... who were excluded by the grand narrative of global liberal democracy are women. Liberal human rights are uncertain and qualified in relation to women because they are based on a male standard, focusing attention on individual instances of inequality rather than on the systemic socioeconomic structures that subordinate women. Therefore, women are meant to be invisible. But to the different ... states of the former Soviet Union. This restriction on women's reproductive freedom may be understood in the broader context of patriarchal control of women by the "maternalization of the female bod...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... of delicate forms of power and influence, and often do so in unusual and even subversive ways that challenge traditional gender roles. Although the male characters generally fail to notice or refuse to acknowledge women's authority and influence openly, they are affected by it. The contemporary reader can't help ... that she is openly refusing to offer her own right to make decisions to authority simply because it should be respected because it is a male-based authority. Until this early point in the play, Hermia is an admirable and even heroic female figure, especially for the feminist ...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... measures is portrayed as a fatal consequence of a flawed social system rather than, as was the belief of the time, a violence innate to the female body. Manley is, very clearly, refuting the accepted ideals of feminine passivity and the defenseless position in which a blind execution of such ideals leaves women. However, ... women, adhere to them. The novel suggests that female violence is a direct cause of a weak social system that refuses women viable alternatives when the vaunted male protection fails them. Upon hearing of her husband's bigamy, Violenta is not overcome with shame neith...

• Word Count: 1986
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... , such as low income or employment instability, education levels, and perceived impact of parental behavior. Some limitations of these past studies include the absence of a unifying framework to tie the body of research together, and a narrow focus on specific determinants in individual studies that possibly ignores the modifying impact of other present variables. Using social exchange theory along with social learning ... the measures of constructive vs. destructive parenting practices. Intercorrelated variables were analyzed using multiple regression. Results Using constructive and des...

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... damsel in distress. Marxist-feminism is a also such a tale, only in this case, the aspiring knight is a lesbian fighting against an evil patriarchal system and rescuing women from some abusive male chauvinist pig of a husband. Typically the Marxist-feminist sees the world from the standpoint of an infantile mind where the father is an evil that comes between the infant and ... hero as the father/capitalist/landlord. Abstract things can symbolize the parents such as the ecology issue where the evil patriarch is found in big industry that pollutes the mother's body that is symbolized by t...

• Word Count: 353
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• Grade Level: Graduate