Tag: Feminism
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A Critical Look at Hayward’s Review of the Liberal Republicanism of Gordon Wood
Late to the party Wood’s body of work will remain preeminent for some time in the historiography of the American Founding. But it begs to be superseded by an equally large-scale treatment that does not shy away from treating the founders as thinkers and statesmen, rather than as 18th-century ideologues.” “Unlike today’s liberals who quote…
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Behind the Visual Propaganda of the ‘New Italian Woman’ in Fascism | Victoria de Grazia’s ‘How Fascism Ruled Women’
INTRODUCTION Victoria de Grazia explains in her book, “How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945,” that the New Italian Woman (Nuova Italiana) in the Fascist Ideal was not as one might imagine as displayed in Italian and German pictures, or in the propaganda of marching, busty and fit, militant and disciplined Athena-esque women. There was really…
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Kumari Jayawardena: “The White Woman’s Other Burden.” Blavatsky and Emancipation in South Asia
From the outset, Kumari Jayawardena’s “The White Woman’s Other Burden” (1995) demonstrates, theosophy emphasized the absence of any distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color in its theory and practice; and gender equality was therefore, one of its distinctive features. The 1995 work of Jayawardena details the roles and activities of foreign women in…
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Per Faxneld’s Paper “Blavatsky the Satanist” slanders Theosophy under the Guise of Scholarship
PER FAXNELD’S PAPER “BLAVATSKY THE SATANIST” SLANDERS THEOSOPHY UNDER THE GUISE OF SCHOLARSHIP The decline of the Theosophical Movement and the Theosophical Society since the 1930’s has been attributed to many factors by researchers and theosophists, but most bothersome is identifying Theosophy and H.P.B.’s ideas as Satanism. Per Faxneld is senior lecturer in ‘Study of…
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