come to terms with the glass ceiling. Study participants identified five factors contributing to the glass ceiling‚ as well as a number of strategies women can use to overcome the glass ceiling. I examine the findings from both a radical feminist and liberal feminist perspective. Recommendations for educators‚ students‚ and practitioners are included in this study‚ as are some comments from the 27 women who worked as managers in both agency and corporate environments. In 1991 U.S. Labor Secretary
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of feminist theory is the making of a distinction between "sex" and "gender"‚ a distinction that has subsequently been developed differently by different strands of feminist thought. We begin with the basic distinction that is made‚ and its significance. A brief discussion follows on how the rigid male /female opposition is specific to modernity and to western cultures. We then look at four different ways in which the sex/gender distinction has been complicated by different kinds of feminist theory
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and woe-men: Feminist Aesthetics‚ theatre practice and the Democratic process in Nigeria’ To Alice walker (1989) search of our mother’s Gender: A woman’s Prose [Nv:HB] Books Biodun Ajayi (1993) “Feminism: A lost battle an article of August 24‚ 1993. Elaine showalter (1979) ‘A Literature of their own’. Towards a feminist poetics. Femi O.A. (1983) Female writers‚ Male critics in African Literature Today: Recent trends in the Novel: Heinemann London. Olu Obafemi (1994) ‘Towards feminist Aesthetics in
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But‚ I noticed in another text‚ (“Intersections of Race‚ Class‚ Gender‚ and Crime”) by Amanda Burgess-Proctor‚ she explains different types of feminism/feminist criminology that intersect gender‚ race‚ and class. She believes multiracial feminism will guarantee a better future for women in criminology/criminal justice. I argue that feminist criminology has come a long way/evolved with the 3 waves/eras of feminism‚ the different types of feminism‚ and multiracial feminism. • 3 waves/eras of feminism:
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screen as window within film theory and I will use his arguments to better understand how Paths of Glory can at once accept realist theory and formalist theory through its conscious exploitation of the film screen as window and frame. Paths of Glory consists of 3 main points of action of which we will analyze; first‚ the battle for the Ant Hill; second‚ the court marshal of three French soldiers; and third‚ their subsequent execution
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Gender and International Relations: A Global Perspective and Issues for the Caribbean Author(s): Jessica Byron and Diana Thorburn Source: Feminist Review‚ No. 59‚ Rethinking Caribbean Difference (Summer‚ 1998)‚ pp. 211232 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1395731 . Accessed: 04/01/2011 09:15 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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being serious‚ grown up‚ responsible – which is an opposite to white understanding of black women. Walker somehow implies that black women are superior to white women because of black folk tradition. Also Walker´s much cited phrase “womanist is to feminist as
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Chapter 4: A Cyborg Manifesto: Science‚ Technology‚ and Socialist- Feminism in the Late 20th Century* DONNA HARAWAY History of Consciousness Program‚ University of California‚ at Santa Cruz 1. AN IRONIC DREAM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE FOR WOMEN IN THE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT This chapter is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism‚ socialism‚ and materialism. Perhaps more faithful as blasphemy is faithful‚ than as reverent worship and identification. Blasphemy has always seemed
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To what extent can the auteur theory be applied successfully to the work of Peter Jackson? Is there evidence of a characteristic authorial signature and if so what is it? To apply the term ‘auteur’ to a director who has openly claimed “I don’t quite know what an auteur is.” may seem nonsensical‚ but there is no denying that the work of Peter Jackson has proven him to be deemed an auteur. From his origins in amateur ‘splatstick’‚ Jackson’s stylistic and thematic traits have remained a constant in
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At 1:17:58‚ Tina makes her first appearance in the company of her partner‚ Mookie. With Tina housebound by her role as caregiver for their son‚ Hector‚ and Mookie resigned to a life of “making money‚ getting paid” at Sal’s‚ the traditional gender dynamics of their relationship are quickly established. Indeed‚ Tina appears so imprisoned by her circumstances that she must purchase the attention of her lover by ordering food from his place of work. Though Mookie’s victimhood at the hands of capitalism
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