- This past week I have not done much for my service learning activity. I received a confirmation email a while back on my application to foster a pet, and in the next upcoming week I am planning on going to Melbourne and talking with Leandra about which pet I am going to be fostering. Besides that, nothing has really happened.
- This past week our study was about racism towards Indian women and a feminist’s definition of health. I do not think that our lesson had much to do with my project, but if I could connect it in any way, I would say that the discrimination these women felt affected they way they lived as a woman just as women who are abused by their husbands and feel as if they cannot leave their house because of their pets. On page 241 quotes, “That began my war….Indian and poor.” This quote states that women felt and were hindered by their race, just as abused women are hindered to live the life they want because of fear.
- I have already learned a lot from my project. I cannot wait until I am fostering a pet, and I know that I am helping at least one woman get help. The feeling alone that I get from knowing that I am helping an abused woman find safety is unexplainable. I am learning that something so small, and so easy can make a huge difference. If people all across the world did simple activities like these, the world would be a better place by far.
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa- Rey. Women's Lives Multicultural Perspective. 5th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010. Print.
Think about the ways the the ACRJ tie in domestic violence to an understanding of health for women. Shouldn't women be violence free in order to have a healthy life?
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