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    Online Dating Behaviour: How To Meet Black Women Online For a long time‚ many people frowned at the sight of black women dating white men. However‚ today black‚ white dating is becoming increasingly popular with many people seeing it as a normal occurrence. There are some many dating sites that allow white men to meet single black women that they can build a relationship with. True‚ online dating offers you the opportunity to meet the woman of your dreams‚ but you need to have the right attitude

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    Top Girls "Reading Top Girls as a feminist text helped me to find ways to dramatize the price women pay for success in a patriarchal society" (J.T Burk). To what extent can Top Girls be classified as a feminist comedy? Caryl Churchill’s play‚ Top Girls‚ has many social‚ political and cultural observations about modern women throughout the centuries. It was written in 1982 and in this‚ Churchill presents women from both modern and historical periods who seem to have been successful in one way

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    defined as the belief that women and men are‚ and have been treated differently by society‚ and that women have frequently and systematically been unable to participate fully in all social arenas and institutions. It is also described as a desire to change that situation. In the play Lysistrata‚ women have absolutely no political rights. There is a war going on and one woman wants to put and end to it. It is my opinion the character Lysistrata can be viewed as a modern day feminist. She takes charge in

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    state commissioned a report on the status of women to a group of feminist researchers and activists. The report recognised the fact that in India‚ women were oppressed under a system of structural hierarchies and injustices. During this period‚ Indian feminists were influenced by the Western debates being conducted about violence against women. However‚ due to the difference in the historical and social culture of India‚ the debate in favour of Indian women had to be conducted creatively and certain

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    enlightenment‚ as women set a course of equality and cracked the foundations of women’s sphere. Portraits were drawn of stereotypical ’20s femmes; crimson-lipped‚ bob-haired and befringed flappers peering down their ivory cigarette holders at restrictive Victorian mores; stalwart‚ placard-toting suffragettes proclaiming the need for female political activism; fresh-faced college coeds donning crisp shirtwaists to tap out office memos on shiny modern typewriters. American women contested traditional

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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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    Women in Hiphop

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    janell hobson and r. dianne bartlow Introduction Representin’: Women‚ Hip-Hop‚ and Popular Music As coeditors of this special issue of Meridians‚ we set out to provide a forum to enrich‚ challenge‚ and expand the present discourse regarding the representation of women in contemporary popular music‚ and particularly in hip-hop. This issue’s three organizing themes—“Hip-Hop (and) Feminism”; “Sight and Sound”; and “Rage against the Machine”—address the debates and intergenerational tensions regarding

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    Womanism or Black Feminism

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    Essay Afro-American Literature Womanism or Black Feminism? Black women started to speak up in 1970s and during the 1980s and 1990s black womanhood started to be an important point of debates and since then African American women´s thoughts and ideas are a very significant part of literature. Gender studies are taught at universities and black women writers are known of. Their books are studied and researches done. They took a long and hard journey from slavery until today and it was not easy

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    explains to Nick about when she had her‚ a feminist would clearly be able to point out what she is saying goes against feminism. Through the lens of a feminist‚ Daisy is objectifying her daughter when she says " All right‚ I said‚ I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world‚ a beautiful little fool. In feminism criticism‚ when women are objectified they are seen as less then human‚ in this case a feminist may be prompted to say that she is

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    A Woman Trapped: A Feminist Analysis of the Yellow Wallpaper The short story‚ the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman can be analyzed in depth by both the psycho-analytic theory and the feminist theory. On one hand the reader witnesses the mind of a woman who travels the road from sanity to insanity to suicide “caused” by the wallpaper she grows to despise in her bedroom. On the other hand‚ the reader gets a vivid picture of a woman’s place in 1911 and how she was treated when dealing

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