Political Studies 109 FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN POLITICS AND LAW Semester One‚ 2013 Wed. 10-11am and Fri. 10-11am‚ 260-115‚ OGGB Lecturers: Dr. Kathy Smits (Course convenor) 1-11 Short St.‚ Floor 8‚ Room 843 Phone: 373 7599‚ ext. 87576 E-mail: Office hours: Wednesday and Friday‚ 2-3pm and by appointment Professor John Morrow E-mail: j.morrow@auckland.ac.nz Tutors Rees Skiff (coordinating tutor) Pasan Jayasinghe Hossein
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Chapter 6: The Intimately Oppressed 1. In the Zuni tribes of the Southwest‚ for instance‚ extended families- large clans-were based on the woman‚ whose husband came to live with her family. It was assumed that women owned the houses‚ and the fields belonged to the clans‚ and the women had equal rights to what was produced. A woman was more secure‚ because she was with her own family‚ and she could divorce the man when she wanted to‚ keeping their property. 2. The conditions under which white settlers
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Name: Chapter 21: The Revolution in Politics AP Euro ~ Mr. Nielsen Complete the graphic organizers as you read Chapter 21. DO NOT SIMPLY HUNT FOR THE ANSWERS AS DOING SO WILL LEAVE “HOLES” IN YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE TEXT. Be sure to include details regarding the political‚ economic‚ intellectual‚ and social/cultural themes. Although this graphic organizer only covers some sections in the chapter‚ you are responsible for reading the
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‘For me‚ the story is less a horror…than a larger than life gothic fairytale’ (Kenneth Brannagh) How far and in what ways do you agree with this description of the text? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a novel which forces the reader to question whether it is a simple horror story or whether it is a gothic fairytale of many depths. Frankenstein is considered by many critics as the first modern horror story ever written‚ and it opened a whole new world of ideas for novels and has inspired many similar
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“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” (Wollstonecraft) Throughout Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication on the Rights of Woman‚ Wollstonecraft discusses sources of inequality between men and women. She believes that education‚ the lack of women’s social diversity and a false definition of the word reason are some of the causes of inequality. So‚ in Wollstonecraft’s view‚ public education that includes both the sexes‚ the combining of the home life and sociality as
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Stewart A Vindication of the Rights of Women I. Chapter 1 A. Wollstonecraft argues that reason‚ virtue‚ and experiences are what determine people’s happiness‚ but unfortunately‚ many civilizations have institutionalized tyranny that prevents mankind from thriving. 1. “[A] standing army is incompatible with freedom” because that which makes an army successful is that which suppresses freedom (Wollstonecraft 7). 2. She uses Rousseau’s philosophy to illustrate the foolishness
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1301 Phil 28 November 2011 Discuss Wollstonecraft ’s arguments for women ’s rights. Are they persuasive? Why or why not? Mary Wollstonecraft was born April 1759 and died 1797. She was a determined independent woman that lived in a society that generally expected women of her class to be homebodies and obedient wives. She struggles for years to earn a living at the only two jobs sufficient for single‚ educated women. Always self-sustaining‚ Mary Wollstonecraft first starts and operates a school
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Antonia Parrish-Brooks History 1310 – Glass 9:30 am Mary Wollstonecraft‚ A Vindication of the Rights of Woman‚ 8th ed. (New York‚ United States: Oxford University Press‚ 1993.) Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman‚ originally published in 1792‚ is considered to be a declaration of feminism. It focuses mainly on Wollstonecraft’s idea of the need for women’s education and their equal rights to reason and rationality just as men had. Many of these ideas were based upon her
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Mark Jason Manalang Manalang 1 British History II Michael D. Hole 04 April 2013 Assignment #2 1)Mary Wollstonecraft believes that society has trained women to “act” like animals and are seen as perpetual children. She mentions that “Women are told from their infancy‚ and taught by the example of their mothers‚ that a little knowledge of human weakness‚ justly termed cunning‚ softness of temper‚ outward obedience‚ and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety‚ will obtain them for
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name of Mary Wollstonecraft. In her book‚ A Vindication of the Rights of Woman‚ Wollstonecraft preaches her belief that the oppression of women is largely due to lack of female education. Although the term “feminism” wasn’t coined until decades later‚ Wollstonecraft paved the way for future women’s rights movements by advocating equality in education for women. She believed men and women should be equal in the very basic aspects of life‚ such as in loyalty in marriage. Wollstonecraft openly called
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