Girlhood and Ethics: The Role of Bodily Integrity

Our concern is with the ethical issues related to girlhood and bodily integrity—the right to be free from physical harm and harassment and to experience freedom and security in relation to the body. We defend agency, positive self-relations, and health as basic elements of bodily integrity and we advocate that this normative concept be used as a conceptual tool for the protection of the rights of girls. We assume the capability approach developed by Martha Nussbaum as an ethical framework that enables us to evaluate girls’ well-being and well-becoming in relation to the potential, and often subtle, threats they face. The capability approach can be understood as a theory of justice, and, therefore, as an ethical and political approach. An enriched concept of bodily integrity can help in the design of better policies to address gender biases against girls because it could contribute to seeing them as active agents and valid participant

Two-Thirds of California's Seven Million Uninsured May Obtain Coverage Under Health Care Reform

Estimates that 4.7 million Californians who were uninsured in 2009 will be eligible for Medi-Cal or premium subsidies in the insurance exchange under the 2010 healthcare reform. Discusses recent trends in uninsurance rates and policy implications

Volume-preserving mean curvature flow of revolution hypersurfaces in a Rotationally Symmetric Space

In an ambient space with rotational symmetry around an axis (which include the Hyperbolic and Euclidean spaces), we study the evolution under the volume-preserving mean curvature flow of a revolution hypersurface M generated by a graph over the axis of revolution and with boundary in two totally geodesic hypersurfaces (tgh for short). Requiring that, for each time t, the evolving hypersurface M_t meets such tgh ortogonally, we prove that: a) the flow exists while M_t does not touch the axis of rotation; b) throughout the time interval of existence, b1) the generating curve of M_t remains a graph, and b2) the averaged mean curvature is double side bounded by positive constants; c) the singularity set (if non-empty) is finite and discrete along the axis; d) under a suitable hypothesis relating the enclosed volume to the n-volume of M, we achieve long time existence and convergence to a revolution hypersurface of constant mean curvature.Comment: 24 pages. We have added some lines at the beginning explaining the notation, and clarified a little bit more the proofs of Proposition 1 and Theorems 5 and 10, the statements of Proposition 2 and Corollary 3 and an argument in Remark 1. We have also completed reference 18. A version of this paper will appear in Mathematische Zeitschrif

Urban sign. The polis furnished

Just as the linguistic sign, defined by Saussure, is like a double-sided coin: significant + meaning, so the city can be defined by this dichotomy, that is, on the one hand is composed of matter and, second, to function or content. We travel the city as the baudelairean flâneur as untimely affiliates walkers to the Situationist International, and so we wear away the tread on the asphalt. Politics, associations and media are responsible for our public space is constantly bombarded by private interests with the consequent impact on the development of citizen relations in semi-privatized public space. The Art brings significant strategies of non-urban places and does so through the Public Art as artistic intervention appropriation of public space by the affirmation of ordinary citizens living there, i.e. by an art to the city and citizenship. Exploring the current state of the contemporary city gives us the framework to review part of urban artistic poetics emerged in recent decades.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

One-Fifth of Nonelderly Californians Do Not Have Access to Job-Based Health Insurance Coverage

Examines access to employer-based coverage among children and nonelderly adults age 64 and under, insurance status, and other sources of coverage, including Medi-Cal and family coverage, by income, firm size, citizenship, race/ethnicity, and region