Susan Strange published a book titled: The Retreat of the State. In her book‚ Strange took on a comprehensive concept about the dynamics of both power and politics‚ arguing that there is a declining authority of states. While Strange’s argument explores some of the causes that lie behind the decline of the state‚ Robert Gilpin counter-argues in his book‚ Global Political Economy‚ that today‚ more than ever before‚ the policies of the states are needed to maintain the affairs of the powerful economic
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Thursday‚ March 27th‚ 2013 Misconceptions between Love and Lust in Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet The act of falling in love was an experience and privilege that was rare to come by in the society Romeo and Juliet live in. The blessing of marriage was used as an enhancement on one’s social status unlike how our society uses it to celebrate love. As the audience is exposed to more and more of the plot and events that happen in Shakespeare ’s Romeo and Juliet‚ one realizes that love is never formally
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the character Lysistrata can be viewed as a modern day feminist. She takes charge in the self-titled play and claims that war shall be the concern of Women! It is too important a matter to be left to men‚ for women are it s real victims. Lysistrata wants to end the long war for it is taking a toll against the wives of the soldiers and the whole of Greece. The means by which Lysistrata wants to end the war may not be done in a traditional feminist manner‚ but it is effective and it does what the definition
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in India than in the West. In India‚ women’s issues first began to be addressed when the state commissioned a report on the status of women to a group of feminist researchers and activists. The report recognised the fact that in India‚ women were oppressed under a system of structural hierarchies and injustices. During this period‚ Indian feminists were influenced by the Western debates being conducted about violence against women. However‚ due to the difference in the historical and social culture
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contested traditional views of the female as moral guardian and domestic servant and challenged the nation to accept their egalitarian beliefs. But after the initial surge of support for women’s rights with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920‚ feminist fervor diminished throughout the latter ’20s and all but disappeared during the Depression. And with that reduced support for women’s rights came a renewed promotion of the traditional belief that women belonged in the home -- not in the workplace
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Feminists Ahead of their Time: Veronica Franco and Leona Florentino I found several feminist themes in the works of both Franco and Florentino. The works of Veronica Franco were more laden with feminist themes than that of Florentino. Although both writers produced their work in times where the feminist movement had not yet been established‚ their works address and promote issues of women‚ which I will discuss further in this chapter. Franco and Florentino sighted feministic themes repeatedly throughout
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to control it‚ and it has real effects of oppression and control. Representations work on the represented‚ and thus‚ epistemology not only to an extent determines ontology‚ but by the same token it is a tool to change a world of inequalities. A feminist critique seeks both to unveil actual structures of inequality‚ such as underrepresentation of women in important and world-shaping disourses of science and technology‚ and to criticise the culture of it‚ or the ideology‚ that invests it with meaning
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article is to bring to light the lack of representation of women of color in feminism. Often‚ feminism is seen as the representation of white middle class women. There are many flaws when it comes to feminism. Women of color are excluded because feminists misinterprets women’s experience and view of the whole concept based on their race‚ even though we all go through the same discrimination because of our gender‚ something feminism is against. Maxine Zinn and Bonnie Dill depict the inadequacy of
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Social purity feminist and new moralists had different beliefs and advocated for different things when it came to female sexuality. According to Bland‚ social purity feminists advocated that when it came to the women’s body they had every right to say no to all unwanted sexual advances‚ this included married women (Bland‚ 1983). They also advocated that a married woman should have the right to control conception of a child‚ they suggested one of two ways to do so and this was by either continence
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The Uniqueness of Bad Feminist Roxane Gay states: “No matter what issues I have with feminism‚ I am a feminist. I cannot and will not deny the absolute importance and necessity of feminism.” Throughout her memoir‚ Roxane dives deep into many distinct subtopics of feminism and equality itself through an assortment of essays with wide-ranging examples to support her evolving‚ strong beliefs. Bad Feminist uses smaller details‚ such as the utilization of footnotes‚ and differentiates itself from
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