Desire----------------------------------24 VI. Conclusion: Future Bodies ----------------------29 VII. Bibliography-----------------------------------------31 Do cyborgs have bodies? Drawing on the works of Donna Haraway‚ Katherine Hayles and other Feminist writing on Technology‚ discuss the relationship between cybernetics and embodiment. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- I. Introduction: Cyborg-Being A cyborg body
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delivery of the message. Third wave feminists strive to raise consciousness about gender equality within society‚ especially the workplace. They also rebel against the generalised image perceived by society of how a woman should be‚ namely: feminine‚ submissive‚ weak‚ passive‚ intuitive and emotional. This is contrasting to what men are generally perceived to be‚ namely: masculine‚ dominant‚ strong‚ aggressive‚ intelligent‚ rational and active. Feminists also rival the ideas of what woman should
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20‚ 2014. August 20‚ 2014. September 15‚ 2014. September 15‚ 2014. September 13‚ 2014. August 20‚ 2014 http://www.bachelorandmaster.com/criticaltheories/about-expressive-theory.html U.P. Diliman Journals Online. Review of Women’s Studies. Roots of Feminist Thoughts in the Philippines. 1990. August 20‚ 2014. August 20‚ 2014. August 3‚ 2014.
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The Role of Women in Othello: A Feminist Reading William Shakespeare’s "Othello” can be read from a feminist perspective. A feminist analysis of the play Othello allows us to judge the different social values and status of women in the Elizabethan society. Othello serves as an example to demonstrate the expectations of the Elizabethan patriarchal society‚ the practice of privileges in patriarchal marriages‚ and the suppression and restriction of femininity. According to Elizabethan or Shakespeare’s
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WGST Take Home Midterm Exam II‚ Part A “To be feminist in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people‚ female and male‚ liberation from sexist role patterns‚ domination‚ and oppression”. Bell Hooks succinctly sums up what it means to be a feminist‚ and yet when we look to the feminist movement and feminist theorizing today‚ we see a disturbingly different picture. In a social movement founded on equality for all human beings‚ the patriarchy and its’ power structures have still made
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(Broom‚ 1982; Broom & Smith‚ 1979). Broom’s research was focused on the consultant’s roles enacted for senior management by public relations experts. In the same year‚ Katz and Kahn (1978) introduced roles as a central concept in organizational theory. A role can be seen as “the expected behavior associated with a social position”. Broom and Smith (1979) conceptualized four theoretical roles: the expert prescriber‚ the communication facilitator‚ the problem-solving process facilitator and the communication
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"What are the main theories which we have studied so far and how have they affected how you view television?"-This is the question which this paper is supposed to answer. Obviously there is not enough time or space in which to discuss every theory which we have touched on. As a compromise I decided to write about a topic to which almost every theory that we have discussed can be applied: MTV and the "Madonna Phenomenon". As E. Ann Kaplan stated in her article on feminist criticism‚ Madonna is
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in achieving full female emancipation by purely focusing on the public life of women. In this way‚ the only way for feminists to be successful in their aims is to concern themselves with the personal lives of women which subsequently means that feminism‚ in the modern sense‚ with the knowledge of the failure of both the first and second wave liberal feminists and socialist feminists to bring about female emancipation‚ has to be defined by the belief that the personal is the political. Until the 1960’s
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Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt‚ not just a laundry list of women¡¦s issues. - Charlotte Bunch Feminism is a body of social theory and political movement primarily based on and motivated by the experiences of women. It includes an opposition to male domination‚ the notion that the sexes are culturally and not biologically formed‚ and the belief that women were a social group shaped to fit male notions about a defective sex . These arguments have over the years taken different forms
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Chapter 1 Problematizing Absolute Otherness O ne of the basic precepts of feminist philosophy that provides a common axis for various female subcultures is the conviction regarding a shared history of otherness. A commonality of female sensibility and perception is recognized‚ that obliterates boundaries: of nation‚ race‚ language‚ religion‚ and culture. This has opened up manifold avenues for communication between widely separated women’s groups such as the Afro-American and the Indian
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