Although the male characters generally fail to notice or refuse to acknowledge women's authority and influence openly, they are affected by it. ... First, it is important to point out that both Olivia and Viola are women who enjoy certain social privileges relative to other women as a benefit of their social class, an issue that is important, particularly in the context of Twelfth Night, and which is often overlooked throughout the body of Shakespeare criticism. Although being of the aristocratic class permits both women some freedoms that poorer women did not enjoy, it also imposes an ex...

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(Barberet, 2010) In essence, feminist victimology concentrates on the social construction of gender, and heavily focuses upon "uncovering, assessing and responding to the victimisation of women and, in particular, men's violence against women" (Newburn, 2013, pp. 322). Subsequently, the field of feminist victimology includes women in what has traditionally been male-dominated research. ... Moreover, it became evident that women were fundamentally presumed guilty until proven innocent. ... Therefore, despite its use of quantitative and empirical research, this perspective of vict...

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Both Delacroix's painting and Baudelaire's poem are distinctly foreign and are visions of the Orient and its women. ... While Women of Algiers in Their Apartment appears to be very real - the viewer feels like they are witnessing a historical reality traditionally prohibited from view - the women seem lost in a dreamlike reverie or reflection. ... But Baudelaire moves slowly into the interior of Dorothea in terms of her body and her interior space - first he hints at the shape of her body underneath her dress and lifts her skirt to reveal "a shining, splendid leg," then he penetrat...

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Shackled and constrained in a society where unjust barriers were abundant, women were forced to live under an unwritten social code of submission, without tasting the sweet nectar of true freedom. ... Rebuffing the usual feminine Victorian qualities of being coy in the presence of a male, Edna is more open-minded and careless as exemplified when she talked to Victor, she "laugh(s) and banter(s) him a little, remembering too late that she should have been dignified and reserved."" Rejecting the time-honored perception of the women being the romantic fixation, Edna instead chooses to seek out ...

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Although very little political reform explicitly occurred throughout the Scientific Revolution, the slowly emerging mindset of society during this period acted as the basis for the groundbreaking reforms that later took place in the Enlightenment. ... Throughout the Enlightenment, this uncontrollable desire to obtain knowledge spread throughout the talented, rich women of France. ... The same women that brought together these beauteous gatherings that encouraged everyone to participate in the analysis of unmatched literature also implemented a new style of art into society known as rococo. Thi...

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Through her (very appropriately named) heroine Violenta, Manley examines the lack of options and loss of power women of the 18th century faced in a unforgivingly patriarchal society that punished them for straying from the societal dictates of modest and chaste femininity. ... 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. ... Manley's text then, highlights not only the paradox surrounding the importance given to sexual chastity, but also underlines the foolishness of leaving ...

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Functionalism directly supports this traditionalist approach, including heterosexual marriage and specific gender roles within the household, including instrumental roles for men and expressive roles for women. ... Furthermore, women's domestic work is unpaid, which again benefits Capitalism as the female is keeping the working husband and future labour generation healthy and strong. ... Due to advances in technology, there are now options such as IVF for women who choose not to engage in heterosexual marriage. ... Certain organisations within society are still extremely conservative ...

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The 'hard' approach is primarily focus on the working performance and there is little emphasis on worker's interest, normally firm and company will pay more attention to the profitability and whole organization wellbeing, 'Hard' approach perceives human resource mainly as a factor of production or cost, under this idea, organization need to maximum their short-term profits by cutting down the cost of employee, on the other words, "the 'hard' model emphasizes the quantitative, calculative, and business strategic aspects of managing the human resource i...

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The authors further argue that to try to apply the 'Western' idea of human rights in non- 'Western' states is futile because the meaning behind these rights has little context and the values that underpin the UDHR cannot be accepted. ... Some African States' responses, such as Namibia, seek not to condemn the practice of polygamy but in fact have constitutionalised legal protection for polygamous marriages by enforcing legal responsibilities that ensure the rights of women and children (Kuhn, 2009). ...

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Women were viewed "possessions" of their husbands and were expected to fulfil their role within the family as both carer and supporter. In this play, the male lead, Torvald, calls his wife, Nora, his "little squirrel", which, in linguistic terms, creates images of a busy creature concerned with petty activities such as collecting and hoarding - thus, making us feel that Torvald sees Nora as a slightly amusing yet endearing character, whose concerns are of no great importance. ... In many Eastern cultures, especially those controlled by Repressive State Apparatuses, women could face torture, ...

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The Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 and the Rice Riots of 1918 energized radical thought, and there were movements calling for universal male suffrage1, the social, economic and political liberation of women, and the end of the existing social order entirely. ... Charges and counter -charges between factions of the Diet did little to aid its reputation, 'with opposition politicians who schemed to destroy a cabinet trying to discredit cabinet officers and their Diet supporters by charging them with indictable offences'11 keeping the vicious circle going. ... It appears t...

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She also considered culture as highly influential on personality: culture rather than anatomy was responsible for psychic differences between men and women, and penis envy, nothing more than a social and cultural phenomenon. ... Her own personal experiences of an authoritarian father who thought women were innately inferior, may have influenced this approach. ...

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Quoting from the narrative he writes, "People lay ill little more than two or three days and died suddenly, as it were in full health. ... Another more specific example that affected a specific gender was the introduction of coffee to England and the criticism it received from women. ... As coffeehouses began to popularize women protested and created a petition expressing that coffee had the effect on men to make them sterile, powerless and lazy which they thought of as inconvenient to them at times when as husbands were needed in their homes. ...

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If potential subjects have little chance of becoming ill, few and only minor side effects from chemo-prevention should be tolerated. ... Both remedies were found to diminish the threat of emergent intrusive breast cancer by about 50%, but women who took raloxifene had fewer blood clots and cataracts than those administered tamoxifen. ...

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