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    from an applied sciences and social sciences perspective, while utilizing an experimental method to understand how art therapy affects adult mothers with postnatal depression. Meanwhile, Stephanie Wise wrote her humanities article from using a case study to persuade the audience that art therapy is truly beneficial in treating depression in adults. Even though the articles have their own distinctive characteristics, a common thread is that depressed individuals can turn to art therapy as a way…

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    in International Relations (IR) is heavily focussed on women and children. However, this skewed focus of study in IR facilitates a dangerous patriarchal system that exploits men who do not fall into the hegemonic category of masculinity as well as it perpetuates gendered understandings of masculinity as powerful, violent, and strong. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a balance in the study of gender and IR in order to allow women and femininity a proper voice in IR while maintaining a voice…

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    The psycho-discursive approach is defined as the way things such as gender identities are constructed or interpreted because the society has created a particular discourse about them (Wetherell & Edley, 1999). In the lines of gender violence, women may construct their abuse as a sign of love and affection from their partner or may see it as harmful and wrong. This suggests that everyone constructs their nature or discourse of their situations differently because they are psychologically invested…

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    easy or fulfilling as it is for a woman in America today. Women were looked at differently than men, and were treated as such. There have been many women in our past that have helped shape who we are as women today. Many groups have contributed to women’s rights as well. Women were not allowed to do a lot of things we as women are allowed to do today. Women in the late 1800’s in America were treated indifferently because: they were refused the right to vote, they were treated differently than…

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    explain their differences in voting. In their study of voting gaps in the old south, Fullerton and Stern identify lack of political interest due to their role in the home as a reason for their lack of voter participation in the past (2008). The erosion of the idea of female domesticity and the feminist ideas that swept the nation can explain why the gap closed and why women are increasingly voting in higher proportion than men. The perception of women’s role in society has changed and with that…

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    Feminism is the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men, and should be supported more these days because men and women have the same rights and are equal. By the early 1980s, the feminist movement had a great success in changing social attitudes with women trying to do the tasks of men, such as professional sports, the military, Ivy League universities, high-earning professions, and the Supreme Court. Although these were a great success, women…

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    Pink Technology: Mediamaking Gear for Girls, an article in which she entails the way society see the way girls should be utilizing things that are geared towards “boys.” Her current role as associate professor of film, television, and the GeNDer Studies program allows her to share her findings. Mary Kearney focuses primarily on educating and studying gender and media culture. In the article Pink Technology, it goes into detail on how companies market their products to different genders with a…

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    Henrietta L. Moore in the book Feminism and Anthropology (1988) have described the diffenet dimentions of the women life and women studies. She has described that women are a different category different from society and the mainstream, which is why she needs a special type of knowledge accommodation. She basically described that gender is a social role, male concerns of women’s image with pregnancy and private sphere. She described that, the colonization process has contributed to the complex…

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    Gender is “a constructed and contingent set of assumptions about female and male roles” (Oosterveld 56). The term gender in today's society is a very important and relevant topic. Our “polished society” (Wollstonecraft 656) has created a “binary system” (Corwin) where boys and girls are pushed to play a specific role in society. Slage says that gender is “essentially a performance” and that “we not only carry out but we also observe these ‘performances’ every minute of the day” (Slage).…

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    The Patriarchy System

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    reserve economies are tied to the band office and the vagaries of local government” (Cuthand). Moreover, the only way to move forward with the economy is to adapt new ways in the culture and rise above the old patriarchy system, which has oppressed women’s rights in rural cultural environments. However, as it stands, Indian reservation community are unlikely to be successful since the old customs delay the new generations from following through with education from external sources, which hinder…

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