This section is a digest of recently added/updated web resources, under three categories:

• Information & knowledge content (usually in the form of e-books available for free download)
• Web sites & other resources (new/upgraded web sites, data bases, other tools)
• Evolution of SSNV knowledge taxonomy & links directory (summary here, full directory in a separate page

SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESEARCH INITIATIVE, SVRI, 2007. The Sexual Violence Research Initiative is a network of experienced researchers, policy-makers, activists, donors and others committed to the promotion of research on sexual violence and to generating empirical data to ensure that sexual violence is recognized as a priority public health issue. The SVRI was established in 2002 as an initiative of the Global Forum for Health Research. It is hosted by the Gender and Health Research Unit, Medical Research Council, South Africa. The SVRI website provides valuable technical assistance to members and visitors, in the form of research agenda on sexual violence, research tools and methods, ethics guidelines and protocols. The SVRI website contains over 100 country pages containing country specific resources related to sexual violence. The site also hosts an updated list of funding resources, and shares information on sexual violence research and advocacy activities taking place globally. The SVRI also hosts a list-serve which provides members with resources, publications and news articles on sexual violence. Other activities of the SVRI include: training workshops, research projects, and development of guidelines and tools. Link: www.svri.org

THE LEAST DEVELOPED CPOUNTRIES REPORT 2007, UNCTAD, 2007. From the UNCTAD website: "The least developed countries (LDCs) are a group of countries (presently 50 States) that have been officially identified by the United Nations as "least developed" in the light of their low income, weak human assets, and high economic vulnerability. UNCTAD, in past LDC Reports, has taken the view that the key to sustained economic growth and poverty reduction in LDCs is the development of productive capacities and related creation of productive employment. The Least Developed Countries Report 2007 corroborates this view by focusing on knowledge accumulation, technological learning and the ability to innovate as vital processes toward genuine productive capacity development in these countries."

GOVERNANCE MATTERS 2007, Worldbank, 2007. From the World Bank Governance and Anti-Corruption web site: "The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 212 countries and territories over the period 1996–2006, for six dimensions of governance: voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption." See also the Governance Indicators Database and the Governance Indicators for 1996-2006.

LEARNING IN IMMERSIVE WORLS: A REVIEW OF GAME-BASED LEARNING, Sara de Freitas, JISC, 2007, 72 pages. From the report conclusions: "The rapidly changing landscape of games and simulation development is bringing new potential for learning in immersive worlds using multiple media. Moreover, the speed of uptake in leisure contexts and the expectations of younger learners in particular have deep implications upon how game-based learning will be used in practice. With a greater emphasis upon learning experiences, game-based learning may provide significant challenges to our institutions and teaching strategies, however, it may also provide new opportunities for reconsidering how we learn and for supporting the development of new immersive spaces where learners may produce their own materials, share learning experiences and practice skills for the ‘real world’. This may give an indication of the kinds of forms that may have an influence upon how we learn over the next few years, as the ‘digital natives’ who may be more interested in active ‘street gaming’ than watching television become the teachers, managers and policy makers of 2020."

FAMILY PLANNING: A GLOBAL HANDBOOK FOR PROVIDERS, Information & Knowledge for Optimal Health (INFO) Project, Johns Hopkins University, 2007, 372 PAGES. From the announcement: "The JHU INFO Project and WHO is publishing the on-line edition of this 372-page book in stages. The first 13 chapters are available for preview through the links provided on the website. Additional chapters will become available over the next few weeks. Family planning is regaining priority status on health agendas throughout the developing world, driven largely by the unmet needs of millions of women and families. Published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Communication Programs' INFO Project, with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Family Planning handbook brings together the best available scientific evidence on family planning methods and related topics into one easy-to-use publication."

2007 WORLD POPULATION DATA SHEET, PRB, 21 August 2007. From the announcement: "Malnutrition plays a role in the deaths of about 16,000 young children every day, virtually all of them in the developing world. That is a yearly toll of almost 6 million, about the same as the population of Denmark, Jordan, or Laos. By weakening resistance to infection and disease, malnutrition contributes to more than half the deaths of children under 5 worldwide. The Population Reference Bureau's 2007 World Population Data Sheet and two companion reports released today offer detailed information about the prevalence of malnutrition worldwide, and its causes and consequences. These reports also highlight information about cost-effective solutions that could improve global nutrition. The following reports are free downloads: 2007 World Population Data Sheet, Malnutrition Is a Major Contributor to Child Deaths, and World Population Highlights: Key Findings from the 2007 World Population Data Sheet."

REVISITING GENDER TRAINING: The Making and Remaking of Gender Knowledge - A Global Sourcebook, Royal Tropical Institute, 2007, 141 pages (PDF free download). From the announcement: "How are the epistemological roots of gender and development related with the knowledge and learning contexts in which gender training takes place? What are the implications of building feminist knowledge and approaches, which ultimately challenge traditional models of power and knowledge, in contexts that value acquisition of knowledge over processes of learning and that subscribe to hierarchical, positivist and didactic knowledge and learning models? What are the assumptions of the links between knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and practice in gender studies and training and how do these mesh with the learning and knowledge contexts of the societies and organizations where such education and trainings occur?

INEQUALITY IN ASIA: KEY INDICATORS 2007, ADB, 2007, 491 pages, free download. From the ADB web site announcement: "The Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries 2007 is the 38th edition of this flagship annual statistical data book of ADB. It features: 30 regional tables of socio-economic and financial indicators for 45 developing member countries of ADB, 8 Millennium Development Goals Tables, 45 country tables, with 18-year time-series on population, labor force and employment, national accounts, production, energy, price indices, money and banking, government finance, external trade, balance of payments, international reserves, exchange rates, external indebtedness, and a special chapter which focuses on Inequality in Asia" (the GINI coefficient is used as a measure of inequality). The complete table of contents is provided, so you can download the entire report or specific sections of interest.

MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS REPORT 2007, United Nations, July 2007, 21 pages (free download). For each of the MDGs, graphics and supporting text are provided for targets and indicators to show progress from 1990 to 2005 (2004 or 2006 in some cases). From the report summary:

INSTITUTIONAL REFORM OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, European Union, 2007. From the website intro: "This website offers information on the latest developments of the European Union institutional reform. There are several stages which have been of particular significance: the Treaty of Nice (which came into force on 1 February 2003), the European Convention (which finished in July 2003), the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) 2003/2004 (October 2003–June 2004) and the European Constitution (signed in October 2004). Following the rejection of the European Constitution by France and the Netherlands in 2005 and a two year period of reflection, on the 23rd of June 2007 the EU leaders agreed on a detailed mandate for a new Intergovernmental Conference. The task of this Intergovernmental Conference will be to draw up a Reform Treaty by the end of 2007. For an overview of all the stages which will result in this new Treaty you can also consult the detailed calendar of the reform".

WIKIMINDMAP. WikiMindMap is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique. Wiki pages in large public wiki's, such as wikipedia, have become rich and complex documents. Thus, it is not always straight forward to find the information you are really looking for. This tool aims to support users to get a good structured and easy understandable overview of the topic you are looking for.

The browser is a modified version of the GNU GPL licensed Flash browser for FreeMind. All content of the mindmap is derived from the wiki which was selected and is available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License. Examples of topic maps: solidarity, sustainability, violence.

WORLD INFORMATION ACCESS 2007, World Information Access Project, 2007 report now available. Website intro: "The World Information Access 2007 Report presents important trends in the distribution of information and communication technologies around the world. The 2007 WIA Report explores information access by looking at trends in the digital divide between the world’s primary and secondary cities, the cost of internet access in terms of income, the impact of telecommunications policy reform on the internet in Africa, the global broadband divide, and the state of the wired libraries, political parties, civic groups, and governments around the world." The online publication consists of nine chapters organized in five thematic categories, in a global comparative context:

• Complete 2007 Briefing Booklet
• "Wired Countries of the World" Map
• 2007 Briefing Booklet (without map)

Click here to view the current status of the knowledge links database. The table is sorted by mega-disciplines, then disciplines, then specialties. There are 11 mega-disciplines (the so-called "pillars of knowledge), 77 disciplines, and 402 specialties currently identified. The specialties column is still very fluid. The sub-specialties column is currently being used to capture the institutional source of the information. One more column has been added, to identify the mapping between link items and MDGs. The cell entries in this column are of the form MDGx, x=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, for links to content especially relevant to MDGx; else, the cell entries are of the form MDGs, meaning that the linked content applies to all the MDGs.

Needless to say, this database will never be finished, but the reader is invited to download the table, change the sortings, and otherwise adapt the entries to other projects. You can either download the HTML page (simply save the page and edit the HTML code - recommended if you are well versed in HTML), or you can download the excel file that contains the entire table (including embedded HTML and instructions to add/delete items and rebuild the HTML page - recommended unless you want to make extensive formatting modifications). To get the excel file, click here.

8. Prayer, Study, and Action

There are overlaps between prayer, study, and action, just as there are overlaps between the MDGs (section 2). The overlaps between prayer, study, and action are also amenable to representation using a Venn diagram:

The tripod of prayer, study, and action can be formulated in many other ways. For example:

• PRAYER: What have I done for the glory of God and the good of people?
• STUDY: What am I doing for the glory of God and the good of people?
• ACTION: What shall I do for the glory of God and the good of people?

Many other ways to represent the prayer-study-action tripod are possible. But the essence of this method of integral human development (which includes spiritual growth) is that, if any of the legs crumbles, the tripod crumbles; and if the tripod crumbles, integral human development stagnates. Such stagnation is contrary to human nature, for humans are infinite spirits in a finite world.

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9. Links to Archived Newsletters

The following are links to previous issues of the newsletter:

V1 N1 May 2005: Cross-Gender Solidarity
V1 N2 June 2005: The Phallocentric Syndrome
V1 N3 July 2005: From Patriarchy to Solidarity
V1 N4 August 2005: Synthesis of Patriarchy and Solidarity
V1 N5 September 2005: From Solidarity to Sustainability
V1 N6 October 2005: Dimensions of Sustainability
V1 N7 November 2005: Analysis and Synthesis of Objective Evidence
V1 N8 December 2005: Solidarity, Subsidiarity, and Sustainability
V2 N1 January 2006: Synthesis of Solidarity and Sustainability
V2 N2 February 2006: Sustainable Human Development
V2 N3 March 2006: Patriarchy and Mimetic Violence
V2 N4 April 2006: Mimetic Violence in Patriarchal Religions
V2 N5 May 2006: Mimetic Violence in Patriarchal Religions 2
V2 N6 June 2006: Mimetic Violence in Patriarchal Religions 3
V2 N7 July 2006: Mimetic Violence in Patriarchal Religions 4
V2 N8 August 2006: Mimetic Violence in Patriarchal Religions 5
V2 N9 September 2006: Sabbatical Activity ~ September 2006
V2 N10 October 2006: Sabbatical Activity ~ October 2006
V2 N11 November 2006: Sabbatical Activity ~ November 2006
V2 N12 December 2006: Sabbatical Activity ~ December 2006
V3 N01 January 2007: MDG1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty
V3 N02 February 2007: MDG2: Universal Primary Education
V3 N03 March 2007: MDG3: Promotion of Gender Equality
V3 N04 April 2007: MDG4: Reduction of Child Mortality
V3 N05 May 2007: MDG5: Maternal Care Improvement
V3 N06 June 2007: MDG6: Contain the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
V3 N07 July 2007: MDG7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
V3 N08 August 2007: MDG8: Global Partnership for Development
V3 N09 September 2007: Integrated Analysis of the U.N. MDGs

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Volume 5, Number 1, 2007

This issue of contains a special section on the politics of engagement between biodiversity conservation and the social sciences. The special section contains 4 articles and a synthesizing introduction, all exploring links between biodiversity conservation and the socio-political sciences. The articles can be downloaded free of charge. For more information about Conservation & Society, visit the journal homepage.

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Leland Stanford
1824-1893
American Tycoon-Politician-Educator
Founder, Stanford University
"The children of California shall be our children .... We deem it of the first importance that the education of both sexes shall be equally full and complete, varied only as nature dictates."

For more information about
Leland Stanford:

Leland Stanford
Leland Stanford - Governor
Leland Stanford - Senator
Leland Stanford - Racist Mistake
Central Pacific Railroad
Stanford University
Stanford University History

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Sign of the Times

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Rev. Elizabeth Shipp
Wymondham Abbey,
Norwich, England

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Hillary for President

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Wife, Mother, Lawyer, Stateswoman
Senator from New York
Next President of the USA

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Worth Visiting

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The following sites are worth visiting:

International Peace Day
September 21, 2007

International Catholic Peace Movement

Population Health Forum

UC Atlas of Global Inequality

Comprehensive resource including:
Encyclopedia of Earth
Earth Forum
Earth News

Our World in Balance

Intute: Comprehensive Web Resources
for Education and Research

Share the World's Resources (STWR)
Campaigning for global economic and social justice. How?
See the STWR Global Focus

Matriarchy International
Based on Heide Goettner-Abendroth's
Theory of Matriarchal Society
Could this be an alternative to patriarchy?

Center for Citizen Media
Grassroots media and citizen journalism

Humiliation in a Globalizing World

United Nations

U.N. Web Site Locator

K-K12 Education

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Announcements
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MANAGING INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Special Issue, The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. We invite submissions to a special issue focused on how organizational development and change (OD&C) is managed in international contexts. Referring to implementation of established change and development models across boundaries and within different cultural contexts, national or geographical settings, and organizations with international, transnational, or multinational memberships,we encourage rich, thick descriptions of how a change process unfolds, how change processes are adapted, how change processes can be evaluated, and how emerging change models can be noted for further development. These descriptions could be supported or underpinned by quantitative data if desired. Please follow JABS guidelines; submit manuscripts by e-mail prior to March 15, 2008, to: Chung-Ming Lau, Jean E. Neumann, Christopher G. Worley.

ICAES 2008
This is the 16th world congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. The theme of the conference is "Humanity, Development, and Cultural Diversity." The conference will take place in Kumming, China, 15-23 July 2008. The points of contact are Prof. Zhang Haiyang and Prof. Zhang Jijiao. Application and registration forms and other information can be obtained from the conference website.

WWWWMM08
Mundos de Mujeres/Women's Worlds 2008 is "the most important congress on academic research on gender and women and feminist social movements." This major international event will bring together people from all over the world - researchers, specialist, activist and major international public figures to discuss the key issues that impact women. A key goal is to fight against social injustices and gender inequalities. The 2008 interdisciplinary Congress has selected three concepts: frontiers, dares and advancements to address a spectrum of themes and issues that can help us understand the world we live in. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 3-9 July 2008. Points of contact: Dr. Claudia Malacrida, Dr. Leslie Roman, Conference Secretariat.

SOCIAL SIMULATION CONGRESS
Next year the 2nd World Congress in Social Simulation (WCSS'08) will take place on July 14-16, 2008, at George Mason University, hosted by the Center for Social Complexity, just outside Washington DC. Additional information will follow soon, including the official call for papers, website for early registration, scientific committees, lodging information, and preliminary program. The WCSS series is a joint collaboration of the regional international professional organizations: European Social Simulation Association ESSA; North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Sciences NAACSOS; and Pacific Asia Association for Agent Based Social Systems Science PAAA. For more information contact Professor Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, Director of the Center for Social Complexity at George Mason University.

U.S. YOUTH NETWORK FOR
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The SustainUS Agents of Change program is now accepting applications to join the SustainUS youth delegation to the Thirteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and second meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP13 and COP/MOP3), which will be held in Bali, Indonesia, from December 3-14, 2007. The SustainUS delegation, comprised of key leaders in the youth climate movement, will have the unique opportunity to represent American youth at the COP, which will determine the future of international policy on climate change. Delegates will work with each other and with international youth in advance of the conference to educate themselves, develop policy priorities, acquire skills in effective lobbying, and engage the broader youth population in a conversation about international climate policy. For more information contact Agents of Change.

NOVEMBER 19, 2007
CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION DAY

Women's World Summit Foundation
Sponsored by WWSF

SCIENCE, POLICY, AND ENVIRONMENT
Sponsored by the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE). January 16-18, 2008. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, N.W., Washington, DC 20001. Focus on Climate Change: Science and Solutions Resources. Please direct questions on NCSE's next conference to NCSE 2008 Conference on Climate Change.

GENDER AND WELL-BEING
A symposium on "Gender and Well Being: The Role of Institutions from Past to Present." Madrid, Spain, 25th-27th June 2008. From the CFP: "There are fundamental questions about the origins and nature of individual and social well-being in Europe, as well as on its sustainability. The symposium's aim to develop a new concept of well-being, examining the socially gendered indicators, actors and processes affecting the production and access to well-being across the life-course. This reflection is meant to be conducted at a crossroads between history, social science and economy." Call for papers opened till 20th September 2007. Send abstracts to Paloma de Villota with copy to the Secretary by this Form. Selection of abstracts will be made by the end of October 2007 and will be communicated to authors before 15th November 2007. Papers must be sent by e-mail no later than 26th May, 2008.

CHALLENGING THE CULTURE OF DEATH
The aim is a cross-cultural dialogue imagining a political and symbolic world based on life not death: mercy not sacrifice. "A multi-disciplinary event, we aim to bring diverse approaches to our deliberations under the following headings: Theory, Resistance, and Theology. Priority will be given to those taking a multi-disciplinary synchronic perspective, and imaginative approaches to presenting that maximize pre-event preparation (making papers available in advance) and interactive modes of engagement with participants. We also hope to balance incisive critique with concrete strategies for practical action." Venue: Trinity College, Dublin. Date: 2-4 November 2007. Sponsors: Institute for Feminism and Religion and Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Trinity College, Dublin. Please address questions to Mary Condren or Challenging Death.

PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE
International Conference on Peaceful Coexistence, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 23–24 November 2007. The need for peaceful co-existence between Muslims and non-Muslims within and between nations has long been recognized. The much publicized failures in relations in recent years, which are both a cause and effect of the situation in many parts of the world – not just the Middle East – should spur all right-minded people to re-double their efforts to sustain the hope for peaceful co-existence. For further information please e-mail: Peaceful Coexistence or visit the Peaceful Coexistence Conference web site.

FORMATION OF NEW PUBLICS
Religion has the capacity to form intentional groups and communities as well as to mobilize agents to work for certain goals. This formation of communities and mobilization of resources to achieve goals is actually consonant with the term "formation of publics" as used by C. Wright Mills. This conference will explore the new publics of the 21st century. Publics here may be individuals and/or groups who attempt to create knowledge and/or achieve certain actions using religious ideals, beliefs, and/or symbols. Venue: University of Santo Tomas, Manila. Date: 23-26 January 2008. Deadline for abstracts: 21 July 2007. Enquiries: Esmeralda Sanchez.

BIOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS BEHAVIOR
Call for Papers: "The Biology of Religious Behavior: A Human Ethology Perspective on Religion." Care to spend time in Italy studying psychology and religion? Then consider submitting a paper to the International Society for Human Ethology meeting in Bologna, Italy, July 14-18, 2008. Better yet, there is a possibility for funds to support your travel to Bologna for the conference. Sponsored by the Society of Human Ethology. Bologna, Italy, 14 – 18 July, 2008. The deadline for abstract submission is 1 March 2008. For more information visit the ISHE2008 conference website. Points of contact are Marco Costa, University of Bologna, Italy and Luca Tommasi, University of Chieti, Italy. See also the PsyRel blog of Jay Feierman.

EU GENDER EQUALITY
An expert meeting on gender equality in the enlarged European Union is underway (between July 2006 and September 2007) as part of a current research project on gender equality in the enlarged EU. It is being carried out as a cooperation between Social Change and the Institute of East-European History. The aim is to examine the possibilities, chances and obstacles for the future gender equality policy on the EU level. The discussion in this interdisciplinary and transnational forum will focus on the implementation of the EU’s gender equality regulations, on independent national policies, on the history and role of the women’s (rights) movement and the current situation of women, especially in the new member countries Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Bulgaria, but also in the "old" member states like Germany, France, and Austria. Points of contact: Petra Ziegler and Verena Kaselitz at the Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte der Universität Wien, Social Change Institut für Innovation in der Genderforschung und Gewaltprävention.

REPRODUCTIVE & SEXUAL HEALTH
The 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights will take place 29th to 31st October 2007, Hyderabad, India. The conference will provide a platform for people with diverse perspectives, expertise and experience to exchange ideas, discuss and debate issues of concern, and learn from each other about sexual and reproductive health and rights, with specific reference to the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD, 1994). The theme of the Conference is "Exploring New Frontiers in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights". For more information, please visit our website, 4APCRSH.

POLITICS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
CFP by the St. Antony's International Review (STAIR), a peer-reviewed academic journal of international affairs based here at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. A forthcoming issue of STAIR will focus on the theme of human trafficking. Abstracts due August 30, 2007. Papers due December 30, 2007. A copy of the CFP and other information can be obtained via email to Ms. Heidi Stöckl, Associate Editor, St. Antony's International Review (STAIR).

VIOLENCE IN CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY
This will be the 5th European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry. Congress theme: "Best Evidence Based Practices on Prevention, Treatment and Management of Violence at the Individual, Institutional and Governmental Level." 25 - 27 October 2007, 0, Amsterdam. From the invitation: "Violent and aggressive behaviour is a complex phenomenon of great importance in society as well in clinical psychiatry. Violence has become a global problem crossing borders, work settings and occupational groups. Within clinical psychiatry, violence is one of the major obstacles for effective treatment and rehabilitation, and with regard to health care workers, violence is the major occupational health hazard. Therefore a comprehensive institutional approach to this problem at all organizational levels is needed." See the conference website. Point of contact: Nico Oud.

EDUCATION FOR PEACE 2007
Announcing the First International Education for Peace Conference-2007: Strategies for Building a Civilization of Peace at Granville Island in Vancouver, B.C., Canada (14-17 November 2007). The primary goal of the conference is to contribute to the worldwide efforts to create a civilization of peace. Essential to this undertaking is life-long peace education at home, in schools, and in the community, with its focus on the integral role of all members of society-children, youth, and adults-and with the equal participation of women and men in the administration of human affairs. Point of contact: Stacey Makortoff.

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Insightful Art

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ABOUT HUMAN SEXUALITY

Below is an image of Tiffany Sankary's beautiful painting, Spine.

Spine
Tiffany Sankary
USED WITH PERMISSION

Spine is an excellent representation of the psychoanalytic insight about human beings having both male (animus) and female (anima) elements in their psychological make-up. In heterosexual persons, the animus is dominant in men, and the anima is dominant in women; but there is anima in men and animus in women. Could it be that being homosexual entails a shift in dominance (actually, a shift toward balance between anima and animus)? If so, it would be wrong to say that homosexuality is an "objective disorder." Granted that heterosexuality is by far the most frequent kind of human sexuality, it does not follow that homosexuality is a pathological condition. We need to learn more about this issue. Sankary's painting provides a good starting point for reflection.

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ABOUT HONOR KILLINGS

Over 5000 women and girls are killed every year by family members in so-called 'honor killings', according to the UN. These crimes occur where cultures believe that a woman's unsanctioned sexual behaviour brings such shame on the family that any female accused or suspected must be murdered. Reasons for these murders can be as trivial as talking to a man, or as innocent as suffering rape.

See the ICAHK MySpace to add this slideshow to your profile, blog or site.

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