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Ecofeminism: In Search of Universal Remedies for Women & Nature

Latina Discourse -- Fiction and Non-Fiction

The objective of this paper is to answer the question of whether policies of nationalist government modernize gender relations or do they represent a traditionalist aim to preserve or reestablish unequal and pre-modern…

This paper discuses in regard to women who were required to abandon their traditional role as housekeepers during the First World War. These individuals were virtually forced to employ all of their efforts in order to provide for their families, for soldiers on the front, and for their countries as a whole. Even with this, it is only safe to assume that the conflict also assisted them in being recognized on a social level.

¶ … philosophers have spouted doctrinal differences and a wide variety of theories that tend to relate such differences in more concrete terms. Currently many of these theories are still studied, discussed in a vigorous…

Ethics of care serve as a clever alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so poorly to guide an individual lives. The ethics of care is merely a few decades old, yet it is by now a distinctive moral theory…

From Judith Butler's perspective, feminist theory is going through some changes. Some of those changes are based on the language used by feminists and language used to describe what feminism - in political terms - has…

"Beauty and the Beat": A Feminist Interpretation

This paper includes three short essays relating to feminism and sexuality. The first concerns how feminist thinkers redefine subjectivity as being distinct from an instinct to procreate; the second address Eve Sedgwick's theory of minoritizing and universalizing the hetero/homosexual binary. Finally, the third discusses Foucault's critique of the repressive hypothesis.

For sociologists, social movements are important agents of social change. It is through such coalitions that people are able to bring about change in society. Conversely, social movements also give people a means of…