Feminist research and methods are a response to research that claims to be able to find truth about the world through objective and neutral means‚ such as the scientific method which claims that researchers can and should be unbiased and that it is possible to observe and measure phenomena. These research methods are based in a philosophy called positivism that claims that only real knowledge is produced from scientific methods. Often in this type of research women are overlooked and misrepresented
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Intersectionality as a concept was introduced to feminist theory in order to deal with the various forms of interrelated classes such as disability‚ race/ethnicity‚ religion‚ gender and social class (Shaw‚ Chan and McMahon‚ 2012:83). Furthermore‚ intersectionality was defined by Kimberle Crenshaw (1999) in trying to understand the various oppressions of race/ethnicity‚ gender and social class as experienced by African women. Wendell (1996:70) is of the opinion that living with a disability is not
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Feminist theories have emerged as early as 1792 (– 1920’s) in such publications as “The Changing Woman”[10]‚ “Ain’t I a Woman”[11]‚ “Speech after Arrest for Illegal Voting”[12]‚ and so on. “The Changing Woman” is a Navajo Myth that gave credit to a woman who‚ in the end‚ populated the world. Footnote with citation. In 1851‚ Sojourner Truth addressed women’s rights issues through her publication‚ “Ain’t I a Woman.” Sojourner Truth addressed the issues surrounding limited rights to women based on the
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not a theory used to focus on the inequality between races‚ but to increase the knowledge of the inequality that African American women faced in relationship to African American men. Crenshaw’s(1991) article on intersectionality mentions how the government works to oppress women. The government works to separate and discriminate those individuals who are displayed as “outliers”. African American women‚ to be specific‚ are targeted because of their race as well as
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being littered with feminist tropes‚ Jane Campion’s The Piano is not a feminist film. Source Their opinion vs. mine Reliability Interview Magazine‚ Jane Campion by Katherine Dieckmann‚ (January 1992) As the director she hold s a omni-conscious view‚ aware of all possibilities of interpretations. Thus she both agrees and disagrees with me. She is a very reputable considering she both write an directed the film I am studying On The Issues Magazine‚ Is The Piano A Feminist Film? "Yes" by Rebecco
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The troubles faced by black women had largely been ignored by groups and organizations they supported. Often was the case that black women’s place in organizations such as the Black Panther Party (BPP) was strictly seen as servile where “black women could change themselves to better aid the struggle” But black women played critical roles in the BPP regardless of the masculinist rhetoric that embodied much of the organization. Gender roles would be judged within the BPP as the ideologies of its members
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“Natural inequality merges imperceptibly with inequality of ranks…” At first glance‚ Rousseau’s explanation seems logical because individuals will naturally have areas where they excel more than others. However‚ Rousseau fails to consider gender in his notion of natural inequality. Throughout the history of society‚ men have always been the dominant gender to women‚ and Rousseau neglects to speak on women and the essential role that they possess in the natural order. Gender is not correlated with natural
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reproductive rights among the mentally challenged by:Selena Segura In the 1900s most people were extremely ignorant about a lot of things‚ including the reproductive rights among the mentally challenged. Going as far as ignoring the fact that sterilizing the patients could patientially cause them to be unable to procreate.The law since then has changed but unfortunately people still are not fully onboard with the rights provided to mentally challenged people surrounding reproductive rights
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individuals were forced to assign themselves to only one identity at a time (Phoenix‚ 2006). As such‚ a black‚ Muslim‚ female with a low socioeconomic status previous to intersectionality would have had to choose one of her identities to associate with- whereas now she would be able to assign herself to each of these identities and present herself as a product of the way they mesh together. Feminist literature describes that whilst most women understood and accepted the dominance approach that describes
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