Category: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues

Stand Up, Speak Out – President Peres and the body politics of a statement 0

Stand Up, Speak Out – President Peres and the body politics of a statement

Last week Israeli president Peres visited the Netherlands. In the TV program Collegetour he was contronted with a critical statement from one woman which she later reported on a blog. Here an analysis in terms of body politics.

Marriage as punishment: documentary about women’s rights in Morocco 1

Marriage as punishment: documentary about women’s rights in Morocco

The suicide of the 16-year-old Amina Filali from Larache, who presumably was forced to marry her rapist, gave Nadir Bouhmouch the idea to use her story as the main topic for a documentary about women’s rights in his country of birth: 475 – When Marriage Becomes Punishment.