1403_914850_02_previ.fm Page v Tuesday‚ May 8‚ 2007 6:13 PM Contents List of Tables and Figures vii Notes on the Contributors viii List of Abbreviations xi 1 Politicizing Gender in Discourse: Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis as Political Perspective and Praxis Michelle M. Lazar Part I 1 Post-Equality? Analyses of Subtle Sexism 2 Power and Discourse at Work: Is Gender Relevant? Janet Holmes 31 3 The Gender of Power: The Female Style in Labour Organizations Luisa Martín Rojo and Concepción
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A Feminist Perspective on the Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is an important piece of literature which offers a notable contribution to all literature with it’s strong female main character and themes of misogyny‚ religious mania‚ and forgiveness. The summary by Mary Ellen Snodgrass in The Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature describes and summarizes this perspective. The excerpt speaks on Hester’s strong character and resistance against the patriarchal oppressive religious male stronghold
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Literature‚ well maybe just short stories‚ we will be going over Rick Moody’s "Boys" and Jamaica Kincaid’s "Girl" and discerning the way in which Moody chose to make his story very quick paced to the reader and in a way difficult to read‚ but with a purpose. Also how that affects the way the reader may read‚ perceive‚ or understand the story in a different way. And comparing how the similar writing style of Kincaid compares to Moody’s use. In "Boys" we are immediately introduced to a recurring theme
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Jamaica Kincaid’s poem “Girl” seems to be a mother guiding and teaching her daughter about life and how to do many things. “Girl” makes me think of southern mothers including my own. My mother has taught me how to sew‚ cook‚ and to be polite and treat everyone equally. This may seem like the classic standard women are held to but‚ to me‚ it is much more than that. Being taught to sew has enabled me to be independent in being able to mend my own clothes. This allows me to help my family so they do
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Feminist Lens on Hamlet The critical school our group will be discussing is feminism. The core ideas of this school is the equality of gender. When defined in the dictionary‚ it states that feminism is “The theory of the political‚ economic‚ and social equality of the sexes”. A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women. Malala Yousafzai‚ a young social justice leader‚ sums up the general passion felt by those who are members of this school when she said “W
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An inclusionist feminist vision is a vision that most Liberal feminists abide by. This vision involves the idealism that all women fall victim to the same issues as others meaning that there is no special treatment for marginalized groups. In the same way‚ each minority has their own struggles and the inclusionist feminist vision does not fully recognize these differences. For this reason‚ in society the inclusionist feminist vision is not a viable concept simply because it does not fully recognize
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MEATLESS DAYS: A FEMINISTIC PERSPECTIVE By Hadia Khan NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MODERN LANGUAGES ISLAMABAD November 2012 Meatless Days by Sara Suleri is a brilliant writing as it engages the reader in all the aspects of society. This novel shows the position of female in the society‚ the political aspects such as the status of Pakistani female and their position in this set up. She very artistically intermingles the culture of two lands and shows the diversity in the modern values and the
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I have seen a shift within myself. I don’t watch much TV‚ but when I do‚ I find myself thinking about how different races and cultural groups are displayed. When I read the newspaper‚ I find myself analyzing the role of their privilege in their perspective. During the gross amounts of time spend on social media‚ I find myself analyzing and rejecting information because it is purposely biased against a group of people. This change in my attention to multiculturalism around me is the biggest lesson
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Ecem ŞEN Film Theory-1035673 ecemsenn@gmail.com The Woman who looks at men from behind her own fingers There has been an undeniable increase in the number of people who argue that how mainstream films can shape or reproduce spectator’s look and position in movies. Mainstream films follow a particular narrative structure and format that shapes how we understand films. The speactator looks at what camera sees or “demonstrates” them. In this case‚ there is a construction and reproduction of
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Girl‚ a narrative written by Jamaica Kincaid‚ is a short story written in a dialogue style and stream of consciousness narration. The speaker is an authoritative female figure who teaches a girl about traditional living and the obligations of a girl to society. The narrative is basically one large sentence. Its ideas are separated by semicolons instead of the usual periods. Jamaica Kincaid’s short biography found in www.english.emory.edu by Vanessa Pupello: “Jamaica Kincaid was born in 1949 as Elaine
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