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black women and feminism

1998
Abstract More than a hundred years have passed since the day Sojourner Truth stood before an assembled body of white women and men at an anti-slavery rally in Indiana and bared her breasts to prove that she was indeed a woman. To Sojourner, who had traveled the long road from slavery w freedom, the baring of her breasts was a small ...
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Feminism and the Education of Women

Journal of Education, 1976
This essay grew out of an attempt to discover, through a search in the archives of nine colleges and universities, whether curriculum could be found that was not male-centered and male-biased. While the search for curriculum that included women's history and achievements proved fruitless, the research illuminated controlling feminist assumptions ...
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Women, Feminism and Femininity

2013
Women’s emancipation became a political concern in the mid-nineteenth century. Early Chinese-style feminism began to emerge under the Taiping and their leader Hong Xiuquan who founded a kingdom in southern China called Taiping Tian Guo (literally “heavenly kingdom of great peace”).
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Religious Women, Women’s Movements and Feminism

2016
What do religious women think about women’s movements?1 What does feminism mean to them? How do they see women’s position within their own faith and religious tradition, and how do they perceive feminist efforts to improve women’s rights? Rather than neglecting the role of faith in women’s lives, as mainstream feminism has had a tendency to do, this ...
Line Nyhagen, Beatrice Halsaa
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Chinese Women and Feminism

2016
The purpose of this chapter is to identify the difference between Chinese feminism and feminism developed in the West, and to emphasise the unique characteristics of Chinese feminism and Chinese feminists’ concerns. I argue that in the context of China, although Marxist theory used to serve the political interest of the Chinese Communist Party ...
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Women, Feminization, and Professionalization

2016
Women have worked in Australian public relations since before 1940, yet their historical contributions to the industry are seldom acknowledged. This chapter draws on archival and interview research to illustrate the ways women were involved in the post-World War II professionalization of public relations, which began with the establishment of ...
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Australian Women’s Poetry and Feminism

2018
“Women’s poetry” as a marketing and pedagogic category emerged in the 1970s alongside second-wave feminism. To map the emergence of women’s poetry in and of Australia requires exploring the role of gender in poetic authorship and how the field of Australian poetry has changed in light of feminist movements and theories.
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Canadian feminism and women of color

Women's Studies International Forum, 1993
Abstract This paper argues that the absence of women of color from mainstream feminist practice has resulted not from their culture and values but from their powerlessness based on class, race, and immigrant status. It examines the racial bias of feminist theory and practice in the first and second waves of the women's movement and documents the ...
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Interpreting Women, War, and Feminism

2018
Chapter 2 foregrounds the discussion of policy impact by individual foreign policy leaders. It explores the varied perspectives toward war and equality that are associated with women in Western cultures. The discussion shows how efforts to present half of humanity as a homogeneous unit have fallen short—whether those attempts portray the group as ...
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Women's work: The feminizing of composition

Rhetoric Review, 1991
(1991). Women's work: The feminizing of composition. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 201-229.
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