female body and female disparity in language and text‚[2] is a strain of feminist literary theory that originated in France in the early 1970s and included foundational theorists such as Hélène Cixous‚ Monique Wittig‚ Luce Irigaray‚[3] Chantal Chawaf‚[4][5] and Julia Kristeva‚[6][7] and also other writers like psychoanalytical theorist Bracha Ettinger‚[8][9] who joined this field in the early 1990s.[10] Generally‚ French feminists tended to focus their attention on language‚ analyzing the ways in which
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Brittany Speight Senior Seminar Feminism Feminism is the theory that men and women should be equal‚ politically‚ economically‚ and socially. There are many different types of feminism and each have a profound impact on someone’s view of society. The first is cultural feminism‚ which is the theory that there are fundamental personality differences between men and women‚ and that women’s differences are special. This theory supports the idea that there are biological differences between men
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Movement‚" she discusses the theories of third world feminism. Basically third world feminism is the idea that there are unique differences between the non-western women versus the other women. This difference is due to racism‚ colonialism and other cultural‚ economic and political factors. Sandoval criticizes western feminists for generalizing all women’s issues across the globe when according to her‚ this is not the case. In other words‚ western feminists define feminism solely through
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Outline and assess feminist views of media representations of gender [50] Feminism is a theory that is united in opposing patriarchy‚ which means a system of male power and rule that implies the subordination of women; but the various strands within feminism offer different overviews on gender inequality in media representations. For example‚ liberal feminists tend to be more optimistic about the possibility of change in media representations of gender; whereas radical feminists see little change
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of feminist theory is the making of a distinction between "sex" and "gender"‚ a distinction that has subsequently been developed differently by different strands of feminist thought. We begin with the basic distinction that is made‚ and its significance. A brief discussion follows on how the rigid male /female opposition is specific to modernity and to western cultures. We then look at four different ways in which the sex/gender distinction has been complicated by different kinds of feminist theory
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Урошевац 172 UDK: 821.111.09:305-055.2"17/18" FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM IN ENGLISH LITERATURE (How does it apply to ‘Pride and Prejudice’-by Jane Austen?) Sanja Dalton1 Abstract: The aim of this paper is to express Feminist Literary Criticism in English Literature‚ as critical analysis of literary works based on feminist perspective‚ as well as to uncover the latent dynamics in a novel relevant to women’s interior role in society. Feminist Literary Criticism rejects patriarchal norms in
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REVIEW OF WOMEN’S STUDIES The Troubled Relationship of Feminism and History Janaki Nair Why has history remained somewhat impervious to the questions raised by feminist interventions‚ while other disciplines have felt the imperative of a turn to history in general and feminist historiography in particular? This paper reviews both older and more recent contributions to the field of history to trace the dominant frames within which the methods and critiques of feminism have been accommodated
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‘A comparison of a thesis on Estrella Alfon’s selected short stories and future research on Lakambini Sitoy’ The rationale of Jane Dacillo Alcantara’s thesis dated September 2012 titled ‘Feminist Reading of Estrella Alfon’s selected short stories” was woman empowerment. She emphasized in her rationale that although the empowerment of woman have already become a trend in the contemporary society there are traces of ‘machismo’ still existing. She made examples of women’s position in the workplace
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INTRODUCTION There are various feminist critiques of the welfare state. They all exist to examine and develop their critiques on the individual welfare services ¡V health‚ housing‚ education‚ social security and the personal services. The aim of this paper is to examine the various feminist critiques and thus to decide which perspectives are effective in analyzing the gender inequality in Hong Kong. This paper is divided into three parts. The first part will discuss the different theoretical
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social movements and organizing. This tittle of the‚ “Trickle Down Feminism”‚ is a term derived from the unsuccessful economic “trickle down” theory. In which the theory stated giving tax cuts to the bourgeoisie would eventually benefit the lower class by providing more jobs. Trickle Down Feminism is similarly that the powerful‚ often white‚ and educated feminists focus on the issues that are not directly applicable to most everyday women. She wrote “Trickle down feminism won’t do the job”. In her
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