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    1. Linda Nochlin is a feminist art historian. She received her undergraduate degree from Vassar College in Philosophy and also has a M.A. in English from Columbia University. She has a PHD from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts on The Development and Nature of Realism in the Work of Courbet. She taught one of the first undergraduate art history courses about women “The Image of Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” at Vassar then went on to teach at Yale. 2. “Why Have There

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    explains to Nick about when she had her‚ a feminist would clearly be able to point out what she is saying goes against feminism. Through the lens of a feminist‚ Daisy is objectifying her daughter when she says " All right‚ I said‚ I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world‚ a beautiful little fool. In feminism criticism‚ when women are objectified they are seen as less then human‚ in this case a feminist may be prompted to say that she is

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    As first lady‚ presidential candidate‚ and a feminist‚ Hillary Clinton has been empowering women all over the globe to stand up for the rights they deserve. For many years‚ Hillary Clinton has traveled and experienced the hardships of women of all background‚ from different countries. Clinton’s powerful language and encouragement has persuaded females to come together and fight for their rights. Hillary Clinton wants to make women aware of the discrimination they experience from their government

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    The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington‚ D.C.‚ the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban‚[1] and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical style. It has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801‚ he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward

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    boarding house is a house (often a family home) in which lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights‚ and sometimes for extended periods of weeks‚ months‚ and years. The common parts of the house are maintained‚ and some services‚ such as laundry and cleaning‚ may be supplied. They normally provide "bed and board"‚ that is‚ at least some meals as well as accommodation. A "lodging house"‚ also known in the United States as a "rooming house"‚ may or may not offer meals. Lodgers legally only

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    T. Olson‚ Phyllis Trible‚ Anne Clifford and many other biblical scholars have provided alternative interpretations of Genesis that work against the conventional androcentric reading. Phyllis Trible’s take on the first two chapters of Genesis uses feminist hermeneutics to represent the creation of Eve as independent from Adam and how the story does not advocate women as subordinate to men. Humanity is established right away as incorporating both sexes. Working from the original Hebrew‚ Trible revels

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    Prospect House The story Prospect House‚ written by Frances Childs is a realistic description from the bottom of the social heap. In the story we meet Kim‚ a girl with a bleak background who has an identity crisis. This crisis is presumably caused by the mother she never had‚ and it is the red line in the story; the author clearly illustrates that parent’s plays an important role in their children’s live‚ especially when they are not there. The story takes place outside the city‚ probably near

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    HULL-HOUSE Laura Jane Addams was born on September 6‚ 1860 in Cedarville‚ Illinois‚ into a privileged middle class family. As a young child‚ Jane‚ as they called her‚ knew hardships. At the age of two her mother died. Soon after‚ Addams had been struck with tuberculosis leaving her with a deformed spine. Still having her father to carry her through‚ she would try to live life as normal as possible. Jane often would travel to the mills her father owned; playing in the piles of grain in the storerooms

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    story that enable a resistant feminist reading to be applied with regards to the western or European characters of the Aunt and the intended. When analysing the way in which ‘the African Goddess’ is portrayed in the story however‚ one is able to contrast the way in which western females are presented and the way in which gender roles are portrayed in a primitive Africa. It is clear that a resistant feminist reading doesn’t apply to her but rather an alternative feminist reading suggesting women have

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    Women’s Embrace in the Feminist Movement Women have underwent a very long and terrible trip when trying to get freedom and rights in the world. feminism has powerfully helped many women go through this trip faster than it would have gone without any fight. Kate Chopin‚ amongst the first of the feminist society‚ incorporated feminism into her short story The Story of an Hour which helped women embrace the feminist movement by giving them a character they can relate to. The beginning of The Story

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