Local understandings of female and male bodies crystallize the ways in which a child's body simultaneously is wrought socially (i.e. in terms of 'gender') and biologically (i.e. in terms of 'sex'), both the notions of sex and gender have a history, which is constructed discursively. ...
The goal is to raise awareness that the LGBT community has its own defined history, celebrate those who break the mold of heterosexism, as well as to educate young LGBT youth in understanding their history. All of the names of people that appear in bold throughout this paper can be found...
There is a case recorded in history about the origin of sexism. In the nursery of the past time, the newly-born baby would each have a tag attached to the caring bed, which clearly say I am a boy or It is a girl. In the past hospital of some western countries, the boy is named...
Feminism is a social, political, and ideological movement that seeks to advance the rights and status of women. There have been several waves of feminism throughout history, each building on the successes and learning from the challenges of the previous waves. Here is a brief overview of the ...
The film tells the story of a young African-American girl named Celie Harris and shows the problems African-American women experienced during the early 20th century, including domestic violence, poverty, racism, and sexism. 《成为简·奥斯汀》 ...
The well-known disagreement between Margery Wolf and Tu Weiming on the openness of Confucian self-cultivation is a case in point. Yet, as Li points out, Confucianism cannot remain a world philosophy and religion if it continues to ignore the issue of sexism and fails to respond to the ...
SEXISM IN LANGUAGE. Sexist language is language that expresses bias in favor of one sex and thus treats the other sex in a discriminatory manner. In most cases, the bias is in favor of men and against women. This paper firstly discusses sexist language from... X Lei - 《Abstracts in Ant...
How Square Dancing Grannies Became Capitalism’s Next Frontier ‘Dama’: A History of China’s Ageist, Sexist Slur 本文转载自Sixth Tone, 作者滕威,英文译者Katherine Tse,责任编辑Wu Haiyun 和 Kilian O’Donnell。感谢Sixth Tone授权海螺发布。未经许可,请勿转载。
of many other oppressive local norms such as skin whitening and dowries. Similarly, in a South Korean board game, players are made to confront systemic sexism as they help the protagonist navigate sexual harassment, balance her career and family, and handle the impossibility of motivating her ...
of that shock recur every time I reread it. The historical context is essential. With its stress on European imperial greed and racist exploitation of Africans, Heart of Darkness helps us understand the history of the country now called the Democratic Republic of Congo -- formerly the Belgian ...