Political instability in the recent past has highlighted the potential dangers to women Indonesia never more evident than the shocking rape of ethnic chinese women during the 1998 rioting
The 16-page report entitled, “What Did I Do Wrong?: Kopassus Tortures Papuans in Merauke” records the behavior of Kopassus soldiers in Merauke, the southeastern tip of Papua. They played catch,…
The fact is when women enter politics within this patriarchal context of democracy, they are unable to play a role to radically change the dominated political patterns rather they largely play poli…
The Jakarta Textile Museum was founded in 1976 as the result of a concerted effort spearheaded by Ali Sadikin, the Governor of Jakarta at the time
Conflict is often interspersed with periods of negotiations for ceasefire and or peace. At point in history it was assumed that man are superior to women as they can honourable die for their country
International Advisory Committee Meeting on Domestic Violence with 7 core curriculum
Australia is a country of striking landscapes, a rich ancient culture and one of the world's stongest economies.
Though described as the ‘world’s oldest profession’, prostitution is recognized by society neither as a valid form of employment nor an acceptable activity on the part of the customer. Prosti…
A wonderfully edited that deepens our understanding of why human rights should be deeply inscribed in our moral and political imagination
The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of " the experience of sexuality in Western society." Foucault takes us into the first …
The History of Sexuality (French: L'Histoire de la sexualité) is a four-volume study of sexuality in the western world by the French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault, in which the author …
This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain. From the privileged youth of Brideshead Revisited, to the scruffs at 'Scumbag University' i…
Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex, death, race, gender, culture, poli…
In this landmark addition to scholarship, Nancy F. Cott, author of The Bonds of Womanhood, offers a new interpretation of American feminism during the early decades of this century—a period tradi…