
The Gender Matrix in Mary Wollstonecraft`s Letters
... existence and authority of a fully "female/feminine" subject, Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler deconstruct gender/sex while arguing for the subject's ultimate fictionality. Julia Kristeva creates the term 'intertextuality' in Revolution in Poetic Language. It is commonly employed in critical theory ...
... existence and authority of a fully "female/feminine" subject, Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler deconstruct gender/sex while arguing for the subject's ultimate fictionality. Julia Kristeva creates the term 'intertextuality' in Revolution in Poetic Language. It is commonly employed in critical theory ...
Agrippina- Mother, Seductress, Regent, by
... characteristics having her act in a regent-like role.26 Men were supposed to be the ones in power and thus there is something incredibly wrong when a woman is in power. This mention of Agrippina is a classic literary trigger of something wrong in an ancient society. It may also be the foreshadowing ...
... characteristics having her act in a regent-like role.26 Men were supposed to be the ones in power and thus there is something incredibly wrong when a woman is in power. This mention of Agrippina is a classic literary trigger of something wrong in an ancient society. It may also be the foreshadowing ...
Ovaries, Testicles, and Uteruses, Oh My! Regulating Reproductive
... consent from both donors and recipients of reproductive tissues, who we permit to consent on behalf of a donor, how we decide who gets prioritized access to these resources, whether people who would decide to donate their reproductive tissues could get paid or whether that would be forbidden under t ...
... consent from both donors and recipients of reproductive tissues, who we permit to consent on behalf of a donor, how we decide who gets prioritized access to these resources, whether people who would decide to donate their reproductive tissues could get paid or whether that would be forbidden under t ...
Survey of US History - SS3313 Scope and Sequence
... Define the term “muckraker,” and explain the contributions of individual muckrakers to the progressive movement. Describe Upton Sinclair's goals when writing The Jungle, and evaluate the novel's effect on the era of progressive reform. Women's Rights and Suffrage Examine the methods used by suffragi ...
... Define the term “muckraker,” and explain the contributions of individual muckrakers to the progressive movement. Describe Upton Sinclair's goals when writing The Jungle, and evaluate the novel's effect on the era of progressive reform. Women's Rights and Suffrage Examine the methods used by suffragi ...
Gender as symbolic glue - Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert
... Catholics mobilised1 a social coalition strongly opposed to this law on marriage in 2012 - 2013, to President Hollande’s commitment to equality between LGBT and heterosexuals concerning marriage and to a law on families in 2014 which mainly dealt with adoption. Catholic intellectuals influencing th ...
... Catholics mobilised1 a social coalition strongly opposed to this law on marriage in 2012 - 2013, to President Hollande’s commitment to equality between LGBT and heterosexuals concerning marriage and to a law on families in 2014 which mainly dealt with adoption. Catholic intellectuals influencing th ...
Towards a Feminine/Feminist/Female Discourse of Virginia Woolf
... imaginatively important but practically insignificant: A very queer, composite being thus emerges. Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of king ...
... imaginatively important but practically insignificant: A very queer, composite being thus emerges. Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of king ...
Sexist advertisement in the Nordic countries
... well. The public is well aware that they can contact the Centre for Gender Equality to report advertisements. The Centre have noted that they receive many calls as soon as a sexist advert has been published, whereupon the Centre can contact the company and inform them that they may have broken the l ...
... well. The public is well aware that they can contact the Centre for Gender Equality to report advertisements. The Centre have noted that they receive many calls as soon as a sexist advert has been published, whereupon the Centre can contact the company and inform them that they may have broken the l ...
1 Beliefs about Gender Pedro Bordalo, Katie Coffman, Nicola
... and ethnicity of their partner. Participants are significantly more likely to identify the gender of their partner in treatments where the voice is heard (correctly identified in 92% of cases where voice is revealed compared to 67% of cases where voice is not revealed, p<0.0001); they are not signif ...
... and ethnicity of their partner. Participants are significantly more likely to identify the gender of their partner in treatments where the voice is heard (correctly identified in 92% of cases where voice is revealed compared to 67% of cases where voice is not revealed, p<0.0001); they are not signif ...
Gender and Small Arms: Moving into the Mainstream
... SALW made a recommendation that a UN conference be held on the illicit trafficking of small arms,6 and in July 2001 the Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects took place. This conference adopted a Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Il ...
... SALW made a recommendation that a UN conference be held on the illicit trafficking of small arms,6 and in July 2001 the Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects took place. This conference adopted a Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Il ...
Domestic division of labour and fertility preference in China, Japan
... (Balbo, Billari, and Mills 2013). Scholars have long portrayed East Asian family patterns as significantly different from those observed in Europe and North America (for a summary see Raymo et al. 2015). Until recently, on the micro level family trends in East Asia and the more conservative European ...
... (Balbo, Billari, and Mills 2013). Scholars have long portrayed East Asian family patterns as significantly different from those observed in Europe and North America (for a summary see Raymo et al. 2015). Until recently, on the micro level family trends in East Asia and the more conservative European ...
A REPORT ON WOMEN AND HIV/AIDS IN THE U.S., April 2013
... could be offered to those who tested positive. However, studies showed that in the first few years of the availability of ART, women were less likely to get access and therefore, lagged in showing an improvement in ...
... could be offered to those who tested positive. However, studies showed that in the first few years of the availability of ART, women were less likely to get access and therefore, lagged in showing an improvement in ...
Politico-economic Regimes and Attitudes: Female Workers under
... at least some of the estimated e¤ect re‡ects di¤erential changes in the selection of immigrants in CEECs and WECs after the advent of state-socialism. While we cannot completely exclude such possibility, our evidence is consistent with a casual interpretation of the observed association between stat ...
... at least some of the estimated e¤ect re‡ects di¤erential changes in the selection of immigrants in CEECs and WECs after the advent of state-socialism. While we cannot completely exclude such possibility, our evidence is consistent with a casual interpretation of the observed association between stat ...
Analysis of Gender Roles in the Latino Community
... hard for money to support the family, and taking pride in the raising of children (Villereal, 2005). Negative machismo includes aspects of violence to women and other males, alcoholism, and other sexual partners besides one’s wife. Machismo is a belief system that either boys are socialized into or ...
... hard for money to support the family, and taking pride in the raising of children (Villereal, 2005). Negative machismo includes aspects of violence to women and other males, alcoholism, and other sexual partners besides one’s wife. Machismo is a belief system that either boys are socialized into or ...
2. Access to justice for women in gender-based violence
... individual specific attributes, characteristics or roles by reason only of her or his membership in a particular social group (eg women). It is used, also, to refer to the practice of judges perpetuating harmful stereotypes through their failure to challenge stereotyping, for example by lower courts ...
... individual specific attributes, characteristics or roles by reason only of her or his membership in a particular social group (eg women). It is used, also, to refer to the practice of judges perpetuating harmful stereotypes through their failure to challenge stereotyping, for example by lower courts ...
Gender Egalitarian Beliefs and Europe’s Immigrants
... A wealth of research has documented that gender egalitarianism is on the rise in modern post-industrial societies. The best researched case appear to be the United States, where support for gender egalitarian attitudes was growing at least since the 1970s (e.g., Brewster and Padavic 2000; Bolzendahl ...
... A wealth of research has documented that gender egalitarianism is on the rise in modern post-industrial societies. The best researched case appear to be the United States, where support for gender egalitarian attitudes was growing at least since the 1970s (e.g., Brewster and Padavic 2000; Bolzendahl ...
Spineless Men and Irrepressible Women?
... the only way is by working with supposedly male labor in the fields. She does not find this impossible; instead she chooses to do it and she becomes successful. Furthermore, she shows mental strength and integrity when she comes home pregnant and disgraced after having been fooled by Larry Donovan. ...
... the only way is by working with supposedly male labor in the fields. She does not find this impossible; instead she chooses to do it and she becomes successful. Furthermore, she shows mental strength and integrity when she comes home pregnant and disgraced after having been fooled by Larry Donovan. ...
Dictators Threaten World Peace
... fined. Many Jews started to flee Germany. Nazis were in favor of this, but other nations did not want to accept the Jewish refugees. Some refugees, including Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann, were allowed into the United States. But the United States would not change its immigration quotas. This was ...
... fined. Many Jews started to flee Germany. Nazis were in favor of this, but other nations did not want to accept the Jewish refugees. Some refugees, including Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann, were allowed into the United States. But the United States would not change its immigration quotas. This was ...
this PDF file - University of Alberta Libraries
... contemporary relevance. Durkheim is aware that the modern diversity of values, beliefs, and individual experiences defies the capacity of traditional religions to unite whole societies into moral communities (Cristi 2009:72). He believes that even the modern, atomic individual needs a common religio ...
... contemporary relevance. Durkheim is aware that the modern diversity of values, beliefs, and individual experiences defies the capacity of traditional religions to unite whole societies into moral communities (Cristi 2009:72). He believes that even the modern, atomic individual needs a common religio ...
Dora Šantić “Women`s Language”: Gender Identities and Language
... interaction. Therefore, what matters is that gender necessarily involves agency and intentionality, thus being a matter of choice, not imposed by birth. Judith Butler provided a similar yet even more radical approach to gender studies, claiming that not only “gender”, but also the concept of “sex” r ...
... interaction. Therefore, what matters is that gender necessarily involves agency and intentionality, thus being a matter of choice, not imposed by birth. Judith Butler provided a similar yet even more radical approach to gender studies, claiming that not only “gender”, but also the concept of “sex” r ...
Flirting with Capital: Negotiating Perceptions of
... emerging markets to contest the hegemony of Western masculinities. This study highlights how two developments in global finance—the 2008 financial crisis centered in the United States and Central Europe and the expansion of East Asian economies— created new openings for us to rethink the multiply in ...
... emerging markets to contest the hegemony of Western masculinities. This study highlights how two developments in global finance—the 2008 financial crisis centered in the United States and Central Europe and the expansion of East Asian economies— created new openings for us to rethink the multiply in ...
`Garvey`s Ghost` : Conservative Gender, RastafarI, and Reggae in
... and ruled by black men. He advocated for the self-‐awareness and self-‐reliance of black people, arguing that true liberation could only be achieved on the African ...
... and ruled by black men. He advocated for the self-‐awareness and self-‐reliance of black people, arguing that true liberation could only be achieved on the African ...
Towards Different Law and Public Policy
... women. It also makes a specific stipulation that State parties should combat all negative or damaging stereotypes of women and men. In the Netherlands there is general acceptance of the view that Article 5a of CEDAW offers an additional legal tool to combat discrimination against women, when compare ...
... women. It also makes a specific stipulation that State parties should combat all negative or damaging stereotypes of women and men. In the Netherlands there is general acceptance of the view that Article 5a of CEDAW offers an additional legal tool to combat discrimination against women, when compare ...
Masculinities and Technologies
... jointly out of this tradition and out of existing feminist work on technology and was clearly identifiable by the 1990s.2 This (third) stream of research tends to be couched in terms of gender and technology rather than women and technology, signaling an insistence that technology as well as gender ...
... jointly out of this tradition and out of existing feminist work on technology and was clearly identifiable by the 1990s.2 This (third) stream of research tends to be couched in terms of gender and technology rather than women and technology, signaling an insistence that technology as well as gender ...
Galtung, Violence, and Gender: The Case for a Peace Studies
... how several categories that shape and permit us to make sense of our social life are deeply gendered and involved in the production and ...
... how several categories that shape and permit us to make sense of our social life are deeply gendered and involved in the production and ...
Jerrie Cobb – Coverup - Stanford National Forensics Institute
... others who have made the trip." Ms. Cobb's latest campaign began in March, when she returned from the Amazon and found a letter from Don Dorough, offering to lead the fight. "The last time around, it was a pretty lonely battle," she says. "A lot of interest now is coming from men. It wasn't that way ...
... others who have made the trip." Ms. Cobb's latest campaign began in March, when she returned from the Amazon and found a letter from Don Dorough, offering to lead the fight. "The last time around, it was a pretty lonely battle," she says. "A lot of interest now is coming from men. It wasn't that way ...
Feminism in the United States

Feminism in the United States refers to the collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending a state of equal political, economic, cultural, and social rights for women in the United States. Feminism in the United States is often divided chronologically into first-wave, second-wave, and third-wave feminism.As of the most recent Gender Gap Index measurement of countries by the World Economic Forum in 2014, the United States is ranked 20th on gender equality.