Radical

In the early 1970s, Radical feminists (RF) began to explore how gender and sexuality affect the context of crime and victimisation, particularly rape and other forms of sexual violence. They highlighted that legal discourse follows a patriarchal, phallocentric culture and structure that prioritizes masculinity and maintains power distributions favoured towards men. Heterosexuality is assumed thus rape is only seen as legitimate when it involves male penetration and female sexual pleasure is…

Reflecting Radical Renewal Radical Renewal was written by Howard A. Snyder, originally published in 1975 through his own personal experience while doing ministry work in Brazil. This book expresses that the church, and the body of Christ, need to be renewed on a consistent basis in order to grow spiritually. The essential meaning of this parable is the wine itself, and the secondary meaning is the wineskins. We are to replace the wine within the wineskins, yet it is essential to put the new…

The Radical and the Republican by James Oakes is a historical retelling about the struggle of two men, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, to put an end to slavery and the formation of their partnership that led to the ending of slavery. Both men came from vastly different backgrounds, but both strongly believed that slaves should be emancipated and given the benefits from their hard labor. However, in the beginning, their similarities ended there and they were not willing to be friends nor…

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…

Feminist theory is a fairly new approach to the IR discipline and the aim is to produce knowledge that helps inform practices to improve the lives of women. Feminists use the experience of women to make research that is beneficial to women. In doing so they believe that their viewpoints might uncover aspects of reality that is hidden by more conventional approaches. Feminists believe that by paying attention to experiences of women IR theories might be reformulated and the understanding of world…

Feminism is a powerful word and a movement that has inspired and empowered many with the simple meaning and goal for there to be equality between genders in all areas of life. There have been dozens of artistic and literary pieces which have contributed in some way to the spread of feminism. Feminist literature is considered to be a work which supports the goal of feminism, equality, and typically draws attention to the inequality problems between men and women in different areas of life, such…

enforcement officers, and citizens. Up to and including September 11, 2001, the first assumption when similar events unfurled was that some psychotic person, working alone, would be found responsible for the mayhem. Not this month. The phrase Radical Islamist Extremist (or a politically correct version of the same characterization) was on everyone lips, and these extremists were suspected widely to be at blame for each act of violence. Today many in public life are willing to lump all…

Radicals who were for the reconstruction providing all equality for blacks were furious by Johnson. The Radical Republicans Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Summer wanted to deny the former Confederates the right to vote and keep them from being able to reelect. By the end of 1865 Radical Republicans gained the majority in congress. Johnson then gave an announcement that said the South was restored to the UNion. He thought that the last step to the reconstruction phases was for the Congress to allow…

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…

Tran’s radical tone suggests that she feels the dynamics of the traditional vietnamese family are being destroyed by using phrases like “The family has very little time to be together after work and school...” and “...they think they have lost their authority to raise their children.” Tran feels that the way of life is being taken from vietnamese families. The way that vietnamese families and american/western families interact with each other have very stark differences. In vietnam you are…