Christine de Pisan (1364 c. 1430) challenged traditional assertions of women's inferiority, incorporated in texts such as the Roman de la Rose (The Romance of the Rose), the most popular literary work of the 13th century.
With a certain mathematical rigor (Weil, originally a teacher of philosophy, was well versed in mathematics and physics), she travels a sweeping via negativa to arrive back at traditional Christian assertions.
This decision would seem to reinforce traditional publishers' assertions that they are irreplaceable — she got to two million without us, they might say, but she won't get to a hundred million without us.
This decision would seem to reinforce traditional publishers' assertions that they are irreplaceable she got to two million without us, they might say, but she won't get to a hundred million without us.
Even if these images add nothing to the story, they complement the film's headlong thematic thrust into the future with an assertion of traditional Japanese values.
A key difference being that, while Sinead's iconic shaved head was an assertion against traditional gender stereotypes, Miley's 'most modern version' is the opposite, conforming to pop culture's prioritising of overtly sexualised behaviour.
This Oscar list – and I think this award season – has a quiet triumphalism to it, an assertion of traditional mainstream Hollywood liberal values at a time when President Obama has been returned to office and the Republican right has retreated, although it is a very mainstream liberalism, and the hero of Spielberg's film is a Republican.
Consider the assertion in "Traditional and Critical Theory" that while the oppressed strive for happiness they do not know how to achieve it, so the theorist must step in and help the oppressed come to critical consciousness.
Briggs/Domingue also disputed Buddin's assertion that traditional teacher qualifications have no effect on effectiveness rankings.
Such a pragmatic posture, coming immediately after a period of more overt assertion of traditional al Qaeda behavior, has opened up a potentially consequential division within Jabhat al-Nusra.
