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Assignment #7

There are so many organization and community of women who focuses on the androncentrism of humans right discussion, because modern society think that men have stronger power compared to women so that society have characteristics of treating male better than female. Therefore, feminist stood up and fought for their right with the idea of androncentrism. However, Spike Peterson and Laura Parisi contends that this critiques of human right based on androcentrism brought the results that human right instrument can not recognized or protect the exclusion, constraints, and abuses of women’s lives. Spike Peterson and Laura Parisi claims that feminists rather needs to focus on heterosexism rather than androcentrism. They believed heterosexism is a correct way to interpret the relationship of gender difference and human right.
Society itself has two different codes of men and women. As the gender having different codes on them, female and male had different subjectivities and identities. From that point, society started to make hierarchy of gender. Since men have stronger bodies compared to women’s, male was at the higher position of society than women, which led to bad treatment on women. The gender difference and human right showed in the past. Spike Peterson and Laura Parisi showed many examples that heterosexism is used to show the relationship of gender difference and human right. For example, in the Maxim and the supporters of it, they believed that people who have more powers (strength) and economic status are controlling the power of labor and social inequality. Therefore, women started to lose their property right and denied it by the society politically and economically. Spike Peterson and Laura Parisi consists that as they focused on heterosexism, we saw the historical time that progressed the different human right between women and men. Instead of focusing on the huge factor androcentrism, they limit the space to focus on.