The key to a dual-sex system is the understanding of gender in society and culture through Africa before colonization (485). African society groups, such as the Igbo culture are defined and represented by sex; these groups have no gender, and so therefore, each sex manages their own affairs (485). The dual-sex political systems give women power in their society verses the Western single-sex political system where the roles are to be held by a man (485). ...

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To focus on one important example, consider the sex/gender distinction. ... To use sex as a variable means to ask whether it makes a difference whether an actor or a subject is male or female. ... Alleged differences in emotional level, sex-role programming, or personality type, are for the gender theorist, are unrelated to biology & can't be presumed to be studied merely by analyzing variations in biological sex. ... Gender is a more complicated concept then sex: gender theorists claim the two cannot be equated. ... "Gender rests not on biological sex differences but on interpr...

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Examining how this victim/perpetrator framework operates in two paradigmatic examples of acquaintance rape on college campuses, this Note contends that the victim/perpetrator framework may actually be damaging to the feminist rape reform project because it relies on an overly simplistic account of the operation of power in sexual violence that fails to consider the way that sex and gender are performative, denies the possibility of a multiplicity of experiences and perspectives within individual incidents of rape, and participates in the disempowerment and traumatization of rape victims. ... ...

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The first definition, states that feminism is "Belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes" (www.dictionary.com). ... As stated by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, feminism is the "Theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes," (The Merriam Webster-Dictionary 280) and the second listed definition is "Organized activity on behalf on women's rights and interests." ...

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Gad Saad from Psychology Today states that these restrictions have "created confusion regarding the permissible dynamics between the sexes. ... Feminist ideology has made it so people are afraid to associate on a kind level with people of the opposite sex in fear of committing a sexist act. ... Mottoes of misandry such as "Ban Men", "Kill All Men" and "I bathe in male tears" do not exactly exemplify a push for equality of the sexes. ... Similarly, anti-rape activists have pushed for campus rules that "brand the man as an attacker and the woman as a vi...

• Word Count: 1543
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To make it easier to observe and understand the levels of authority that are meant here and the theoretical explanations of rights and liberties that have been already given to the "weaker sex", the chapter Theoretical Framework was provided with the theories, written laws and norms. ... Shortly, all 103 respondents were people of both sexes, different ages and social status. ... In the following chapters the work will be based on the objects to compare the level of using political rights between men and women and to find out the reasons for "unequal correlation of representation of both sexe...

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Capitalism is a necessity of capital structure to increase profits and the necessity of wage labor to earn its living: for instance sex, age, or ethnicity. ... The old fashioned thinking feel threatened with change of sex roles especially in power relations. ... It returns to golden age of traditional sex roles and sexual values. ...

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This issue has been on the forefront of college campuses the country over; this issue is gender equality in sports, introduced in 1972 as Title IX of the Education Amendments, was put in place to set standards for universities; stating in short that no person in the United States on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation, nor be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program receiving federal financial assistance (collegenews). ... However, individuals who make the move across gender boundaries in any sport are helping pave the way for equalit...

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The variances of the two sexes exist predominantly anatomical: not in thought or greatness of writing. ... But through the mastery of language, she clearly demonstrates equality among authors of both sexes. ... Today's educational playing field is more level for both sexes. ...

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She is primarily known for her 1949 treatise, The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. ... The First major premise of The Second Sex is that man, considering himself as the essential being, or subject, has treated woman as the unessential being, or object. ... The Second Sex. ...

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And difference in turn gives rise to apparent sex inequality. Hence, from men's interest and power derive sex inequality (McCullough). ... Jobs that are open to people of both sexes may seem gender neutral; however upon inspection it is evident that they are not. ...

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The first definition, states that feminism is "Belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes- (www.dictionary.com). ... As stated by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, feminism is the "Theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes,"" (The Merriam Webster-Dictionary 280) and the second listed definition is "Organized activity on behalf on women's rights and interests."" ...

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Transcending a simple additive approach to the problem of Black women" domination, black feminist in the second wave argued against race, gender, class, oppression, and sex from the beginning of their organizing. ... If Black women oppressed by the multiplicative systems of gender, race, oppression, sex, and class domination were liberated, that would surely lead to liberation for all. ...

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Such a reader denounces and refuses to accept the cult of masculine virility and superiority that reduces woman to a sex object, a second sex, a submissive other. ... In her book, Lé Deuxiéme Sexe (1949; The Second Sex)2, Simone de Beauvoir argued that associating men with humanity more generally (as many cultures do) relegates women to an inferior position in society. ... However, the relationship between feminist and gender criticism is, in fact, complex; the two approaches are certainly not polar opposites but, rather, exist along a continuum of attitudes toward sex, sexuali...

• Word Count: 1975
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They draw attention to the long history of men using women for domestic work, including sex work, and the pattern of domestic violence directed at women. They act against pornography and women being exploited in the media as sex objects, as well as women being forced into prostitution. ... Liberal feminists argue that equality between the sexes cannot come about by division. ...

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Homophobic locker culture, hegemonic masculinity in athletics, and domestic violence among athletes are all prime examples of how our society still continues to keep men as the dominating sex in athletics today. ... These ideas represent the Social Constructionist Theory, which is when male dominance is achieved through cultural beliefs that justify and perpetuate sex-based stratification systems that entitle men to greater power, prestige and wealth. ...

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In The Dialectic of Sex, Shulamith Firestone argues that "the end goal of the feminist movement must be...not just the elimination of male privilege but of the sex distinction itself" (Firestone 19). ...

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She envisioned a society in which women could be educated and work alongside men as equals in every pursuit, and validated equal citizenship for both sexes, giving everyone "a direct share in deliberations of government5." "Let there be no coercion established in society," she said, "and, the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places6," (Wollstonecraft, 1781). ...

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Thus, gender norms are not reinforced in a way that subordinates one sex to the other, but confirms that both genders are equal in capacity, and the task of becoming a soldier is up to whoever can complete the training. ... The social constructions surrounding the traits we associate with different sexes are shown to be easily malleable and do not merit to be reinforced by reasoning of genetics, which is the prevailing status quo that needs to be toppled....

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Through their writings, Fuller and Bradstreet expressed their opinions about equality of the sexes and religious tension in their prose and poems so that their readers would finally understand what women in a world full of men are actually reflecting upon. ...

• Word Count: 1980
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The tradition has not been broken by Feminists and all scientific arguments for behavior deemed inappropriate for a child's sex is used a "back up" of sorts to explain so-called oddities in children. ...

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The plight of equal rights for women has had an extensive, long-suffering and tumultuous history. Even though women have argued intensely to attain their privileges, they continue to labor for workplace equality, reproductive rights, and to overcome religious and cultural barriers. The conflict for ...

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The Equal Pay Act was passed in 1963, which "aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex " (NPR). ... However, Webster's Dictionary defines feminism "as a theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes ". ...

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Currently NOW continues to focus on women's equality through equal employment as well as many other issues which include: education, litigation, which focus on women's reproductive health options, ending violence against women, lesbian and gay rights, and sex discrimination in employment and military. ...

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As Carol Pateman herself informs Hobbes is the only contract theorist, which began from the premise that there is not natural domination of men over women since both of the sexes are vulnerable to the danger of physical assault in the state of nature and they are equal in terms of strength, rationality and prudence as far as the dangers in the state of nature are concerned. ...

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