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Honour Killings. The Intersection of Patriarchy, Gender and Religion

Honour Killings. The Intersection of Patriarchy, Gender and Religion

Melissa Pichard | Human Rights
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An honor killing or honour killing is the homicide of a member of a family or social group by other members, due to the belief of the perpetrators that the victim has brought dishonor upon the family or community. Honor killings are directed mostly against women and girls, but have been extended...

Comfort Women in Search for Understanding

Comfort Women in Search for Understanding

Shanna Todd | Human Rights
Rating:     Rated: 8 times
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The Gender and Peace Studies course at the University for Peace focuses on how gender is intricately intertwined in every aspect of our lives. Throughout the course we have discussed the complex definition of “gender” and its relationship with family, science, war, human trafficking and...

Vikki Hankins: One Woman's Fight For Her Civil Rights, One Party's Quest to Keep Them from Her

Vikki Hankins: One Woman's Fight For Her Civil Rights, One Party's Quest to Keep Them from Her

Mark Christopher | Human Rights
Rating:     Rated: 6 times
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Vikki Hankins, an ex-felon and overachiever who was a victim of overzealous mandatory sentencing guidelines and now, is a pawn in the Florida political chess match. Hankins has a degree, a small business and a strong desire to help others. All she needs is her civil rights back. But Gov. Rick...

The Intent

The Intent

Jurgen Beck | History
Rating:     Rated: 8 times
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Newly released historical novel tells tragic World War II love story and closely examines the importance of virtuous and corrupt intentions. A young German woman's life changes forever during World War II when she falls in love with an American soldier whose life she saves; historically...

Gender Outside of Heterosexuality

Gender Outside of Heterosexuality

Simone Jaggers Radolf | Human Rights
Rating:     Rated: 5 times
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What is heterosexuality and what does it mean to be a female or male outside the institution of heterosexuality? Current ideas on gender identity, femininity and masculinity are heavily aligned to straight sexuality; this is seen through media, education, religion, history. How is ones gender...

Escaping Hell

Escaping Hell

Jon Stauffer | Human Rights
Rating:     Rated: 13 times
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This book reveals the nature of the God of this world, and through the logical process, shows the reader that we are living in hell. The book also reveals who and where God really is, the traps established by Lucifer to keep us here, how to transcend those traps, and even shows us why we cannot...

World Peace Really: One Mind @ A Time

World Peace Really: One Mind @ A Time

Ronald Medved Gregg Cochlan | Psychology
Rating:     Rated: 4 times
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World Peace Really! takes you on a journey to where world peace really begins-inside your own mind. It applies some of the most profound concepts in cognitive psychology to the cause of peace and challenges you to think about your thinking. Your journey begins with a better understanding of how...

Engendered Lives: A New Psychology of Women's Experience

Engendered Lives: A New Psychology of Women's Experience

Ellyn Kaschak, PH.D. | Psychology
Rating:     Rated: 19 times
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Mind boggling!Engendered Lives will make you see the world around you with new eyes.The book presents a profound and often surprising view on what gender is and how it is passed from one person to another. You will see you how gender shows itself in surprising ways and in surprising places. Let...

Assault on the Soul: Women in the Former Yugoslavia

Assault on the Soul: Women in the Former Yugoslavia

Ellyn Kaschak & Sara Sharratt | Human Rights
Rating:     Rated: 21 times
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Assault on the Soul by Sara Sharratt and Ellyn Kaschak is the first and one of the few books to consider the psychological effects of the war in the former Yugoslavia. This is an edited set of articles by psychologists and mental health workers who went from their home countries to offer services...

The Sexual Construction of Latino Youth

The Sexual Construction of Latino Youth

Jacobo Schifter | Psychology
Rating:     Rated: 4 times
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We have erronous assumptions of what Latin sexuality is all about and this is one of the major works on how Latinos are brought to have the particular ideas about sexuality that they have. Schifter analyses how Latin gender is a threat to human rights and how young people use gender to develop...