Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development Vandana Shiva, South End Press, Medgar Even College, 1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225, 2010. 239pp. ISBN 978-0-89608-793-4 $16 Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development brings forth the idea that the dominant thought of the time ‘Science and Development’ is a project of western patriarchy and is masculine which sees nature and feminine knowledge as passive and subservient and has led to discrimination of both women and nature leading to
Bill Lynn ENG 203-07 Mr. Selich Finding America in Washington Irving’s Writings Many Americans will agree that the times we live in now are much different than that of the times of Washington Irving. Irving’s life happened around 200 years ago. The differences in our beautiful country now compared those days is nearly a night and day difference. However, the setting of two of his short stories: “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” can be related to the way that many Americans still
'Such a degree of equality should be established between the sexes as would shut out gallantry and coquetry.” (Mary Wollstonecraft). In this essay I aim to discuss the way in which Alexander Pope's mock epic The Rape of The Lock and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein conform to modern and contemporary expectations of gender and sexuality. Pope uses women as the main subject of his satire within The Rape of the Lock to pass remark on society and the rampant and religious fervour 18th century society
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin