{"id":2352,"date":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/a-philosophical-investigation-into-womens-rights-to-equal-status-to-what-extent-can-it-be-argued-that-a-historic-power-imbalance-still-exists-between-the-sexes-despite-the-efforts-made-to\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"a-philosophical-investigation-into-womens-rights-to-equal-status-to-what-extent-can-it-be-argued-that-a-historic-power-imbalance-still-exists-between-the-sexes-despite-the-efforts-made-to-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2021\/01\/12\/a-philosophical-investigation-into-womens-rights-to-equal-status-to-what-extent-can-it-be-argued-that-a-historic-power-imbalance-still-exists-between-the-sexes-despite-the-efforts-made-to-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Philosophical Investigation into Women\u2019s Rights to Equal Status:  To what extent can it be argued that a historic power imbalance still exists between the sexes, despite the efforts made to extinguish this gap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Philosophical Investigation into Women\u2019s Rights to Equal Status:<br \/>\nTo what extent can it be argued that a historic power imbalance still exists between the sexes, despite the efforts made to extinguish this gap?<br \/>\nObject:<br \/>\n-Robert Browning\u2019s poem, My Last Duchess-<br \/>\nAn insight into the use of language relative to women\u2019s power and the extent to which women remain powerless due to lexical choice, in the modern media.<br \/>\nLooking at the death of Sarah Everard as a modern example.<br \/>\nTerritory:<br \/>\nAn in-depth analysis of the change in power attributed to women in the past 200 years.<br \/>\nFocusing on changes in legislation and societal attitudes towards women.<br \/>\nCould it be argued that women now have equal power to men or has the male desire for dominance simply diverged into other areas of society?<br \/>\nConcept 1:<br \/>\n-Plato\u2019s Republic-<br \/>\nA discussion of the existence of power in Plato\u2019s Polis, and how power exists in society. Moving on to consider Plato\u2019s understand of the role of women in society and subsequently what this means for women in terms of power and equality.<br \/>\nConcept 2:<br \/>\n-Foucault\u2019s Power \/ Knowledge-<br \/>\nConsidering Foucault\u2019s understand of power could it be that women should be equal to men in society? Using Foucault\u2019s Repressive Hypothesis, and Sovereign Power, to formulate an understanding of Foucault\u2019s understanding of power equality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erica Cranko Mills, 2021, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,22,123],"tags":[82,338,76],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-311","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-feminism","tag-inequality","tag-patriarchy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}