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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Western feminism"”.
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A vindication of fallen women : Victorian women writers reconceiving gender.
… of the development and limitations of Western feminism.
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Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner
… moreover disrupts traditional genealogies of western feminism, urging scholars to look beyond the narrow scope of feminist “waves” and schools in order to detect nuances, convergences and relationships between texts which such genealogies disregard.
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Negotiating representation in contemporary China's media: masculinities, femininities and alternative identities
… Correspondingly, the thesis explores how feminism has historically developed in China, particularly in relation to Western feminism and its contested reception within Chinese academia. It also emphasizes the significance of digital platforms in creating spaces for visibility, activism, and …
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Be-coming subjects: reclaiming a politics of location as radical political rhetoric
… marks an effort to move away from a hegemonic Western feminism that universalizes all women's experiences and constructs a normative (and hence limiting and exclusionary) subject of feminism. Rich forwards a politics of location as a radical materialist political stance that grounds feminist …
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The sensory topography of cloth: Soft armour and worn stories
… female artists and writers. A consideration of western feminism and worn cloth further explores how the politics of wearing affects the feminine sense of wellbeing and how the sartorial can be a type of armour. In this context ‘feminine’ refers to my own experience of being female. Further …
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Economies of fantasy, pleasure and desire in explicit sex films
… film has become the focus for heated debate in Western feminism in the last twenty years. This debate has become polarised into pro and anti-censorship positions through the alignment of the representation of explicit sex to issues such as positive representation and freedom to explore different …
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A feminist critique of the image of woman in the prose works of selected Xhosa writers (1909 - 1980)
… relation to the Xhosa woman's attitude towards Western feminism: while many Xhosa women feel justifiably unhappy about male dominance, they refuse to let their frustrations affect their unity with men in the greater struggle against racism. Although the study concludes on an anti-climactic note …