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    Feminist Epistemology

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    The Potential of Emotions in Feminist Epistemology: Developing Jaggar’s Account By Tina Strasbourg University of Calgary Abstract In this paper I analyze the potential of Allison Jaggar’s suggestion that emotions in general‚ and outlaw emotions in particular‚ be incorporated into feminist epistemology. Jaggar advocates a standpoint theory of emotions‚ and suggests that the emotions of the oppressed in particular are helpful rather than inimical to acquiring knowledge

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    Black Feminist

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    According to Oxford English Dictionary‚ Black Feminist can be defined as a movement consisting of African American women advocating social‚ political‚ legal‚ and economic rights for women equal to those of men (Oxford English Press). Black feminism argues that sexism‚ social class oppression‚ and racism are inseparably bound together (Collins). The feminist movement has been around since the 1880s when the word “Feminism” appeared in the French language (Collins). The word found traction in Britain

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    Feminist Criminology

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    Feminist Criminology: How useful is it in its analysis of female crime? MSc Criminology and Forensic Psychology Feminist criminology emerged out of the realisation that criminology has from its inception centred on men and the crimes they commit. Although it can be argued female criminality was researched by Lombroso‚ as far back as 1800’s‚ female crime‚ it’s causes and the impact in which it had on society was largely ignored by the criminological futurity. Those Criminologist who did

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    Feminist Geography

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    Feminist Geography Since its conception‚ geography has been involved in the development of races and genders‚ mapping the boundaries that separate and exclude the world of privilege from the other. The imposing eyes that facilitated this domination have recently been challenged to quash their perpetuation of racial difference‚ and although existing more obscurely‚ to challenge the sexist legacy remaining in geography. “As part of geography‚ feminist approaches within our

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    Vertigo Feminist Theory

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    First film theorist Laura Mulvey she wrote Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema in 1975. She came up with the idea of the Male Gaze. The idea that the woman is passive and the male is active. So the woman is the image and the man is the bare of the look which very much indicates the man has the power of the woman. In vertigo this is evident within the first scene the Ernie’s Restaurant when Scottie goes to meet Madeline for the first time. Where they don’t actually meet‚ they don’t even make eye

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    Artemisia as a Feminist

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    Nanette Salomon‚ a very well known feminist writer‚ wrote the article‚ “Judging Artemisia: A Baroque Woman in Modern Art History.” The article opens up with a discussion about the 2001-2 exhibition of Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy. The author explains that three things are unusual here: the fact that two famous artists were presented at the same time‚ that they were related as father and daughter‚ and the fact that the woman was better known than

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    Semiotic & Feminist Analysis

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    22-02-2012 Media Analysis Project 1 | Semiotic Analysis & Feminist Analysis | Ellen Gough | Part One: Semiotic Analysis Defining and Explaining Semiotics 1. What is meant by Semiotics? Semiotics is the science of signs. It helps us better understand how messages are constructed through different media forms like still images‚ film‚ television and other works of art. It is the study of social production of meanings using sign systems which helps us understand how certain things

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    Feminist Perspectives on Power First published Wed Oct 19‚ 2005; substantive revision Wed Mar 9‚ 2011 Although any general definition of feminism would no doubt be controversial‚ it seems undeniable that much work in feminist theory is devoted to the tasks of critiquing women ’s subordination‚ analyzing the intersections between sexism and other forms of subordination such as racism‚ heterosexism‚ and class oppression‚ and envisioning the possibilities for both individual and collective resistance

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    The Anti-Feminist Movement

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    feminism and eventually produced robust movements to end violence against women and children as well as to end pornography‚ which radical feminists saw as anti-woman propaganda and a source of sexual violence. This collided with but did not merge with the demands of a growing conservative movement to police sex more rigorously and also incited opposition within the feminist movement as some activists were concerned about a return to state censorship and the intensification of an anti-sex backlash for women

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    Socialist Feminist Criticism: You Dropped the Bomb on Me‚ Baby Feminism and gender studies have been described as having the ability to "challenge literary and culture theory to confront the difficult task of assimilating the findings of an expanding sphere of inquiry" (Contemporary Literary Criticism 567). This area of study has taken center stage during the last fifty years‚ not only in our society‚ but also in literary criticism. Although the terrain Feminism traverses can hardly be narrowed

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