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Men And Women Sexual Liberation
1,332 words... way we think about power in sexual relations. She draws her ideas upon the following quote made by the lesbian protagonist in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, "I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed be me." Her interpretation of this statement is the reason why the lesbian protagonist left heterosexuality behind is because of the one way process of "destruction", namely the man's destruction of the women, whilst in a lesbian relationship she can reciprocate this destruction. With th...
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Hard Core Pornography Freedom Of Speech
1,325 wordsThe causes of the deterioration of society are attributed to many parts of human nature. Actions, feelings, and events have all been blamed for the rise in crime and violence. None of these, however, have created as much controversy as pornography. Anti-pornography groups have tried to make all forms of this entertainment illegal. These activists blame pornography for the increase in sexual violence, the degradation of women, and a blockade to the first amendment. Truly a multi-media event, porn...
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Male Dominated Society Men And Women
1,851 wordsMost people assume that the philosophical story can be told entirely by the men who dominate it. They ignore the insights and perspectives of nonwhites and women who make up the majority of the world, while at the same time realizing that if asked, they would say that everyone's voice is equally important. Without realizing it, or maybe some individuals willingly enter into a social contract that does not allow everyone to be treated equally. Women have been treated as lesser peoples for ages an...
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Sylvia Plath Feminine Mystique
1,196 wordsWomen Empowerment Through Demystification of Motherhood N. Kavitha & V. Sakthivel Lecturers in English Dr. Sivanthi Aditanar College of Engg. Tiruchendur- 628 215. Tamil Nadu. South India- India. Patriarchy has tactfully created a myth that motherhood is the only sphere that is essentially ordained for women. Women as a sex are considered to be the natural reproducers of mankind - naturally supposed to be the child bearers and readers. Patriarchy celebrates this innate capacity of women as the s...
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Women And Men Bell Hooks
709 wordsbell hooks Bell hooks, a feminist theorist and activist, wrote Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center in 1984. In the third chapter of the book titled The Significance of Feminist Movement she tried to explain the main ideas of true feminism, as after the second feminist wave many of them were interpreted wrong. Unfortunately the feminists themselves became the reason for the misleading. As the author wrote in the very beginning of the chapter, In their eagerness to highlight sexist injustice, w...
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Women Of Color Radical Feminists
910 wordsCHICANA FEMINISM The Chicana Feminist movement evolved between 1970 to 1980. It addressed concerns of Chicana's due to the interplay of race, class, and gender oppression. The Chicana's struggled to gain equal status in the male dominated movement. Both liberal and radical feminists hope to achieve gender solidarity through the politics of identity. Poet Robin Morgan called the anthology of feminist essays she edited in 1970 Sisterhood Is Powerful. As women of color pointed out from the beginnin...
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Womens Rights Movement 1960 And 1970
2,867 wordsSuccessful Movements to Improve the Status of Women in the Third World The role of women in society has experiences drastic changes during past several decades. There were times of rise and fall of womens position in the society and one of the factors influencing this position was the existence of various movements that were struggling for womens rights. Since the beginning of time, women had been working to advance their place in society. From the Stone Age through the twentieth century, indivi...
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Meditations On First Philosophy Cartesian Dualism
2,156 wordsMeditations by Descartes The main feature of European philosophical thought is that it never loses its actuality, regardless of whether it promotes the idea of thing of itself or denies objectivity to anything that doesnt have a direct relation to our sensory perception of the world. One of the best examples to this is philosophy of Rene Descartes, which shows us that ones ability to operate with abstract categories accounts as the most important factor, when it comes to establishing a certain s...
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Social Criticism Fr Example
1,884 words"Using the work of two or more authors discuss how the theorizing of gender has change over time. " The twentieth century has been marked by many breakthroughs in the theories of psychology, philosophy, and inter-human relations. In my point of view the theorizing of gender has gone through the biggest evolution of all other. In a relatively short period of time, less than one hundred years, women, who originally had very limited rights, became equitable to men in their abilities to freely expre...
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Kit Yuen Quan Girl Who Wouldnt Sing Culture
878 wordsIn the memoir The Girl Who Wouldnt Sing, Kit Yuen Quan describes her life experiences growing up as a Chinese girl in America. In her attempt to try and find her place in society, Quan intermingles with several groups of people. Her interactions with a feminist group, two young Cambodian girls, and finally her own father allow her to explore her Chinese background and how that affects her interactions with people. In order to find her own voice in a society that is not really hers, Kit Yuen Quan...
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Mise En Scene Male Gaze
2,615 wordsMarlene Dietrich, Madonna, and the Male Gaze in Blonde Venus and Desperately Seeking for Susan As audiences, we subconsciously identify the male protagonists and take female as spectacle during the film watching, due to the social function of narrative films. (Turner 72) 1 Thus feminists have been slashing the objection of female body in? ? male gaze? ? in the narrative films over the decades. Male gaze is in term of the fetishistic scopophilia and sadistic voyeurism. Fetishistic scopophilia dea...
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Sexual Liberation Liberation Movement
2,677 wordsThe 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 places...
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Feminist Theory Feminist Movement
1,539 wordsCriticism. The word just looks scary, and it s something most people are a little afraid to receive. However, I am afraid to give criticism. As the only male Women s Studies major on this campus, and the only male student who wants to learn about Feminist Theory, I ve learned very quickly to know my role. This course has served as a wake-up call to me that I am an outsider in the feminist movement and that this movement is not my movement. So for me to criticize a movement that I m deeply involv...
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Equal Opportunity Woman Women
657 wordsDown to Feminists Hail to Real Women Everywhere Equal opportunity, its such a standard policy these days. It was originally associated with the feminist movement with the simple intent to establish a level playing field. The prima facia of the phrase is idealistic, and at the least, the perpetual continuation of egalitarianism. Although these are both true, taking a look deeper into the contemporary application of the concept reveals anything but equality. As a woman, these so-called feminists a...
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Men And Women Wealth And Power
2,215 wordsPhysiological differences provide the material base of status between the two sexes, but it is the determined processes of social practices that transform these sexes into genders. Male and female beings, once given enough time to socially develop, become a product of what society teaches and enforces them to be. From the clothes that they wear, to the assertion of their personality, to the very pronoun that they are referred to as, men and women become socially prevalent definitions of physical...
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Rights Of Women Psychological Traits
2,460 words11 - 30 - 99 Feminist Ethics is not a special ethic in the manor that business, medical, or environmental ethics are. Feminist ethics have not attempted to determine special rules for special circumstances, rather they present the opportunity to examine a historically neglected perspective when it comes to traditional ethical thought. Feminist Ethics has been an attempt to revise, reformulate, or rethink those aspects of traditional western ethics that have historically depreciated or devalued a...
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Male Dominated Society Men And Women
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Susan B Anthony Lucy Stone
883 wordsWomen Feminists 2 Final Composition-Feminism Women have a disease, a disease that will prevent them from ever achieving political, social or economic greatness. This disease is the need for independence and self-respect or the lack there of. This is what we have come to know as feminism. Understand that the need for independent and self-respect isnt a real disease, I just used disease as a metaphor for how women go about trying to achieve them. For nearly one hundred and fifty years women have f...
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Violence Against Women Andrea Dworkin
1,414 wordsThis paper will show that many of her most popular beliefs are not only detrimental to society, but also not in the best interests of women. In letters from a war zone, Andrea Dworkin presents a collection of speeches and short articles she has composed during her career as a writer and activist. Many of her articles deal with censorship and pornography. One claim is central to all of these, pornography is an act and not an idea, thus censorship is not relevant to it. In response to a New York T...
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Cause Of Action Hate Literature
2,156 wordsSuppose one Porn 2 Pornography Suppose one accepts MacKinnon and Dworkins suggested statutory definition of pornography. How does one who generally accepts MacKinnon and Dworkins views on the pervasively harmful effect of pornography, and who accepts a need for legal redress of the harms perpetrated by pornography, deal with pornographic material? The second major problem with the ordinance for our traditional liberal legal framework is the identification of the source of the harm. The liberal c...
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