Radical Reformation

The advent of a transgender movement and the subsequent tensions arising from self-identified radical feminists, and the question of what culturally/politically and even biologically what constitutes have cast an important epistemic gaze back at these very issues. (Perhaps even more so considering they emerged from the tumultuous froth of these ongoing…

left by the death of the president. These new politicians were called Radical Republicans and had two main goals in mind, first, they blamed the south for the war and believed that they should be punished and secondly they wanted to help all of the over 4 million now free black people. They believed that it was their duty to defend and protect the now free African American population. During this time there were three major Radical Republican leaders who were known as Charles Sumner, Thaddeus…

Silvia Federici author of Caliban and the Witch argued that women’s unpaid labor and reproductive labor were the preconditions to the rise of a capitalist economy in Europe. Federici presents the argument that women posed a threat to the power structure. Women were feared because they gained power from their sexuality, control of reproduction and the ability to heal. The fear of the power that women held was deeply instilled in men and these men were made to believe that they had to protect the…

reconstruction of the South and the United States as whole after the Civil War, also known as The War of Northern Aggression in the South. These plans have been proposed by the late President, Abraham Lincoln, President Andrew Johnson, and leader of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican party, Thaddeus Stevens. Each plan has varying degrees of punishments towards seceders and varying views upon slavery and the former Confederacy. With the late president's’ plan being the most lenient…

Redstockings was a radical feminist movement started in the 1960s. In their proclamation, “Redstockings Manifesto,” women of the Redstockings movement call for women to realize and fight against the oppression of their class, and call on men to assist them in not only making men and women equal, but also releasing women from the male’s control. To begin, the Redstockings indicate that the oppression of women is not only present in the areas of employment and politics. Women are only viewed as…

Revolutions,” which discusses the impact of second wave feminism on attitudes about women and sexuality. It discusses lesbianism in the context of oppression at the hands of heterosexual feminist groups and articulates the rise of lesbianism as a radical feminist political stance in the 1960s and 1970s, not just a sexual orientation. In this chapter, D’Emilio and Freedman rely on scholarly monographs about political lesbianism and the origins of second wave feminism, such as Myron…

Introduction Anne-Marie Slaughter is President and CEO of New America and this essay is adapted from her forthcoming book, “The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World.” Slaughter describes the international system as a web and the world as networks instead of states with boundaries. The main claim of her essay is to promote the United States to adopt a grand strategy of building and maintaining an open international order based on three pillars: open societies,…

start of the Reformation, it can be argued that Calvin’s break was the start of the Second Reformation. Thirdly, there was the so-called Radical Reformation, which was even further distinct from the other two. Briefly lay out the key differences in the three reformations. Then, more importantly, explain how and why their Reformations were different, paying particular attention to the political and social contexts in which they carried out their reforms. Also, explain how these reformations led…

The effects of reformation in the sixteenth century created ever lasting change in culture, politics, and religion. Various reform movements may have clashed, contradicted, or may have been completely parallel with each other either way all had one goal in mind. Whether it was fundamental differences with sacraments, papal authority, or corruption the goal was to place the fate of the individual in the individual’s hands. With the Church setting such an atrocious agenda the call for reform was…

century, there was a large criticism when dealing with the church. The criticism was known as the Reformation. The cause and results of the Reformation were viewed from two different viewpoints, from England’s and from Germany’s. The two countries have similarities of the reformation as well as the differences. Reformers such as Martin Luther, who led the reformation in Germany and Henry VIII, led the reformation in England, each one of them dealing with their own strategy for their own country.…