Foot binding

Deflating queerness Before contesting the conceptual claim, it would be pertinent to clarify the types of value that are considered by Mackie tout court. Subsequently, the following criteria will be used as a guide by which to assess the plausibility of Mackie’s conceptual claim. The following represents what shall be referred to as the Mackiean moral value criterion (MMV) and includes the following options; MMV 1. MV is true of x, regardless of x’s desires, purpose, motivation and reasons…

When something large and complex is being examined different groups will often interpret it in different ways because of their perspective. This is displayed in the story of the four blind men who all are asked to describe an elephant and each touch a different part of the elephant and try to describe the whole animal based on the perspective they have. The history of China has fallen victim to this. The Communist Party in China sets up the idea that china was divided into different classes…

The Civil Rights Movement – a time period in recent American history that was the turning point for a large minority group. For the first time, African Americans were demanding rights equal to those of their white counterparts. There were a few factors that contributed to this gross change in dynamic; one of the most prevalent was the sociological perspective of conflict theory. Conflict theory – derived from Karl Marx’s ideology that social inequality is created by conflict over access to…

163 Million Missing Women Global gender imbalance will have devastating consequences for future generations. In order to alter these consequences, there must be global campaigns and open dialogue on the eradication of female gendercide. In Mara Hvistendahl essay, “Missing: 163 Million Women”, it displays the skewed ratio of males to females. Applying Kwame Anthony’s Appiah’s cosmopolitanism to Hvistendahl’s essay, it can reduce and bring awareness to the gender imbalance. As nations develop,…

roles of women were the three obedience, having a son, lotus feet (foot binding), child marriage, and concubines and prostitutes. Women were regarded as inferior to men. Daughters had to be obedient to their fathers, wives to their husbands and old women to their son. Women's main job in the household was to have a son to continue the generations. Some baby girls were killed or abandoned, but the Communist banned this act. Foot binding, also known as the "three-inch golden lilies" was a common…

around the globe. If we were to travel to China during the 10th century we would have seen many women practicing foot binding. During those times that was their norm and it was their beauty standard. As Americans looking in, we would not have been able to do anything about their customs because that is what they believed was the right thing to do in order to marry well. The Chinese foot binding is their cultural…

regardless of the absurdity. Traditions alter and mold one’s core life decisions. For the Chinese, these practices range from a variety of superstitious beliefs such as a compatibility test between horoscopes and names or an oppressive belief such as foot binding. Bound Feet and Western Dress, written by Pang Mei Natasha Chang, is a memoir that exposes the effect these traditions have on the evolving Chinese population during the early twentieth century. In Pang-Mei Chang’s novel, readers are…

A films classification as a specific genre is dependent whether it is able to meet the expectations in which the audience expects. According to Ed Sikov’s Film Studies: An Introduction, “[g]enres rely on repetition and variation [of conventions] rather than uniqueness--familiar, recognizable conventions rather than raw, pure inventions” (143). There are numerous genres and subgenres in which films are able to be classified as depending on their elements. Both Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern…

stipulations as well as specific stipulations. The Beckman Hittite treaty and Deuteronomy both hold sections that speak of witnesses. This is significant because these sections identify the god(s) that have watched the oath take place, speaking to the binding, legal nature of both biblical covenants and Hittite treaties. Both documents possess segments devoted to curses and blessings. This portion of the deal is significant because it establishes how a particular god was going to respond if…

gaze and giving them a false sense of power. Part of this sense of enslavement is the idea that women are forced by social dictates to adopt certain fashions…high heels and feminine dress are in the same categories as purdah, rape, veiling, and foot binding” (Reger, 346) Her point is that women feel external pressure to look certain way and fashion, or in this case lack thereof, is another way to take away a women’s autonomy. These advertisements are already sexual in the way that the women…