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The Possession of a Preoccupied Mind

Hey, how you doin'?  No, I am not rewatching Friends for the zillionth time.  It's just that I hate to start traditionally.  I'm in a conflicting situation: some of my readers like my conversational tone, but apparently it isn't quite acceptable to the publication agencies. Two of my best-appreciated stories were rejected because of their tone. The rejection felt like a jolt that I could practically feel in my head, especially the second one.  Since that day, I've been caught up in a vicious loop of boredom because I stopped writing anything new.   I also called off a new transcription gig that promised me some good money, but the client was a tad bit of a scoundrel in his behaviour.  So here I am, having voluntarily stepped away from both writing and work, and somehow managing to be bored out of my mind. Pretty efficient, ain't I? I'm in that peculiar state where I don't want to do anything to kill time, yet somehow want the time to pass joyfully. I ...

DEFINIG FEMINISM : SOME KEY POINTS

  FEMINISM   Definition It is a socio-political movement which advocates for the equal political, social and economical rights for women and seeks to dismantle the patriarchal structure of the society. Ø   It began in the 18 th century Europe with the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) Assumptions Ø   Sex- It is the determination of identity on the basis of biological category. Ø   Gender- It is the cultural meaning attached to sexual identity. Ø   Gender is the product of cultural conditioning. Ø   Gender roles are constructed by society and culture. These roles are not natural but social, created by the male for domination. Ø   Instances of such cultural conditioning can even be seen in language where the female counterpart words of male like mister and bachelor have derogatory meanings such as mistress and spinster respectively. Ø   The social and cultural structure convinc...