social experiences where media‚ family and religion interfere? I will focus in this essay on Michel Foucault‚ Adrienne Rich and Catherine Mackinnon who all indicate that sexuality is socially constructed but argue on the source of construction. While Foucault believes that sexuality is historically constructed by genderless power‚ knowledge and discourse; Mackinnon assumes that sexuality constitutes gender and is a social construct of male power; Rich‚ instead‚ claims that there is no innate desire
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Cultural Collision In Catharine Sedgwick’s novel‚ Hope Leslie‚ Magawisca is one of the Main female characters and she runs into many hardships in the book. Magawisca is the daughter of well known Indian chief Mononotto but is separated from her father and her tribe when they are all attacked. After Magawisca and her brother’s mother dies the children get sent to work at the home of the Fletchers an English family. Magawisca gets caught in the middle of two cultures when she is raised by an English
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When you are already facing problems with your air conditioner unit‚ you would prefer not to deal with hiring the wrong AC Repair St-Catharines service center. There are companies that would take undue advantage of your situation or further damage your unit through their incompetent technicians. The worst scenario is when there is a combination of the above two situations. To avoid following into such a trap it is always better that you be alert and ask few probing questions to the service center
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Immanuel Kant Kant’s views on sexual objectification plays quite an influential role in the discussions of contemporary feminists. According to him when sexuality is practiced outside the context of monogamous marriage it becomes extremely problematic as it ultimately results in objectification. He stated in his “Lectures on Ethics” that a loved person is made an object of appetite by sexual love. He says that no sooner the appetite is stilled when the person is cast aside. To explain this he gave
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contemporary perspective to be introduced that will allow women to not be harassed or discriminated against should they not conform to traditional religious values. Elmahdy emphasizes the desire for the separation of the state and Sharia. In contrast‚ Catharine MacKinnon’s Only Words emphasizes the harm brought upon women from the pornography
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marriage‚ which many moderates disagreed with and therefore did not support the pro-ERA efforts (Critchlow and Stachecki 169). Scholar Catharine MacKinnon concluded that‚ in the end‚ “the ERA lost because its proponents did not play the conventional political game conventionally enough” and instead allowed a radical and controversial campaign to define the ERA (MacKinnon 761). According to anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly‚ the conventional political game also consists of compromise‚ which the pro-ERA’s
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Prostitution is a world wide controversial matter that has been around for many years. Prostitution itself is an old profession‚ but what about it leads to controversial arguments and opposing view points from our society? The idea that prostitution poses of selling one’s body in exchange for money has had a negative impact in our society since it was first introduced into our presence. The many risk factors that follow prostitution‚ for example HIV‚ are one of many problems associated with going
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Pornography". In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 48. Jump up^ "A Conversation With Catherine MacKinnon (transcript)".Think Tank. 1995. PBS. Retrieved 2009-09-01. 49. Jump up^ MacKinnon‚ Catharine (1987). Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law Cambridge‚ MA: Harvard University Press. p. 147. 50. Jump up^ Jeffries‚ Stuart (2006-04-12). "Stuart Jeffries talks to leading feminist Catharine MacKinnon". The Guardian(London). 53. Jump up^ Sherkat and Ellison‚ 1999‚ "Recent Developments and Current
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Not Guilty “There is no greater injustice then the false accusation‚ the innocent suffer the persecution of the guilty when they have done nothing wrong.(Caryn)” This statement seems especially self evident in reference to David Mamet’s “Oleanna”. In “Oleanna“‚ a college professor simply referred to as John‚ is falsely accused of sexual harassment and eventually rape. Yet‚ no real sign of sexual contact‚ rape‚ or sexual phrases seem to appear through out David Mamet’s play. Which is why John
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literary theory. Since then CLS has steadily grown in influence and permanently changed the landscape of legal theory. Among noted CLS theorists are Roberto Mangabeira Unger‚ Robert W. Gordon‚ Morton J. Horwitz‚ Duncan Kennedy‚ and Katharine A. MacKinnon. Hosting annual conferences and workshops
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