{"id":6801,"date":"2009-02-24T02:33:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T07:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2010-12-23T03:30:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T08:30:26","slug":"charity-for-womenandchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/24\/charity-for-womenandchildren\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity for womenandchildren"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cynthia Enloe<\/a> draws attention to how mobilizing a nation at war requires drawing on not just the notion of the heroic masculine protector,\u00a0but also the vulnerable women and children who must be protected.\u00a0 To draw attention to the way in which this binary (protector\/protected) has functioned, she wrote “women and children” as “womenandchildren.”\u00a0\u00a0 Speaking very generally, women and children, and perhaps especially womeandchildren,\u00a0are sympathetic characters in society in a way that men simply are not.\u00a0 Likewise, women and children often seem more deserving of assistance and charity\u00a0than men, who are expected to buck up and take care of themselves.<\/p>\n

Stephen W.<\/a> found himself confronted with this\u00a0solicitation when making an internet purchase:<\/p>\n

\"women27s20heart20disease1\"<\/p>\n

Stephen wondered why he would\u00a0want to “wipe out heart disease in women,” as opposed to “wipe out heart disease”?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why indeed?<\/p>\n

Perhaps the appeal to save a group we often understand to be vulnerable and deserving of assistance makes (or is believed to make)\u00a0this a more effective solicitation.<\/p>\n

NEW (Jan ’10)!\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>Anna K.-B. sent in another instance of this women-need-extra-care-and-protection thing.\u00a0 In this case, it’s a walk to end women’s cancers only<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Cynthia Enloe draws attention to how mobilizing a nation at war requires drawing on not just the notion of the heroic masculine protector,\u00a0but also the vulnerable women and children who must be protected.\u00a0 To draw attention to the way in which this binary (protector\/protected) has functioned, she wrote “women and children” as “womenandchildren.”\u00a0\u00a0 Speaking very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,223,55,2091,252,293],"class_list":["post-6801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-healthmedicine","tag-healthmedicine","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18820,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions\/18820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}