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    disclose injustice that resonates in the world towards women such as Christine de Pizan, Simone de Beauvoir, Angela Davis, Elsa Dorlin and so many other ones. Mary of gournay, the author of the text we are going to analyze wonders about the reasons that men have to believe that they are better than women. Her text titled "Equality of men and women" belongs to a set of texts titled initially the shadow of the Damoiselle de Gournay. “Equality of men and women"(1622) is a pamphlet attacking the opinions

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    Eating Disorders and The Stereotypes That Come With It A famous social theorist named Simone De Beauvoir once said, “The dinner table is a battlefield where warriors defeat the eating disorder one bite at a time.” People with eating disorders should not be stereotyped. Everyday people suffer from this illness, and they are stereotyped by society. Each and every single person suffering with this illness is different. Patients under these circumstances should not have to wake up everyday and be judged

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    and Feminism - Bell Hooks The Adventure of the Black Lady - Aphra Behn Woman in the Nineteenth Century - Margaret Fuller Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color - Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua Makaan - Paigham Afaqui Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body - Susan Bordo A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen Half of a Yellow

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    bias in language. The wording of such studies becomes increasingly important in the modern era, as gender is now recognised as a socially constructed concept of masculine and feminine features, based on biological sex but not limited to that. Simone de Beauvoir (1952) believed that we gradually become more masculine or feminine but we are not inherently gendered. Language and gender was not developed as a serious subfield until the 1975 publication of Robin Lakoff’s Language and Woman’s Place. Lakoff

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    Eve in Paradise Lost In the visions of Western world and civilization, the descend of mankind from the Garden of Eden serves as the prominent, underlying story of the formulation of existence. In 1667, in the seventeenth century, author John Milton recasts the creation story in an epic form of poetry consisting of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse, in order to conspicuously portray the characters and their actions that lead to the Fall of Mankind. In both Paradise Lost and the Bible

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    Expected Behavior in The Coquette and The Female Marine   In society, constructs of correctness have been formed on the basis of expected, gendered behavior. Individuals have traditional roles that they play which are based on the historical performance of their gender. Although very rigid, these traditional roles are frequently transferred, resulting in an altered and undefinable identity that exists beyond the boundaries of gender. These transgressions into the neuter role are characterized

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    dominant and women are believed to be submissive. Due to two different types of genitalia, there are two different types of personality traits that follow. When thinking about this condition, it sounds absurd. As believed by the existentialist, Simone de Beauvoir, we cannot assume an essence on someone based on their genitalia. However, as absurd as

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    A literature review is an objective, thorough summary and critical analysis of the relevant available research and non-research literature on the topic being studied (Hart, 1998). Its goal is to bring the reader up-to-date with current literature on a topic and form the basis for another goal, such as the justification for future research in the area. A good literature review gathers information about a particular subject from many sources. It is well written and contains few if any personal biases

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    Feminist Social Theory Essay

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    Feminist social theory ought to challenge the ideals of Classical social theory embodied by the work of authors, such Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Simmel. Such traditional values tend to exclude women from their social analysis of the modern world, as women were considered non social agents. In support of this, Durkheim claim that men were product of society, whereas women belonged to nature, (Harrington: 2005, p.236). Thus, feminist social theory embrace post-enlightenment principles, focusing on values

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    Gender identities breaks into two categories, “femininity” and “masculinity”. According to Stanford it says femininity and masculinity describe socio- cultural categories in everyday language; these terms are used differently in biology. Femininities and masculinities are plural and dynamic; they change with culture and with individuals. What does it mean to be a feminine? Some young females are struggling to define what it means to be a feminist. They think that it means being weak,

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