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    Access Provided by Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi at 12/05/12 9:22PM GMT “Girl with a pen”: Girls’ Studies and Third-Wave Feminism in A Room of One’s Own and “Professions for Women” Tracy Lemaster Although Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own ([1929]1989) is a foundational feminist tract for theorizing women’s social and artistic roles‚ it relies on stories‚ metaphors‚ and rhetorics of girlhood. I am the first to recognize Woolf’s stylistic pattern of using the term “women” when theorizing

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    FEMINISM Feminism is both an intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks justice for women and the end of sexism in all forms. However‚ there are many different kinds of feminism. Feminists disagree about what sexism consists in‚ and what exactly ought to be done about it; they disagree about what it means to be a woman or a man and what social and political implications gender has or should have. Nonetheless‚ motivated by the quest for social justice‚ feminist inquiry provides

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    Feminism Feminism can be analyzed through many author’s works. Some novels will focus on strong independent women‚ while others will focus on the repression of women and what they had to endure. In Season of Migration to the North‚ it is about the stereotypical man who suppresses women because he has to the power to do so. In Women at Point Zero‚ the female protagonist fights to have control of her life and own destiny while trying to also figure out who she is. In the novel Disgrace the author

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    Feminism: Feminism is the social movement that looks for female supremacy in many aspects women have been threatened in history. It had been proven that women have more capacity than men in many aspects of ruling‚ such as being authority of any kind. This is because of the women capacity of acting looking forward to a complete panorama focusing on the problem‚ meanwhile men look directly to the issue or situation without taking into account all the things that it brings. The feminist’s movements

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    Feminism and Pop culture By: Brittany Stevers In the recent history‚ feminism and pop culture have become more closely entwined than ever before. This can be partially because of the growing interest in culture studies as an academic discipline‚ but it can also be explained by the fact that‚ there’s a whole lot more popular culture to watch. Pop culture has become our common language‚ a universal way of uniting the world. Pop culture is also a key route to making the

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    Corey Hartman English 112 Feminism There are different notions of femininity studied throughout the semester in Cat in the Rain‚ Bernice Bobs her Hair‚ Leila‚ and Girl from Paris. During the semester many different aspects of woman are seen through the main characters of all the stories we have seen. From being traditional and shy‚ to letting your husband walk all over you‚ to being an independent worker‚ all these women are different. The Cat in the Rain is the story about a wife‚ wanting

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    The TED talk‚ ‘The Danger of a Single Story’ presented by Adichie‚ shares the insights of being exposed to only one perspective on a particular issue. By only hearing a single side to a story‚ we are limited to knowing what is just assumed of a situation. If this is always the case‚ it would be hard to know the reality outside of that one setting. These single stories lead to stereotyping and hasty generalizations which often cause negative outlooks towards a subject or outlooks that are far from

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    Half of a Yellow Sun is Ngozi Adichie’s second novel set before and during the Biafran war in Nigeria. Eight years before Adichie was born‚ her two grandfathers died in Biafra as refugees after fleeing hometowns that had fallen to federal troops during the war. Adichie grew up hearing stories of the war. She composed this novel because she wanted to write about love and war. Moreover the author wanted to engage with her history in order to make sense of her present and bring honor to her parents

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    Beyoncé’s FLAWLESS feminism: A Biography Beyoncé Knowles was originally born in Houston‚ Texas in 1981. She rose to fame at only sixteen years old when her R&B group‚ more commonly known as Destinies Child‚ signed their first record deal. Since then‚ Beyoncé has embarked on numerous different experiences such as acting along side of Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudson‚ and most importantly the take off of her solo career in 2004. Her first solo album sold millions of copies‚ won her five Grammy awards

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    The oppression of women has been a large issue in the past 150 years. The first wave of feminism was a movement during the late 1800s and early 1900s with the name ‘first wave’ was given during the second wave – symbolising the constant inequality that will imaginably preoccupy the female gender for years to come. This initiation of women’s rights was focused on a political change including the successful and historical change of women’s right to vote‚ known as the suffragette movement. The second

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