The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal‚ Volume 13(3)‚ 2008‚ article 14. 1 Book Review Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The Black Swan. The Impact of the Highly Improbable. New York: Random House‚ 2007. Reviewed by James Iain Gow Université de Montréal‚ Canada This book has had quite an impact since it was published in 2007. According to Wikipedia‚ it has sold over 270‚ 000 copies in its first year‚ was on the New York Times best-seller list for 17 week and had been translated into
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Outline and assess Feminist explanations of the relationship between gender and crime. (50 marks) Gender is on the agenda” wrote Francis Heidensohn (1989) Feminist definition of crime is that “crime is politically informed and linked to particular interests”– of men. Before feminism‚ women were invisible in sociological research‚ this meant that explanations for female recidivism saw‚ female crime as a ’special case’ resulting from sexual promiscuity and biological deviance. Biological explanations
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refers to not only equality amongst women‚ but rather equality among everyone‚ whether due to their race‚ gender‚ sexuality‚ religion‚ class‚ and nationality (Cole 2016). Feminism has set the stage for the feminist theory which focus on social issues that have been misidentified by men. Feminist theory focuses on bias amongst gender‚ inequality amongst the different groups of people and also power and oppression (Crossman 2016). Feminism have been divided into three different waves which includes the
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Media Presentation Feminist Theory Introduction * Feminist in the 1960’s and 1970’s was brought to address inequalities related to female/male gender roles. * Promotes equality for both male and female in political‚ economic‚ and social issues. * Believes women are oppressed due to their sex based. * Social division benefits for men. * Women in the media are representation of “domestic way of living”. Laura Mulvey (1975) * Women are represented in which media emphasis
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Looking through a Black Feminist Critical Lens‚ Toni Morrison’s characters in Sula resemble Mary Helen Washington’s definitions of African American female characters. Specifically‚ Sula‚ Nel‚ and Eva; Sula is a Liberated Woman‚ Nel is a Emergent Woman‚ and Eva as a Suspended woman. Sula is Morrison’s main character and is a perfect example of a Liberated woman. According to Lois Tyson’s definition of a Liberated Woman‚ Sula has “discovered her abilities‚ knows what she needs‚ and goes about getting
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Feminist Theory‚ the Body‚ and the Disabled Figure The focus of this essay was on how the female body and the disabled body are seen as inferior in society. This reading really made me realize how we view disabled and female bodies in our society‚ and how we typically look the disabled so differently. I also thought about how often people so easily overlook the struggles that many disabled bodies have to deal with‚ like disabled women who want to have children or public facilities not having wheelchair
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1. WHAT IS A BLACK SWAN EVENT? It is clear that risk management is a highly important element in management today as it identifies and assesses risks and then applies resources to minimize (or maximize) and monitor the probability and impact of unfortunate events (or opportunities). This way‚ companies are able to cope with a lot of risky situations by predicting them and by setting aside the right resources to handle them. However not all risks and events can be predicted and these can have a
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and feminism in the 20th century. It introduces Claudia Jones as one of the renowned activist during that time as she used her own political radicalization and leadership to emulate the theories and metaphors of Karl Marx. This biography plays a significant role in contributing a piece of writing in regards to Black communist woman‚ and the influence of McCarthyism in eliminating their existence. Furthermore‚ it depicts Marxist feminism which focuses on “investigating and explaining the ways in which
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Himself. While some feminist writers query this natural dichotomy between the man and the woman‚ some writers‚ especially within the African feminist group‚ are influenced by this mythological justification by the Bible. They seem to suggest too‚ that even the domestic division of labor practiced in African culture based on sex and gender was ordained by God and therefore to change this would be to antagonize the creator. This has been the major problem of African feminist activities. There
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involves attempting to use the methods of philosophy to further the cause of feminist movements. Bell hooks is a feminist who successfully does exactly that. I will discuss how Kimberlé Crenshaw’s literature Traffic at the Crossroads: Multiple Oppressions has a very similar underlying vision shared with bell hooks about what it takes to effectively liberate women in society. I will also discuss how Judith Butler’s postmodern theories in Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of “Postmodernism”
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