Alice Dreger (1997) gives a vision of a world with an established and accepted gay brain: We seem to return continually to the idea that it is anatomy, however unsuspected, however invisible, that determines all else and consti- tutes the 'truth.' With the advent of genetic research into...
In western societies, women have become commodities who are treated as objects to sell goods and services. Sexist advertising is rife, with the implicit message being that women are pieces of meat who define themselves in terms of the male sexual reaction to them, and exist only for the consu...
This refers to the idea that people's experiences should be central to one's analysis. This, for some feminists, has often been the fundamental issue. This is so that those oppressed people who may have been silenced by dominant claims to knowledge about them are given a voice to confront...
Liberal feminists accept broadly the classical liberal idea that citizenship is based on participation in public institutions, especially the (labor) market. Furthermore, liberal feminists also to a great extent accept that what happens at home is a private matter to be negotiated between husband and...
eliminating the many existing matrilineal societies across the world and instituting Western patriarchy instead. Feminism focuses on the idea that since women comprise one-half of the world population, true social progress can never be achieved without the complete and spontaneous participation of women...
that sex is biological (e.g., chromosomal or morphological) while gender is social or cultural (e.g., how societies structure relationships). The feminist movement (also known as the Womens Movement, Womens Liberation, or Womens Lib) refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues ...
女性主义英文介绍feminism.ppt,The First Wave Feminism The first wave refers to the movement of the 19th through early 20th centuries (1900s–1920s), which dealt mainly with suffrage(投票权选举权),working conditions and educational rights for women and g
The Feminine Mystique was written in 1963 by Betty Friedan. It criticized the idea that women could only find fulfillment through childbearing and homemaking (http:\/\/.answers\/topic\/homemaker" \t "_top). According to Friedan's obituary in the The New...
do not want to claim that women have equal rights in political discourse has influence or. It can be regarded as the change of “sexism” elements of language attempts, presented in English with many heavy male color example. Feminists think that language has directly affected the idea in real...
insteadof“mankind”means“thehuman”.Feministswanttochangethelanguageuse,donotwanttoclaimthatwomenhaveequalrightsinpoliticaldiscoursehasinfluenceor.Itcanberegardedasthechangeof“sexism”elementsoflanguageattempts,presentedinEnglishwithmanyheavymalecolorexample.Feministsthinkthatlanguagehasdirectlyaffectedtheideain...