Among the myriad of changes experienced by Americans during this time was a massive shift in the industrial complex, a dramatic re-imagining of the role of women in society, and the development of new racisms and stereotypes within the national discourse. ... This can be seen as one of the worse methods of discrimination in modern American history. ...
The French feminists in particular construe "woman" as any radical force that subverts the concepts, assumptions, and structures of traditional male discourse -- the realism, rationality, mastery, and explanation that underline it. ... This type of critical discourse often takes an explicitly and aggressively ideological stance, stressing the important contribution of literature and literary c...
The Wife describes her verbal violence to her husbands, questions what she has been told, argues with authority and tells a tale in which victory is won by a woman's power of discourse. ... The wife justifies her five marriages using the same methods the "authority" used to condemn her. ... The most important aspect of her discourse is the double structure of it. ...
As explained in the article "BMI-Based Body Size Guides For Women and Men: Development and Validation of a Novel Pictorial Method to Assess Weight-Related Concepts" by CV Harris, AS Bradlyn, J Coffman, E Gunel and L Cottrell, "Using Photoshop software, images were standardized by adding a gender-matched composite face to each body and removing any unusual or distinguishing features (that is, tattoos, scars, or excessive body hair)" (337). ...
