“A Sea Captain in Her Own Right”: Navigating the Feminist Thought
... gender in her day anticipates the contention of Simone de Beauvoir and a generation of social-construction theorists that one is not born, but becomes a woman, that women are not born but made. Above all, Shaarawi sought to create a new Egyptian national identity, a new cultural or social identity t ...
... gender in her day anticipates the contention of Simone de Beauvoir and a generation of social-construction theorists that one is not born, but becomes a woman, that women are not born but made. Above all, Shaarawi sought to create a new Egyptian national identity, a new cultural or social identity t ...
26-27 May 2005 - ESCR-Net
... rights, which challenged patriarchal norms and gender discrimination, emerged in two grassroots peasant movements, the Bodhgaya struggle of landless labourers and sharecroppers under the leadership of the Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Vahini in 1978, and the Shetkari Sangathana’s movement for farmers’ righ ...
... rights, which challenged patriarchal norms and gender discrimination, emerged in two grassroots peasant movements, the Bodhgaya struggle of landless labourers and sharecroppers under the leadership of the Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Vahini in 1978, and the Shetkari Sangathana’s movement for farmers’ righ ...
Feminist Theory
... system of ideas about the world from a woman-centered perspective” (p. 317). Of central importance to feminist theory is the focus not just on women’s issues but how the theory deals with these issues in a way to challenge, counteract, or change a societal gender system that disadvantages or devalue ...
... system of ideas about the world from a woman-centered perspective” (p. 317). Of central importance to feminist theory is the focus not just on women’s issues but how the theory deals with these issues in a way to challenge, counteract, or change a societal gender system that disadvantages or devalue ...
How could the Convention CEDAW B IMPLEMENTED IN EU
... covered by the Convention include political and public life, participation and representation of women at the international level, nationality, education at all levels, employment, health and health care, social and economic life, equal protection of the law and equality before the law and civil mat ...
... covered by the Convention include political and public life, participation and representation of women at the international level, nationality, education at all levels, employment, health and health care, social and economic life, equal protection of the law and equality before the law and civil mat ...
Simone de Beauvoir`s Philosophical Sexism: Implications for the
... Consequently, it is on this same account of temporality that we can, today, reflect on the history of the women‟s struggle itself; it is on the same note that we can attempt a reflection on its legacies for posterity. In what follows, we should first concern ourselves presently with a reflection on ...
... Consequently, it is on this same account of temporality that we can, today, reflect on the history of the women‟s struggle itself; it is on the same note that we can attempt a reflection on its legacies for posterity. In what follows, we should first concern ourselves presently with a reflection on ...
Public Relations: A role for women?
... because they enjoyed working with people. Bowen (2003) also found that students thought of the public relations career as an easy major, perhaps, because of its stereotype as a female dominated major. Young women are basing their choice for an academic major on the few stereotypes that do exist; suc ...
... because they enjoyed working with people. Bowen (2003) also found that students thought of the public relations career as an easy major, perhaps, because of its stereotype as a female dominated major. Young women are basing their choice for an academic major on the few stereotypes that do exist; suc ...
Lesson: Feminist Perspectives and International Relations Paper
... Feminist Perspectives and International Relations can be explained from the fact that the study of International Relations studies the sovereign states in the public domain and does not have much scope with the interest that women or feminism have as an intellectual inquiry and therefore the study ...
... Feminist Perspectives and International Relations can be explained from the fact that the study of International Relations studies the sovereign states in the public domain and does not have much scope with the interest that women or feminism have as an intellectual inquiry and therefore the study ...
GENDER INEQUALITY IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND
... more social and moral reforms and as a result another profession for women surfaced – police matron. By 1890, there were 36 cities with matrons, however, prior to the emergence of police matrons, the city of New York objected to matrons asserting that they were unnecessary (Joseph, 2003). However, s ...
... more social and moral reforms and as a result another profession for women surfaced – police matron. By 1890, there were 36 cities with matrons, however, prior to the emergence of police matrons, the city of New York objected to matrons asserting that they were unnecessary (Joseph, 2003). However, s ...
The Gendered Character of Higher Education
... [T]hey lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportionthe relations between one thing and another. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so impo ...
... [T]hey lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportionthe relations between one thing and another. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so impo ...
Muslim Women-led Networks and the Women`s Movement in India
... Kirmani, Nida (2009). Claiming Their Space: Muslim Women-led Networks and the Women’s Movement in India. Journal of International Women's Studies, 11(1), 72-85. ...
... Kirmani, Nida (2009). Claiming Their Space: Muslim Women-led Networks and the Women’s Movement in India. Journal of International Women's Studies, 11(1), 72-85. ...
Thesis paper final draft
... By the nineteenth century, it became more commonplace for women to compose. Prior to this time, a handful of female composers, including Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, and Elisabeth Claude-Jacquet de la Guerre, had made a significant mark in the musical canon. As opportunities for female musici ...
... By the nineteenth century, it became more commonplace for women to compose. Prior to this time, a handful of female composers, including Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, and Elisabeth Claude-Jacquet de la Guerre, had made a significant mark in the musical canon. As opportunities for female musici ...
Sandy Bardsley, Venomous Tongues
... to be aware of the only historical study specifically focused on the subject (I.D. Thornley’s 1917 article in the English Historical Review).2 Bardsley’s book would have been better served with a narrower focus on scolding and its context and with a narrower, more accurate statement of its aims. Bar ...
... to be aware of the only historical study specifically focused on the subject (I.D. Thornley’s 1917 article in the English Historical Review).2 Bardsley’s book would have been better served with a narrower focus on scolding and its context and with a narrower, more accurate statement of its aims. Bar ...
Fighting sex stereotypes in the lAw
... year in which now-Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg co-founded the ACLU Women’s Rights Project. At the beginning of the 1970s, hundreds of laws at every level of government treated women and men differently. The ACLU Women’s Rights Project, under the leadership of Ginsburg and her co-directo ...
... year in which now-Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg co-founded the ACLU Women’s Rights Project. At the beginning of the 1970s, hundreds of laws at every level of government treated women and men differently. The ACLU Women’s Rights Project, under the leadership of Ginsburg and her co-directo ...
Feminist Legal Scholarship
... was written by feminist lawyers Pauli Murray and Mary Eastwood. Murray & Eastwood, supra note 1. Murray was a well-known civil rights attorney, part of the legal team in Brown v. Board of Education, and one of the co-founders, with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of the Women’s Rights Law Reporter at Rutgers S ...
... was written by feminist lawyers Pauli Murray and Mary Eastwood. Murray & Eastwood, supra note 1. Murray was a well-known civil rights attorney, part of the legal team in Brown v. Board of Education, and one of the co-founders, with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of the Women’s Rights Law Reporter at Rutgers S ...
Feminism versus Multiculturalism
... debate that normally frames the discussion of feminism and multiculturalism: Group one argues it is OK for me to beat my wife, and the other group argues no, we have universal feminist principles that would never allow you to beat your wife. The argument between these two positions has limited utili ...
... debate that normally frames the discussion of feminism and multiculturalism: Group one argues it is OK for me to beat my wife, and the other group argues no, we have universal feminist principles that would never allow you to beat your wife. The argument between these two positions has limited utili ...
A Garland of Feminist Reflections: Forty Years of Religious Exploration
... the death of her mother, at age twenty-one, she was excommunicated from the Lutheran Church for heresy. Gross then entered the History of Religions graduate program at the University of Chicago in 1965 and this marks the beginning of her academic awakening. At the time of her entrance the Divinity S ...
... the death of her mother, at age twenty-one, she was excommunicated from the Lutheran Church for heresy. Gross then entered the History of Religions graduate program at the University of Chicago in 1965 and this marks the beginning of her academic awakening. At the time of her entrance the Divinity S ...
“Imagining New Identities And Communities For Feminisms
... physician, founded the NWC [Nation Council of Women] as an affiliate of the [ICW] International Council of Women—a suffragist organization. In 1900 however, Grierson was interested in social issues such as the “humane treatment of women and children, progressive education, and gender equality betwee ...
... physician, founded the NWC [Nation Council of Women] as an affiliate of the [ICW] International Council of Women—a suffragist organization. In 1900 however, Grierson was interested in social issues such as the “humane treatment of women and children, progressive education, and gender equality betwee ...
General Recommendation no 28 - International Disability Alliance
... that any distinction, exclusion or restriction which has the purpose or effect of denying women the exercise of human rights and freedoms is discrimination even where discrimination was not intended. This would mean that an identical or neutral treatment of women and men might constitute discriminat ...
... that any distinction, exclusion or restriction which has the purpose or effect of denying women the exercise of human rights and freedoms is discrimination even where discrimination was not intended. This would mean that an identical or neutral treatment of women and men might constitute discriminat ...
Beyond an Epistemology of Bread, Butter, Culture and Power
... feminists step in to save poor African women. This distortion and silencing also occurs in the dissemination of African feminist thought for Western (in this specific case, American) study. Nawal El Sadawi, Egyptian feminist and novelist, speaks to her experiences in producing work for consumption i ...
... feminists step in to save poor African women. This distortion and silencing also occurs in the dissemination of African feminist thought for Western (in this specific case, American) study. Nawal El Sadawi, Egyptian feminist and novelist, speaks to her experiences in producing work for consumption i ...
Feminism
... further in Chapter 2). So, although it may be true that feminist movements have been more active and have recruited more members at certain historical periods, it would perhaps be more accurate to see feminism not as emerging in ‘waves’ but as a continuum of thought and action. During the course of ...
... further in Chapter 2). So, although it may be true that feminist movements have been more active and have recruited more members at certain historical periods, it would perhaps be more accurate to see feminism not as emerging in ‘waves’ but as a continuum of thought and action. During the course of ...
GEOGRAPHIES OF GENDER: FEMINISM AND MASCULINITIES
... At its root, feminism is an ideology—a system of belief—which recognizes that inequality between the sexes exists, and that this inequality must be eradicated. In the simplest of terms, it is a matter of human rights: males and females should have equal access to the same kinds of power and opportun ...
... At its root, feminism is an ideology—a system of belief—which recognizes that inequality between the sexes exists, and that this inequality must be eradicated. In the simplest of terms, it is a matter of human rights: males and females should have equal access to the same kinds of power and opportun ...
Gender in Philosophy and Law
... The concept of neutrality and relationships Neutrality also affects the relationship between individuals, outlining a comparability between hetero/homo/bisexuals. The relationships of men with men, women with women (also more than two), of transsexual and transgender persons with each other are plac ...
... The concept of neutrality and relationships Neutrality also affects the relationship between individuals, outlining a comparability between hetero/homo/bisexuals. The relationships of men with men, women with women (also more than two), of transsexual and transgender persons with each other are plac ...
Gender in Philosophy and Law
... The concept of neutrality and relationships Neutrality also affects the relationship between individuals, outlining a comparability between hetero/homo/bisexuals. The relationships of men with men, women with women (also more than two), of transsexual and transgender persons with each other are plac ...
... The concept of neutrality and relationships Neutrality also affects the relationship between individuals, outlining a comparability between hetero/homo/bisexuals. The relationships of men with men, women with women (also more than two), of transsexual and transgender persons with each other are plac ...
CLAS 311: Women in Classical Antiquity
... The main objective of this course is for students to become familiar with some of the most important aspects of ancient social history, specifically the lives of women and the relations between women and men. In addition to gaining such factual familiarity, students will deepen their awareness of me ...
... The main objective of this course is for students to become familiar with some of the most important aspects of ancient social history, specifically the lives of women and the relations between women and men. In addition to gaining such factual familiarity, students will deepen their awareness of me ...
the lecture
... Violence is often defined as an assault on a person's physical and mental integrity. It is an underlying feature of all societies, and an undercurrent running through social interaction at many different levels. The World Health Organisation defines violence as the “…intentional use of physical forc ...
... Violence is often defined as an assault on a person's physical and mental integrity. It is an underlying feature of all societies, and an undercurrent running through social interaction at many different levels. The World Health Organisation defines violence as the “…intentional use of physical forc ...