Media Presentation Feminist Theory Introduction * Feminist in the 1960’s and 1970’s was brought to address inequalities related to female/male gender roles. * Promotes equality for both male and female in political‚ economic‚ and social issues. * Believes women are oppressed due to their sex based. * Social division benefits for men. * Women in the media are representation of “domestic way of living”. Laura Mulvey (1975) * Women are represented in which media emphasis
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Feminist Theory‚ Embodiment‚ and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival Saba Mahmood Close Reading Analysis Lit 090 Mahmood looks to tackle the issue of not the cultures behind feminism but to understand the underpinnings behind feminism. She suggests that quite often the narrative is focused on feminism as a response to some sort of societal construct which allows the subordination of women. Her assertion is that we have to look at how feminism is defined in society
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Searching for the Sane Society‚ Erich Fromm’s Contributions to Social Theory‚ Javnost the Public. (13) 7- 16. Chamorro‚ R Dohnt‚ H.‚ Tiggmann‚ M.(2006). The contributuion of Peer and Media influence to the Development of Body Satisfaction and Self Esteem in Young Girls‚ Developmental Psychology‚ (42) 929- 936. Fromm‚ E. The Sane Society 1956‚ with new introduction by David Ingrety.‚ Routledge London‚ 1991. Gleason‚ J Hiripi‚E. Harrisson‚ G.(2007).The Prevalence and Correlates of Eating Disorders
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The Principal Agent-Theory as a base for the organization of company innovation process There are many settings in which one economic actor (the principal) delegates authority and/or responsibilities to an agent to act on his behalf. The primary reason for doing so is that the agent has an advantage in terms of expertise or information. This informational advantage‚ or information asymmetry‚ poses a problem for the principal—how can the principal be sure that the agent has in fact acted in her
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Separating Theory from Practice By: Coretta Hudson Capella University Principal-agent problem is a particular game-theoretic description of a situation. There is a player called a principal‚ and one or more other players called agents with utility functions that are in some sense different from the principal’s. The principal can act more effectively through the agents than directly‚ and must construct incentive schemes to get them to behave at least partly according
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/fem-stan/ Feminist Standpoint Theory Feminist standpoint theorists make three principal claims: (1) Knowledge is socially situated. (2) Marginalized groups are socially situated in ways that make it more possible for them to be aware of things and ask questions than it is for the non-marginalized. (3) Research‚ particularly that focused on power relations‚ should begin with the lives of the marginalized. Feminist standpoint theory‚ then‚ makes a contribution to epistemology
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Intelligent Agents & E-Commerce Introduction The internet has experienced a rapid shift from information and entertainment to electronic commerce. The amount of information available on the web‚ as well as the number of e-businesses and web shoppers‚ has been growing exponentially and the influx is difficult to process. A major challenge for marketspace participants has become sifting through an unwieldy amount of information to find products‚ services‚ and even each other – often relegating e-commerce
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Feminist research and methods are a response to research that claims to be able to find truth about the world through objective and neutral means‚ such as the scientific method which claims that researchers can and should be unbiased and that it is possible to observe and measure phenomena. These research methods are based in a philosophy called positivism that claims that only real knowledge is produced from scientific methods. Often in this type of research women are overlooked and misrepresented
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What is Feminist Thought or Feminist Theory? Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining‚ establishing and defending equal political‚ economic‚ and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Feminist theory emerged from these feminist movements and includes general theories and theories about the origins of inequality‚ and‚ in some cases‚ about the social construction of sex and gender‚ in a variety of disciplines. Waves of Feminism The period described as first-wave feminism refers
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Feminist Theory http://fty.sagepub.com Exposing the fallacies of anti-porn feminism Laurie Shrage Feminist Theory 2005; 6; 45 DOI: 10.1177/1464700105050226 The online version of this article can be found at: http://fty.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/6/1/45 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Feminist Theory can be found at: Email Alerts: http://fty.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://fty.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www
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