Sentences with phrase «many feminist critics»

At worst, members of Gamergate have been accused of misogyny, bullying, and leveling rape and death threats against feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian, video game developer Zoe Quinn, and game developer Brianna Wu.

She is neither a rescuer of biblical religion from its feminist critics nor only a «post-biblical feminist» who must reject the Bible wholesale as a gynocidal text.

In view of the stronger logic behind the Catholic perspective, it is hardly surprising that feminist critics of the American pro-life movement see in it the Catholic agenda of restricting artificial birth control and genetic engineering.

Jan Marsh, for instance, theorized that her father had sexually abused her, while feminist critics in the 1970s chalked up her late adolescent breakdown to generic Christian repression.

No wonder, then, that her novels have become such a field of interest for Marxist and feminist critics.

«We are all feminist critics,» he quotes one professor as proclaiming, and then replies: «That is the rhetoric suitable for an occupied country, one that expects no liberation from liberation.»

For example, feminist critics suggest that women have social and emotional competences that help to cushion the demands and anxieties of the precarious achieving self.

The conception was supposed to be liberal, but it was rejected by black and feminist critics further to the left.

That attention comes at a particularly apt time, as feminist critics argue that society tends to discourage «nurturing» attitudes in favor of the «domination» stance that runs through Bacon and Descartes, and seems inescapably built in to modern pragmatism.

Much criticism of science, especially from feminist critics, is overwrought.

In my view, these insights are the greatest ongoing contribution of feminist critics such as Longino.

Other examples include Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's studies of human reasoning, which show that humans frequently reason with unseen and persistent biases, and the work of Keller, Longino, and other feminist critics showing that scientists are cognitively limited by the ideologies accepted in their wider cultures.

Reading the uncensored opinions of a feminist critic ONCE would have sent you crawling into your sock drawer for weeks.

Basic Instinct was championed by feminist critic Camille Paglia, who argued that it features «one of the great performances by a woman in screen history.»

It's a risky move and has become the kind of film feminist critics will trash without even watching.

The bloody violence is already causing social media controversy, with feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian tweeting, «This level of extreme violence shouldn't be considered normal.

The pioneering feminist critic, Lucy Lippard curated an all - women exhibition in 1974, effectively protesting what most deemed a deeply flawed approach, that of merely assimilating women into the prevailing art system.

That said, his interest in painting Lolita - type individuals in suggestive scenes has given feminist critics ample ammunition to blacken his image, which no doubt accounts for the relatively few major exhibitions accorded him over the past decades.

But she has been in a glare of attention, brightening to overexposure, since her rediscovery by feminist critics and curators in the late»60s.

While an entire generation of feminist critics and artists have championed Bourgeois since the 1980s it is Morris who was able to give her reputation the massively powerful backing of Tate Modern.

Not exact matches

Emma Stone has long been championed as a feminist, but some critics questioned whether her work with Allen was at odds with her public stance.

When details of her self - titled 2013 album were originally leaked earlier that year under the moniker Mrs. Carter, it was panned by some critics for its foreshadowed embrace of the artist's still - new identity as hip - hop mogul Sean «Jay - Z» Carter's wife rather than the trailblazing feminist icon who coined powerful female anthems like Irreplaceable, Single Ladies and Independent Women from her Destiny's Child days.

Last October Anita Sarkeesian, the feminist pop culture critic and a notable target of Gamergate vitriol, canceled her talk at Utah State University after the school received a detailed threat promising a «Montreal style massacre» if she spoke as planned.

The book acknowledges that critics might discount her feminist call to action with an easy - for - her - to - say shrug.

But the critics were all telling me how extremely feminist this comic book - derived tale of Diana (Gal Gadot), the Amazon princess with her magic lasso and bulletproof bracelets, is supposed to be.

Furthermore, she never does the irritating «feisty» or «sassy» or «uppity» shtick that endeared the all - female Ghostbusters reboot of 2016 to feminist film critics but to no one else.

This is what its critics, whether feminist or orthodox, have been saying all along, although from opposite points of view.

But I just finished reading two books about what's happening on college campuses now — American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus by sociologist Lisa Wade and Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus by feminist and social critic Laura Kipnis — and I actually do feel quite blessed that my college days are long past.

Campaigners furious after outspoken Tory critic of «feminist zealots» elected to Commons Women and Equalities Committee

Critics over the decades have derided the MP for Peckham as Harriet Harperson because of her feminist views.

Critics Consensus: Simultaneously funny, heartbreaking, and peppered with action, Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise is a potent, well - acted road movie that transcends the feminist message at its core.

Critic Consensus: Fun, fascinating and feminist, Spike Lee's classic is born again for a new generation.

Critics Consensus: Fun, fascinating and feminist, Spike Lee's classic is born again for a new generation.

Monitor film critic Peter Rainer praised Streep's performance as Post publisher Katharine Graham, writing, «In inexorable increments, she transforms what might have been just another feminist standard - bearer into something far more complex.

Evan Read Armstrong is an aspiring feminist filmmaker and critic based out of Ontario Canada.

«a legitimate feminist film critic» You're acting like that is a selling point.

Today, Maureen Dowd penned a column in the New York Times entitled «Beware Our Mind Children,» examining how critics are divided over whether Ex Machina is a feminist fable or misogynistic nightmare.

Now Alicia Vikander, who gained praise among critics and feminists alike for her thought - provoking performance in «Ex Machina,» is set to put her spin on Lara Croft.

Based on the 1994 novel by Peter Ackroyd, the story was adapted for the big screen by Jane Goldman and has been hailed by some critics for its feminist views, specifically through the portrayal of Elizabeth Cree.

-- Meanwhile in Milwaukee: Critic Mary Louise Schumacher reports on murals by pioneering feminist Marjorie Kreilick (the second woman to win the Rome Prize) that are in danger of being lost.

With mixed results, an honouring documentary chronicles the inevitable rise and the quick anticlimatic fall of Lillian Roxon, the blazing sixties rock critic and libertine described so notoriously by the feminist pioneer Germaine Greer, who wrote of a fellow Aussie «who lives with nobody but a colony of New York roaches, whose energy has never failed despite her anxieties and her asthma and her overweight, who is always interested in everybody, often angry, sometimes bitchy, but always involved.»

I've read other critics who've slammed the film because it has a feminist angle, as if stories need to be found agreeable to the receiver of it in order to be deemed worthwhile.

Other subjects weighing - in include Berkeley feminist Judith Butler, Duke's anti-corporate firebrand Michael Hardt, University of Chicago's Law Professor Martha Nussbaum, avuncular NYU deconstructionist Avital Ronell, disabled artist Sunaura Taylor, Princeton's cosmopolitan Kwame Anthony Appiah and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek, the subject of Ms. Taylor's first film.

Diversifying the palette of interest in student voice, Cook - Sather also explores interconnections with postmodern feminists and social critics, as well as recent developments in the medical and legal realms that offer social contexts for engaging participants in institutional transformation.

How to Build a Girl By Caitlin Moran Harper Perennial • $ 15.95 • ISBN 9780062335982 The rowdy first novel from the author of the best - selling feminist memoir / manifesto How to Be a Woman borrows events from Moran's own improbable life story, including her experiences as a teen critic for a British music magazine.

Critics of the procedure were very vocal: Bioethicists claimed it was a failure of society to provide adequate support services, feminists accused the doctors of sexual mutilation, and even some disability advocates were outraged.

The panel will be chaired by the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah and consists of: crime writer Val McDermid; cultural critic Leo Robson; feminist writer and critic Jacqueline Rose; and artist and graphic novelist Leanne Shapton.

Join us for a discussion with Anita Sarkeesian, media critic and feminist scholar.

No sign of a «female style»; no centralized imagery or necessary pattern and decoration, as some essentialist feminist art critics believed at the beginning of the women's movement.

The images were considered a betrayal of the feminist cause by critics and a deconstruction of feminine narcissism by supporters.