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Feminist Scholars Such As Cixous, Term Paper

Pages:6 (1605 words)

Subject:Social Issues

Topic:Feminists

Document Type:Term Paper

Document:#48395688


The Young Lords suffered social seclusion within the society until they engaged in fighting for their own right. As exemplified from the text, they collected and hipped it in the middle of the street, and after the garbage spilled all over the streets, the department of health collected and since then paid great tribute to the young lords.

For a very long time, the Young Lords struggled to attain a public sphere, but they remained unrecognized until they acted. This means that there is more than concentrating on the Rhetoric of the streets, there is a need to embrace more complete image of social movement. The idea of the Enclave in the counter-public sphere theory is more than a protected space generated from necessity, intended to protect a group and shun away from unnecessary publicity. Indeed, it is certain that enclaves play a protective function in forming coalitions in addition to being a consistent element of activists' movement activity.

In coalition building, enclaves play the role of a meaning production. In addition to that, enclaves also help in mobilizing groups, which in turn builds and empowers coalitions. Each group formed from the coalition views the other one as a threat and discourages overlapping of two groups, for instance in queer migrants and the similarities they face in demonization. This implies that, the internal rhetorical task is particularly important to the maintenance of the coalitions, in addition to any public action they engage in. For this reason, it is very essential to inflate the understanding we have on the roles played by enclaves within the grounds of counter public and social movement. This is because of broadening the scope of social movements and our understanding on the various aspects of rhetorical…


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