Definition This brings us to the definition of feminist literary criticism. ... Well, it can be stated as a criticism advocating equal rights for women in a political, economic, social, psychological, personal, and aesthetic sense. ... The object is to provide a critique of phallocentric assumptions and an analysis of patriarchal visions or ideologies inscribed in a literature that is male-centered and male-dominated. ... 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 contin...

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Through this analysis it addresses the intersections of oppressive systems without rank ordering toward effective strategies to promote social justice. ... To facilitate analysis one has to ask many questions in understanding race, class, gender, and Sexuality. ... Title for these materials is in the process of passing to the Pennsylvania State University Libraries. ... Burkes stated " throughout his entire history has dreamed of full presence, the reassuring foundation, the origin and the end of play". (# 4) The critical side of the analysis with the enveloping discourses; attempting to mar...

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As defined by David Harvey in "A Brief History of Neoliberalism", neoliberalism is a "theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being can be best advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms"(2). ... Calling this the "market-dominant minority"", Chua compliments Harvey's analysis of globalization raising cultural and class consequences through examples of rich ethnic minorities of countries like The Philippines, China, etc. that wield significant economic power over the ethnic majority. Saskia Sassen in her piece "Toward a Feminist Analytics of the...

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Her audiences" background in basic psychology is important because the proof of her argument is based mostly on psychological theories such as Freud's psychoanalysis, structuralism and semiotics. ... Because the article was published in 1993 in and anthology of film criticism called Film Theory Goes to the Movies, many of the original audience probably were readers interested in film. ... With a feminist bias she practically rages against Disney's version of the story stating, "The films depiction of the little mermaid as little more that a happy housewife in the making"(White, ...

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The doctoral program in educational technology at Iowa State University is one example of this type of specialized program. ... Research was quantitative, it involved a research design (often control-experimental group or correlational), and it was done to support a particular theory (Willis, Jost, and Wright, 1999). ... We argue that there are three predominant research paradigms in the field today: (a) empiricism, (b) critical theory, and (c) interpretivism (see Guba & Lincoln, 1994, for a discussion of a similar framework). ... Although empirical-research reports are typically quantitativ...

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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the global feminist social movement worked to introduce this idea to the human rights community and by the early years of the 21st century, succeeded in establishing the right to protection from gender violence as a core dimension of women's human rights. ... In the late 1980s and early 1990s, feminist movements in Europe, the United States, Australia (Silard 1994), Argentina (Oller 1994), Brazil (Thomas 1994), India (Bush 1992), the Virgin Islands (Morrow 1994) and many other parts of the world developed strategies to protect women from violence in th...

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In 1926, the New York Times published a review of "The Sun Also Rises", stating that Hemingway's writing was so compelling, so lasting in the American psyche that "No amount of analysis can convey the quality of "The Sun Also Rises." ... (Marital) This too is a suggestion of the mastery of the English language demonstrated in the works of Ernest Hemingway: the ability to say things without actually stating them, the power of the unspoken word. ... (Fishkin 140-141) It was not just an attention to detail and a talent for brevity that Hemingway learned from his time as a newspaper man, it ...

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