The Vagina
Women issues are on the rise in handling the environment. Our environment is dying because women’s issues are being ignored. The extinction of species is happening because we have misplaced our desires to care for the women species in our global process of access and resources. It is within this thought that women are unhealthy because we are not given the rights to access to health and wellness. Our sexuality as women has been denied due to the ideology of men aggression in war and violence. It is within our lifetime that we can change the function of the vagina. Our vaginas as women are not just a commodity of sexual advancements of men’s pleasures and abuse. It is more than just masturbation for men gratifications that increase their drive for ego and aggression. It is within my heart that we focus on the bigger picture that women use in the environment is to restore earth back to the rightful place of health and wellness, but we must with our rights first as equal components to men’s stewardship and management opportunities to distribute health and wellness for all.
If we cannot find the restoration for our neighbors we will not be able to find the cures to our own house, and within our own lives. We as a culture have been clouded with the authority to allow our privileges and free time to destroy and spread inequality through violence and war. I am focusing on the two elements of sexuality of reproductive rights due to the reading of “From Outrage to Courage by Murray,” has outlined in chapter five that our international affairs of early child bearing, lack of reproductive rights for women, and health care that aide active young women through their sexuality. I would like to challenge this reading with men. Teaching men how to be responsibly with their sexual freedom and privilege, it is a somewhat challenge to give women no charge education, health care and wellness programs that will allow them to gain access to contraception and advocacy of child care and labor rights to care for their children and their bodies.
In order for us to be effective we as a culture must begin with developing professionals willing to take their business and services available to women. Single women cannot afford many of these services. It is not an opportunity for women to gain access transnational resources to human rights as health of sterilization and changing the role of male control. (Murray, pp.98)
The “Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Feminist Perspective, by Sonia Correa and Rosalind Petchesky, 1994,” in the spirit of theory, the epistemological and historical premises of social and sexual rights are human rights. What is bodily integrity? “Increasingly, as women of color in Northern societies and women from Southern countries have taken leadership in developing the meanings of sexual and reproductive rights for women, these meanings have expanded. They have come to encompass both a broader range of issues than fertility regulation (including, for example, maternal and infant mortality, infertility, unwanted sterilization, malnutrition of girls and women, female genital mutilation, sexual violence, and sexually transmitted diseases); and a better understanding of the structural conditions that constrain reproductive and sexual decisions (such as reductions in social sector expenditures resulting from structural adjustments programs; lack of transportation, water, sanitation, and child care; illiteracy; and poverty). “(McCann and Kim, pp. 120)
In my reflection, this environment we call eco-systems, as an ecofeminist, I suggest that our readings in the Half the Sky, I would like to conclude that the oppression will turn into opportunity for women worldwide. Though, men have neglected the opportunity to love, cherish and honor women, their environment, we are still equal in our existence to be responsible for our body, and the control over our lives as a whole self. It is in my mind that killing a girl will become the greatest shame of our history as a human species. (Kristof and Wudunn pp. 81)
We have based our whole historical value on a virgin, the perfection of an ideology on women’s purity that ownership was necessary for honor. It is in my mind that this practice will lead us to utter desolation and destruction leaning on killing women, shaming women, and neglecting women needs for health and wellness within our generation. It is pointless to spread the disease of dysfunctional values. Our religion will be worthless if everyone is dead. It is in my reflection that we violate each other when we do not master our own disciplines on war, capitalism and poverty. The new day will begin when we have the courage to turn our oppression into opportunity to be healthy. It is in my mind the day we walk away from dysfunctional practices of violence and limit access to health care, we will begin a new day.
In the spirit of bell hooks, “I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
Resources
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky, Canada, 2009.
Anne Firth Murray, From Outrage to Courage, Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine, 2008.
Carole R. McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim, Feminist Theory Reader, Local and Global Perspectives,Routledge, New York and London, 2010.
bell hooks quote, 1952-
