She contends that happiness comes from within, and that one's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperilled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

She asserts: " In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness ," and as a result contends that in film a woman is the " bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

She contends that the Fathers of Confederation were motivated by the values of the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

She further contends that Jewry was not the operative factor in the Holocaust but merely a convenient proxy.

She contends that Eliade never did any field work or contacted any indigenous groups that practiced Shamanism, and that his work was synthesized from various sources without being supported by direct field research.

She contends that ancient Egyptian texts show little similarity to Greek philosophy.

She contends the decline of American cities, beginning during the 1960s, was a result of crime " spiraling out of control ".

She contends that the approach defeats the very purpose of the equality rights in Section 15 of the Charter, noting that the objective of the Act in question may be discriminatory per se, but would survive constitutional scrutiny.

She claims as a result to have earned trademark rights in the 1964 recording, which she contends the public recognizes as a mark designating her as a singer.

She contends, therefore, that Frito-Lay could not lawfully use the 1964 recording in an advertisement for its chips without her permission. In Oliveria v. Frito-Lay Inc. ( 2001 ), her claims were rejected by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

She contends that: " Man has said that woman can be defined, delineated, captured, understood, explained, and diagnosed to a level of determination never accorded to man himself, who is conceived as a rational animal with free will ".

She is versed in Kung Fu, and contends with Chitose at every chance possible.

She also contends with her terrible childhood, and with the man who bit her and turned her into a werewolf.

She contends that serial killers are so lacking in emotional development that they have no capacity for complex emotional motives.

She contends that people in the United States trust that there is always someone there to take care of them, and that everyone ( including legislators and politicians ) acts in their interest.

She is the author of A Girdle Round the Earth, a story of some of the more remarkable women travellers of the last 200 years, and Style: Acting in High Comedy, published in 1996, which contends that " High comedies are not bloodless, refined, wordy plays — their themes are sex, money and social advancement.

She contends that akrasia is manifested in different stages of the practical reasoning process.

She illustrates the interplay between Chinese and English cinema tradition but ultimately suggests that Jen, as the " woman warrior " of the film, overthrows the European patriarchal tradition.

She compares the alleged misogyny characteristic of Lewis ' ideal of gender relations to underground male prostitution rings, which allegedly share the quality of men seeking to dominate subjects seen as less likely to take on submissive roles by a patriarchal society, but in both cases doing so as a theatrical mockery of women.

She advocates against the prevalent " patriarchal logic of exclusion ," claiming that a woman-focused system would change the current system in an extremely positive manner.

She concludes that the Hebrew Levites, because of their clearly patriarchal outlook " must have been Indo-Europeans ", alleging misogyny and hatred of goddess worship within Israelite society, which she connects to the later development of Christianity.

She goes on to conclude that " The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment " ( 129 ).

She rejected the emotion-rationalism dichotomy association with matriarchy and patriarchy, and with Stanton, asserted that rationality was as much an attribute of any mother-age civilisation as of patriarchy, and that it was mainly patriarchal behaviour that was logically irrational.

She also explores the labels that she says patriarchal society places on women to prolong what she sees as male domination of society.

She questions patriarchal privilege and examines issues of exile, assimilation, identity, and the struggle of the lower class in an introspective manner.

" Like the witches, Lady Macbeth strives to make herself an instrument for bringing about the future She proves herself a defiant, empowered nonconformist, and an explicit threat to a patriarchal system of governance in that, through challenging his masculinity, she manipulates Macbeth into murdering King Duncan.

Of the five sects listed below, the Yiguan Dao and the Tongshan She legitimize themselves by tracing their patriarchal lines through Huang Dehui to the mythical patriarchs of early Chinese history.

The patriarchal lines of these two sects are largely identical down to the thirteenth patriarch Yang Shouyi ( 1796-1828 ), after whom the lines split and ultimately lead to the development of the Yiguan Dao and the Tongshan She as separate sects.

She sees this as a rejection of the traditional patriarchal model for the family.

She emerged as a subtly present female voice in a patriarchal society even though she was referred to as “ Elenita ” ( little Elena ) and her work often dismissed as naïve interviews and “ children ’ s ” literature.

According to Rubin, “ Gender is a socially imposed division of the sexes .” She cites the exchange of women within patriarchal societies as perpetuating the pattern of female oppression, referencing Marcel Mauss ’ Essay on the Gift and using his idea of the “ gift ” to establish the notion that gender is created within this exchange of women by men in a kinship system.

She explored the growth of microbiological cultures using Kirlian photograph.

She also sought to widen the scope of the presidency, developing new economic, political and cultural links between the state and other countries and cultures, especially those of the Irish diaspora.

She is an acknowledged expert at operating the universal translator, which was a key instrument in allowing cultures from different worlds to communicate.

She once said that the country that would produce the best ballerina in history would be the United States because of all the different cultures that came together there.

She is intrigued by native cultures, living close to the land, but also things that are mystical, symbolic and mysterious.

She could not help but pick up the negative emotions of others every time she was around other people ; because of this, she began to hate others, and this hatred would involuntarily manifest itself as an Oni ( demonic ogres, akin to boogeyman in Western cultures ).

She creates jewelry with colors and textures inspired by her study of international cultures, including Tuareg culture and Byzantine art.

She first became interested in designing jewelry while writing her masters thesis on indigenous cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa.

She earned a degree in history from L. A's City College, and the stack of books at her deskside reflects an intense interest in the American West and diverse Native American cultures.

She defended the writers from the claim of a London reviewer that they were " out of touch ", suggesting that their work was strengthened by their access to other cultures, languages and writers.

She concluded that people in different cultures tend to categorize objects by using prototypes, although the prototypes of particular categories may vary.

She is the President and co-founder of One World: For Children, an organization that promotes understanding between cultures and strives to offer security and protection to children of bi-cultural marriages.

She presented a theory of the transformation of prehistoric cultures in which the local goddess was primary and the male god, if any, derived his power from the goddess.

She has produced, written, and directed almost 50 videos on subjects ranging from community organizations to regional cultures and good manners for government employees.

She specializes in the study of Andean indigenous cultures.

She loved experiencing other cultures, which was evident in many of her literary works, such as The Ancient History of Oriental Peoples, originally written for her younger siblings.

She is best known for her 1971 book The Manipulated Man and its various follow-ups, which argue that, contrary to common feminist and women's rights rhetoric, women in industrialized cultures are not oppressed, but rather exploit a well-established system of manipulating men.

She is a unique attribute of Ded Moroz, no traditional gift-givers from other cultures are portrayed with a similar companion.

She is not a public figure and tends to keep a low profile in the society because she follows the traditions and cultures of the UAE ( i. e. not interacting with men ), particularly in comparison to his junior wife, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein.

She records and performs primarily her own original songs, which draw their inspiration from the mythology, folklore and history of various Celtic and non-Celtic cultures.

She had been exposed to different cultures and points of views about life, as well as having the benefit of learning both English and Spanish.

She believes in making charity " active, emotional, involving and fun ", by building connections between people of different backgrounds, cultures, wealth, and social positions.

She works like a catalyst between the two cultures, and tries to integrate into the Indian culture she has entered.

She did, however, accept the notion that some Neolithic and Bronze-Age societies centered around female deities: “ Certainly we are aware of numerous cross-cultural instances of goddess worship accompanied by widespread use of … figurines, so this is one of the most likely explanations of the Neolithic figurine assemblages .” Continuing, she wrote, “ Especially persuasive is the fact that goddess figurines — and larger-scale goddess images as well — exist in later cultures in the same geographic area ” as the prehistoric figurines ( p. 139 ).