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Journal of a Superfluous Woman: A Collection of Essays. iUniverse. ISBN 9780595295531. King, Inga Rhonda (2009). Caribbean Sense of Life: A Photographic Narrative. Strategy Forum Inc. King, Inga Rhonda (2011). The Green Legacy of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Strategy Forum Inc. ISBN 978-0-9824215-2-9. King, Inga Rhonda (2011).
Reviews in the popular press were similarly mixed. Writing for The Nation, political scientist Wendy Brown lamented MacKinnon's "profoundly static world view and undemocratic, perhaps even anti-democratic, political sensibility." Brown called the work "flatly dated," developed at "the dawn of feminism's second wave ... framed by a political ...
First edition. Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America is a book published in 2011 through Yale University Press written by the American MSNBC television host, feminist, and professor of Politics and African American Studies at Tulane University, Melissa Harris-Perry. [1]
The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex is an article regarding theories of the oppression of women originally published in 1975 by feminist anthropologist Gayle Rubin. [1] In the article, Rubin argued against the Marxist conceptions of women's oppression—specifically the concept of " patriarchy "—in favor of her own ...
The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory is a 1983 collection of feminist essays by philosopher Marilyn Frye. Some of these essays, developed through speeches and lectures she gave, have been quoted and reprinted often, and the book has been described as a "classic" of feminist theory .
But despite relatively greater freedom of movement for Spartan women, their role in politics was the same as Athenian women. [17] Plato acknowledged that extending civil and political rights to women would substantively alter the nature of the household and the state. [21]
The terms womyn and womxn have been criticized for being unnecessary or confusing neologisms, due to the uncommonness of mxn to describe men. [8] [9] [10]The word womyn has been criticized by transgender people [11] [12] due to its usage in trans-exclusionary radical feminist circles which exclude trans women from identifying into the category of "woman", particularly the term womyn-born womyn.
The ascent of women in political power in Assemblywomen is yet another commentary on what Aristophanes saw as the shameful effeminacy of the men currently in power in Athens. The fact that women in this instance could enter the assembly and successfully pass as men was a commentary on politicians being indistinguishable from women in costume. [6]