Sentences with phrase «positions as feminist»

For Howell, process thought along with her evangelical heritage provides important resources for her position as a feminist.

Then there's the heavy symbolism in all her work, plus the weight of all the articles about that symbolism, much of it positioning her as a feminist hero.

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As for Trudeau, a self - declared feminist, the meeting squares nicely with the «gender parity matters» message that has underpinned his rhetoric since he awarded half his cabinet positions to women in 2015.

The feminist position springs not from the premise of our dignity, which applies to men as well as women and would preclude such partisan perversions of semantics, but from responding to the pernicious modem premise that sex is a drink of water with the equally wrongheaded premise that any politically incorrect act by a man is a glass of poison.

Christian women of a reformist orientation — who regard themselves as feminists and yet claim the Christian tradition as bearer of a liberating truth, capable of reform in a more humanizing direction — find themselves addressing sisters who share some fundamental positions but who reject some that are to the reformers at least of equal importance.

Traditionalists, like Harold Lindsell, have been quick to challenge such an approach, for it undercuts Biblical authority.14 But feminists as well, like Nancy Hardesty, are aware of the implications of this position and have sought alternate approaches:

Whether a feminist position is as consistent with Scripture as Hardesty believes is open to further discussion.

Dawkins» spats have a typical format: he says something quite offensive, there is a big fuss, then he starts to clarify his position with tweets such as: «Criticising SOME feminists is not the same thing as criticising ALL feminists.

In reviewing how her mind has changed from a Barthian position in the 1950's through the feminist and liberation theology emphases to a more wholistic and cosmic focus, Sallie McFague has experienced a deconstruction of the central symbol of God as patriarchal, hierarchical and militaristic, and a reconstruction of God as creator and sustainer of everything in his universe.

The bad faith that can infect holders of this position becomes apparent when feminist cries of «femicide» and «previctimization» over the selective destruction of female embryos curiously lapse into silence at the random destruction of embryos (abortion on demand) or at multiple abortions (abortion as a contraceptive).

Members support all the mainstream feminist positions except legalized abortion, arguing, as 19th - century feminists did, that abortion requires women to adapt themselves to the economics and the politics devised by men.

of Vermont («Sisters on a Journey: Portraits of North American Midwives»); Jess Fallon, Women's Studies, Wesleyan; Pamela Klassen, Religion, Drew University (spirituality in home birth); Maureen May, Syracuse University (midwifery politics and legislation in New York state); Christina Player (midwifery politics in Massachusetts); Melissa Denmark, University of Florida (the development of direct - entry midwifery legislation in Florida); Fern McGill, Antioch University (an investigation of feminist positions on childbirth), Kate Masley (the political economy of reproduction in Honduras and in Cleveland, Ohio), and others not listed here; and as an informal advisor to dozens more.

Julie: Well, the photos, of course — Bumble takes a position, and they take a position as the app with a feminist approach, because they want women to make that first move, but anything that makes somebody uncomfortable can be reported.

Sabine de Barra's awareness of her gender and class limitations and her position as a recent widow does not place her as an embittered or embattled feminist attempting to unleash feminist aspirations on her privileged masculine contemporaries.

In her current position as distinguished university professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, Collins works with graduate students in examining race, feminist scholarship, and sociological theory.

came some four years after her diagnosis of liver cancer (plus breast cancer and subsequent mastectomy a decade before) and her position as an outsider, a Black lesbian feminist scholar living and slowly dying within a socially hardened America.

While this aversion to naming and categorization positions her vast and diverse body of sculptures, drawings, paintings and mixed media works into a relational practice that defies the specificities of medium or periodization, it also takes form in the artist's blatant refusal to identify herself or her work as feminist.

Instead, it serves as an analysis, teasing apart the term «female» from the «so - called feminine aesthetics» and «politicized feminist positions» and, through the employment of a post-internet reality, collapsing the dichotomies that structure culture at large.

Each iteration unique in sharing parallel commitments and emanating from Los Angeles — a city positioned as an important locus for early feminist discourse and supportive of new platforms blending art with initiative (Sexy Beast).

The position of the outsider and shape shifter is central to this body of work and the influence of feminist icons such as Mary Tyler Moore, Elle Woods in Legally Blonde or artist, punk poet, experimental novelist and filmmaker Kathy Acker lingers.

The work draws out the complex relationships between communication and isolation, as well as marking some of the critical debates that circulated in the early formation of lesbian, feminist, lesbian - feminist and gay liberation political positions.

Benjamin created a coherent genealogy of practice from Duchamp forward, while Craig, at least from my perspective, expanded the possibilities of institutional critique enormously through the inclusion of feminist positions, as well as the beginnings of a queer perspective.

The position of the outsider and shape shifter is central to this body of work and the influence of feminist icons such as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde or artist, punk poet, experimental novelist and filmmaker Kathy Acker lingers.

It consists of a series of live performances by artists from Greece and abroad, as well as a special tribute to the artist Ana Mendieta (Cuba, 1948 — New York, 1985) who holds an emblematic position in the feminist history of art, which will run for the whole duration of the Biennale (SMCA, Moni Lazariston, 30 September 2017 — 14 January 2018).

In what McLachlin described as «perhaps the only feminist speech given by a royal,» the Queen Mother said: «perhaps it is not inappropriate that this task should be performed by a woman, for a woman's position in civil society has depended on the growth of the law.»

Mary Joe Frug (1988, p. 1) described herself as a feminist: «For me, that word means that I am committed to two goals: (1) I hope to advance the position of women socially, economically, and in their personal relationships, and (2) I seek to undermine and undo the effect of gender on the lives of women and men.»