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    Speech Sound by Octavia Butler affirms Descartes Reason as the essence of Humanity “ I think therefore I exist”. Descartes argues that humans do not need to speak nor hear to actually think but they need to think to be actually human.  This is interpreted through his statement In Speech Sound Rye‚ and Obsidian are both sick. Rye cannot read but she can speak and Obsidian can read but not speak. They both are missing a “human” characteristic but according to Descartes they don ’t need those characteristics

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    you may already know‚ I believe strongly in feminism. Feminism is so important to me‚ I literally say‚ “that’s not funny‚” whenever someone makes a racist‚ sexist or homophobic joke because the truth is‚ it’s not and never will be. Feminism is about equal rights for everyone‚ and not just girls as it may sound‚ hence the name. Feminists don’t believe women should look or behave a certain way‚ it means they want women have to have the freedom to look and behave however they want -- unapologetically

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    Feminism and Vogue Cover

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    Cambridge: Policy Press 2 3. Lowe‚ M. R (2007). Research into the representation of gender and body image in the press. Retrieved fromhttp://ics.leeds.ac.uk/files/2012/05/miriam-lowe.pdf 4 7. Scott‚ L. (2004). Fresh lipstick: Redressing fashion and feminism. (p. 368). US: Palgrave Macmillan. 12. Trabue‚ A. (2011) Vogue Magazine. Retrieved from http://prezi.com/i-6rj1svlmqp/vogue-magazine/ 13

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    very ideology gave rise to the concept of feminism. Feminism not only deals with the problems the female population faces but it also deals with the kinds of oppression the females have to face‚ be it at the workplace or at home. Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining‚ establishing‚ and defending equal political‚ economic‚ and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women’s rights. Much of feminism deals specifically with the problems women

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    with ease. Giving us the opportunity to reenact what it would have been like to live in that era. After The Great Migration‚ competition for housing and Racism and prejudice was on the rise. Experienced by Mama‚ the head of the Younger family household. She had put a down-payment on a house in Clybourne Park‚ grabbing the neighborhood’s

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    The Three waves of feminism The first wave of feminism took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries‚ emerging out of an environment of urban industrialism and liberal‚ socialist politics. The goal of this wave was to open up opportunities for women‚ with a focus on suffrage. The wave formally began at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 when 300 men and women rallied to the cause of equality for women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (d.1902) drafted the Seneca Falls Declaration outlining the

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    The Victorian period marked the first traces of progress in the feminist movement‚ and poet Christina Rossetti embraced the advancement as her own long-established principles slowly became publicly acceptable. Her poem "Goblin Market" comments on the institutions in Victorian society that she and her feminist contemporaries wished to see altered‚ creating modern female heroines to carry out its messages. The goblins serve as malicious male figures to tempt the innocent heroines‚ sisters Laura and

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    Feminism in Jane Eyre Jay Sheldon Feminism has been a prominent and controversial topic in writings for the past two centuries. With novels such as Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice‚ or even William Shakespeare’s Macbeth the fascination over this subject by authors is evident. In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre the main character‚ Jane Eyre‚ explores the depth at which women may act in society and finds her own boundaries in Victorian England. As well‚ along with the notions of feminism often

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    However‚ the true origins of the movement can be traced as far back as the late 18th century with Mary Wollstonecraft’s: ‘A vindication of the rights of women” (1792). Feminist Literary Criticism is informed by feminist theory or by the politics of feminism more broadly. Its history has been broad and varied‚ from classic works of 19th century women authors such as George Eliot and Margaret Fuller to cutting 1

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    Feminism is defined as the principle advocating social‚ political‚ and economic rights for women equal to those of men. Throughout history women have played different roles in different societies‚ but have for the most part been considered subservient and inferior in status to men. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century‚ the "sociology of the family" became the more prominent concern of feminists. Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical‚ or philosophical‚ grounds

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