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CRRJ Reproductive Justice Virtual Library Now, there's a simple way to begin or deepen your understanding of reproductive justice You can introduce yourself to RJ or deepen your understanding of it right here. Search for a specific resource, skim titles covering a particular topic, or take a crash course by reading all the annotations. Enter the Research Hub Explore a broad range of topics or search in specific categories, like author, year, etc. New to RJ? We've collected a handful of resources that we think will lay a solid foundation of understanding for anyone new to reproductive justice. Feedback Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Featured Topic Area Native Americans and Indigenous communities have survived various forms of reproductive oppression. Click Here for Race ethnicity: Native American Indigenous Featured Resource Unearthing Latina/o Voices on Family, Pregnancy and Reproductive Justice About the Library About the curator Dr. About the Center

Introduction to Sociology/Sexuality Human sexuality is how people experience the erotic and express themselves as sexual beings.[1] Human sexuality has many aspects. Biologically, sexuality refers to the reproductive mechanism as well as the basic biological drive that exists in all species and can encompass sexual intercourse and sexual contact in all its forms. There are also emotional or physical aspect of sexuality, which refers to the bond that exists between individuals, which may be expressed through profound feelings or emotions, and which may be manifested in physical or medical concerns about the physiological or even psychological aspects of sexual behaviour. Sociologically it can cover the cultural, political, and legal aspects; and philosophically, it can span the moral, ethical, theological, spiritual or religious aspects. Recent studies on human sexuality have highlighted that sexual aspects are of major importance in building up personal identity and to social evolution of individuals: Sociobiology[edit]

Henry A. Giroux | Beyond Orwellian Nightmares and Neoliberal Authoritarianism (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)Those who fight against neoliberalism must not settle for reforming a system that is as broken as it is dangerous. Any viable, transformative struggle will need a boldly democratic vision; durable, longstanding organizations and strategies that make politics meaningful. To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.- George Orwell Central to George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian society was a government so powerful that it not only dominated all of the major institutions in a society, but it also was quite adept at making invisible its inner workings of power. To read more articles by Henry A. Giroux and other authors in the Public Intellectual Project, click here. The American Deep State, or what Colonel Fletcher Prouty called the Secret Team, is a structural layer of political intermediaries: non-governmental organizations (e.g.

Foucault History of Sexuality Michel Foucault: The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 The History of Sexuality analyzes power. Sexuality is a primary technology of power, and Foucault is interested in the geneology of that power.Ý The idea of the philosophical geneology comes out of the work of Nietzsche, on whom Foucault relies for key conceptual rubrics and modes of analysis. So, before we get started, here's a thought for the day:"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians" - Pat Robertson at the GOP Convention.Consider what these things have to do with each other.Ý Was Robertson just ranting (or perhaps we should say merely ranting) or is there a logic to this list? How might one begin to talk about the connections in this list? Key Ideas for The History of Sexuality, vol. 1: Passages to examine from The History of Sexuality, vol. 1: Body: The homosexual as a personage, p. 43. Truth: Repression (?) The Classed Body: