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Gloria Steinem On The Clinton-Obama Paradox
I’m too busy reading and writing my thesis and listening to Radiohead’s In Rainbows to write a whole post today. But you should consider reading Gloria Steinem’s piece, Women Are Never Front-Runners, in today’s New York Times’ Op-Ed section, in which she discusses the gender power dynamics being enacted by Democratic presidential candidates Obama (do [...]
Posted: January 9th, 2008 under Gloria Steinem, barack, clinton, emotion, emotionality, gender, gender power, gender roles, hillary, in rainbows, library books, nepotism, obama, paradox, power, radiohead, revolution from within, sex.
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Rational Woman/My Philosophy by KRS-ONE: Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody
There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. -Albert Ellis (Ironic Curtsy: Irrational Woman) In her essay “Sexual Difference and the Problem of Essentialism,” Elizabeth Grosz writes of the problematic implication of “patriarchal frameworks, methods, and presumptions” in contemporary feminist theory and rhetoric.
Posted: June 11th, 2007 under Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, Elizabeth Grosz, Emile Durkheim, KRS-ONE, Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody, My Philosophy, Paris Hilton, Randall Collins, Sex Roles, Smurfette, agency, biologism, biology, bodies, economics, emotion, femininity, feminism, feminist academics, feminist theory, gender, gender bias, gender roles, identity, irrationality, patriarchy, philosophy, psychology, rationality, reason, sex, sexual dimorphism, sexual inequality, society, sociology, theory, trust.
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