What is feminism? Girl power • Spice Girls • Beyonce o “Who run the world” song Women can manipulate men with their sexuality Men become subdued by women’s sexuality Women’s power is not physical ¬– sexual power Women have the power to give birth to a child and go back to business (work or sex?) Equality: sameness The women don’t go through the riot shields (held by the men) Female support (backup dancers are female) • Sex and the City o Post-feminism o You can’t
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Homework for the week of January 28‚ 2013 Read this week’s sheet for information on the review session. Monday (due Tuesday): • Complete Friday’s homework‚ which was to “Find an article about the place at which you want to volunteer or the topic about which you want to demand change. CHUMM the article. Additionally‚ print information about the place (or cause) from its own website. CHUMM the printed information.” If your group members used the same readings (article or webpage)‚ please
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Feminism is the theory of ‘social‚ political and economic equality of the sexes’ (Mathews‚ Class Notes‚ slide 3). Bell Hooks‚ more formally know as Gloria Jean Watkins born September 25th in 1952‚ is an American author‚ social activist and Feminist. Watkins took her pen name ‘bell hooks’ from her great grandmother Bell Blair Hooks‚ but uses the name in all lowercase letters to distinguish herself from her great grandmother. She held a leading role in the Second Wave of Feminism which lasted from
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LIPSTICK FEMINISM SUBMITTED TO: Mr.AyanHazra (Faculty of Sociology) SUBMITTED BY: Geetanjali Shahi Roll No.-55 Semester-III DATE OF SUBMISSION: 26th of August ‚ 2013 HIDAYATULLAH NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY‚ RAIPUR (C.G.) Acknowledgements I would like to take this opportunity to express my deep sense of gratitude towards my course teacher‚ Mr.AyanHazra for giving me constant guidance and encouragement throughout the course of the project. I would also like to thank the University
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views of society as men constantly silenced them because men held all the power in society. In the 1916 play Trifles by Susan Gaspell; there is a tone of feminism within this murder story that displays the many mistreatings of women during the early 1900’s and the silence that was forced upon them. This essay will discuss the examples of feminism in the play and why they are important to take notice of. The play begins with the retelling of a murder scene of a Mr. Wright‚ a harsh man that lived
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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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Comparing Feminism and Marxism‚ both claims that society is split into the powerful and the powerless. Although they are two different theories and criticism‚ founded upon different claims and needs‚ but they have many characteristics in common. One tries to condemn patriarchy‚ and care about women‚ especially those suffered of patriotic inequalities. The other theory rejects Capitalism. Believing that landlords and bourgeoisie have oppressed proletariat through the history‚ Marxism promises
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Beginning in the summer of 1869 Gustave Courbet produced a series of paintings depicting stormy seas during his stay at Etretat on the Normandy coast. The Wave (La Vague c.1872) exhibited in the National Gallery of Victoria is one such painting that features the central motif of a cresting wave. While many viewed the work as a simple realist seascape‚ the political implication of the work suggested by some of Courbet’s contemporaries is hardly discernable to the modern viewer. It can only be understood
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Amanda Burgess-Proctor‚ she explains different types of feminism/feminist criminology that intersect gender‚ race‚ and class. She believes multiracial feminism will guarantee a better future for women in criminology/criminal justice. I argue that feminist criminology has come a long way/evolved with the 3 waves/eras of feminism‚ the different types of feminism‚ and multiracial feminism. • 3 waves/eras of feminism: The first wave of feminism began in the United States in the mid-late 1800’s. In this
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Seismic waves‚ which are waves of energy that travel through the earth‚ and are a result of an earthquake‚ explosion‚ or a volcano that imparts low-frequency acoustic energy. There are two types of seismic waves‚ Body waves and surface waves. Body waves travel through the interior of the earth. Surface waves travel along the earth’s surface and through water. Seismic wave fields are measured by a seismograph‚ geophone‚ hydrophone or accelerometer. These are used to measure earthquakes. When
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