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    Feminism‚ why the long face? Today‚ there are many rights women tend to take for granted. For example‚ women are allowed to vote‚ pursue a higher education‚ are not pressured to get married or have children‚ and play sports. These are some of the rights that women have earned within the past century. To put it into perspective‚ women could not vote a century ago‚ there was not term for sexual harassment‚ and a woman’s highest goal in life was to be the perfect housewife. Feminism has been at

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    Clinger Professor Sonn Religion 317 – Women in Islam 10 May 2011 Fatima Mernissi: Evolving Feminism(s) Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi is described by some as the “godmother” of Islamic feminism (Coleman 36). Much of her career and scholarship focuses on articulating and defending women’s rights in Muslim society. She is credited with publishing the first identifiable work of Islamic feminism‚ The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women ’s Rights in Islam‚ in 1987 (Badran

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    FEMINISM‚ GENDER EQUALITY AND THE HYPOCRISY OF IT ALL. Let me first state that I expect to be condemned and hung on a stake like our Lord Jesus Christ was by those he chose to save. And like him‚ I am fully prepared for the battering that will come with this write up. It amuses me and burdens my heart when I see educated women‚ so called “feminist advocates” come forward to misinform their womenfolk‚ display nothing but sheer confusionist and distractionary tendencies on national TV‚ newspapers

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    particularly to the ending. When ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ was published in 1985 feminism was becoming more widespread and successful movement‚ with the ‘Married Women’s Property Acts’ being passed in the UK only three years beforehand and different strands of feminism evolving throughout the world‚ some of which Margaret Atwood includes within her text: Such as hints to Lesbian and Eco-feminism throughout. However‚ socialist feminism is possibly the key theme “Socialist feminist writers in the 1970s and early

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    Femisnism in novel Makaan of Paigham Afaqui Feminist literature‚ as the name suggests‚ is based on the principles of feminism‚ and refers to any literary work that centers on the struggle of a woman for equality‚ and to be accepted as a human being‚ before being cast into a gender stereotype. Not all these works follow a direct approach towards this goal of equality. It is only through such media that women believed a change was possible in the way they were perceived in society. Not all feminist

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    my opinion and to know that I am equal to man. I read Feminism for everybody Written by Bell hook‚ she tries to explain the definition of feminism which is a movement to end the oppression of sexism which is the discrimination‚ and how men usually use force against women‚ not as many people believed that it is anti-male. Both males and females have been socialized from their birth and females can be sexist as males. Also to achieve the feminism‚ we need to end racism and imperialism‚ males and females

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    First wave feminism started in the late 19th century and carried on until the early 20th century the main focus of the movement was to give women more of a voice in the world and to end suffrage and give women the right to vote. It was first recognized as a movement at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 were people like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth had a massive impact in the movement. Martha Rampton a professor of history and director of the Center for Gender Equity at Pacific University

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    Courtney Brown Dr. Sublette Lit Crit 25 April 2011 Annotated Bibliography Feminism in the Legally Blonde Movie Duo Hersey‚ Eleanor. "Love and Microphones: Romantic Comedy Heroines as Public Speakers." Journal of Popular Film & Television 34.4 (2007): 146-59. Academic Search Premier. Web. 16 Apr. 2011. Hersey’s article focuses on the heroines’ public speaking in Bridget Jones’s Diary‚ Never Been Kissed‚ Miss Congeniality‚ The Princess Diaries‚ and Legally Blonde. Hersey addresses the feminist debate

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    Social workers face a lot of challenges in facing gender equalities due to the unending oppression and the numerous culture that seek to perpetuate paternalism/patriarchal system and power imbalances in gender roles and expectations. The challenge for the social workers here is to engage and work with these barriers without sacrificing the principles of good gender competence and in order to develop gender competent practice‚ the importance of feminist practice should be understood. Feminist perspectives

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    Theology 1A - Pastor Anthony Masala 12/10/2013 Why is feminism against the Fatherhood of God? Why does the Bible call God “Father”? When we speak of feminism and God‚ I think we must first define what feminism is before a discussion can take place. It has been interesting to find so many definitions of feminism‚ but they don’t seem to agree completely on what it means. One definition that I found online peaked my interest was‚ “Feminism is a political‚ social‚ and cultural movement that aims

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