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Ruth Gilmore argues that expanding the prison population should be connected to a restructuring of the state. The crisis that Gilmore joins to the prison population in the United States is that the more people that are imprisoned the more women and children are without husbands and fathers.  There is a social crisis because a lot of African American men are the ones that’s mostly going to prison and is making the social structure of things unbalanced.  It seems like prison is this so call ” fix” for all of the chaos in society. “Until the 1960’s virtually all riots in the United States were battles instigated by white people against people of color, or by public or private police (including militia and vigilantes, also normally white) against organizing workers of all races. ( Gilmore 175) A good question was brought up in the test, “if crime rates peaked before the proliferation of new laws and new cages, what work does prison do”? and the test is right if crime rates were decreasing what was the point of having all these prisons being made? The test explains that the reason for this prison expansion were related to racism, racism especially towards blacks.  This whole prison system treated the different races unjustly and the black were the ones getting the shorter end of the stick.

This prison expansion was a way to put a end to the socio-economic problems which of course was created by the state, it was not done to help the people of society but more to help the people in the state. “the state has used its enormous capacity to raise money, buy land and build and staff prisons. It also makes new laws that guarantee incarceration for more and more kinds of offences, old and new.” (Gilmore 185)  Its like it was their solution (the state) to lock out someone and throw away the key so you wouldn’t have to deal with them again in society.  Over all there were many different explanations for the expansion of the prison population, drug epidemic, structural changes in employment opportunities,  however when the prison round ups began crime did indeed start to decrease, the public wanted a decrease in crime and they was in fact getting what they wanted.  Even though the crime was going down the state was still making more and more prison beds. It still comes into question, was prisons really the fix? or the cover up.

Lila Abulughod argues that discussion on humanitarianism concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare and human rights in the 21st century rely in some way on constructions of Muslim women. The building of  veiled women  was forced upon the Muslim women.  Many saw this veiling as a symbol of freedom.  The veil were suppose to protect these women from being harasses by men, the veil was a symbol signaling to men that women who wore the veil came from a home that could never be dishonored. The burqa or this veil also represented women as modest and respectable.  The veil was a reflection of women  being associated with family and home.   Women who wear this veil also showed that a sense of belonging to a certain community .   This desire for freedom and liberation, there were many feminists that felt like they needed to save afgan women from the Taliban , so that they can have enough rights of having enough to eat, having homes for their families in where they can live and thrive, having ways to make decent livings so that they children can grow in a  decent community.   ” What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, always raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understanding of the world ? (pg.786) Based on the  constructions of Muslim women , ” could we not leave veils and vocations of saving others behind and instead train our  sights on ways to make the world a more just place? (Lughod 798)  veiled Muslim women came off as being oppressed by the people who made them wear these veils this can be compared to the other parts in the world, we are part of tat world that can be oppressed.  Like the article states ” we do not stand outside the world looking out over this sea of poor benighted people , living under the shadow or veil or oppressive cultures, we are part of that world. (Lughod 789)  This part  is saying that we may not need to be wearing a veil or burqua to see that we ae being oppressed, by other things that are going on in our communities .  ” A more productive approach, it seems to me , is to ask how we might contribute to making the world a more just place.” ( Lughod 789)

Subjectivities are produced through encounters with the legal system.  Feelings and opinions are created when you have dealt with the legal system.  Sally Engle Merry talks about how women and their encounters with the law affects a womans identiy.  For example it was mentioned in the reading that ” A battered women may be pressured by kin to feel she is a bad wife, while her partner may claim she is taking away his masculinity.  The only way she can rescue him from this loss is to deflect the very legal sanctions she has called down upon him. (Merry 345)  This situation right here can have such a major impact on a womens sense of self and the way she views the law.  why does a woman have to feel like she owes a man something or that she has to change her actions in order to please a man even when she knows deep down in her heart that she needs to guard and protect herself as a woman .

The reading also mentioned police , partners , relatives, friends and neighbors all playing a part in making women feel bad or making them feel as if they did something wrong when they decide to take their abusive husbands to court.  Police act as if battered women do not have the right to complain about the violence of their husbands making these women feel as if they are discouraged from seeing themselves as having such a right. (Merry 347) Partners , relatives, friends and neighbors tell these battered women that they are not a good wife for having her husband in court saying that she did something to him for him to hit her.  This type of mentality that society  has can honestly mess with a woman’s mind.  How can people in society cover for these abusive men?  It is as if the law and the people involved in the case of a battered woman puts that women in a place od discomfort when its time for her to make her decision on the man that abused her.  A battered women turns to the legal system for help but theirs close relatives and friends judging her . There should be no reason why women should be fearful or have any anxiety about turning to the courts.  This shows that the people close to these women have a major impact on their decision making .  Any one who has been mistreated and brings it to the legal system should be treated fairly and not judged. unlike these battered women who had their own share of judgments

The resolution 1325 was about women having peace and a voice during the times of war.  resolution 1325 was the first resolution to address how the war have impacted the lives of these women.  The resolution wanted women to be safe and not to have to deal with the complications that were brought towards them.  1325 stresses on the importance of women having full participation as active agents in the prevention and resolution of conflicts , peace- building and peace keeping .  They wanted women to be involved and have a voice in the security council.  During this resolution movement , the women and armed conflict caucus made recommendations to the security council members that had a list of delegations in regards to women and their safety.

When the resolution 1325 was now existing , it was time now to put the plan into action.  Different cooperation’s such as the NGOs, UN entities and member states shown that they are willing to ensure that women are a part of peace and security.   The goal were for women to get what they needed and that was financial and technical support.  People felt as if the UN system and the security counsel needed to move from words and start acting on what they said they were going to do.  The NGO ( working group on women, peace, and security) had much involvement with bringing awareness the damage that was being done to the females. They printed and distributed twenty thousand copies of the resolution, they even organized a panel for international women’s day.

With awareness being made about the women’s suffering , the security council learned that a women’s peace are not there , that right to have some kind of peace as a human being were just not available to these women.  Resources  were now being made for people to witness what was being done to these women .  Books , articles and analyses on womens peace theory plus the NGO, government were all putting different supplies out there for the building of  women.   Even the news were getting involved , they were providing the latest updates on women and peace. ” through consultations , group meetings and a generous grant from ford foundation, the peace women team brings together information from women and womens organizations working for peace around the world into a repository web site where communication is nurtured and accurate information is exchanged and made accessible.”  With all of this being done the change for women struggles should be heard and society will hopefuly make a change.

In society , for gender identity to become easier to understand, certain kinds of identities cannot exist.  The human rights sparks conversation and a reproduction of A naturalization of heterosexism and the family including gender inequalites within the family. Parish argues that we should interrogate the connection of “human rights” in connection to heterosexual rather than focusing on the androcentrism of human rights discourse .  heterosexism became a naturalization in society .  A woman in a heterosexist home is treated unjustly , a heterosexist home is privileged by males and the males interest seem to over power a females interests.  This then denies or represses all other sexual orientations and gender identifications .  In heterosexism groups that are ran under patriarchal conditions involves a gendered class , race division of power and labor that institutionalizes inequalities within a heterosexist group.

Heterosexist principles of group reproduction , relegated women to reproductive roles.  Women are not treated as human in relation to economic, social and cultural practices.  According to the first generation of rights , women were always living under the conditions of patriarchy .  Man has always been a domination.  “Quite simply , it is therefore men’s bodies , experiences and perspectives that are reflected in human rights law.” (Pg. 143)   The masculinist state institutionalizes and sustains gender hierarchy which denies women equal human rights, both directly and indirectly. (Pg. 144)  Heterosexist families and masculine markets make the assumption that makes are the breadwinners, which continues to show the inequalities within a heterosexist household . Cultures that favors males , the preference for sons resulted into the abortion of females fetuses .  Worldwide , male privilege continues to let men make all the decision makings and have a special yet unjustly dominance over the female population.

what has not been generally recognized is the bias that often underlies studies of both sex roles and male dominance.  An assumption that we know what men and women are , an assumption that male and female are predominantly natural objects rather than predominantly cultural constructions. ( pg. 133) As we can see from the reading there is always an underlining truth when it comes to both sexes of male and female and that truth is the inequalites of both sexes . This domination that men has over a woman continues to take trend and be a part of our culture . Woman does not have the same rights as men , even when they are in a heterosexist relationship . A  woman in a heterosexist home is treated unjustly and a heterosexist home is privledge by males and a males interests while repressing the interests of women .

Carole pateman explains that while women have no part in the original contract with civil society, they are not left out of the “state of nature,” this makes me wonder what are they trying to say about woman as a whole? The civil society is structured; you make an agreement before entering into a community.  With civil society comes civil freedom and social contract.  By learning to live together in a civil society we look out for one another, we learn to be more rational and  moral.  In a “state of nature” it is the complete opposite.  With “state of nature” its believe that society makes us, before a society existed we as people were different.  With “state of nature.” We have physical freedom but there is a lack of morality and rationality.

Now referring back to Carole Pateman who explains that woman had no part in the original contract with civil society but all parts of the “state of nature,” are they trying to say that woman doesn’t have any morals and are irrational? Do our desires and impulses have a reason behind it? The inclusion of women in our civil society, seems to be only included when a man is involved.  There is a sense of domination over a woman Carole Pateman’s explains and this domination is of course a man.  A man’s power as a father comes after he has exercised the patriarchal right of a man (a husband) over a woman (wife).  (pg.3)

The civil society seems more as a man society than a woman’s society.  A woman  living  in a civil society according  to the reading seems to be more submissive, to the man.  Woman are the subject of the contract.  The sexual contract is the vehicle through which men transform their natural right over woman  into the security of civil patriarchal right . (pg.6)  The fact that men made the original contract shows that woman never had a chance of being incorporated into the sphere of  civil society.  Men  are the ones with the higher power, they are the patriarch, all adults even woman want to enjoy the same civil rights and exercise their own freedom with out someone looking down on  them.  Why can’t women  have just as much power as the men ? why must a man have domination over a woman and  have the right to enjoy sexual access to a woman?

My name is Amber Taylor this is my third semester here at CWE.  My concentration is in childhood studies and I will be graduating in the spring of 2018.  I currently am a lead teacher teaching three year olds everything that they need to know to be successful emotionally, physically, and academically.  I enjoy my job because it gives me an insight look of what it’s like to run your own classroom.  I always knew that I would either be working with children or either animals.  Children and animals are two of the things in life that I have a passion for.  I grew up around dogs in the island of Trinidad and Tobago.  Even though I am an American, I was raised in Trinidad for four years, from the age of three to seven.  If I wasn’t working with children a veterinarian would have been my second option.  My interest for this class is to learn more about the rights of woman and what can we do as a society to make things more justified for us females in society.

Human rights should be rights that are inherent to all human beings disregarding your nationality, the place of your residence, your sex, ethnic origin, color and religion. In 1789, article one of the Declaration of the rights of man and citizen proclaimed, “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights.”  Thinking about this statement in relation for human rights today puts in a lot of question. Back in 2015 two athletes were convicted in two different sexual assault cases.  The outcomes were different and a lot of people believe that those outcomes have to do with race.

Brock turner who was a former Stanford swimmer received a six month sentence for sexually assaulting a female behind a dumpster; he is a white twenty year old man.  In another sexual assault football player Brian Banks was accused of rape at the age of sixteen years old, but he was tried as an adult, and received more than five years in prison.  He also got another five years on parole for being a sex offender.  All of Brian’s accomplishments in school were as well taken from him; Brian Banks was a black sixteen year old young man. Relating back to human rights today, article one of the declaration of rights of man stated that “ men are born and remain free and equal in rights” but as you can see those rights does not apply to just any man in our time today.  The white man has more privilege in the justice system than a black man do.