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    End Barrio Warfare

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    The Yreina Cervantez: Movements and Ofrendas exhibition is housed at the Vincent Price Art Museum located on the East Los Angeles College campus. This exhibition will run from April 22‚ 2017- July 22‚ 2017 and was curated by Mariaclice Jacob and Ana Guajardo. The exhibit is very self-portrait heavy. These self-portraits of Yreina Cervantez are filled with iconography that stems from feminism to Chicano history‚ themes that are reoccurring in her exhibit. With bright ceiling lights and white walls

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    Many feminist argue that patriarchy is the root of gender inequalities in the world. There are many formal definition of the term “patriarchy”‚ in general‚ patriarchy is a social construct in which masculine qualities are valued more than feminine qualities. Traditionally‚ patriarchy is explained in terms of the household. That is‚ a woman is limited to the household tasks‚ and her husband is the head of the house who determines how much freedom the wife has within the house. In this paper I argue

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    "Femininity is thus not the product of a choice‚ but the forcible citation of a norm‚ one whose complex historicity is inassociable from relations of discipline‚ regulation‚ punishment” (1993‚ Butler‚ 232) Butlers theory addresses the problem of society controlling women in regard to how they perceive gender. Butler explores how women are taught to value the "regulatory schemas” “ which produce and vanquish bodies that matter" (1993‚ 14). Butler explores the way women undergo conditioning

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    the brains out‚ had I so sworn as you Have done to this” to later being shown as possessed by nightmares of guilt. As Janet Adelman writes‚ "In the figures of Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth‚ and the witches‚ the play gives us images of a masculinity and a femininity that are terribly disturbed." This is true in the way that Lady Macbeth subverts social norms at the time‚ patriarchal society encourages Lady Macbeth to invest herself in the role of mother‚ her transgressive behaviour is seen as selfish and abnormal

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    Feminist Approaches

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    1% of the world´s property and take home 10% of income‚ they perform 60% of working hours and provide 80% of refugees. This demonstrates gender inequalities‚ the socially learned behavior and expectations that distinguish between masculinity and femininity. The author Sandra Whitworth introduces the feminist theory and examines gender and international organizations. The way that people organize themselves within international institutions reflects gender relations. The triad of institutions

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    would start leading to his fall down‚ he kills the boy which called him father although the clan’s leader and the authorities told him not to. Okonkwo loved Ikemfuna but he still killed him because he resembles any feelings with femininity and for him any sign of femininity is being weak. Feeling weak inside‚ Okonkwo would do actions to make people feel down. Insecure people insult others because they think that‚ by making someone else down; it will make them feel better about

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    preferring a darker‚ less feminine environment. This behavior supports the idea that she is less feminine than the other women in this story. In a world that values femininity‚ Hedda is a misfit. As critic Richard D. Altick explains “a woman was inferior to a man in all ways except the unique one that counted most [to a man]: her femininity

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    archetypes as seen through the eyes of traditional gender perception. How do we characterize what is male? Let us remember that‚ unlike a person’s sex‚ a person’s gender is not identified by his or her genitals. Gender refers to masculinity and femininity‚ which are both dualistic energies present all throughout the universe in the processes of creation‚ not just men and women. In fact‚ all men and women have both genders present in them‚ psychologically. 20th century psychologist Carl Jung identified

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    ! Essay  2   Question  4   “Fay  Weldon’s  The  Lives  and  Loves  of  a  She  Devil  is  a  feminist  revenge   fantasy  run  riot  but  it  scarcely  opens  up  any  credible  and  liberating  spaces   for  the  re-­invention  of  female  identity.”  Discuss.   ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Fay  Weldon’s  The  Life  and  Loves  of  a  She-­Devil  [SD]  is  not  a  feminist  manifesto‚

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    In the beginning‚ Mamzelle is described as "a good strong figure‚ ruddy cheeks" and "a determined eye". She wears "a man’s hat" and "a blue army overcoat". and even sometimes "top-boots". From her brief description‚ it is clear that there is no femininity‚ nor does there appear to be any desire to become more feminine. Before meeting the children‚ there was no desire to become more feminine‚ until realizing what she had been missing out on. She is forced to play a feminine role‚ by cooking‚ sewing

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