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War of 1812. These revivals led to a series of reform movements in the early 19th century, most notably the temperance movement of the 1830s which aimed to stamp out alcoholic beverages. Other social contributions from the Beecher family included Catharine Beecher's efforts towards attaining higher education for women and advocating female careers in teaching, Harriet Beecher's famous novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin” which helped expose the evils of slavery, and Henry Ward Beecher's work as an antislavery

If, as many suppose, pornography changes people, a question arises as to how. 1 One answer to this question offers a grand and noble vision. Inspired by the idea that pornography is speech, and inspired by a certain liberal ideal about the point of speech in political life, some theorists say that pornography contributes to that liberal ideal: pornography, even at its most violent and misogynistic, and even at its most harmful, is political speech that aims to express certain views about the good

When Harriet Jacobs’ narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was initially published, it was believed that the story was fictional. This belief may in part be due to Jacobs’ changing the character’s names to protect the guilty as well as the innocent. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was very popular when it was first published, despite being controversial. Although both women wrote books in support of the abolishment of slavery, Jacobs, a mulatto freed slave, found it more difficult

The premise of my argument that one would consider to be most controversial would be the premise that pornography does encourage freedom of speech/expression. Many may object to this because many people specifically feminists such as Catherine Mackinnon and Andrea Dworkin regard pornography as immoral because it is a form of sex discrimination. Other feminists as stated by Garry believe that pornography is a form of hate speech and that it defames women. In Garry’s paper she argues that certain content

Pornography and Feminist Fight for Women’s Rights There was a complaint in 1992 about having The Nude Maja in a classroom. The complaint came from a feminist English professor who stated that the painting made her students, as well as herself, uncomfortable. Another incident occurred at the University of Arizona when a female student’s photographic artwork consisting of self portraits in her underwear was physically attacked by feminists. There was also an occurrence at University of Michigan

Angela Carter is a Feminist, do u think "The Bloody Chamber" is an example of a feminist literature? "Feminism is a concept that is not easily defined. Feminism is a complex ideology that encompasses many different subcategories that are all uniquely different from one another."(Formisano,n.d) "My intention was not to do 'versions' or, as the American edition of the book said, horribly, 'adult' fairy tales, but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories and to use it as the beginnings

Gail Dines is a sociology and woman studies professor at Wheelock College. She specializes in the area of pornography. Dines is a self proclaimed anti-porn feminist. She is the author of the book Pornland. In this book Dine’s discusses the rise of porn into mainstream media, the rise of business industry of porn, the shift to harder and harder porn, the damages of porn, and how the porn culture is sexualizing children. Dine’s begins the book by explaining the rise of porn into the mainstream media

Since the release of the song "Blurred Lines" early in the summer of 2013, there has been controversy surrounding the subject matter of the song. Women's rights activists, better known as feminazis, have said that the song really degrades women and supports the blurring of the lines on consentual intercourse. There have been many petitions to attempt to get the song removed for its "vile" content. But really they have no solid proof that women are being degraded by the song, or that the song could

Characterizing Catharine Sedgwick's novel Hope Leslie as a romantic novel is accurate as far as it goes, but it also reflects the author's views of the role of religion in New England two hundred years ago as intolerant and constricting. In the beginning of the novel, the character William Fletcher is forbidden to marry his distant cousin Alice because he is a Puritan. In England at the time, Anglicans loathed Puritans and vice versa. After William is forbidden to marry the love of his life

sexual harassment Feminism issues and arguments is a book that was written by Jennifer Mather Saul. The book discusses many issues that are important and related to women and feminists in the 21st century such as the politics of work and family, pornography, abortion, and sexual harassment. The author believes that many people do not know what sexual harassment is, and they do not know what kind of action can be counted as sexual harassment. Therefore, she asks two questions. The questions are