This paper offers an overview of the first steps of the modern feminist movement and its eventual successes, tracing the history of feminism from its initial unity to later atomisation due to the conflicting liberal, socialist and communist ideologies that swept Europe and Amer...
In Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders, political theorist Dennis Rasmussen—whose research focuses on the virtues and shortcomings of liberal democracy and market capitalism—looks at the fears the Founding Fathers of the United States had about the future of democracy...
The earliest uses of the word “liberal” corresponded to the word’s literal meaning in Latin where “liber” means “free”. The great Roman consul and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in the first century BCE uses the term “liberal arts” in his book “De Inventione” to describe the educa...
Black feminism is a political and social movement that focuses on the multidimensional aspects of the oppression of Black women in the United States and other countries.
Ewha Womans University is a private institution of higher learning in Seoul. It was one of Asia’s earliest institutions dedicated to women’s higher education, and remains one of South Korea’s most prestigious universities.
Her research questions the rationality of the existence of patriarchy, and provided a historical basis for the study of women's history based on feminism. In 1920s and 1930s, under the influence of Marxism, proletarian literature flourished. In 1928, the All-Japan Proletarian Art League was ...
Within the rather liberal atmosphere of the early Meiji urban society these institutions struggled to create and educate a "reformed, better" modern Japan, and for this commitment focused on women: girls' education and women's position in society and also in marriage were the main fields of ...
Medical thinking in the history of musical aesthetics James Kennaway 24 January 2020 Read in: EN / LT ‘The future was next to you’ An interview with Ivan Krastev on ’89 and the end of liberal hegemony Simon Garnett Ivan Krastev Réka Kinga Papp 28 October 2019 Read in: EN / IT ...
Remember that the fields are now composed of "gender history" (history of male-female relationships), feminist history (feminism and feminist issues seen historically), and women's history (more encompassing and generally interested in exploring all aspects of women's past). I think that for ...
“find a sharp and economically large increase in estate tax revenues in the three years after a Forbes billionaire’s death.” Putting the two effects together, they find that it is still profitable for most states to adopt estate taxes despite some departures with a cost/benefit ratio of ...