i put my video on the Amherst Scratch drive and it up on youtube!, I had to split it into two movies because it was too big. ;)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0821/p01s02-woaf.html
http://tv.oneworld.net/2009/04/21/awra-amba-short-film/
I think it's very interesting how these people are successful despite not having the most sustainable form of existence. They just rely on hard work, honesty, and equality. I love how at the end they point out that more people want to join... people all over the place say that women need to stay in their place and that culture should always be preserved, but I think this example shows that the status quo of inequality isn't truly what people want.
http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2009/04/blinded-with-science.html
This is taken from a pretty opinionated blog, but it has links to the main articles and an interesting take on the issues.... She is talking about a recent experiment that found that women are aroused by any number of things: heterosexual porn, homosexual porn, chimpanzee porn, etc., and yet these responses don't match up with what women say that they like. This blogger is offering up some reasons why that might be.
in light of our conversation today i thought this would be most appropriate
Isabella Rossellini is the artist, the link is to a movie project she did about the reproductive behavior of animals specifically insects and a few underwater animals... I cant really explain it while giving it proper justice.. if anything i think the bee, dragon fly and the praying mantis in the 1st green porno are the best....
www.fundacionomaere.org
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4252/resource_wars_in_ecuador/
this is an article about indigenous protests against mining in Equador.
Here's a turkish anti-violence video that uses gender reversal to illustrate violence against women.
(you might have to copy/paste the link - linking to outside pages doesn't always work...)
Here's the approximate translation:
Hayat?n?zda bir gün bile kad?n olman?n ne dmek oldu?unu dü?ündünüz mü?
(Have you ever considered what it means to live a day of your life as a woman?)
En az?dan bugün dü?ünün!
(Consider it today!)
Dünyada her 3 kad?ndan l'i ?iddete maruz kal?yor.
(One in three women around the world experience violence.)
Peki suçlu kim?
(So who are the criminals?)
Biz sadece bir ayna koyduk kar??n?za.
(We've just put a mirror to your face.)
Bu film Ecobella Home'un bütün kad?nlara arma?an?d?r.
(This film by Ecobella is a gift to all women.)
Ecobella is Turkish homewares company.
I really like that it includes things like street/work harassment and other things that Nussbaum mentions in her capabilities approach, but most of which society just shrugs off as not being violent...
Monday, April 6 at 3:30 pm
Merrill Lecture 4
Professor Roughgarden: “Reproductive Social Behavior: Evolutionary Theories, Old and New.”
Professor Roughgarden is a distinguished evolutionary biologist whose recent book Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People challenges traditional views of gender and sexuality. Her CV can be accessed at http://www.stanford.edu/group/roughlab/rough/html
I saw this documentary last year and i think it talks about some of the issues we discuss in class, more so on women's issues in a more modern world, around the world. The filmmaker a "free women" herself confronts the problems that come with being "liberated". In terms of having access to birth control and living in a more accepting society when it comes to female sexuality. Although it doesn't talk about the literal environmental causes and effects by which women are suppressed, it does let the viewer get a look at other cultures around the world and what shapes and changes women's views towards their own freedoms. Here's a link to the trailer. I found the whole series really thought provoking and insightful..
http://www.flyingconfessions.com/about_WatchTrailer.php
Here's the article linking oil production to oppression of women in oil-rich countries:
