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Female Sexuality Safe Sex
1,333 words
"The construction of female sexuality and it is
position in heterosexuality drawing upon recent
feminist discussions" An area of great focus in
contemporary feminist theory has been looking at
the construction of female sexuality, particularly
its position in heterosexuality. Of the recent
discussions, much of this has been influenced or
at least based around Freud's theory of
psychoanalysis and the his account of sexual
development that follows from it. In very
simplistic terms his account plac...
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Facial Expressions Communist Countries
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... -dominated and male-oriented environment. Of
course, this could also mean that the majority of
men in these countries, especially the ones who
dominate or regulate the market of visual images
and representations have considerable problems
with their own sexuality and quite a bit of
anxieties and uncertainties regarding their own
"manliness" The spring and summer of 1995 in
Slovenia were marked by, among other things, a
debate about an advertisement for a sun tan
lotion: a poster featuring th...
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Human Communication Public Life
582 words
When discussing human communications, we view many
ways to positively express oneself through verbal
messages such as entertainment, education, and
flirting. On the other hand, it seems there is a
much larger amount of negative verbal
communication presented to us in our everyday
lives. For instance, sexism, racism and dis
confirmation, just to name a few. Sexism is a term
more widely looked at in todays world due to the
fact that we have more women in high paying roles
and being on top of what ...
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Royal Court Second Act
1,782 words
Who is she and where did she come from? Caryl
Churchill is one of England's most premier female,
post-modern playwrights. She has strived
throughout her career as theatrical personality to
make the world question roles, stereotypes and
issues that are dealt with everyday, like,
violence, and political and sexual oppression. She
has been part of many facets of performance
throughout her almost sixty year career. Not only
has she been a strong force on the stage, but has
also had strong influences...
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Point Of View Make The World
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In the past and present women have had to endure
sexism as a part of everyday life. This is unfair
and unjust to the female species. In this paper I
am going to be talking about some of the issues of
sexism and how they affect women. Some of the
issues I will be talking about are the white males
club and how non-membership effects women. What
are the benefits of having a membership to it. How
women are kept in their place by society and by
themselves. How has this unequal affected women
through ...
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The Feminist Anti Pornography Movement No Less Than
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"The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less
than the feminist movement of a century ago,
encourages the assumption that male and female
sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as
yin and yang. " 1 Gloria Steinem (born on March
25, 1934), Barbara Ehrenreich (born on August 26,
1941) and Anna Quindlen (born on July 8, 1953) are
the three American journalists and novelists and
critics of the society state who participated in
Women Rights Movement and amply influenced the
contemporary o...
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Collector Of Treasures Kenalepe And Paul Women
825 words
The Collector of Treasures Bessie Head wrote many
of her stories in Botswana. Her unhappy marriage
and personal exile to Africa developed in her
works the sense of outsider not really belonging
to any ethnic group. Her stories deal primarily
with the fate of women in African society; she
writes both from a "postcolonial" and a feminist
perspective. "Black women have a certain history
of oppression within African culture... women's
problems are rooted in custom and tradition. What
is certainly ve...
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Gay And Lesbian One Man And One Woman
1,443 words
Gay Marriage The appearance of marriage between
same-sex couples provoked one of the major
cultural and social changes of the twentieth
century in the United States. In 1970 gay and
lesbian couples inquired numerous marriage
licenses from the Los Angeles County Clerk. As a
result the Clerks office proposed the California
legislature to tighten California marriage laws.
Despite the promising start, and the aggressive
efforts of gay and lesbian supporters and
activists, for almost twenty years iss...
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Dark Blue Classical Style
1,572 words
... means for both males and females across all
three modes of dress. Traditional business attire
indicates a more professional image for both males
and females. So, according to the research our
teachers are doomed to strict bore clothes. But
still there are some studied that can help them
not to lose individuality, cause they still
continue to be adult people. Arthurs, Jane and
Grimshaw, Jean in Women's bodies: Discipline and
transgression come over with the idea that all the
abovementioned ru...
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Women History Joan Scott
686 words
Women's History essay Joan Scott Joan Scott is one
of the leading feminist philosophers today. Her
ideas, expressed in Gender and the Politics of
History are very good example of feminists
approach to history. Basically, Scott says that
difference between men and women has no role in
defining the historical process. In her view, the
notion of womens role in society is socially
motivated and has nothing to with two genders
being biologically different. These concepts are
not new or original femin...
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Feminist Movement Dolls House
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Drama Essay Trifles and A Dolls House both
illustrate to the general audience the struggle of
a woman against man dominance in a time when
patriarchal values ruled society at large. The
play Trifles written by Susan Glaspell in 1916 can
be considered a revolutionary writing in it its
advocacy of the feminist movement. The plays short
form proves outstanding for entertainment and
dramatic purposes and while still being able to
convey the higher ideals of the feminist movement
in a palpable witty ...
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2000 Years Ago Men And Women
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Literary theory and the Bible using feminist
theory. The bible speaks about women not what most
of them (especially the feminists) nowadays want
to hear. The bible openly shows that women are
somewhat inferior to men and are supposed to
assume subservient position, which nowadays raises
many questions and debates. In the following essay
I am going to speak about what the bible said
about women. I will try to use the direct quotes
and examples from the bible to corroborate any
thoughts about what...
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Anne Bradstreet And Frances Attitude To Women
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Anne Bradstreet and Frances Osgood's Attitude to
Women Anne Bradstreet was the first true poet, as
well as the first female poet, of English-speaking
North America. She was not a revolutionary figure
like Anne Hutchinson in Massachusetts. Her
affirmation of a usual female role is evident in
To My Dear and Loving Husband. She reached her
peek in English poetry in the late sixteenth
century and her part of the seventeenth. Under the
leadership of John Winthrop she sailed from
England to Massachuse...
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Male Dominated Society Hale And Mrs
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Trifles by: Tammy Wallace Mention the word
feminist and most people think of the modern
womens movement. Long before the bra burning of
the 60 s, however, writers were writing about the
lives and concerns of women living in a male
dominated society. Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles,
was written in 1916, long before the modern womens
movement began. Her story reveals, through
Glaspell's use of formal literary proprieties, the
role that women are expected to play in society,
and the harm that it bri...
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Production Process Mother Nature
2,376 words
How Does Caryl Churchill Affect The Acting How
Does Caryl Churchill Affect The Acting And
Production Process Through Her Script Writing?
Caryl Churchill has furthered feminist performance
theory, in the last twenty years, and broadened
traditional views of gender roles through her
script writing. For example, her plays Cloud Nine
and Top Girls defy traditional convention, with
Cloud Nines cross-gender casting and Top Girls
pro-Thatcherite ethos as its foundation. Churchill
has affected the actin...
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Antigone Was Explaining Conflict Antigone Creon
282 words
Ahmed B. Karim Antigone Essay (Is Antigone a
Feminist/Anti-Feminist Play) Sunday, Oct. 31, 2000
I think Antigone was a feminist play because of
three main facts. Antigone was in all the
conflicts, even though Creon started them all,
even though Creon had all the power, Antigone
still won the war between her and Creon, also no
woman in her time would even think of doing the
things that Antigone did. Antigone was in all the
conflicts, which include, Antigone vs. Creon,
Antigone vs. Ismene, Antigon...
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Pride And Prejudice Jane Austen
535 words
Jane Austen and her Women Jane Austen has been
described as a feminist because of her portrayal
of women in her novels. Pride and Prejudice has
been the discussion of critics for many years. But
more or less, her feminism relates to her
background. During the Regency Period, women were
not expected to maintain a life for themselves.
They were influenced by their families to marry
well in order to have a good future and be
provided for. There was a strong emphasis placed
on money and class which ...
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Garden Of Eden Traditional Role
1,690 words
In reference to Judith Wrights poetry as being of
a unique and distinctive style, in particular
Wright is well known for her use of two subjects,
that being the Australian aspect where in her work
she commonly relates to the old traditional style
of Australias history and the harsh landscape that
is well known as an Australian trait. Three
examples of this distinctive style of writing is
Remittance Man, South of my Days and Legend. The
other of Wrights favoured topics is the Womens
view or the f...
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Calixta And Alcee Beginning Of The Story
1,236 words
Kate Chopin: The Storm Kate Chopin lived from 1851
until 1904. She was born Katherine O Flaherty and
was raised in post- Civil War St. Louis by parents
who were on the upper end of society. She married
Oscar Chopin, moved to New Orleans, and had six
children. After her husband died, Chopin moved
back to St. Louis to start her writing career at
age 33. She incorporated many taboos about
literature into her writing. Some of these taboos
were female sexuality, struggles, and triumph over
the stereo...
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Birth Control Planned Parenthood
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Birth control as a movement in the US has had a
very uneven relationship to movements for women s
rights. Discuss early birth control reform efforts
in relationship to issues of gender and class
power. Birth control was an
early-twentieth-century slogan, but it has become
the generic for all forms of control of
reproduction. Although there are many types of
birth control it s just as bad as abortion. With
the spread of agriculture and the economic
advantages of large families, religious and in
s...
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