Literature often holds a mirror to the social, political and economic milieu in which it was created; this could not be truer in Elizabethan times. A virgin Queen redefined the role of courtier, ... herself, exploiting femininity, and simultaneously exerting power reserved for a male monarch. Elizabeth's use of language to describe herself resonates with the way gender, power and sexuality were used in the literature of the time. Marie Axton equates this resurgence of the theory of the king's two bodies as "an attempt to deal with paradox" . Presenting similar paradoxes in The Old Arcadia .....

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The association between rioting, civil dissent and protest on the one hand, and intersectional and gender politics on the other, is something which has been noted in the literature (White, 2007). Where there is mass civil protest such as was seen in London in 2011 and Ferguson in 2014, questions of race, class, gender and other intersectional socio-political ... and Ferguson, class, social exclusion and the idea of the discontent suburb all came to the fore. The geography of intersectional politics is something which has been foregrounded in the literature (White, 2007), and it has been evid...

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... that standpoint to spread open the eyes of her audience on how sullied and gender-biased the political arena is to the public. The author discreetly analyzed and interpreted the literature behind her use of terms, appropriately describing the historical usage and semantic application of the word "transgender." As discussed, the author was also mindful of setting boundaries in determining transgender ... ...

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... , thus suggesting that other factors may be responsible for aggression. Social roles typically assigned to both sexes has been said to account for the differences in aggression between the sexes. Literature and mass media show predominantly men acting in the violent roles. Parents tend to buy toys for their children according to their gender, such as dolls for girls and toy ... ...

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... freely chosen representatives and (b) to vote and be elected at genuine periodic elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret ballot, guaranteeing the free expansion of the will of the electors 1 As considering that masculinity's view of democracy solely emphasizes civil and political right which can be defined to the form of patriarchy, among ... political right, but also class, gender and race structures. Therefore, in terms of Eisenstein's argument that women's girl bodies determine democracy; free from violence and sexual abuse, free from maln...

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... at university, with a peer group that included such contemporaries as Robert Southey and Samuel Coleridge. These companions of Wordsworth's, but most importantly collaborators had the advantage of a male tradition in literature to work and study from. Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge are merely three of many examples of great male writers who began their literary careers with the luxury of guidance and ... ...

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... community uses] is essential to connecting with those undecided Americans who can move from ambivalent to supportive when [they] reach out in terms they understand".4 GLAAD's goal of creating a stigma-free environment in which transgender people can live safely can't be reached without first educating the public. By formatting the report as a discussion rather than a list of changes that need to ... ...

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... and subjectivity could only be defined without reference to the patriarchal framework, many radical feminists looked for ways to identify and develop a female culture and way of being which was free from the influences of patriarchy. For example, Irigaray (1985) proposed that this be done through the promotion of entre-femmes, a kind of social form specific to women. A cultural terrain distinct ... ...

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