Over sexualization of the female body. ... In a study made by PBS it was found that "exposure of body parts is usually coded high for sexualization, but does not always register. ... It may not be something we can change right now but it is something we must try to change because it is awful to set standards on someone's body. ... Women's upper body is of the same anatomy as that of men yet we are censored for having more fatty tissue on our breast. ... And in this case it goes for both instances of female and male rape. ...

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At the same time, the camera focuses a lot on Kane's body, studying it. Much like a mother would study her new born baby's body. (3 min). ... Using sexual domination, this showing male powerlessness. ... At the end of this scene when Ash is taken down, his body spews out what appears to be human semen. ... The camera looks her up and down, making the audience gaze at her body from a low angle. ...

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(Hansen 275) I believe that once again Chaucer is using the Wife as an expression of his antifeminist agenda by showing how this answer to what women want is the perceived answer of a male author trying to personify his thoughts in a woman fictional character. So then, we see the answer to the other question that Hansen asks: Should women reject this traditional definition of power as one-upmanship and affirm some alternative set of values, in which case we might see the Wife as a male-identified woman, a gull, and a failure? (275) The Wife of Bath is a prime example of a female character...

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.: The school's student body is 67% female, but women constitute only 43% of its athletic program. ... Unless it cuts almost half of its current male athletes, Howard will remain under a Title IX cloud and legally vulnerable.... And unlike many of the male scholarship athletes who are in football and basketball, most of these women got real degrees and planned throughout to enter "real" jobs. ... Other benefits: Title IX requires the equal treatment of female and male student-athletes such as: equip, games, tutoring. ...

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Faludi tends to look at the sexual discrimination between male and female where as Paglia tends to comment on discrimination between races and social classes. ... As she goes on to describe rape as being "a symbol of the horrors and mysteries of the body-. ... Faludi tends to direct her article towards a male/female relationship where as Paglia directs her article between the social classes. ... Why do men receive more finical aid than women do, just because they are male? ...

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Aristotle states that those who possess natural insight should rule those who use their body for labor, and that this relationship is beneficial to both. ... He compares how some people rule over others to the way a soul rules over a body. ... He states that a statesman rules over free people, a master rules slaves, and a household is ruled by the eldest male. ...

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Women who are non-white and from a lower class would not have defined the feminist need like early feminist because they know that even the males in their society aren't equal to white men. ... It considers the nature of sex-bias in a male-dominated culture. ... It specifically addresses such questions as family and marriage relationships, reproductive concerns, career issues, the role of violence and fear in their lives, physical and sexual abuse, body image and eating disorders, and self-esteem. ... It was crucial and revolutionary when women called attention to the reality that ...

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Antigone, of course, rebels by burying the body of Polynices, breaking the laws of Creon. ... When, for an extravagant sum, We have bought a Husband, we must then accept him as Possessor of our body. ... While both Medea and Antigone make protests in a male-dominated, sexist society; and while both fight with powerful men, only Medea is a feminist. ...

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This makes man complete and women incomplete. " He thinks of his body as a direct and normal connection with the world, which he believe she apprehends objectively, where as he regards the body of a women as a hindrance, a prison, weighed down by everything peculiar to it" (Simone de Beauvoir, 162). ... "And she is simply what man decrees; thus she is called "the sex", by which is meant that she appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. ...

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The essay explores the themes of colonial subordination, gender oppression and the representation of gender relations of the male dominated early 20th century in the novel, The Color Purple and how these can be related to postcolonial feminist criticism. ... Introduction "A male dominated society of the early twentieth century in America defined gender roles which each individual would subscribe to. ... The black women faced a double jeopardy: they were not only victims to the ongoing racism and colonial subordination, but were also subjected to misogyny by the male members who looked do...

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(Sidel 55) The advertisements urging women to conform to a certain model of appearance are aired continuously; periodicals feature unrealistic body images that the society imposes on women. ... Has the society overlooked the value of male parents all this time? ...

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If the book was set in American culture with the narrator's view on her body and marriage, I could see how the book would be considered misogynist. ... The ending can be ambiguous to people and have them question, possibly even doubt the narrator's beliefs to be toward the extreme of so-called male emotions. ...

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The signs said such things like "I haven't need feminism since 1920", " I'm against feminism because I don't need to grow my body hair to prove i'm equal to men". ... Just like in all negative stereotypes there are always those few people who live up to the stereotypes.In the book "Who Stole Feminism" Christina Hoff Sommers states "The "Radical" feminist believe that all our institutions, from the state to the family to the grades school, perpetuate male dominance. ...

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Julia Rodas in "Critical Theory: A Primer", "The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with a sexual outlet and exercising the animal function of reproduction and care of the young" (Rodas 2). ... Body and soul free!...

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One way they do this is by showing women of all body types in their pages. ... In this case, BUST shows that women can be independent and fix their car, a traditionally male centered job, on their own. ...

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