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    region on Uyghur women should also be deconstructed. My paper will explore the intersectionalities of ethnicity‚ gender‚ religion within the experience of Uyghur women in Xinjiang‚ China. Uyghur Muslim women embody multiple‚ conflicting

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    Rhetorical Analysis of “Hip Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women” In “Hip Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women”‚ McLune addresses the influence of hip hop’s choice of words towards African American women and females. McLune’s article is written in response to Powell’s opinions in “Notes of a Hip Hop Head”‚ along with various other hip hop artists‚ that black females are the leading cause of poverty and racism why black men undertake racism and poverty‚ as if women do not face these struggles from day to day.

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    Feminist Contributions

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    Assess the usefulness of feminist contributions to our understanding of society today. (33 marks) Feminism is a conflict theory which views society as male dominated and it seeks to describe‚ explain and change the position of women in society. Feminism is therefore a theory of women’s subordination and also a political movement. There are different types of feminism‚ which I will be evaluating in this essay; Liberal‚ Radical‚ Marxist‚ Black and Postmodernist feminist. Feminists criticise mainstream

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    The Exploitation of the Black Woman In America Malcolm X stated that “ The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman” which is a statement that I believe to be very true. In the article‚ “Feminist Intersections in Science: Race‚ Gender‚ and Sexuality Through the Microscope” by Lisa H. Weasel explores and highlights how science is affected by different elements of life:

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    Darwin's Black Box Theory

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    Not only has macroevolution never been observed it is now being found to be impossible. Michael Behe in his book Darwin’s Black Box has proposed that organisms are "composed of several well-matched‚ interacting parts that contribute to the basic function‚ wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning." Since all the parts of an organism are needed for the basic function the alteration of the system when a species is transitioning would cause the organism

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    In today’s society‚ women have been given the short end of the stick. Their positions in institutions of higher education and the workforce do not stand at the same level as men‚ and in many cases they have been relegated to a subservient position. Men often receive greater opportunities‚ privileges‚ and status in higher education and the workforce‚ even though there are no quantitative arguments proving that men are smarter or more productive than women. Many men have heard of the word feminism

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    Black Women vs White Women in the Reconstruction Period Women were completely controlled by the men in their lives. First‚ by their fathers‚ brothers and male relatives and finally by their husbands. Their sole purpose in life is to find a husband‚ reproduce and then spend the rest of their lives serving him. If a woman were to decide to remain single‚ she would be ridiculed and pitied by the community. Some people believe it is a form of slavery. “To me‚ the sun in the heavens at noonday is

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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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    Feminist Challenge

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    * Feminist: Louise Michel‚ Nathalie Lemel‚ Renee Viven‚ etc. * Fraternal Society of the Sexes was founded in 1790 * Society of Revolutionary Republicans 2. Women gain the right to vote * Cultural changes after WWI * Women began replacing male workers * Flappers * Leon Blum was appointed Prime Minister * The Consultative Assembly of Algiers of 1944 proposed on March 24th‚ 1944 to grant eligibility to women 3. Sexual Revolution * Women wanted the

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    Shaping American Culture

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    Shaping American Cultures Throughout the 1960s‚ there was a cultural phenomenon that started in the United States and spread like wildfire to multiple other cultures in the world. This phenomenon was also known as countercultures. This decade raised the 76.4 million Americans born during the baby boom generation. These adolescents entered their teen years during the 1960s and they definitely embraced a multitude new standards‚ dramatically different from the way their parents were raised. While

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