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University of Washington Undergraduate Journals
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Washington
Undergraduate
Law Review
 

Spring 2007-
Present



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Clio's
Purple and Gold:
Journal of
Undergraduate
Studies in History
 

2011


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Jackson School
Journal


Spring 2010 -
Present



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The Orator

2007-Present


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Conceiving Motherhood

The Jewish Female Body in Israeli Reproductive Policy


By Elana Bloomfield
Haverford College


Within many traditional Jewish texts, women’s bodies are portrayed as fertile vessels through which they can birth children and fulfill their nation-building roles. When Zionism arose as a prominent Jewish movement in the mid-1800s, Theodore Herzl envisioned this nationalist movement as an alternative to religious Judaism. Nevertheless, he accessed the Jewish narratives of female fertility as a means of enabling Jewish survival and of contrasting the newly masculinized Jews. Women’s natural, passive fertility became a fundamental part of the nation-building endeavor and a necessity to Jewish survival. Women’s reproduction became not only a physical necessity but also a social role and a means of her political enfranchisement. Although the pronatalism in the early era of Israel’s statehood maintained loose tethers between the reproductive policies and religious narratives, the recent and nearly unilateral support for modern fertility treatments tightened those connections and galvanized the religious subtexts within Israeli society. These treatments, particularly in vitro fertilization, facilitate women’s national duty to bear children, appealing to a complex narrative of nationalism which affirms the reproductive role of the female body.   pdf


‘The Good and Bad of that Sexe’

Monstrosity and Womanhood in Early Modern England


By Alletta Brenner
University of Oregon


This paper examines constructions of gender in early modern England as a way of understanding the emerging of modernity in a period of extreme social and political upheaval. Through a study of portrayals of women as monstrous in the English popular press in the second half of the seventeenth century, the author describes how fundamental changes in the way that the public made sense of the world—increasingly according to the modernist perception that the universe is made up of an orderly and defined a system of inherent and infallible relationships—led people and things that defied the categories ascribed them to seem monstrous and threatening. Gender, as a contested site upon which questions of culture and politics have often played out over the ages, became a particular focus of attention during this period. In this context, women came to be seen as a threatening force, and described with great frequency in the popular press as monstrous creatures to be feared and loathed.   pdf


Deterritorialized Women in the Global City

An Analysis of Sex Trafficking in Dubai, Tokyo and New York


By Janice Phaik Lin Goh
University of Washington, Seattle


Sex trafficking is a global phenomenon that involves the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act. According to the U.S State Department, 600,000 to 800,000 individuals are trafficked across international borders every year. While globalization has inadvertently facilitated the trafficking of women, it has also allowed for an international awareness and consensus about the atrocities underlying sex trafficking. Yet, despite the proliferation of international institutions, conventions and agents united by a common agenda to combat trafficking, sex trafficking still a growing, transnational process. While it is easy to assert that developing countries lack the political and legal infrastructures to combat trafficking, how do we account for developed cities that serve as destination countries for similar rights violations? Why are women and children still being exploited as sex slaves despite the existence of domestic and international laws that are meant to protect them? Through an analysis of three developed global cities of today, Tokyo, Dubai and New York, this paper will reveal the legal, social and political factors patterns that directly and indirectly facilitate sex trafficking.    pdf


Student Outcomes from a Study Abroad Program

The Impact of Having a Diverse Group of Students


By Eugene Edgar, Anthony Kelley, and Ed Taylor
University of Washington, Seattle


This case study positions one study abroad program’s goals within the larger U.S. debate as to the purpose of study-abroad programs (the neo-liberal-free market vision as opposed to the notion of global citizen). In this study, 19 racially and gender diverse students completed a ten-week study abroad program in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Using a pre-post questionnaire and excerpts from student papers, a range of outcomes were documented. Student changes were noted in global mindedness, beliefs, and understanding of South Africa culture. The group diversity, setting, service learning activities, and structured reflection sessions played a critical role in achieving these outcomes.   pdf


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