Human Rights, Sexuality, and Gender

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Instructions

PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED RUBRIC AND USE THE ATTATCHED SOURCES NOT YOUR OWN!!

The aim of this assignment is to investigate how various social, economic, and political forces and/or changes imposed by or within the state can impact human rights and the local understandings of gender and/or sexuality in a given society.

Using materials in modules 3, 4 & 5, including videos/film reviewed, identify an issue impacting women/girls/LGBTQ, or persons non-binary gender and sexual identities in a given society.

Some questions you may want to consider in the assignment:

  1. What is the negative phenomenon impacting the human rights for females and/or LGBTQ+ in a particular society that you are interested in?  Who is being targeted?
  2. What has influenced change (if any) in society?  What has been the outcome of these changes on issues such as human rights?
  3. What is seen as being necessary to address this human rights concern (i.e., what are local groups trying to do to support the marginalized group in question)?
  4. What are the potential roles of the state or other national and international stakeholders to address gender injustice or violation of human rights, especially against women (e.g., honor killings, female genital cutting, bride-burning, female trafficking)?
SOURCES YOU CAN USE:
  • Brettell, C. B., & Sargent, C. F. (2017). Introduction to “The cultural construction of gender and personhood.” (pp. 215- 220) and Introduction to “Culture, sexuality, and the body.” (pp. 291-298).
  • Herdt, G. H. (2017). Rituals of manhood: Male initiation in Papua New Guinea. (pp. 239-243).
  • Abu-Lughoud, L. (2017). Is there a Muslim sexuality? Changing constructions of sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin weddings. (pp. 299-309).
  • Reddy, G. & Nanda, S. (2017). Hijras: An “alternative” sex/gender in India. (pp. 323-331).
  • Reddy, G. & Nanda, S. (2013). Hijras: An “alternative” sex/gender in India. (pp. 223–229).
  • Brettell, C. B., & Sargent, C. F. (2017). Introduction to “Equality and inequality: The sexual division of labor and gender stratification.” (pp. 153-158).
  • Estioko-Griffin, A., & Griffin, P. (2017). Woman the hunter: The Agta. (pp. 159-169).
  • Gruenbaum, E. (2017). Female genital cutting: Moving forward on abolition? (pp.398-411).