Conclusions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordynn Jack
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
Autistic People ◽  
The Media

This concluding chapter argues that by developing and circulating new characters, rhetoric scholars can enact social and political change. By forwarding alternative characters—autistic people who are capable self-advocates, parents who are accepting of their children's differences—individuals can shift public perceptions and gain a voice in decision making. Those involved in other kinds of rights movements—such as women's rights or civil rights—have had to generate alternatives to the often stereotyped, demeaning characters used to limit their opportunities and to justify oppression. Autistic individuals involved in the neurodiversity movement similarly seek to gain fundamental rights, in part by contesting the stock characters of autistic people that circulate in the media and in popular discourse.

Mahaffey, Maryann

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Mathews
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
City Council ◽  
Peace Movement ◽  
Women’S Rights

Maryann Mahaffey (1925–2006) was elected to Detroit City Council in 1974, where she served until January, 2006. She used her political influence to address the issues of poverty, women's rights, civil rights, and the peace movement.

scholarly journals Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Podręczna w dyskursie medialnym o prawach kobiet

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 45-59
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Całek
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Privileged Class ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
New Generation

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. The handmaid in the media discourse about women’s rightsThe handmaid is the protagonist of a transmedia story begun with Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel about Gilead, a regime in which women are deprived of their rights. The handmaids are a unique group — they are fertile, a rarity in a country plagued by infertility. The women, treated as objects, are allocated as surrogates to childless couples from the most privileged class. The image of the handmaid became popular thanks to a new generation television series produced for the Hulu platform, and subsequently begun to be used in the fight for women’s rights. In the first part of the article the author analyses the handmaids and their place in the dystopian narrative and in the second — the way in which they are used in the social discourse about women’s rights. In this the author focuses on performative campaigns, corporate social responsibility and links between the characters and the #metoo campaign.

History and Human Rights

2019 ◽  
pp. 225-236
Author(s):  
Katherine M. Marino
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Cold War

The Epilogue demonstrates how the UN Charter’s women’s and human rights promises inspired feminists throughout the Americas, and how the Cold War stifled the movement and largely erased the historical memory of inter-American feminism. Paulina Luisi and Marta Vergara helped organize an inter-American feminist meeting in Guatemala in 1947 that articulated broad meanings of inter-American feminism and global women’s and human rights. However, the Cold War’s pitched battle between communism and capitalism narrowed both “feminism” and “human rights” to mean individual political and civil rights. The Cold War also contributed to historical amnesia about this movement. The epilogue explores how Cold War politics affected each of the six feminists in the book. Each woman sought in different ways to archive the movement and write inter-American feminism into the historical record. The epilogue also provides connections between their movement and the global feminist and human rights movements that emerged in the 1970s through the 90s. It argues that the idea that “women’s rights as human rights” was not invented in the 1990s; rather, it drew on the legacy of early twentieth-century inter-American feminism.

scholarly journals Teaching “Islam and Human Rights” in the Classroom

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (01) ◽  
pp. 101-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fait A. Muedini
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
The Media ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

AbstractThis article discusses my approach to teaching a course on Islam and human rights. I begin by examining the attention Islam has received in the media and classroom. Then, I discuss how I structure lectures on Islam and human rights, the various readings associated with the lectures, as well as common themes discussed in class that include but are not limited to Islamic law, women's rights, and minority rights. From there, I discuss a range of different approaches to the Islam and human rights discourse. I then describe how I test the students' knowledge of the material.

The Singapore Council of Women and the Women's Movement

1994 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phyllis Ghim Lian Chew
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
Historical Accounts

The greater part of the historical literature concerning Southeast Asia says little about women because, following the western tradition, writers have concentrated on those individuals associated with decision making and power, areas where men have featured predominantly. Although women have contributed significantly to social and political movements, they have been neglected in historical accounts and often, their contribution has been excluded altogether. Even studies dealing specifically with legislation involving women's rights in Singapore such as the Women's Charter, have given insufficient attention to the part played by women in laying much of the preliminary groundwork.

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