repurposed materials in order to convey bold personal points. Among these creators were the young female founders of the feminist punk rock movement‚ Riot Grrrl. Radical‚ edgy‚ and angry‚ they were driven by the feeling that feminism had become antiquated and secluded. Their women’s studies professors used language that felt arbitrary to them‚ and they wanted to open the feminist conversation to include their own young life experiences‚ all while taking over what they saw as a male-dominated rock scene
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Anderson Social analysis – Homelessness Feminist and postmodernist perspectives ACAP Being Homeless in Australia‚ what does that actually mean? The statistics show that homelessness in Australia is a growing and a concerning problem involving people from all walks of life and in all parts of Australia. This paper will examine the evidence of homelessness and analyse the media’s coverage of homelessness with postmodernist theory and then the feminist theory. The feminist perspective in the media is a view
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the character Lysistrata can be viewed as a modern day feminist. She takes charge in the self-titled play and claims that war shall be the concern of Women! It is too important a matter to be left to men‚ for women are it s real victims. Lysistrata wants to end the long war for it is taking a toll against the wives of the soldiers and the whole of Greece. The means by which Lysistrata wants to end the war may not be done in a traditional feminist manner‚ but it is effective and it does what the definition
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in India than in the West. In India‚ women’s issues first began to be addressed when the state commissioned a report on the status of women to a group of feminist researchers and activists. The report recognised the fact that in India‚ women were oppressed under a system of structural hierarchies and injustices. During this period‚ Indian feminists were influenced by the Western debates being conducted about violence against women. However‚ due to the difference in the historical and social culture
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to control it‚ and it has real effects of oppression and control. Representations work on the represented‚ and thus‚ epistemology not only to an extent determines ontology‚ but by the same token it is a tool to change a world of inequalities. A feminist critique seeks both to unveil actual structures of inequality‚ such as underrepresentation of women in important and world-shaping disourses of science and technology‚ and to criticise the culture of it‚ or the ideology‚ that invests it with meaning
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Feminists Ahead of their Time: Veronica Franco and Leona Florentino I found several feminist themes in the works of both Franco and Florentino. The works of Veronica Franco were more laden with feminist themes than that of Florentino. Although both writers produced their work in times where the feminist movement had not yet been established‚ their works address and promote issues of women‚ which I will discuss further in this chapter. Franco and Florentino sighted feministic themes repeatedly throughout
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Barbie Doll Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy This girlchild was born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy. Then in the magic of puberty‚ a classmate said: You have a great big nose and fat legs. She was healthy‚ tested intelligent‚ possessed strong arms and back‚ abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity. She went to and fro apologizing. Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs. She was advised to play
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Social purity feminist and new moralists had different beliefs and advocated for different things when it came to female sexuality. According to Bland‚ social purity feminists advocated that when it came to the women’s body they had every right to say no to all unwanted sexual advances‚ this included married women (Bland‚ 1983). They also advocated that a married woman should have the right to control conception of a child‚ they suggested one of two ways to do so and this was by either continence
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The Uniqueness of Bad Feminist Roxane Gay states: “No matter what issues I have with feminism‚ I am a feminist. I cannot and will not deny the absolute importance and necessity of feminism.” Throughout her memoir‚ Roxane dives deep into many distinct subtopics of feminism and equality itself through an assortment of essays with wide-ranging examples to support her evolving‚ strong beliefs. Bad Feminist uses smaller details‚ such as the utilization of footnotes‚ and differentiates itself from
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University of Phoenix Faculty Material Week 2 Quiz 1. Schaefer (2015) defines _______________ as “the ways in which people respond to one another” and ___________________ as “the way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.” a. Social interaction; social structure b. Social interaction; social change c. Organization; bureaucracy d. Politics; economics 2. Which of the following is not an element of social structure? a. Language b. Statuses and roles c. Social networks d.
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