Nikki Serrani (998042871) VIC343Y: Sex and Gender in the Renaissance Professor Konrad Eisenbichler March 19th‚ 2015 “For if the imagination does have any power in such matters‚ in girls it dwells so constantly and so forcefully on sex that it can […] more easily make that male organ into a part of their bodies.” (Michel de Montaigne) Word Count: 1471 Michel de Montaigne is one of the most important philosophers of the Renaissance era. Montaigne was born on February
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Feminist Theory‚ Embodiment‚ and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival Saba Mahmood University of Chicago In the last two decades one of the key questions that has occupied many feminist theorists is how should issues of historical and cultural specificity inform both the analytics and politics of any feminist project. Although this questioning has resulted in serious attempts at integrating issues of sexual‚ racial‚ class‚ and national difference within feminist
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University of Waterloo Department of Drama and Speech Communication SPCOM 401 Gender‚ Communication and Culture Fall 2014 Tuesdays 2:30-5:20 ML 117 Instructor Information Instructor: Dr. Shana MacDonald Office: ML 254A Office Phone: x 35157 Office Hours: Thursdays 3:00-4:00pm Email: shana.macdonald@uwaterloo.ca Course Description In this course students examine multiple relationships between communication and gender. The class emphasizes how communication creates gender and gendered
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Ancient‚ medieval and early modern * Hammurabi (died c. 1750 BCE) * Confucius (551-479 BCE) * Socrates (470-399 BCE) * Mozi (470-390 BCE) * Xenophon (427-355 BCE) * Plato (427-347 BCE) * Diogenes of Sinope (412-323 BCE) * Aeschines (389-314 BCE) * Aristotle (384-322 BCE) * Mencius (372-289 BCE) * Chanakya (350-283 BCE) * Xun Zi (310-237 BCE) * Thiruvalluvar (c. 200 BCE-c. 30 BCE) * Han Feizi (?-233 BCE) * Cicero (106-43 BCE) * Pliny the Younger (63-113 CE) * Saint
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Bibliography: * Angela McRobbie‚ (1994). Postmodernism and Popular Culture‚ Routledge * Catwoman Dialogue‚ (2004) Warner Bros and Villiage Roadshow. * Judith Butler‚ (1990). Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity‚ Routledge‚ London. * Kevin Maher‚ (2005) ‘A hard woman is good to find’ The Times article. * Laura Mulvey‚ (1975). Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema * D.B Dowd Todd * Lillian
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as the social patterns and diverse sexism‚ are topics brought to the attention in the recording. The social expectations for specific gender roles vary across and within cultures‚ also making it difficult of define differences between genders. Judith Butler is used in reference in the podcast‚ quoting her in summary; maybe all of these traits amongst different cultures and social expectations could be related and actually be more in common than we
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“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself” - Rita Mae Brown. This quote by Rita Mae accurately depicts the current situation our society is in. Everyone is plagued with the idea that if you are not accepted into the “elite” circle of society you become inclined to follow their every command even if there are little to no benefits that come with following them‚ unfortunately‚ there are those who do not fall prey to Society and are deemed unworthy and different.
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Sociology http://soc.sagepub.com/ The Embodiment of Caste : Oppression‚ Protest and Change Hugo Gorringe and Irene Rafanell Sociology 2007 41: 97 DOI: 10.1177/0038038507074721 The online version of this article can be found at: http://soc.sagepub.com/content/41/1/97 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: British Sociological Association Additional services and information for Sociology can be found at: Email Alerts: http://soc.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions:
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Janeiro‚ v. 24‚ p. 35-61‚ 2002. FOUCAULT‚ Michel. Governmentality. In: BURCHELL‚ Graham; GORDON‚ Colin; MILLER‚ Peter Miller (Eds.). The Foucault Effect: Studies in governmentality. Harvester Wheatsheaf. Chicago: University of Chicago Press‚ 1991. _____. About the beginning of the hermeneutics of the self‚ edited by Mark Blasius‚ Political Theory‚ Evanston‚ v. 21‚ n. 2‚ p. 198-227‚ May 1993. _____. The birth of biopolitics. In: RABINOW‚ Paul (Ed.). Michel Foucault‚ Ethics: Subjectivity and truth
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The existence of alien and intolerable behavior generates fear into society’s mentality of the expected conduct. But does the ‘queer’ lurk under the bed? Or is it a part of all of us? The classic text “Dracula”‚ written by Bram Stoker‚ is valuable in understanding the course of society in its exploration of tabooed acts and mentalities‚ supported by the “Queer Theory” prevalent in the mid 1900’s. Although the queer theory describes the author’s subconscious drive for homosexual and feministic expression
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