Powerful Discourses Regarding Women's Bodies

Respectively, Johnston and Longhurst (2009, 159-160) emphasise that “sexed bodies are constructed through different social and cultural entanglements and through different spaces and places” and that the internet acts as an important source of material on sex and sexuality, reflecting and reinforcing social trends and conversations that are happening in ‘real’ space. Johnston and Longhurst’s (2009) notions of sexed bodies and spaces, theoretical ideas surrounding third-wave feminism and postfeminism

acknowledge their sexual identity. They do that by making women wear the Playboy rabbit head because it represents fun and sexy instead of women being seen as embarrassed or uncomfortable with their sexuality. Levy argues that no women dressed as a rabbit or any animal for that matter represents sexy. The only reason women even purchase the magazine or wear those ridiculous outfits is due to the culture pressures imposed on them. Making them believe if they do not that means they are ashamed or uptight

administrative support to enhance negotiation skills. Alam’s insights are powerful as they document the specific factors that discourage female sex workers from negotiating with clients. He finds that the primary motivation is financial; clients offer more for condoms to not be used, and sex workers are reluctant to negotiate as it could lead to lost customers. This conversation about competition for clients provides important insights regarding the structural factors affecting sex work. Alam finds that sex

researched individually. 1. Research topics will include cited research entailing four broad areas. a. Including the potential for human sex differences found in the primary auditory cortex b. The associations amongst women and power through a discourse analysis, of variation in language and gender, neural language networks at birth c. Highlighting the importance of recognizing that there are dissimilar constraints and views of menstruating women in unrelated religions. d. Gender differences in

allows for dehumanization. Kotef’s paper points this out, noting “As bodies that can explode at any moment and thereby terminate themselves as they terminate others, Palestinians embody death… By demanding that the young man who is detained by the soldiers… be allowed to sit down, drink, or urinate, the group reconstitutes the Palestinian body within Israeli security-oriented discourse as a live body, in contrast to the mere exploding body that is usually present there.” (p. 979) Thus, the gendered distinction

autonomy. The American Nurses Association gives a comprehensive list of responsibilities that are to be carried out by a registered nurse. It includes performance of physical examinations, taking health histories, providing health promotion, counseling and education, administering medications, wound care and numerous other personalized interventions, interpreting the patient information and making critical decisions about needed actions, coordination of care in collaboration with a wide array of

A prominent Cuban-born artist, Ana Mendieta, has partnered the female body with nature to explore her own cultural and physical displacement, and through her incorporation of performance, body and land art has attracted numerous interpretations and historical studies. Mendieta was exiled from her homeland in the 1960s, moving to the USA. This displacement from her homeland and culture played a large part in informing her work. Mendieta repeatedly proclaimed, ‘I am between two cultures’ (Mendieta

The concept of hegemony used in the media is of central theoretical importance and, as Bernadette Casey notes ,it enables television to construct a limited range of views of the world, specifically promoting the ideas of the dominant societies (2008). The term , defined by Casey as control of one state over another, was further supported by Gramsci’s theory (1971),where it is argued that culture and politics are linked together through leadership , establishing control through persuading people

mothers have been transmitted through myths and fairy tales, which, by imagining the existence of such dissonant figures in an allegorical perspective, contributed to place maternal violence in a distant place and time, preventing them from challenging women’s traditional role as caring, nurturing actors within society. Joseph Campbell defines mythological

Reading There were numerous powerful testimonies and striking findings noted throughout the and first two chapters of the book Birth Matters by Ina May Gaskin. As a health care provider, and therefore someone who is entrusted to care for individuals during their most private and sacred times, I found Gaskin’s statements regarding the environment and care surrounding birth experiences very impactful. According to Gaskin (2011), the “women’s perceptions about their bodies and their babies’ capabilities