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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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Tao Te Ching Person Or Group
1,651 wordsThe philosopher Michel Foucault and the ancient chinese sage Lao Tzu are separated by some twenty centuries. This seems to be of minor consequence, however, when it comes to the essence of their ideas. Both figures deal with concepts that explore the relationship between society and power. Specifically, the ways in which social bodies gain or lose power. In this paper, I will use their ideas to support my theory that equality is impossible in social interactions. These interactions may range in ...
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Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu
1,654 words... h a universal right to freedom does indeed imply equality in the sense that people are equal because of there shared inherent right to freedom. He writes, .".. equality is at once the most natural and the most chimerical thing in the world: natural when it is limited to rights, unnatural when it attempts to level goods and powers. Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free. " 7. Voltaire seems to suggest that all people have equal access to freedom. Foucault's a...
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Person Or Group Forms Of Entertainment
1,640 words"Gotta catch 'em all" - Why has Pokmon received such acclaim and criticism The world's most common thought systems, the '-isms' of the world - conservatism, liberalism, fundamentalism, fascism, etc - are ideologies. Collins dictionary defines Ideology as 'a body of ideas that reflects the beliefs of a nation, political system etc. '. Yet it is difficult to define the word and the concept of ideology as those that often arise create contradictions. Terry Eagleton highlights some of the definition...
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Is Gender Neutrality Of Law A Myth
1,150 words... ale perspectives as the benchmark without questioning that standard, while the radical approach was criticised for its overemphasis on essentialism. The Marxist approach is a classical critique of Western political thought. It postulated that the capitalist society was divided into two great classes: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat, where the interests of the working class (Proletariat) was controlled by economically powerful ruling class (Bourgeoisie). As the law forms a part of the superstruct...
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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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Person Or Group Forms Of Entertainment
1,657 wordsGotta catch em all Why has Pok? mon received such acclaim and criticism The worlds most common thought systems, the -isms of the world conservatism, liberalism, fundamentalism, fascism, etc are ideologies. Collins dictionary defines Ideology as a body of ideas that reflects the beliefs of a nation, political system etc... Yet it is difficult to define the word and the concept of ideology as those that often arise create contradictions. Terry Eagleton highlights some of the definitions and discus...
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Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu
3,397 wordsThe philosopher Michel Foucault and the ancient chinese sage Lao Tzu are separated by some twenty centuries. This seems to be of minor consequence, however, when it comes to the essence of their ideas. Both figures deal with concepts that explore the relationship between society and power. Specifically, the ways in which social bodies gain or lose power. In this paper, I will use their ideas to support my theory that equality is impossible in social interactions. These interactions may range in ...
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Studies On Hysteria Brother In Law
1,824 wordsAristotle once stated in Metaphysics that, All men by nature desire Knowledge. If one accepts the claim that knowledge is power, then it will be logical to assert that all people want power. The person or persons that have knowledge also acquire the power of that knowledge. In Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish he clearly shows the power-knowledge relationship that is prevalent in society both on the large and small scale, and how these affect society as a whole. Whereas, Sigmund Freud who ...
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Radical Feminism Liberal Feminists
2,592 wordsIt can be said that the state is a category of abstraction that is too aggregative, too unitary and too unspecific to be of much use in addressing the disaggregated, diverse and specific (or local) sites that must be of most pressing concern to feminists. (Allen 1990) The difficulty of any theory of the state is an obvious one. The state is a generalization that is constantly shifting and redefining itself and the power paradigms that exist within it. Therefore, it is difficult to agree on an id...
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