Professor Arras' article' provides a fascinating and persuasive account of an important shift in bioethics. The move from theory-based systems of ethics to narrative-based systems of ethics is paralleled by shifts in several related fields. In legal theory, one can see this development in the rise of legal pragmatism and the questioning of abstract and comprehensive theories, whether those theo...

This book contributes to a fast growing critical literature assessing Judith Butler’s writings as a whole. Butler’s wide renown owes most to her oft-cited and often misunderstood account of gender performativity. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) has been a hugely influential text, seminal in the development of queer theory and of critiques from within feminism of i...

The article brings together the fields of mad studies (LeFrancois et al.), matricentric feminism (O’Reilly, Matricentric Feminism) and critical disability (Goodley, “Dis/entangling Critical Disability Studies”). aim is to expose challenge “relations ruling” (Smith 79) that both produce discipline “mad mothers disabled children.” analysis begins by exploring un/commonalities emerging histories t...

idea of the imagination influencing the shape of the developing foetus was in existence before and after Van Helmont. In the eighteenth century the image-making faculty was transferred to the brain. The nineteenth-century conception that only what is in the outside world is real was replaced during the twentieth century by the thought that what goes on in people's minds can have just as much re...

As radical geography, inflected by Marx, has transformed into critical geography, influenced by poststructuralism and feminism, dialectical reasoning has come under attack from some poststructural geographers. Their construction of dialectics as inconsistent with poststructural thinking, difference, and assemblages is based, however, on a Hegelian conception of the dialectic. This Hegelian imag...

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 In patriarchal countries, women are viewed as belonging to a lower class than men. This study aims comprehend the feminism used in Perempuan Berkalung Sorban's novel. The goals of this 1) define novel and 2) feminist organisations that present text. employed qualitative descriptive research methodology. According research, represents woman's battle for existence human rights, it ...

Since the onset of the 2008 economic crisis and the resurgence of various forms of transnational radical politics (the Arab Spring, Occupy etc), several left-wing thinkers have argued that the era of left melancholia is now over. This paper examines such claims, paying particular attention to the recent re-engagement with the idea of communism in contemporary critical theory. Foregrounding the ...

In recent years, post-feminism has become an important element of popular media culture and the object of feminist cultural critique. This article explores how post-feminism is domesticated in Russia through popular self-help literature aimed at a female audience. Drawing on a close reading of self-help texts by three best-selling Russian authors, the article examines how post-feminism is made ...

This study dealt with the struggle of main character in Marlina Murderer Four Acts movie. The objectives were to find out oppressions that experienced, struggles against oppression, and how struggled oppression. used descriptive qualitative as method analyze data. researcher Young's (1990) theory data from movie's script. Marlina, character, suffered three kinds oppression; marginalization, pow...