DCirillo14

DCirillo14 is a student at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Proposed Topics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womyn-born_womyn

Womyn-born womyn is an article about a type of feminism consistent with the second wave and TERF feminism, meaning trans-excluding feminism. It is also the definition for many events and festivals held in the name of a safe, women only space, and therefore has a conflicting history that still persists today in some circles. It’s history and its impact on feminism and the transgender community are things to consider and expand upon here, in an article that is quite short and not very expanded upon.

Fowler, Maria. "Sexual Social Scripts and the Re-Imagings of Community Identity." Ethnologies 23, no. 1 (2001): 45.

University of Guelph. Department of Sociology & Anthropology, and Amanda Helen Birdsell. "Womyn-Born-Womyn?: Contestations of Gendered Indentity (ies)." (2000).

Robinson, Christopher. "Developing an identity model for transgender and intersex inclusion in lesbian communities." Journal of lesbian studies 10, no. 1-2 (2006): 181-199.

Lenning, Emily. "Moving beyond the binary: Exploring the dimensions of gender presentation and orientation." International Journal of Social Inquiry2, no. 2 (2009): 39-54.

Oparah, Julia C. "Feminism and the (Trans) Gender Entrapment of Gender Nonconforming Prisoners." UCLA Women's LJ 18 (2010): 239.

Goldberg, Michelle. "What is a Woman?." The New Yorker (2014): 24-30.

Koyama, Emi. "Whose feminism is it anyway." The unspoken racism of the trans.

Davis, Erin Calhoun. "Situating “fluidity”(trans) gender identification and the regulation of gender diversity." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies15, no. 1 (2009): 97-130.

Viggiani, Giacomo. "Were We Born Women? The Transsexual Question and the Difference Feminism in the United States." Ragion pratica 2 (2015): 403-422.

Suls, Lindsay. "The Creation of a “Safe Space” within the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival." (2012).

Khayrallah, Nadia. "Born a Womyn?: Lisa Vogel’s Paradigm for Transgender Exclusion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery

This article is very short for one concerning such a large topic. Contemporary history is comprised of many things, from human trafficking to the commission of child soldiers, and as such, it deserves to be expanded upon in a way that sheds light on the history of the topic as well as ways different places are addressing it.

Gaus, Aline, Mick Wilkinson, Klara Skrivankova, and Aidan McQuade.Contemporary Slavery in the UK. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2007.

Brysk, Alison, and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, eds. From human trafficking to human rights: Reframing contemporary slavery. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

Van Den Anker, Christien. "Contemporary slavery, global justice and globalization." The political economy of new slavery (2004): 15-36.

Quirk, Joel. Unfinished business: a comparative survey of historical and contemporary slavery. Unesco, 2009.

Lusk, Mark, and Faith Lucas. "The challenge of human trafficking and contemporary slavery." Journal of Comparative Social Welfare 25, no. 1 (2009): 49-57.

Richard, Amy O. International trafficking in women to the United States: A contemporary manifestation of slavery and organized crime. BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH (STATE) WASHINGTON DC, 1999.

Choi—Fitzpatrick, Austin. "Rethinking Trafficking: Contemporary Slavery."From human trafficking to human rights: Reframing contemporary slavery(2012): 13.

Rassam, A. Yasmine. "Contemporary forms of slavery and the evolution of the prohibition of slavery and the slave trade under customary international law." Va. J. Int'l L. 39 (1998): 303.

Ruggiero, Vincenzo. "Trafficking in human beings: slaves in contemporary Europe." international Journal of the Sociology of Law 25, no. 3 (1997): 231-244.

Bales, Kevin. "Testing a Theory of modern slavery." Available on the net: www. freetheslaves. net (2006).

Rassam, A. Yasmine. "International law and contemporary forms of slavery: An economic and social rights-based approach." Penn St. Int'l L. Rev. 23 (2004): 809.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_binary

This article is similarly small for the large, broad topic. The gender binary has a large history, and its existence has influenced much of life today. More-so, separation from the gender binary and therefore the acknowledgment of it has influenced society, and modern history and breaking from the gender binary provides an interesting narrative for a large history section, as well as variations seen in modern society.

Lenning, Emily. "Moving beyond the binary: Exploring the dimensions of gender presentation and orientation." International Journal of Social Inquiry2, no. 2 (2009): 39-54.

Davis, Erin Calhoun. "Situating “fluidity”(trans) gender identification and the regulation of gender diversity." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies15, no. 1 (2009): 97-130.

Fowler, Maria. "Sexual Social Scripts and the Re-Imagings of Community Identity." Ethnologies 23, no. 1 (2001): 45.

Burdge, Barb J. "Bending gender, ending gender: Theoretical foundations for social work practice with the transgender community." Social Work 52, no. 3 (2007): 243-250.

Benson, Sara R. "Hacking the gender binary myth: Recognizing fundamental rights for the intersexed." Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 12 (2005): 31.

Markman, Erin R. "Gender identity disorder, the gender binary, and transgender oppression: Implications for ethical social work." Smith College Studies in Social Work 81, no. 4 (2011): 314-327.

Kitzinger, Celia. "Intersexuality: Deconstructing the sex/gender binary."Feminism and Psychology 9 (1999): 493-498.

Dvorsky, George, and James Hughes. "Postgenderism: Beyond the gender binary." Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (2008): 44-57.

Lian, Hui-Cheng, and Bao-Liang Lu. "Multi-view gender classification using local binary patterns and support vector machines." In Advances in Neural Networks-ISNN 2006, pp. 202-209. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.

Schilt, Kristen, and Laurel Westbrook. "Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity “Gender Normals,” Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality." Gender & Society 23, no. 4 (2009): 440-464.

About Me

I am a current undergraduate student at Rice University, majoring in Political Science and minoring in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities and Environmental Studies. I am very interested in the realm of LGBTQ+ rights and visibility, as well as gender equality, racial equality, environmental issues, reproductive rights, and immigration. Regionally, I tend to focus on the Middle East as well as more Western countries such as the United States and those in Europe. I have previously edited the LGBT retirement issues in the United States article.

As part of my Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities course, Human Development, I am furthering my Wikipedia editing career in related topics. I am excited to add the base of knowledge on this immense website and engage with the community at large.

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