Applying Feminist Theory to Literature Schweickhart’s essay is the basis for what I think is the most important issue in academic‚ literary feminism: finding and becoming a strong feminist reader. Granted‚ academia is an extremely specific subset of feminism‚ but if I incorporate her theme of praxis it can be applied to other areas of feminist thought and action. Schweickhart presents the idea of “feminist readings of male texts and…feminist readings of female texts” (39). It’s
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The section I chose to reflect on is “Heterosexuality and Feminist Theory” by Christine Overall. This certain reading refers to the class discussion of Sept. 15‚ 2011 and also in the class of Sept. 20‚ 2011. The main idea of this very serious‚ but contemporary reading was heterosexuality; it built off the subject into why‚ who‚ and how into great detail. To summarize the whole reading in to one statement of my own is going to be hard since Ms. Overall did it so well. Heterosexually is the norm as
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of Theory Based Criminal Justice Responses Two possible theories explaining child maltreatment are the feminist theory and the choice theory of crime. First‚ a brief review provides each theory an avenue to explaining how it relates to the crime. Next‚ a discussion of both theories includes forming potential criminal justice responses. Finally‚ actual criminal justice system responses are examined providing insight into how the implantations relate to the theories given. Feminist theory responses
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Feminist Theory‚ Embodiment‚ and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival Saba Mahmood Close Reading Analysis Lit 090 Mahmood looks to tackle the issue of not the cultures behind feminism but to understand the underpinnings behind feminism. She suggests that quite often the narrative is focused on feminism as a response to some sort of societal construct which allows the subordination of women. Her assertion is that we have to look at how feminism is defined in society
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This can happen tacitly‚ in the way in which values are taken to be self-evident. Who was the audience? What does the text suggest about the values of this audience? What other approaches resemble Marxist literary criticism? Marxist literary criticism often shares with feminist criticism a desire to challenge the power structures in contemporary society. For feminist‚ the issue is a marginalized gender; for Marxists‚ the issue is not gender but economic power‚ leading to political power. Marxist
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The Idea of Mill ’s ethical theory is his Greatest Happiness Principle in that “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness and they are wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the intended pleasure and the absence of pain. Unhappiness is the pain and the lack of pleasure. Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only desirable things.” Mill ’s view of happiness is hedonistic‚ which suggests that the only good thing in a person is pleasure and the
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Mhairi; “Prostitution: an expression of patriarchal oppression”; Scottich Socialist Party Women’s Network‚ October 2006; www.scottishsocialistparty.org/pdfs/pamphlet1_1_final.pdf Vedder‚ Julie; “International Feminist”; www.answers.com Weisberg‚ D. Kelly ; “Application of Feminist Legal Theory to Women’s lives”; (Wadsworth‚ Thomson‚ Essentials of Sociology 2004) Ministry of Industry‚ Employment and Communications; “Prostitution and Trafficking in Women” (January 2004); www.sweden.gov.se “Is Prostitution
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very prim and proper manner. Tim Burton’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland is a tale of Alice’s return to Wonderland‚ where she saves Wonderland and herself‚ defying her role as a young woman during the Victorian Era. Alice challenges the feminist theory by defying her social role as a damsel in distress. A damsel in distress is a stereotype commonly used in literature to describe a young‚ innocent woman waiting to be saved by her knight in shining armour. In Alice in Wonderland‚ Alice does
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engineering students? Using Black Feminist Theory‚ the study exposed two major themes among Black women engineering students. The two themes‚ (a) Challenging stereotypes by doing something out of the ordinary and (b) Persisting for future generations‚ despite adversity‚ highlight the unique‚ intersectional ways in which Black women navigate spaces of multiple jeopardy (King‚ 1988). All of the women in the study verbalized the various ways
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Angels and Monsters in Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad’s varying depiction of women in his novel Heart of Darkness provides feminist literary theory with ample opportunity to explore the overlying societal dictation of women’s gender roles and expectations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The majority of feminist theorists claim that Conrad perpetuates patriarchal ideology‚ yet there are a few that argue the novel is gendered feminine. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar claim “Conrad’s
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