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    where it is media causing a negative problem about women is where feminine beauty are presented in almost all forms of popular media, barraging women with images that expose what is considered to be the "ideal body.” So, that means it is called Feminism. There is another name is Feminist, which a person 's belief that women are and should be treated as

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    Sarah Lucas is an English sculptor, installation artist and photographer who gained fame as one of the major Young British Artists during the 1990s, with a series of highly provocative work. Lucas began in the early 1990s by using furniture as a representation of the human body, usually with crude genital connotations, adopting the methods of Pop Art, Conceptualism and Minimalism, amongst others. In the piece entitled ‘Bitch, 1995’ she uses a table, t-shirt, melons and vacuum-packed smoked fish to

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    In the U.S and most developed countries, women have gone far in fighting for their equal rights. The movement continues today and as more and more women are call upon to be aware of their roles in the society. However, the force of masculine force is still dominated and make it hard for women. Some complain and doubt that feminists have cross the line which thrown the society to another extreme, putting male into discrimination, demanding a retrivition of their male power. Sheryl Sandberg, American

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    Global Gender Inequality Issues Continuing Problem Gains and Progress More than 110 million children in the world are not in school. Among them two third of it accounts for girls. Some of the developing countries including Jamaica, Philippines and South Africa has worked on gender inequalities and made such policies that women literacy rate has gone higher. Women represents an average of less than 10% in the parliaments of various countries around the world. In 2005 Iraqi government decided that

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    This paper will address and define the social philosophies on the Race Theory and feminism approaches. These theories will be explained of how it is understood, compared and contrasted through examples of social justice, and examples of injustice. The Race theory is viewed as a self-conscious way of thinking. It is referred to as ideas of human differences beginning from ancient times to today. Racism is made up of practices and commitments deriving from racial hierarchies. However, the thought

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    Forty-three years. That’s how long women have had equality in education and sports. Due to the passage of Title IX, also known as one of the Education Amendments of 1972, it is illegal for educational institutions to discriminate on the basis of sex which includes all academic and extra-curricular programs such as sports. Title IX explicitly gives women equal rights, stating “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or

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    In the film Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) the viewers are thrust into the world of Evelyn Couch, a middle class southern female suffering from what Carole Counihan would diagnose as obesity- an obsession with fat - manifested by distorting one’s body with the intent to violet culture standards in order to escape from an unhappy life. Through Evelyn’s meeting with Ninny Threadgood we become aware that Director Jon Avent, via his main characters roles and relationships to food, brings awareness to the

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    Though Bartkey’s argument demonstrates logic and cohesive arguments, she fails to impress readers with her solution to end the legacy of the docile women. Sandra Bartkey commences her argument with an introduction to Michel Foucault. She explains how Foucault demonstrates the presence of self-policing in society through the usage of the Panopticon. The Panopticon is a prison where there stands one central guard tower and rows of prison cells surrounding the tower. Sunlight shines into the cells

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    Discuss the Importance of the family in society The family is a unit which in itself serves a different purpose in society, although the unit actually stays the same its functions vary depending on which sociological theory it is being perceived from. This essay intends to discuss the importance of the family in society using theories and studies to support this, and will look at the family according to the functionalist theory, the Marxist theory, and the feminist theory. It will look at how gender

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    movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians”. As expected, this quote has caused a widespread uproar in the feminist community. The false statement denounces feminism as a whole. Feminism’s main purpose is to achieve equality for women in all

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