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Reconstructing The Society: Iranian Women's Movement, Esmaeil Zeiny
Reconstructing The Society: Iranian Women's Movement, Esmaeil Zeiny
Esmaeil Zeiny
The condition of women in Iran has been always a controversial issue, subject of much debate, commentary, reporting, and analysis. The Iranian women have traditionally been deprived of a myriad of their basic rights and have suffered from male centered ideologies and male authority that treat women as weak and irrational. The rampant discriminatory policies have also impacted negatively on their lives from the cradle to the grave. The perpetrators are by and large men, and women are always victims in such a patriarchal society. Victimizing women dates back to the pre-Islamic era in Iran as according to Will Durant …
Counting The Gaza Dead: False Equivalences, Distorted Dichotomies, C. Heike Schotten
Counting The Gaza Dead: False Equivalences, Distorted Dichotomies, C. Heike Schotten
C. Heike Schotten
A critique of disaggregating casualty counts by gender.
Lessons About Reform From “A Very Dangerous Woman”, Sherry Penney, James Livingston
Lessons About Reform From “A Very Dangerous Woman”, Sherry Penney, James Livingston
Sherry Penney
We discuss reform in antebellum America through the life of Martha Coffin Wright, an activist in the abolition and early women’s rights movements. Consideration of her motivations for reform; the obstacles faced by these movements; their methods, successes, and failures, may offer guidelines for reformers of today.
The Bitter Relicks Of My Flame: The Embodiment Of Venereal Disease And Prostitution In The Novels Of Jane Austen, Melanie Erin Osborn
The Bitter Relicks Of My Flame: The Embodiment Of Venereal Disease And Prostitution In The Novels Of Jane Austen, Melanie Erin Osborn
Melanie E Osborn
Resembling the mercurial, black beauty mark used as an ornamental concealment of syphilitic sores, Jane Austen’s comedy of manners likewise acted as a superficial cosmetic device that concealed the ubiquity of venereal disease and prostitution hidden within. Through her characters, Austen used veiled narrative to highlight the reality of venereal disease and prostitution in eighteenth-century England. This thesis uncovers the hidden narrative in Jane Austen’s novels, as a means of better understanding the impact venereal disease and prostitution had on sexual issues with women and the female body during the eighteenth century. Beginning with an almost comic reference to venereal …
Rethinking The Moral Significance Of Micro-Inequities: The Case Of Women In Philosophy, Samantha Brennan
Rethinking The Moral Significance Of Micro-Inequities: The Case Of Women In Philosophy, Samantha Brennan
Samantha Brennan
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