To help her with her role as Medea‚ Maia makes frequent visits to Brenda Palmer‚ a woman who has been labeled “the Medea of Glyfada” for killing her three children in response to her husband’s adulterous actions‚ just as Medea did in the play. Despite being set in different time periods and having a slightly different plot‚ Jules Dassin’s Dream of Passion and Euripides’ Medea are very similar. Euripides’ Medea and Dassin’s Dream of Passion are similar in that they both cast the woman as a complex
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Feminist Theory‚ Embodiment‚ and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival Saba Mahmood University of Chicago In the last two decades one of the key questions that has occupied many feminist theorists is how should issues of historical and cultural specificity inform both the analytics and politics of any feminist project. Although this questioning has resulted in serious attempts at integrating issues of sexual‚ racial‚ class‚ and national difference within feminist
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an independent woman who is trying to break the constraints of society. Chaucer has adequately sculpted the Wife of Bath as a feminist character through her prologue by acting in ways customarily reserved for men‚ by controlling her husbands instead of vice versa‚ and by being open with her sexuality. The most evident aspect of the Wife of Bath that makes her a feminist character is her many actions that are atypical for a woman who lived in the 14th century. Most women did not have occupations
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who is one of the strongest female characters in literature. Having a female character with such strength raises the question of whether or not The Scarlet Letter is a feminist novel; by looking at what feminism is and analyzing the book itself‚ one can see that the book is more a commentary on society as a whole rather than a feminist statement. Hawthorne depicts many strong characters throughout his novel. Some‚ such as Chillingworth‚ seem to be stronger than others‚ like Dimmesdale. One character
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maltreatment are the feminist theory and the choice theory of crime. First‚ a brief review provides each theory an avenue to explaining how it relates to the crime. Next‚ a discussion of both theories includes forming potential criminal justice responses. Finally‚ actual criminal justice system responses are examined providing insight into how the implantations relate to the theories given. Feminist theory responses. According to Allen and Lavender-Stott (2015)‚ the feminist theory suggests that
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Much how waves in the ocean are pushed and pulled by the gravity of the moon‚ similar waves of feminism have been affected by men throughout history. Applying a Feminist Critical Perspective‚ Kate Chopin’s short story‚ “The Story of an Hour‚” refutes ideas of first wave feminism with diction and imagery‚ along with Mrs. Mallard’s symbolic reaction to her husband’s death and resurgence back into her life. To begin‚ diction within the story refutes assumed stereotypes of women during the first wave
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The Second Wave of Feminism arose in the 1960s and lasted through the 1980s where it ended with the intra-feminism disputes of the feminist sex wars over issues such as pornography‚ which ushered in the third wave of feminism in the early 1990s. However‚ second wave feminism rose in conjunction with the rise of hegemonic feminism as minorities were limited in the public sphere and thus were not recognized by the ruling class. The second wave broadened the debate of gender equality to a wide range
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obtain equal rights in the 21st century when our nation has an African-American President. The Feminist counterculture is emerging because many people still don’t know how to react when a woman says “I am a feminist”. They get backlash when the definition of a feminist “is the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political‚ social and economic equality to men”(Oxford Dictionary). By being a feminist‚
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Feminist Approaches to International Law Feminist approaches to International Law and its underlying issues can be seen as radical‚ liberal‚ and extreme. The male point of view has found a way of forcing itself upon the world‚ apprehending it and dominating it full-fledged. It has grasped hold of the State and law in the same way male dominance has grasped women throughout history. Whether the clasps of violence against women are through rape‚ forced marriage‚ exploitation and forced prostitution
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Feminism could be dangerous for every woman back then because they didn’t have the right to do anything related to adultery. Hawthorne portrays Hester as a staunch feminist by not allowing anyone to know about Pearl and her lover in the court. Hester is punished by standing in the middle of the town and letting people interrogate her about her child and the identity of her lover‚ but she doesn’t let anyone know‚ so
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