... them, and focused their activities towards directly communicating with the people of their communities. Much of this art, which may have seemed shocking and new to some, was directly informed by the feminist practices and methodologies. "Throughout the 1980's," Felshin writes, "artists employed the feminist critique of representation and expanded it into a more general critique of prevailing cultural assumptions" (25). Queer theory and the foundations of 90's multiculturalism emerged, as well as many different ... critiques of class, power, age, and identity. The strategies and theories...

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... to offer a political critique of the circumstances. The poetry of Langston Hughes is just one example of someone who portrays the segregation of America as clearly as any non-fiction possibly could. Whilst it is argued that poetry aestheticises reality as opposed to recording it, it is clear from examining non-fiction from this era, such as transcripts of speeches made by Martin Luther King Junior and Malcolm X that they ... to take action against men and evils that cause unnecessary suffering in the world." By looking at documentary through the perspective of the expose, one is able to...

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... then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner."" (1 Timothy 2:11-14) Have the passages above somehow aided in the silence of women in the Church today? These passages have been troubling to many Christians throughout the ages, but especially to women in our modern era. Recently the modern feminist viewpoint is that Paul was oppressive to ... must remain hesitant because we humans tend to interpret in favor of our own wishes and our own culture at the expense of truth. In some cases, this cultural critique can almost water down the more...

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... own illusioning fantasy are we complete." This essay will analyse Murdoch's quote, which is essentially about identity, and explain how it relates to autobiography. Murdoch's notion of the autobiographical self will be explored, through a discussion of the theories of other authors, and also questioned and contrasted through the other notions of Self. The essay will also explore Murdoch's ideas on illusioning fantasy which she believed provides people with a sense ... feels fulfilled, perfected and complete. Murdoch's concept of Self was explored along with the arguments and theories of...

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... the case, feminist plays through their diversity, expand the definition of what feminist theatre is and must be given adequate room to express themselves without restrictions in terms of form and style. Firstly, the term 'feminist theatre' covers a multiplicity of feminist concerns, as seen in the development of the various waves of feminist theatre. The first wave came just at the turn of the 20th century with the suffrage plays, dramatized by the ... Actresses' Franchise League. Then in 1968, after theatre censorship was abolished in the UK, the first British National ... genital...

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... Bronfenbrenner (1944).) It is one of the ironies of the history of economic thought that this article, which challenged the whole rationale for estimating aggregate production functions, was published in the same year as Solow's (1957) "Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function". The latter, of course, was largely responsible for the beginning of the neoclassical approach to the empirical analysis of growth. Phelps Brown's critique was addressed to the fitting of production functions using cross-sectional data ... ]" (emphasis in the original). Why Has the Critique been so W...

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Abstract This paper looks at the constructivist approach to the study of international relations. The constructivist approach is defined in terms of the philosophical underpinnings of the approach and the scientific/social scientific premises that highlight this social theory of international relations. The approach is critiqued based upon the postmodern approach to understanding and knowing. Also important to the critique of the approach is the understanding of scientific/social scientific criticisms of the constructivist approach. Social constructivism is analyzed for its ... offerings in t...

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... subsidies, non-investment in education, multiplying prisons, a celebration of the death penalty, union busting, land enclosure, lower wages, higher profits, monetary terrorism, the substitution of export-oriented for import substituting development, free capital mobility, a crackdown on immigrants, accentuated racism, an anti-feminist counteroffensive, intensified low-intensity war against peasants and the accelerated commodification of Nature, all of this under the banners of freedom, efficiency and profit. Should not such policies ... been ruined and tens of millions of salaried emplo...

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... 1n 1920 for encouraging further investment in his failing Black Star Line and his subsequent imprisonment damaged his reputation. Malcolm X was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement, appealing particularly to the black underclass and youth. He articulated the frustrations of black northern community and was feared by his opponents because he spoke candidly. He advocated self-help, pride ... James Cone claims his greatest achievement was to make clear the depth of anti-black feeling in many parts of the USA, and not just in the deep south. Malcolm was strongly influenced by Elija...

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... at Point Loma University) replies to my published critique of his notion that God is the "body of the world"1 in the same edition of the Wesleyan Theological Journal. His reply is called "A Response to Rodney Enderby" (hereafter RRE)2. I make the following comments in reply: Evidence for God as the "Body of Creation" Lodahl contends that my critique of his thinking, particularly as expressed in his book ... , God of Nature and of Grace (hereafter GNG) suffers from the serious flaw that the " ... ...

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... of representation to the historical attitude towards women, criticise the three other political theorists for ignoring the lack of female political power. According to feminist theorists, power in the contemporary world is exercised by men. Whether it is the Marxist men, the elitist men or the masses of men, women are generally left out of the political sphere. Feminists even note that during the time in which Thatcher was prime minister of the UK, the restricted powers of ... local governments were, in which the female representation is higher ... ...

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... ?" whilst asleep, which is surely doubting, thinking and questioning. Descartes would agree with the assertion that one cannot affirm that one is asleep whilst asleep; however, he argues that this is the case as one can never affirm whether one is asleep or awake (the main point of the "dreaming argument"), whereas Malcolm implies that we could establish that we are not sound asleep when awake ... *. There is no sure way of knowing with absolute certainty whether or not we are dreaming ... . Of course, it could be argued that by saying that I have asked "am I dreaming?" whilst asleep sugg...

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... . Before we can begin to examine the differences between the old school grand theories and the new school of the frameworks of analysis it is important we have a good working knowledge of these methods of study. We must first define all of the grand theories and frameworks of analysis and briefly critique them individually in order to offer up some basis for comparison. The first of the grand theories of comparative politics is structural functionalism. Structural ... functions create individual ideology, recruit leaders, and communicate government actions to the citizens. The major crit...

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... 's the female is the object of the look but also the holder of a "controlling" gaze that turns the male into an object of "to-be-looked-at-ness" (Studlar, 1985 & Cook & Bernick, 1999). Gertrud Koch, one of the feminist film theorists, also noted that women could also enjoy the image of female beauty in the film. With the vamp being exported from Europe and integrated into the Hollywood cinema, it revitalizes the female spectator the pleasure experience of the mother ... as the ... ...

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... with others will affect his or her level of deviance (Hirschi, 1969, p. 19). This is the basic assumption of Hirschi's Bond (Control) theory. Hirschi theorized that conformity is the result of a bond or a tie to four elements in conventional society. As the bond weakens, the probability of deviance increases. Therefore the strength of the bond explains the probability of an individual becoming involved in delinquency. A second critique of Merton's anomie theory is that it does ... not consider illegitimate opportunity. In some situations, there is a relative availability of illegal alte...

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... words: "Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law." Kant's ethical ideas are a logical outcome of his belief in the fundamental freedom of the individual as stated in his Critique of Practical Reason (1788). This freedom he did not regard as the lawless freedom of anarchy, but rather as the freedom of self-government, the freedom to obey consciously the laws of the universe as revealed by ... reason. He believed that the welfare of each individual should properly be regarded as an end ... ...

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... , this could be a biased interpretation of the anthropoligist's work that Taussig is using. An interesting Marxist interpretation of the author's, in his words, god myth created by man, are the parallels he draws to the reification of this "myth" and the reification of the capitalist system. He states that.... ...."critique of the market and commodities parallels an earlier critique of God. Man creates God in a self-alienating act the consequence of which is such that God is ... seen as having created man. The product of man's creative imagination enthralls the creator. Man becomes the p...

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... widespread literacy, began the change towards a new feminist identity. If women in the scriptures were not the morally debased creatures needing the positive influence of male supervision, then why would it be true to say that they were now? THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION The "New Science " and Technology Age could be called the birthplace of the Modern World. Born on the backdrop of the Protestant Reformation, it was able to take advantage of the new freedoms from ... religious authority. With the publication of Copernicus ... ...

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... according to both Marx and Freud it is done unconsciously, with the help of society's influence. This leads to the theory on repression and society. Just like Marxism, psychoanalysis offers a radical critique of the alienated society. This renders a transparency of the various structures, from legalism to civilization and reveals the realities of socioeconomic and psychological repression. For example, Marx's critique on capitalism is noted by psychoanalysis as an: Uncompromising attack on ... the traditional values of bourgeoisie society and its institutions, proclaiming the death of e...

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... words: "Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law." Kant's ethical ideas are a logical outcome of his belief in the fundamental freedom of the individual as stated in his Critique of Practical Reason (1788). This freedom he did not regard as the lawless freedom of anarchy, but rather as the freedom of self-government, the freedom to obey consciously the laws of the universe as revealed by ... reason. He believed that the welfare of each individual should properly be regarded as an end ... ...

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... Today Behns work is heralded as feminist, a strong commentary on womens role in her society and how women were viewed by men during the Restoration period. (Barton, 2) Behn was able to adapt Thomas Killigrews play Thomaso, or the Wanderer (1664) with a female gaze. The storylines of the resulting plays The Rover and The Second Part of the Rover are constructed in the same manner. In these plays ... Today Behns work is heralded as feminist, a strong commentary on womens role in her society and how women were viewed by men during the Restoration period. (Barton, 2) Behn was able to adapt T...

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... figure became quickly well known. Among many visitors, there were different classes of people, like doctors, clergymen, university students, military and naval officers. However, some negative criticisms were published against Dale's philanthropy, notably from his son-in-law, Owen. In his autobiography, Owen declared that "the people had been collected hastily from any place whence they could be induced ... to come and the great majority of them were idle, intemperate, dishonest, devoid of truth and pretenders to religion which they supposed would cover and excuse their shortcomings and ...

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... from the formal as well as the informal curriculum, is framed in the theoretical context of the Conflict Theory approach, and Feminist Theories, which assert that education serves to perpetuate the division of labour along gender lines. CHAPTER 2 HISTORY OF EDUCATION During the period of early colonization in Canada, the institutions primarily responsible for socialization and education included the Anglican, the Roman Catholic, and the Protestant church, and particularly the patriarchal family. In the period preceding the twentieth ... century, various functions of the family ... ...

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... -slave relationship between man and the rest of creation. Hence, the Judeo-Christian tradition encourages the development of life-negating character traits in adherents that specifically affect attitudes towards the biotic world and discourage the conservation of biodiversity. The table below summarizes the correspondences between Judeo-Christianity's life-negating tendencies, Fromm's (1976) psychological theory of necrophilia, and Nietzsche's (1887) philosophical critique of Judeo-Christianity. Life-Negating Aspects of Judeo-Christianity Judeo-Christianity Necrophilia Life ... can a per...

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... explained in "Hills Like White Elephants," the theme of feminism can be examined. The feminist perspective shows an image of how Grete, the shy younger sister of Gregor, "blossomed into a beautiful, voluptuous girl," throughout the narrative while Gregor, the traditional male house supporter, deteriorates and turns into a beetle (Kafka 118, Straus 652). Gregor's metamorphosis demonstrates the dismantling of an overworked traveling salesman, while Grete experiences an internal ... . In order to support this theory, the hidden meaning of Grete's metamorphosis was examined to reveal a femin...

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