Body politics: What's the state got to do with it?
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Edited by
Jordan A. Pino & Konstantinos Karamanakis
BODY POLITICS
“Whether meant to or not, law, in addition to all the other things it does, tells stories about the culture that helped to shape it and which it in turn helps to shape: stories about who we are, where we came from, and where we are going.”
Mary Ann Glendon, Former Ambassador to the Holly See
Body Politics: WHAT’S THE STATE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Jordan A. Pino Konstantinos Karamanakis Editors
Eagle Print Collegiate Press Chestnut Hill This book was prepared by students in the Political Science Honors Seminar, Body Politics (Fall, 2016) at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Copyright in each chapter of the collective work is retained by the individual author. The work is licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This book is dedicated to our mentors in the Boston College Department of Political Science.
Contents
Chapter 1: Editors’ Preface 1 Konstantinos Karamanakis Jordan A. Pino
Part I: Vulnerable Communities
Chapter 2: Transgender Rights in Juridical Perspective 9 Jordan A. Pino Chapter 3: The Development and Success of Disability Rights in Germany 21 Connor Tobin Chapter 4: The Criminalization of Marital Rape: A Story of Progress and Pushback 31 Lauren Lin Chapter 5: Restriction through Rights: Abortion in the Soviet Union 41 Sylvia Waghorne
Part II: Displaced Persons
Chapter 6: The EU Identity Crisis 53 Kevin Sheridan Chapter 7: Improving the Long-Term Circumstances of Internally Displaced Persons: State Strength as the Determinant Factor 65 Cesar Garcia Chapter 8: Political Power and Barriers for Internally Displaced Women in Colombia 77 Colleen Ward
Part III: Corporeal Governance
Chapter 9: Agency, Distance, and Distrust: Compulsory Vaccination in the United States 89 Konstantinos Karamanakis Chapter 10: Discrimination and Experimentation: A Study of How Different Racial Groups Are Adversely Affected by Government Research 99 Ashley Puk Chapter 11: Racial Politics of Coerced Sterilization in the Twentieth-Century United States 109 Miriam George Chapter 12: The Coerced Sterilization of HIV-Positive Women in South Africa 119 Madison Armstrong
Part IV: Ideologies in Movement
Chapter 13: Rights in Conflict: The Abuelas’ Search for Truth in Post-Dictatorship Argentina 131 Katie Daniels Chapter 14: Reagan and AIDS: A Complicated Legacy 141 Jack Massih Chapter 15: Homophobia in Poland and Hungary: Assessing its Political Motives and Influences 151 Thomas Hanley Chapter 16: The Impact of “States of Emergency” and the State’s Appropriation of the “Terrorist” Body 163 Emily Murphy
Contributors 183
Editors’ Preface