iii Chapter 1. Overview 1 Chapter 2. Review of Literature 3 Women, Sex, and Rape 6 Critical Feminist Theory 8 Chapter 3. Methods and Procedures 12 Participants 12 Procedure 13 Data Analysis 15 Researcher Positionality and Validity 16 Chapter 4. Results 20 Introduction 20 Men‟s Traditional Beliefs about Hookups 24 (Lack of) Verbal Consent during Hookups 25 Alcohol Use during Hookups 27 Perceptio...

INTRODUCTION The principal aim of this review was to investigate a feminist approach to the decision-making process for women with breast cancer. Empirical research into patient preferences for being informed about and participating in healthcare decisions has some limitations because it is mostly quantitative and designed within the dominant medical culture. Indigenous medical knowledge and al...

The paper discusses the place of feminist epistemology in philosophy of education. Against frequently raised criticisms, the paper argues that the issues raised by feminist standpoint theory lead neither to a reduction of questions of knowledge to questions of power or politics nor to the endorsement of relativism. Within the on-going discussion in feminist epistemology, we can find lines of ar...

Alice Walker as a radical feminist presented the issues related to Gender feminism through articulation of protagonists highlighting the racial and gender inequality. The feminist epistemology theory is applied which believes that knowledge claims are made from nowhere and are universally valid. African women took surface knowledge of American society and gained superior knowledge of human pote...

This essay explores aspirations and expectations of women’s rights, the sympathy for and reasons for women’s destinies by analyzing the forms of expression and tracing the ideas of feminist awareness in Fang Fang's novels in terms of feminist wishes in survival predicaments, struggles in literature fields, and feminists’ pursuits in daily life, with highlighting the standout points of a number ...

Feminist theory of intimate violence is critically reviewed in the light of data from numerous incidence studies reporting levels of violence by female perpetrators higher than those reported for males, particularly in younger age samples. A critical analysis of the methodology of these studies is made with particular reference to the Conflict Tactics Scale developed and utilized by Straus and ...

A group of established feminist legal scholars are translating third-wave ideas and methodologies into a vibrant legal theory. These scholars do not acknowledge explicitly the influence of third-wave feminism, but they embrace its theoretical commitments as they attempt to redefine the relationship between feminism and the law. This paper explores three works in particular: Janet Halley’s book,...

backgrounds: this study tries to detect gender stereotypes in the fictions of jalal-e al-e-ahmad (iranian writer). . gender stereotypes are defined as personal beliefs about gender differences in traits and behavior, largely attributable to socialization. in fact, gender stereotypes are fixed ideas about men’s and women’s traits and capabilities and how people should behave, based on their gend...