2019-01-20

女性主義理論與流變 導言 Introduction to FEMINISMS

女性主義理論與流變 0
女性主義理論與流變(FEMINISMS)  
顧燕翎主編(Yenlin Ku, chief editor)    
貓頭鷹出版社  2019130

導言
顧燕翎

  二〇一八年十一月一日亞洲時區中午十一點開始,Google全球分公司的員工陸續放下手邊工作,走出辦公室抗議公司沒有認真處理性騷擾案件。Google的罷工和近年席捲全球的#MeToo一樣,都不是單一或突發的行動,而是自十九世紀以來婦女運動的一環。婦運原就具有全球串連的特質,到了網路便捷的二十一世紀,發言管道更為暢通,蓄積己久的能量便勢如燎原。

  拒絕性騷擾和性侵害,是第二波婦運後期激進女性主義者的主張。之前男人侵犯女人,被視為男人與生俱來、以及男人之間互相交換的權利/力,被侵犯的女人反因害怕名聲受損而不敢聲張。#MeToo在歐美地區的巨大爆發力,反映了當地女性主義所創造的新價值已累積了深厚能量,讓受害者風險降低,也使更多旁觀者敢於不畏權勢,公開出面譴責加害者。亞洲的婦運相對沉默,韓國高階檢察官徐智賢公開陳述自己被性騷擾又被降職的過程是極為少數的特例。

2019-01-03

Surrogacy in Taiwan: notes on the women's movement


Yenlin Ku 顧燕翎

Near the end of 2018 the Student Association of National Taiwan University organized a debate on whether surrogacy should be legalized in Taiwan and invited me to be on the negative side. Receiving the invitation at too late a date, I missed the opportunity to be present and watched the debate, carried out by two professors from different universities, on the internet.

        Surrogacy has been contested as a gender issue in Taiwan since the 1990s. The Ministry of Health (now Health and Welfare), under the pressure from infertile wives and medical doctors, passed the Act of Artificial Reproduction in 2007 to legalize IVF (in vitro fertilization). In the following years, the Ministry made attempts to add surrogacy to the Act. However, the draft was kept at bay by women’s and child protection groups, though supported by sexual libertarians.