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    Masculinities. As the recently-concluded 2016 Presidential Election has revealed, what it means to be Men in the United States (if not the West/Global North) resonates with political volatility. While this particular debate has yielded many a now-ubiquitous theory – hegemonic masculinity (Connell), Structured Action (Messerschmidt), inclusivity (Anderson), female masculinity (Halberstam), manhood acts (Schrock/Schwalbe),…

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    Agency and Empowerment through Sexuality: A Feminist Critique of Garbiel García Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez’s novella, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, tells the disjointed story of a murder that took place many years prior to its narration. The identity of the victim is Santiago Nasar; a handsome, wealthy, and young Arab man. He is murdered because a young woman names him as her partner when she is disgracefully returned to her parents’ home on her wedding…

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    several identifiable sociological theories and perspectives that are reflected in the way we understand domestic violence as a society, and in how we address it as an legal issue. As outlined earlier, this paper focuses on domestic violence against women, predominantly by men, in order to offer more specific insight into the issue. As a result of this focus, the theories explored will focus on a feminist theoretical perspective, although other sociological theories will be drawn on through…

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    Chapter One 1. Describe how a feminist approach to research differs from traditional approaches. A feminist approach to research differs from traditional approaches in several ways. For example, a feminist approach research is often with female lives as the main topic of interest. Furthermore, feminist research usually emphasizes women studies and social activism. Traditional approaches to research usually research a variety of topics not specific to women. 2. Give two examples of…

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    decades, there has been development of a new discourse associated with gender relations, that being third wave feminism, which has come to rise through the decentering of second wave feminism (Mann & Huffman, 2005). When examining contemporary feminist theory, there is now a collective understanding that women’s lives are constructed by multiple, interrelating systems of oppression, which include gender, race and class (Carastaths, 2014). Although originally published in 1981, the anthology This…

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    sociology theories and combine them into the adult education topic. However Mezirow’s work provided a detailed theoretical foundation unparalleled in our field to explain and justify his theory. It comes from one of the adult education academician which is rare occurrence.(Hoggan,2015). In mid 1970’s the women’s liberation movement had been in the media. Women’s re-entry programs increased across the United States. This movement made contribution to Mezirow’s transformative learning theory.…

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    They are, the functionalist theory, liberal, feminist, radical feminist, black feminist, and postmodern feminist theories. Each of these theories seeks to address the causes of gender inequality and mitigate it but they each go about it in a different way. Out of these theories the liberal feminist theory is most appealing. Although gender inequality has roots in the home through means such as strict patriarchies,…

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    center has heightened my focus on systems theory and feminist theory. Dominellie (2002), defines feminist social work as a practice that incorporates women’s experience of the world as a starting point. Feminist theory focuses on the links between a woman’s position in society and her individual predicament, it responds to her specific needs, addresses structural inequalities and creates egalitarian relationships in social worker interactions. Under feminist theory social work with children and…

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    contributions to feminist social work practice through the development of a code for women-centred practice. Purpose This approach contributes, explains and responds to the…

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    why is it that people in today’s world look down upon feminists? Why is it that the concept of Feminism, which was originally meant to be a ‘good thing’, got such a bad press in the recent times? They say that half knowledge is dangerous and that seems to be the case here. Most people simply do not know what Feminism is. They only assume that they do, based on…

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