Mary Wollstonecraft on sensibility, women's rights, and patriarchal power

1998 ◽  
pp. 148-167
Author(s):  
Mary Lyndon Shanley
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Patriarchal Power

Protests and Pushback: Women's Rights, Student Activism, and Institutional Response in the Deep South

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 546-580
Author(s):  
Timothy Reese Cain ◽  
Rachael Dier
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Residence Halls ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Deep South ◽  
University Of Georgia ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
The University ◽  
External Stimuli

Pivoting around two sit-ins at the University of Georgia, this article examines student activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the US South. The first sit-in, at the conclusion of the spring 1968 March for Coed Equality, was part of the effort to overcome parietal rules that significantly restricted women's rights but left men relatively untouched. The second occurred in 1972 when the university responded to salacious allegations of immorality in women's residence halls by replacing progressive residential education programming with the policing of student behavior. This article centers student efforts for women's rights, demonstrates how students and administrators shifted tactics in reaction to external stimuli, and explores the repercussions of challenging the entrenched patriarchal power structure. In so doing, it joins the growing literature complicating understandings of student activism in the era by focusing attention away from the most famous and extreme cases.

scholarly journals Feminists Versus Gallants: Manners and Morals in Enlightenment Britain

2004 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
BARBARA TAYLOR
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Images Of Women

ABSTRACT Mary Wollstonecraft is usually portrayed as an Enlightenment thinker. But in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) she denounced ““modern philosophers”” for purveying prejudicial images of women masked in a rhetoric of sexual compliment. This essay explores the relationship between Enlightenment attitudes to women and feminism in Britain, showing the gap that opened up between mainstream enlightened opinion (““modern gallantry””) and women's-rights egalitarianismin the 1790s.

scholarly journals The Big Other Gender, PAtriarki, dan Wacana Agama dalam Karya Sastra Nawāl Al-Sa'dāwī

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Yulia Nasrul Latifi ◽  
Wening Udasmoro
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
External Factor ◽  
Gender Issue ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Internal Factor ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
Rights Issues ◽  
Holy Book ◽  
Reading Texts

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap struktur yang menstrukturkan wacana agama sehingga menjadi patriarkis dan misoginis dalam tiga karya fiksi “Adab Am Qillah Adab?”, “Qiṣṣah Fatḥiyyah al-Miṣriyyah”, dan Zīnah karya Nawāl Al-Sa'dāwī dengan perspektif the big Other dan metode interpretasi. Penelitian ini dinilai penting disebabkan mayoritas kajian gender dan agama masih terfokus pada problem hermeneutik mikro (asbabunnuzul ayat) dan belum mengungkapkan kenapa bahasa kitab suci itu bias. The big Other adalah struktur atau aturan simbolik yang menyebabkan subjek terkungkung sehingga The Symbolic sebagai jangkar subjek semakin tiranik. Sebagai bagian dari teori subjektivitas yang dikenalkan Žižek, the big Other mengandung lack sehingga tidak dapat melakukan totalisasi dan dapat dikritisi subjek. Hasil analisisnya adalah, the big Other internal (irasionalitas dan kontra-faktualitas) dan eksternal (faktor ekonomi dan politik) yang menjadikan konstruksi patriarkis dalam bahasa kitab suci yang kemudian distrukturkan dalam nalar wacana agama. Lack dalam the big Other menjadikannya struktur terbuka sehingga selalu dikritik dan dilawan oleh subjek narasi untuk memperjuangkan otonomi perempuan dalam wacana agama. [The research talks about revealing with religion point of structuralism discourse on patriarchal and misogynic in three works of "Adab Am Qillah Adab?", "Qiṣṣah Fatḥiyyah al-Miṣriyyah" and Zīnah by Nawāl Al-Sa'dāwī which is seeing the Big Other of gender issue and the method of exegeses texts. The value of research takes on gender and religion with focus micro-hermeneutical problems (asbabunnuzul of verses) and language and holy book on reading texts with a biased view. The big Another issue is a case with a symbolic rule to becomes a patriarchal image on perennial discourse. It is to be a traumatic woman incident on religious tyrannies. As part of Žižek's theory, the Big Other issues contain lack meaning with no perfect talk discuss. The points analyses are the internal factor (irrationality and kontra-factuality) and the external factor (the economic and political factors). Perennial discourses make for reading Al-Qur'an with patriarchal power. "Lack" in the Big Other issues makes the open-minded for challenge and critic for women's rights issues in Religion Studies.]

John Stuart Mill Translated by Siegmund Freud

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Women’S Rights

Freud's translation of J.S. Mill involved an encounter with the traditions of British empirical philosophy and associationist psychology, both of which go back to Locke and Hume. The translation of Mill's essay on Plato also brought Freud into contact with the philosophical controversy between the advocates of intuition and faith and the advocates of perception and reason. A comparison of source and translated texts demonstrates Freud's faithfulness to his author. A few significant deviations may be connected with Freud's ambiguous attitude to women's rights, as advocated in the essay The Enfranchisement of Women. Stylistically Freud had nothing to learn from Mill. His model in English was Macaulay, whom he was also reading at this period.

The Transnational Women's Rights Movement and the World Economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi E. Rademacher
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Small Body ◽  
World System ◽  
World Society ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Social Movement Organizations ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Society Perspective ◽  
The Impact

Promoting the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was a key objective of the transnational women's movement of the 1980s and 1990s. Yet, few studies examine what factors contribute to ratification. The small body of literature on this topic comes from a world-society perspective, which suggests that CEDAW represented a global shift toward women's rights and that ratification increased as international NGOs proliferated. However, this framing fails to consider whether diffusion varies in a stratified world-system. I combine world-society and world-systems approaches, adding to the literature by examining the impact of women's and human rights transnational social movement organizations on CEDAW ratification at varied world-system positions. The findings illustrate the complex strengths and limitations of a global movement, with such organizations having a negative effect on ratification among core nations, a positive effect in the semiperiphery, and no effect among periphery nations. This suggests that the impact of mobilization was neither a universal application of global scripts nor simply representative of the broad domination of core nations, but a complex and diverse result of civil society actors embedded in a politically stratified world.

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