In constituting nature as female -- "I pursued nature to her hiding places" (49) -- Victor Frankenstein participates in a gendered construction of the universe whose negative ramifications are everywhere apparent in the novel. The uninhibited scientific penetration and technological exploitation of female nature is only one dimension of a patriarchal encoding of the female as passive and possessable‚ the willing receptacle of male desire. The destruction of the female implicit in Frankenstein’s usurpation
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Top 10 Most Influential Female Leaders When people think of influential figures in the world‚ male names like Bill Gates‚ Vladamir Putin and of course President Barack Obama usually come to mind. But the world of influence and power no longer belongs exclusively to men. Women now hold their place of power firmly in the world‚ and they are not giving it up any time soon. This list of ten of the most influential women in the America spans the arenas of politics‚ acting‚ sports‚ law‚ music‚ activism
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films. Aliens in particular‚ have a huge fan base‚ because it is impossible to comprehend the universe and thus we cannot know if we are the only life form. the movie Alien (1979) has challenged those conventions though gender role reversal‚ a strong female surviving heroine and unexpected sexuality. the unconventional nature of this film is what makes audiences swoon over what would otherwise be a traditional Sci-Fi movie. For the first 20 minutes or so of this film‚ Ripley seems like just another
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view to the phenomenon of female juvenile gangs in Hong Kong and evaluate its explanation’. In Hong Kong‚ female gangsters occupy a very small proportion of gang population‚ only 6% in 2001. However‚ the number of girl gangsters has an increasing trend that rises to 15% in 2005. Girls are also involved in gang activities more actively than before. There are three main parts in this paper. The first part focuses on the definitions of ‘functionalist point of view’ and ‘female juvenile gangs’. Features
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representation of female sexuality in Cymbeline‚ the Sonnets‚ and one of the plays: A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Richard II‚ Hamlet‚ Antony and Cleopatra‚ Measure for Measure or King Lear. Both Cymbeline and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (AMND) are both set in a patriarchal environment where both genders grapple for control. Valerie Traub defines the distinction between gender sex and gender behavior as “Sex refers to the . . . biological distinctions between male and female bodies. Gender refers
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Topic: Females are in the majority in Universities. Identify one main cause for this factor and present argument in support your claim. Over the years it has become a trend for females to dominate our universities. But why is this so? Have males decided to just be lazy? Or are they being marginalized? There are many factors that contribute to this. These factors include women being more career-oriented and putting off starting a family until after earning a degree. Secondly‚ the fact that females
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awareness‚ create an information portal as accessible as possible for everybody. Female circumcision seems to be declining slightly in some areas of Sudan. A culturally accepted policy and political commitment to eradicate the practice are needed. Education and economic empowerment of women would help lower support for the practice. A mass media campaign publicizing the risks of female circumcision and the fact that female circumcision is not obligatory for Islamic women would also be helpful. In
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I strongly oppose Female genital mutilation to the fact that it violates two important human rights‚ namely: the right to have a surgery or not; and the right to keep one’s own gender identity. Another reason why I stand against female genital mutilation is the fact that I think that female genital mutilation is a strong gender issue leaning in favor of traditional men who want to control their many wives while they take turns to sleep with them‚ since female genital mutilation reduces the urge
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CASE OF FEMALE GENITAL `MUTILATION: THE TENSION BETWEEN CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND UNIVERSALISM Dianne Camille T. Corales University of the Philippines Mindanao Department of Social Sciences‚ BA Anthropology December 2014` 2 INTRODUCTION Over the past years‚ the practice of Female Genital Mutilation has received an increasing global attention and mass condemnation from the West in general along with the Feminists and Human Rights Advocates. According to the statistics of UNICEF in 2013‚ Female Genital
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Female Oppression and Capitalim With the protestant work ethic and faith in capitalism that we experience in society‚ it is no longer questioned that a person can advance socially as well as economically according to their skills and the output that is placed on developing these skills. As children we are taught that when we grow up we can be doctors‚ lawyers and even prime ministers; however‚ the myth that there are no barriers or social factors that of these barriers is the notion of gender
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