QUESTIONS

Questions

1. According of Yashmita Liberal feminism is deeply rooted in the humanism of the Renaissance and the person-centered, rights-oriented liberalism that emerged in Western thought during the Enlightenment, liberal feminism first found widespread expression during the nine-teenth century in Western societies.

2. This strand of feminist theory is the most widely known. Neither separatist nor radical, liberal feminism is fundamentally and sometimes passionately reformist. Liberal feminists work within the system. To what extent they identify with the institutional order and in what ways they work for social change within it are matters that differentiate one grouping of liberal feminists from another.

3) Many point out the increasing voices of multiculturalism and the coexistence of diverse ethnic groups as positive changes in Japan. Yet questions remain about how the idea of multiculturalism can translate into the political and social empowerment of previously ignored or oppressed ethnic groups. It is not clear whether making ethnic minorities culturally visible will transform the hierarchical or colonial view of the ethnic Japanese as being superior to the other groups.

4. According to Yashmita the aspects that cannot be recovered yet is liberal feminist theory which is far from uniform. Its theoretical variegations lie along a liberal continuum built up around more or less acceptance of institutionalized hierarchies other than the gender. As Zillah Eisenstein (1981) implies, a liberal feminist continuum includes at least three sets of theorists.

5. To some degree, all these theorists presuppose or even apply liberal notions of “freedom of choice, individualism, and equality of opportunity” while disagreeing about the racial, class, and other biases that they entail (Eisenstein 1981:229). Thorne's and Nussbaum's aforementioned works lie on the middle ground of the liberal continuum.

6. Beginning with Thomas Edison's newsreels featuring war coverage (first projected in 1897), war veterans and characters that have been affected and impaired by war have played a large role in film history. Such documentary spots soon gave way to narrative features, beginning with The Empty Sleeve (also released as Memories of Bygone Days [1909]).

7. This film participates in a long-standing tradition wherein disabled war veterans gain social value only when they can display triumph in a homecoming celebration of their geographically distant nationalist triumphs. U.S. war films made during or immediately following prominent international conflicts tend to valorize the positive symbolic potential of brave wounds.

8. Yamamoto specified that his fleet would have carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines, but ...