control-bucks21-2010mar21,0,4165562.story 

Here is a very interesting article on Racialicious, a blog that writes about the intersection of race and pop culture:

http://www.racialicious.com/2010/03/11/women-of-color-and-wealth-the-scope-of-the-problem-part-1/#more-6684

The article reports on a new study  from The Insight Center for Community Economic Development, titled “Lifting as We Climb: Women of Color, Wealth, and America’s Future.”  The report is an in-depth look at the issues in wealth accumulation particular to black women, Latinas, Asian and Native American women.  One of the report's most shocking findings is that the median wealth for single black women in the United States is $5!

Forbes list of billionaires  just came out and for the third year Carlos Slim, who is Mexican, is at the top,   I think it is another example on how unequal the region of  Latin America is, check it out:

http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109029/worlds-billionaires-2010