Anderson Social analysis – Homelessness Feminist and postmodernist perspectives ACAP Being Homeless in Australia‚ what does that actually mean? The statistics show that homelessness in Australia is a growing and a concerning problem involving people from all walks of life and in all parts of Australia. This paper will examine the evidence of homelessness and analyse the media’s coverage of homelessness with postmodernist theory and then the feminist theory. The feminist perspective in the media is a view
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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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post-war boom‚ which was an era of economic growth‚ a baby boom‚ a move to family-oriented suburbs‚ and the ideal of marriages. There was a push of the double standard that it was okay for men to explore their sexuality and that girls just simply don’t do that. The world of women was very strict and a narrow path. They were expected to get married young‚ quickly start a family‚ and devote their life to their home. As one woman at the time put it‚ "The female
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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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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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would seem‚ is not sexless: he is a man‚ a father‚ and infected too” (Woolf‚ 1938). Feminist Virginia Woolf declares this bold statement to express how science is sexist; gender bias by which women’s interests‚ insight‚ or perspective are disvalued and ostracized. Over the decades‚ there has been an outburst of the feminist writing on the philosophical development in literature and history. A majority of the feminist writings harshly criticize the philosophical traditions‚ which include topics of epistemology
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"I don’t understand how you call yourself a feminist despite being raised by a Hispanic mother. Is Latina feminism even a thing?" my aunt asked. I understood where she was coming from because as a Hispanic woman‚ my mother subdued and was determined to pass on the traditional roles of women to her daughters. During my childhood‚ I was expected to fulfill “womanly” duties and responsibilities. Many of those duties were domestic: I had to serve both of my brothers food every day --myself last
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Feminist Analysis of Cloud Nine In 1979‚ Caryl Churchill wrote a feminist play entitled Cloud Nine. It was the result of a workshop for the Joint Stock Theatre Group and was intended to be about sexual politics. Within the writing she included a myriad of different themes ranging from homosexuality and homophobia to female objectification and oppression. "Churchill clearly intended to raise questions of gender‚ sexual orientation‚ and race as ideological issues; she accomplished this largely by
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Representing Ophelia: Women‚ Madness‚ and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism Elaine Showalter Though she is neglected in criticism‚ Ophelia is probably the most frequently illustrated and cited of Shakespeare’s heroines. Her visibility as a subject in literature‚ popular culture‚ and painting‚ from Redon who paints her drowning‚ to Bob Dylan‚ who places her on Desolation Row‚ to Cannon Mills‚ which has named a flowery sheet pattern after her‚ is in inverse relation to her invisibility in
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Wright’s life. There was once a time when she was known as Minnie Foster. Minnie “used to wear pretty clothes and be lively-singing in the choir (778).” Before marriage‚ Minnie was an upbeat girl who took part in her community‚ but now‚ she does not even take part of the Ladies Aid. Unfortunately‚ once she committed to a marriage with Mr. Wright‚ Minnie changed her way of being‚ and it was not a good change for her persona. Her house was disheveled with unwashed things and she was not properly kept
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