This paper is a response to the chapter “Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide” in Andrea Smith’s book Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. Smith argues that U.S. colonial culture strategically uses sexual violence against Native women as a weapon to ensure the oppression and marginalization of Native people. This paper details and examines Smith’s argument and also considers...

The “escape the corset” movement (ETC-M) is a declaration that actively reflects voices of Korean women in fourth-wave feminism and spread through social media. This emerged as fashion style against prejudice inequality lens sparked launch (ETC-F) brand. Feminism, which discusses conditions our society, inevitably related to sustainability. It time examine much-neglected inclusion sustainable d...

the present article studies epistemological and sociological dimensions of feminism theories, using documentary and analytical methods, to examine the relationship between feminism as an emancipatory social movement and the problem of human totality. the most important criticism about views of modern and postmodern feminism movements is related to their inability to provide a general concept fo...

“islamic feminism” is an analytical-descriptive title by which western observers identify the intellectual activities of muslim women. muslim female scholars of “islamic feminism”, though there is no consensus among them about this label, have various approaches and subjects of study in relation to the field of islam and gender. aziza al-hibri and kecia ali are two of these muslim scholars whos...

We are feminists in our 50s who first became activists in the women’s health movement when we were in our 20s. In 2002 we performed in The Vagina Monologues and participated in the 2002 V-Day College Campaign to end violence against women. We use our experiences bthenQ in the women’s health movement and bnowQ in the College Campaign as a lens through which to introduce a bworryQ about ba cultur...

This paper discusses the influence of feminism in classic Victorian novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. The New Woman is a feminist ideal that appeared 19th century, more specifically amidst rise first wave feminism. method research used this study covers close reading source material and analyzing characters through perspective ideals. female Stoker’s portrayed characteristic to some degree. Women’s...

In the process of optical second-harmonic generation an X-wave, travelling at the group velocity of the fundamental frequency, spontaneously forms. Its parameters, as well as the angular spectrum, are directly correlated to the group velocity mismatch and to the wavevector mismatch between the two harmonics. A novel mechanism for spatio-temporal localized waves generation is thus proposed. ∗Ele...

in this research, we investigated the glottal wave of persian vowels, using electroglottography. in the first level, the properties of vowels glottal wave were analyzed. in the second level, the glottal wave between male and female speakers were  compared. contact quotient is the glottal wave parameter which was analyzed. data included six persian vowels and the glottal wave recorded using elec...

In this article, I argue that the trends associated with the second demographic transition are following two trajectories and leading to greater disparities in children's resources. Whereas children who were born to the most-educated women are gaining resources, in terms of parents' time and money, those who were born to the least-educated women are losing resources. The forces behind these cha...

The fight for sexual and reproductive rights has been the cornerstone of feminist activism and struggle for many decades. The second wave of feminism saw women’s organisations and feminists mobilising around (amongst other important struggles for political and social equality) the right to abortion, access to safe contraceptives, better policies and laws to address rape, domestic violence and t...