Book Review: Feminist Identity Development and Activism in Revolutionary Movements

feminist activism in Latin America

Feminism has a variety of meanings. According to Nikki Craske, despite the often-heated debates about the meaning of feminism, most would likely concur with Rosalind Delmar’s assessment that feminism attempts to transform women from object to subject, specifically with respect to knowledge. In other words, feminism and by extension feminist activism is about centering the lives of women. Sonia ...

development of feminist poetics in adrienne rich

اشعار ریچ، به عنوان اشعاری که همیشه در حال تغییر و دگرگونی هستند، تجسمی از رشد و دگرگونیِ انسان هستد. پایان نامه ی حاضر، با تمرکز بر روی مراحل سیر شعری ریچ از تغییری در دنیا به عکس هایی فوری از یک عروس، سپس به شیرجه به درون کشتی شکسته و در نهایت به صبری عجیب مرا تا اینجا آورده، به بررسی این مراحل در قالب نظر شوالتر در رابطه با سه مرحله ی پیشرفت ادبی زنان یعنی مرحله ی زنانه، زن گرا و زن محور می پ...

Extremism in revolutionary movements

A revolutionary entrepreneur strategically chooses the revolutionary agenda to maximize the likelihood of revolution. Citizens have different preferences and can contribute varying degrees of support. This presents the revolutionary entrepreneur with a tradeoff between extensive and intensive margins of support. We show: (1) Extremists exert a disproportionate influence over the revolutionary a...

Media and Revolutionary Movements in the Arab Countries

Book Review: 'The Question of Justice and Identity in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad'

Ahmed Saadawi’s third and last novel Frankenstein in Baghdad was originally published in Arabic in 2013 and has since been translated into several languages, including an English translation by Jonathan Wright in 2018. The novel, which won the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, is a heart-rending story of a country blighted by an unending cycle of war, violence, and misery. Saadawi’s ...