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    Socialist Feminism

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    for me at night to tickle my feet . . . And look at me! I don’t even like my hair. (Ally McBeal) Cultural feminism According to (Alcoff‚1995 ) Cultural feminism is the ideology that a woman needs to appropriate the value of her female nature in an attempt to authenticate her female attributes that were previously determined and undervalued by masculinity itself. In cultural feminism‚ a woman’s enemy lies not just in an economic institution‚ backward values or even a social system but the root

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    Feminism In Sports

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    compete with men and their organizations. Every woman in sports has had to endure the existing issue of feminism and culture. Feminism and culture strongly affects participation in sports. Feminism in sports is the support of women’s rights based on equality to take part in sports. Culture consists of values‚ attitudes and beliefs one may have based on sports and how it should be played. Feminism and culture go hand in hand when focusing on female athletes. Female African American

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    Feminism in Printmedia

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    Indian Journal of Gender Studies http://ijg.sagepub.com ’Feminism ’ in Print Media Maitrayee Chaudhuri Indian Journal of Gender Studies 2000; 7; 263 DOI: 10.1177/097152150000700208 The online version of this article can be found at: http://ijg.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/2/263 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Indian Journal of Gender Studies can be found at: Email Alerts: http://ijg.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions:

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    Feminism and Postmodernism

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    Feminism and Postmodernism: An Uneasy Alliance http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/benhabib-seyla/uneasy-alliance.htm Source: Feminist Contentions. A Philosophical Exchange‚ Seyla Benhabib‚ Judith Butler‚ Drucilla Cornell‚ Nancy Fraser‚ with an introduction by Linda Nicholson. Published by Routledge.‚ pp. 1-16. 1. The Feminist Alliance With Postmodernism A decade ago a question haunted feminist theorists who had participated in the experiences of the New Left and who had come to

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    Feminism in Trifles

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    In the early 1900’s men ruled over society. Men ran businesses‚ ruled countries‚ controlled households but most importantly controlled the women around them. To men‚ women were nothing but fixtures in a home; they were objects that did not have important thoughts or valid views of the world. Men wanted women to be silent and controlled. Women during this time were not given the same respect as men were and definitely did not hold any weight in shaping the views of society as men constantly silenced

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    Feminism in Antigone

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    Feminism in Antigone Although ancient Greece was a male-dominant society‚ Sophocles’ Antigone portrays women as being strong and capable of making wise decisions. Antigone‚ the tragic heroine‚ rejects the traditional role of women. As such‚ Sophocles punishes Ismene for embodying traditional attitude. Moreover‚ Creon is punished for misogyny. Sophocles‚ accordingly‚ uses characterization to promote feminist ideas. Sophocles introduces a female character in Antigone who is a strong believer and

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    extension of feminism into theoretical and philosophical discourse. They aim at understanding of the nature of gender inequality .They in turn examine women’s social roles and life experiences .While in general some provide a critique of social relationships .Most feminist theories also focus on analysing gender inequality and the promotion of women’s rights‚ interests and issues .Among such theories are the Liberal feminism and the Radical feminism theories. While Liberal and Radical feminism both seek

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    A Postcolonial Review of Maleficent A dominant trait in Disney movies is that only the voices of the privileged matter‚ while they cast the villains out. They show that villains’ voices have no significance in the story. Disney would always throw the limelight on the privileged ones because they are the right people‚ happy-go-lucky‚ energetic and beautiful‚ while they stereotype villains as the very unfortunate ones‚ the most despicable one‚ greatly dangerous and wicked. In Postcolonial theory

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    Beyonce Feminism

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    Leah Taylor 11/12/2014 Beyonce and Feminism when it comes to this topic there is so much that there could be said just because it’s a very broad topic. People believe that there has not ever been a single united fiminism. They believe there have been multiple feminisms representing the efforts of women to live into their full humanity in a world shaped by and for the generally larger and more violent male half of the human species. In the 19th century there was a feminist movement its roots came

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    Postcolonial Nations‚ Islands‚ and Tourism examines how real and literary islands have helped to shape the idea of the nation in a postcolonial world. Through an analysis of a variety of texts ranging from literature to prison correspondence to tourist questionnaires it exposes the ways in which nationalism relies on fictions of insularity and intactness‚ which the island and island tourism appear to provide. The island space seems to offer the ideal replica of the nation‚ and tourist practices promise

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