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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Second Wave Feminism"”.
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"Doing Their Own Thing": The Impact of Second-Wave Feminism at the University of Southern Mississippi
<p>Second-Wave Feminism was largely responsible for transforming American society’s beliefs about gender roles. However, there is very little attention given to the impact that feminism had on cultural transformations in the South. Much of the historiography of feminism and women’s liberation only …
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Rhetoric on the Margins of the Second Wave: Feminism, Cultural Memory, and the Transformation of the Political
… their infectious intensities, new conceptions of feminism's pasts can be created which have implications for our understanding of historical change, eventfulness, and contemporary feminist discursive practices. Methodologically, I am concerned with what I term ""minor rhetorics,"" following …
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Building Bridges: An Anthology of the War on Prostitution and the Greater Women’s Movement in Kansas City
… in 1977 and the larger women’s movement of second-wave feminism throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The War on Prostitution makes the women’s movement in Kansas City unique because it brought together non-like-minded feminists despite their differences in ideology. A product of both oral history …
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Economic Independence For Mothers of Young Children: Impossible Dream or Agenda For Change?
… on mothers who, in spite of the impact of second-wave feminism, continue to provide most of the care of young children. The central thesis of this work is that Australia's arrangements amount to exploitation of the labour of mothers of young children by the rest of the community, and that …
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Feminine Critique and Domestic Mystique: Representations of the Home in Elizabeth Madox Roberts
… of the 1960s, including the advent of second-wave feminism, contributed, in part, to the continued neglect of Roberts's work. Roberts's texts do not actively protest social or economic injustice; instead, they focus on the internalized lives of her protagonists. This internalization is …
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Revisiting Feminism: Academics versus Activism
… revolution. When we look at the theory of early second wave feminism and the theory of more recent years, the differences are negligible. What is different, and glaringly so, is the social climate. Theory is not to blame; we are. Theory is not the culprit. Theory is just as impacting and …
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Reading the Superhuman, Embodiments of Multiplicity in Marvel Comics
… well as the rise of the Civil Rights movement, second-wave feminism, the sexual revolution, and liberal multiculturalism. This project furthermore argues that superhero comics are especially useful vehicles for exploring both the practice of polysemy in popular texts as well as the ongoing …
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The influence of dynamic psychiatry on <i>Tender Is the Night</i> by F. Scott Fitzgerald
… of anti-psychiatry, psychoanalytic theory, and second-wave feminism. Such a text-centric framework allows one to turn both to the history of psychiatry and the personal history of the Fitzgeralds’ interactions with psychodynamic psychiatry by way of the archive. It creates a clearer picture of …
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Cyborgs, Wolves, and Aliens, Oh My: Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles and Diversity in YA Fairy Tale Retellings
… adult fairy tale revisions informed by second-wave feminism. However, little scholarly attention has been paid to young adult fairy tale revisions of the 21st Century and less still on The Lunar Chronicles. This study begins the work of filling that gap. Through a close reading of The …
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Militant Feminism and the Women of the Weather Underground Organization
<p>Militant feminism is characterized by two positions. First, the militant feminist believes that where the use of violence is justified, it is just as justified when performed by women as by men. Second, militant feminists hold that militant action can be justified in the pursuit of aims …
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Bearing witness to distress as breathlessness : a hermeneutic phenomenological study
… understanding has been politically driven. Second wave feminism, the work of Isabel Menzies and later Nicky James and the professionalisation of nurses have all contributed to acceptance of this position. Yet this HP study, examining lived experience of bearing witness to distress as …
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Publishing Culture : Commissioning Books in Australia, 1970-2000
… in Chapters Five and Six, with the impact of second-wave feminism on Australian publishing culture and cross-currents in the production and publication of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander works.
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Signifying Autobiographical Intimacies of Woman, Mother, and Daughter in Alice Munro’s Short Stories
… cultural movement which, coinciding with second-wave feminism, gave rise to a writing community of prominent female authors. In this regard, and although she has no feminist agenda, Munro has become a chronicler of women’s lives in the Western world at the turn of the millennium, asserting …
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The Idealised and the Profane Nun: The Image of the Nun at the Fin-de-Siècle and into the 1930s.
… of the nun because of changes caused by the Second Vatican Council and Second-wave Feminism.<br/>Chapter One focuses on postcards and highlights how most postcard series follow traditional imagery in the portrayal of nuns, but also acknowledges the few that follow the secular styles of French …
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Constructions of Female Identities in Mary Gordon's The Other Side and Maureen Howard's Before My Time
… regardless of class, age, and cultures; second, the phase of difference, that she regards as "returning to an archaic (mythic) memory as well as cyclical or monumental temporality of marginal movements" (355); and third, a trend that she wholeheartedly supports for their concept that "the …
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The radical south: Grassroots activism, ethnicity, and literary form, 1960-1980
… Civil Rights Movement, ethnic nationalism, and second-wave feminism were not separate entities; rather, the cultural work of activists was an intersectional effort that defied national strategies, such as non-violent protest and race-based separatism, that were often determined by their urban …
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It Girls and Old Maids: Satiric Wit and the Single Woman in the Anglo-American Novel (1918-1958)
… laws in Britain and the United States and second-wave feminism of the 1960s, the British and American “modernist middlebrow” novels I examine both challenge and align with literary convention; they each take on traditional subjects for women’s novels, yet their narrative strategies and use …
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Representing the 'Crisis' in Masculinity : British and North American Male Playwrights, 1990-2005.
… shifts informed by the politicised campaigns of second-wave feminism, gay activism and civil rights movements. In this context, the discursively central position of the white, heterosexual, middle-class male subject looked to be decentred by a host of radical projects that claimed identity …
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"In the shadows" : David Foster Wallace and multicultural America
… coincides with the institutionalisation of second-wave feminism in the 1980s (including at his own university, Amherst College), the turn towards multicultural education and alternative literary canons in the 1990s, and the rising tide of nationalism and right-wing patriotism after 9/11. I …
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Reengaging with the Art-Historical Female-Nude Subject through Feminist Deconstruction in Contemporary Painting
… research which is situated in the field of feminism and contemporary painting therefore seeks to discuss the possible reclamation of a space for representing what could be described as an ‘indeterminate’ and ‘beautiful’ female nude in reaction to strands of feminist art practice and …
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