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    Earth and Judith Plant

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    "Women have long been associated with nature." In the following essay Judith Plant sets out the main principles (in regards to ecofeminism): the closeness of women to nature; the belief that the domination of women and the destruction of nature have the same root cause; patriarchy; and the need to re-establish for nature the organic metaphor over the machine metaphor. Judith Plant believes that women have long been associated with nature and that historically‚ women have had no real power in

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    Judith Wright Essay

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    Judith Wright is a prominent figure in Australian literature‚ as well as an environmentalist and social activist. This plays a major role in her various collections of poems‚ where she explores both national and personal concerns. These include her fight for Aboriginal land rights‚ as well as personal experiences such as pregnancy and motherhood. Through her poetry‚ Wright is able to give voice to the interest of social groups who are often denied one.   Wright’s poem “Woman to Child” primarily

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    Judith Butler Imitation

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    One of the most important quotes Judith Butler uses in her writing is seen in‚ Imitation and Gender Subordination. Judith Butler explores the ideas that gender is about a performance one must do and how gender has become an imitation of what others deem as acceptable behavior. She also explores that idea of why gender is important for a society and states‚ “Drag constitutes the mundane way in which genders are appropriated‚ theatricalized‚ worn‚ and done; it implies that all gendering is a kind of

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    Judith Butler Gender

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    In an excerpt from her book‚ Gender Trouble‚ Judith Butler discusses the enigma that is gender identity‚ while clearly distinguishing between gender and sex. Claiming that gender is a “fabrication”‚ Butler is able to deconstruct the typical gender notions. Over two decades later‚ this theory is now being broadcasted to thousands of viewers each week via the popular television show‚ I am Jazz. The reality television series I am Jazz has boomed in popularity since its premiere in 2015 and follows the

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    Judith Wright Essay

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    the structure in which the author chooses to write their ideas in and simply the love an author conveys through their work. Judith Wright‚ an Australian poet and environmentalist expresses these thoughts with her 1950’s poems ’Sanctuary’ and ’South of My Days‚’ which both tell of the Australian landscape and Wright’s thoughts and feelings on the country she grew up in. Judith Wright presents vivid and forward-thinking imagery in her poems‚ using light and dark tones (both figuratively and literally)

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    Judith Beveridge Speech

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    Judith Beveridge is a poet of great detail. Her poems are written with strong use of language. Strong imagery of her observations and contrasts of her views help create her poems meaning and effect on the reader. Beveridge’s texts are valuable to the understanding of human and nature’s precious life‚ and her appreciation for life in all. Through her two poems ‘the domesticity of Giraffes’ and ‘the streets of Chippendale’ these both communicate her ideas and values the strongest. One of Beveridge’s

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    Judith Butler Masculinity

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    Judith Butler questions the notion that certain gendered behaviors are a result of learning the performance of gender behavior‚ that which is associated with masculinity and femininity. She argues that it is a social construction that is only true to the extent of it being performed. Gender as defined in Undoing Gender is a “practice of improvisation within a scene of constraint‚” which is within a social context. The stylization of the body‚ gestures‚ movements and enactments create these

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    Judith Butler Stereotypes

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    The notion that gender is socially constructed is an idea that Judith Butler argues against‚ instead she suggests that gender does not exist. Butler states that gender cannot exist until performed‚ these acts that are performed are merely repetitions of pre-established behaviour. Instead we impersonate what we believe to be gender and gender appropriate‚ these gender conventions that are impossible to maintain as every person is different. (Butler 2009) It is these learned behaviours that establish

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    English 102: Introduction to Literature Instructions from professor: Write an essay (at least 3 pages) - a brief character analysis of Judith. Use examples from the story to support and develop the thesis. Devote particular attention to the details that contribute to the characterization. ==========Body of essay========= Through the revelations of an unnamed narrator‚ we are given a glimpse of Judith’s contradictory attitudes and behaviors without any insight into previous experiences that would

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    Legend by Judith Wright

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    Legend by Judith Wright - 1915-2000‚ 
written in 1949 and published in 
anthology ’The Gateway’ in 1953. The blacksmith’s boy went out with a rifle and a black dog running behind. Cobwebs snatched at his feet‚ rivers hindered him‚ thorn branches caught at his eyes to make him blind and the sky turned into an unlucky opal‚ but he didn’t mind. I can break branches‚ I can swim rivers‚ I can stare out                            any spider I meet‚ said he to his dog and his rifle. The

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