Feminists
Essays

The cyborg is a condensed image of both imagination and material reality, the two joined centres structuring any possibility of historical transformation. In the traditions of 'Western' science and politics -- the…

Common law is a foundational aspect of the development of the laws of the U.S. And has had a significant undercurrent of acceptance in many areas, particularly low population states where the vestiges of the practice of…

James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1939) and "The Story of an Hour" (1894) by Kate Chopin depict marriage as a prison for both men and women from which the main characters fantasize about escaping. Louise Mallard is similar to the unnamed narrator in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" is that they are literally imprisoned in a domestic world from which there is no escape but death or insanity.

John Milton's Sonnets: Paradise Lost, Comus & the Divorce Pamphlets

¶ … Brady makes are based on her personal and professional needs, a few of the arguments Brady makes in her desire to have a wife seem to be from the heart. She wants a wife who will "sympathize with my pain" -- that…

In Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler makes the provocative claim that the ways in which a human body is sexed are largely contingent on discursive formations. The social construction of gender is largely based on…

gender, sex, and gender socialization in the western world in the twentieth century and how public intervention may produce effective policies and practices with a focus on childcare

A concept is, by its most basic definition, an idea. Webster's dictionary defines a concept as either "something conceived in the mind" or as "an abstract or generic idea generalized from particular instances" (Webster…

Feminists must not blindly and unquestionably accept the terms of any debate about the differences between the genders when the terms of such a debate defined in the language of patriarchy and oppression.

¶ … Nancy Woloch's Chapter 14 "Feminism and Suffrage" (1994, 2nd ed, pp. 326-363) from the general to the specific and back again. Remarkable to me was how three generations (357) of women reacted to a complex and…