The Victorian Era was a period from 1837 to 1901 of “peace‚ prosperity‚ refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.” (Victorian Era‚ 2015) Sexuality was dominated by men. It was meant for procreation and women were only there to service their husbands. Husbands that did not insist on having sex were actually considered admirable. Anyone with sexual desire was considered lower class. Being a single mother was so shamed upon that the mother would usually end up giving away their
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Carceral logics is the theory and belief that incarceration and policing is the best possible solutions to solve the social problems that exist within society. To clarify‚ this theory assumes that instead of solving the inherent structural inequalities that cause crime‚ such as racism and discrimination‚ the system should instead punish those that are simply the victims of extreme structural inequalities. Carceral logics is the idea that there is no need to
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E D W A R D W. S A I D : T R U T H ‚ J U S T I C E A N D N AT I O N A L I S M Jan Selby University of Sussex‚ UK ................ Said Foucault Chomsky nationalism Palestine ................ Within post-colonial debates‚ Edward Said has tended to be viewed by critics and admirers alike through a predominantly postmodern lens: as an (albeit inconsistent) Foucauldian genealogist of the relations between western truths and oriental subjugation‚ and as an opponent of cultural
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Cambridge: Polity Press. Hunter‚ F.‚ (1953)‚ Community Power Structure‚ Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Innovative Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences‚ Vol. 6‚ No. 3 Innovative Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences‚ Vol. 6‚ No. 3 Michels‚ R.‚ (1927)‚ First Lectures in Political Sociology‚ New York: Harper and Row. Miliband‚ R.‚ (1969)‚ The State in Capitalist Society‚ London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Mills‚ C. W.‚ (1956)‚ The Power Elite‚ New York: Oxford University Press. Mintz‚
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based on the idea that literature should be studied and intrepreted within the context of both the history of the author and the history of the critic. Based on the literary criticism of Stephen Greenblatt and influenced by the philosophy of Michel Foucault‚ New Historicism acknowledges not only that a work of literature is influenced by its author’s times and circumstances‚ but that the critic’s response to that work is also influenced by his environment‚ beliefs‚ and prejudices. New Historicist
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Emile Durkheim The Sociology of knowledge The sociology of knowledge is the study of the relationship between human thought and the social context within which it arises‚ and of the effects prevailing ideas have on societies. It is not a specialized area of sociology but instead deals with broad fundamental questions about the extent and limits of social influences on individual ’s lives and the social-cultural basics of our knowledge about the world.[1] Complementary to the sociology of knowledge
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(1985). Report of the Committee of Inquiry into labour market programs: overview of the report and recommendations (The Kirby Report). Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. Cooke‚ A Downing‚ L. (2008). The Cambridge introduction to Michel Foucault. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Driver‚ S.‚ & Martell‚ L. (1997). New Labour’s communitarianisms. Critical Social Policy‚ 17 (52) 27-46. Duyvendak‚ J.W.‚ Knijn‚ T.‚ & Kremer‚ M. (Eds.). (2006). Policy‚ people and the new professional:
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Cultural Construction of Sexuality Choi‚ P and Nicolson‚ P. (1994) Female Sexuality: Psychology‚ Biology and Social Context. Harvester Wheatsheaf Foster‚ M.‚ (1992) Daphne du Maurier‚ London: Chatto and Windus Foucault‚ M. (1979) The history of sexuality‚ vol 1: An introduction. Penguin Foucault‚ M (1985) The uses of pleasure: The history of sexuality‚ vol 2 Freud‚ S.‚ (1955) The Psychogenesis of a case of homosexuality in a woman. London: Penguin Jeffreys‚ S.‚ (1990) Anticlimax: A feminist perspective
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activity will differ in each society. The goal of this paper is to address sexuality as a significant gender issue from a sociological perspective‚ by drawing from the works of West and Zimmerman (1987)‚ Jeffery Weeks (1986)‚ Judith Butler (2004)‚ Michel Foucault (2012)‚ Rubin Gayle (1992) and more. The nature of the topic dictates the use of
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Can the Subaltern Speak? – Summary Gayatri Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an unsettling voice in literary theory and especially‚ postcolonial studies. She has describes herself as a “practical deconstructionist feminist Marxist” and as a “gadfly”. She uses deconstruction to examine "how truth is constructed" and to deploy the assertions of one intellectual and political position (such as Marxism) to "interrupt" or "bring into crisis" another (feminism‚ for example). In her work‚ she combines
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