many other volumes‚ including Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984)‚ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994)‚ and Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work (1999). According to the co-author of The Presence of Others‚ Andrea A. Lunsford‚ Hooks is comparable to fellow featured authors Adrienne Rich and Mike Rose for their similar views on education being "the practice of exclusion" (93). Hooks displays this view in Keeping Close to Home by sharing with us her struggle
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Simultaneously‚ both Simone de Beauvoir and Andrea Dworkin felt that the institution of marriage was also a form of prostitution. They both agreed that both marriage and prostitution are extremely oppressive and dangerous for women. In Simon de Beauvoir’s Prostitutes and Hetairas‚ she said‚ "The only difference between prostitution and those who sell themselves into marriage‚ is in the price and length of the contract (de Beavoir‚ pg. 555)." In Feminism: An Agenda‚ Andrea Dworkin said that in marriage women lose
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Should Pornography Be Banned Because It Is Degrading to Women? Women Studies Josh Brown Pornography and the social implication of women in pornography is a controversial issue. Its publication‚ production‚ distribution and use are criticized by its opponents as‚ among other things‚ exploitive of women. Its advocates argue that the imposition of limits upon women would constitute a restriction of the fundamental rights of free speech and freedom of expression. Feminist’s factions populate
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Prostitution is a world wide controversial matter that has been around for many years. Prostitution itself is an old profession‚ but what about it leads to controversial arguments and opposing view points from our society? The idea that prostitution poses of selling one’s body in exchange for money has had a negative impact in our society since it was first introduced into our presence. The many risk factors that follow prostitution‚ for example HIV‚ are one of many problems associated with going
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safe in our own homes‚ safe in our relationships‚ safe amongst the figures who were deemed to be protectors but have proved time and time again to be the main source of our pain. Andrea Dworkins calls upon a truce‚ “…A Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape”. Henceforth this essay will critically analyse Dworkins plea‚ not only bringing forth an end to rape and the rise of men in against this patriarchal war but to bring an upturn in gender equity and the evaluation of restorative and punitive
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Immanuel Kant Kant’s views on sexual objectification plays quite an influential role in the discussions of contemporary feminists. According to him when sexuality is practiced outside the context of monogamous marriage it becomes extremely problematic as it ultimately results in objectification. He stated in his “Lectures on Ethics” that a loved person is made an object of appetite by sexual love. He says that no sooner the appetite is stilled when the person is cast aside. To explain this he gave
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In this article‚ Heartney discusses pornography and it’s place in the politics of 1991 where femminist had been protesting the use of it. Andrea Dworkin claimed that “Terror issues forth from the male‚ [illuminating] his essential nature and his basic purpose.” Along with this the right wing taking was a stand against it as well for its “immorality.” While the left defends pornography‚ as it claiming such things polerizes gender‚ ethic and sexual lines. Heartney acknowledges many feminist attempts
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Women in literature The emergence of the genre of feminist rewrites of fairy tales that began in the 1970s with particular attention to the impact of the women’s movement on the development of the genre. The rallying shot that galvanized the debate was the assertion by Lurie in her 1970 “Fairy Tale Liberation” and 1971 “Witches and Fairies” that strong female characters could be found in fairy tales (Haase 1). Why those feminist scholars emerge to rewrite the fairy tales‚ and how meaningful is it
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Human beings exhibit little reverence for the sanctity of their flesh. In our eternal quest for aesthetic perfection‚ bodies are twisted‚ molded‚ plucked and burned in order to live up to unobtainable ideals. Unfortunately‚ though human desires can be appeased‚ they are never satisfied‚ and beauty is no exception. To quote Legal Professor Deborah L. Rhode: “Desires‚ expectations‚ and standards of comparison increase as rapidly as they are satisfied.” (Rhode 30) Undeniably‚ the female body is overwhelmingly
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Truth in Media-Pornography Krystal Knafel-Heister Liberty University Truth in Media-Pornography Since the days of ancient people many preserved rock paintings and elements of art‚ which depicts a sexual act between a man and a woman‚ are not uncommon images and homosexual‚ as well as group acts. The well-known ancient Kama Sutra book is filled with all too far from chaste designs. Examples abound. You say‚ but it’s not pornography‚ it’s just drawings of‚ and we are stuffed with the most detailed
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