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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Bibliography: Butler‚ J. (1988). Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory. Theater Journal ‚ 40 (4)‚ 519-531. Coolidge‚ G. E. (2011). Guardianship‚ Gender and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain. Ashgate. Moore‚ N. (1985). Nonverbal Courtship Patterns in Women: Contact and Consequences. Ethology and
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In Shakespeare’s play‚ Hamlet‚ I have noticed that Hamlet and other male characters in the play were anti feminists. I choose this topic because it is different‚ and I dislike the way the two most important females in the play were treated throughout the play. I would also like to draw your attention to how Hamlet would consider his mother as a women who just wants love and affection and‚ shows no mercy for her son. One example would be how Hamlet felt displeased with his motherś wedding. He felt
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The Bell Jar This autobiographical novel by Sylvia Plath follows the story of Esther Greenwood‚ a third year college student who spends her summer at a lady’s fashion magazine in Manhattan. But despite her high expectations‚ Esther becomes bored with her work and uncertain about her own future. She even grows estranged from her traditional-minded boyfriend‚ Buddy Willard‚ a medical student later diagnosed with TB. Upon returning to her hometown New England suburb‚ Esther discovers that she was
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house‚ and make her husband was happy. Eleanor hated the fact that society kept women away from politics. It pushed her to fight for women’s status in society and the workplace instead of fighting against injustices. This here shows how Eleanor was a feminist. She wanted women to sit at the same table as men whenever it came down to politics. Eleanor made sure that the people knew that any women was capable of doing what a man did as a president. When Franklin was recovering from poliomyelitis‚ she became
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A Woman Trapped: A Feminist Analysis of the Yellow Wallpaper The short story‚ the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman can be analyzed in depth by both the psycho-analytic theory and the feminist theory. On one hand the reader witnesses the mind of a woman who travels the road from sanity to insanity to suicide “caused” by the wallpaper she grows to despise in her bedroom. On the other hand‚ the reader gets a vivid picture of a woman’s place in 1911 and how she was treated when dealing
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The Wizard of Oz was a powerful movie made in the thirties. It did not just tell a simple story of a girl who gets lost‚ but also brought many different ideas about current events of that time to the surface. The Wizard of Oz was released on August 25‚ 1939‚ a time where women did not play a big role in society. It tells a story of a young girl who magically appears in the Land of Oz after a powerful twister comes through Kansas‚ her home state. In Oz‚ Dorothy goes on a journey to find the great
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This essay will explain domestic violence in terms what who commits domestic violence and why. This will be achieved by exploring conflicting and competing theoretical interpretation of domestic violence‚ such as‚ Radical Feminism‚ Individual theories‚ Family Violence and Intersectionality approach. The use of these theories are important in answering the question because they look at specific interpretation of why domestic violence occurs‚ for example‚ premeditated or learnt behaviour and so on
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to the world of art is for pioneering feminist art work. Schapiro was a leader of the feminist art movement and in many of her painting she would put “girly”‚ pink‚ or craft elements to represent not women in general‚ but the femininity represented by these additions. For example‚ in the 1970’s she painted a hand fan‚ typically a small woman’s object‚ and made it heroic in nature by painting it six feet by twelve. Nancy Azara‚ a founder of the New York Feminist Art Institute told ARTnews that “Her
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because of male bias. The two perspectives are often pleasant-sounding‚ but a need for care point of view precedence exists. While truth is evident in both these statements‚ the problem of distinguishing between them becomes apparent soon after. Many feminist look to psychologist Carol Gilligan’s research for evidence to confirm the difference between characteristically male and female approaches to moral decision making. Her research illustrated how men almost unfailingly focus on justice when making
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