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    Primoratz writes that “…radical feminists typically question the very relevance of consent to the morality of sexual acts.” Rape is to be quite frank‚ the lowest and most demeaning act a man can do to a woman. Most would say that rape is physically forcing a woman to engage in a sexual act against her will. Radical feminists take a hard stance against this and believe most “normal” sex is to be included when discussing rape. Feminists argue that the very social fiber of our society in which

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    Feminist Theory‚ Embodiment‚ and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival Saba Mahmood Close Reading Analysis Lit 090 Mahmood looks to tackle the issue of not the cultures behind feminism but to understand the underpinnings behind feminism. She suggests that quite often the narrative is focused on feminism as a response to some sort of societal construct which allows the subordination of women. Her assertion is that we have to look at how feminism is defined in society

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    Composition II/Literature Week 2: The Feminist Perspective This presentation will introduce you to the feminist critical perspective through a close examination of the short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid. The Feminist Critical Perspective “Feminist criticism questions the ways in which women have been defined through a literary tradition dominated by male authors and critics…many feminists argue that the forms and conventions of traditional literature allow only a certain type of female

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    Feminist Theory‚ Embodiment‚ and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival Saba Mahmood University of Chicago In the last two decades one of the key questions that has occupied many feminist theorists is how should issues of historical and cultural specificity inform both the analytics and politics of any feminist project. Although this questioning has resulted in serious attempts at integrating issues of sexual‚ racial‚ class‚ and national difference within feminist

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    The dawn of the twentieth century was a period of changes in every aspect of the daily lives of women‚ not only in the domestic sphere but also in the public one. The women’s feminist movement‚ which emphasized on advocacy of equal rights between women and men‚ formed women’s organizations‚ and the rise of a whole new generation of female artists and professionals totally altered the traditional patriarchal social structure all around the globe. These social changes‚ followed by the advent of World

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    (McCullough‚ p6). Many people engage in conversations that discuss various oppressions such as racism‚ sexism‚ heterosexism and classism‚ but rarely do we discuss how these oppressions interact with each other. In the Combahee River Collective’s “Black Feminist Statements” the women write about the importance of identifying connections among various kinds of oppression; “The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial‚ sexual

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    A Broad Feminist Lens of Hamlet Since medieval times‚ feminist theories have criticized English literature. Oxford professors present that the earliest forms of feminist theory can be identified in the Middle Ages‚ such as Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath. Over the course of centuries‚ feminism has later redefined the readers’ perspectives of major literary works. Nonetheless‚ the 1960’s second wave feminism introduces modern feminist literary criticism through the inclusion of gender equality reform

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    Wife of Bath‚ by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ one may automatically assume that Allison‚ herself‚ is a feminist. Essentially‚ her façade shows this through her promiscuity and the power she has had over her five husbands. However‚ the Wife of Bath is anything but a feminist. She hides her anti-feministic ways through her contradiction of personality‚ from a sex crazed "dominant" to a dependent submissive. Her anti-feminist ways are portrayed through her ways of manipulating her husbands. Also‚ her true self surfaces

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    bridge that split the tourist from the real backbones of the city. The people or places even things that make Miami you would need to cross the bridge‚ WARNING proceed with caution right in between South Beach and North Miami Beach(NMB) with highway 95 splitting it east and west is North miami‚ FL. A neighborhood where the people are just like the weather unpredictable‚ many minorities migrated there because they came from an even worst situation “Lil Haiti”. Majority of the people that lives there

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    Here in North Dakota‚ 800‚000 barrels a day of oil are being pumped from our own roots. It’s being sent all around the world to supply the oil needs of the people. Many people around the United States and even us North Dakotans have no clue the vastness of oil drilling in our state and to know what’s going on in your state is good knowledge to have. A few times a year I travel to the western side of the state to the town of Williston where my grandparents live and everywhere you look there are oil

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