Feminism Article Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

Women have been exploited through the Hip-hop culture by men artists who ascribe them as sexual objects. According to Joan Morgan, and Ayanna's writings about women exploitation, it is evident that a large percent of women have engaged in Hip-hop music for fame and fortune. Hip-hop culture and ideas emerged from African-American and Latino-American young people who exhibited misogynistic traits against women. The misogyny aspect of Hip-hop culture is ascribed to discrimination practices against women, self-worth, and peer relations. The Hip-hop culture has embraced these misogynistic and exploitative practices against women. On the contrary, some women rappers have come out ...

Introduction

Essentialism or the idea of an essentialist in gender is founded on the belief of the late 1960’s that women should be minors and their jobs primarily relating to housewives, they included saying nursing say teaching. This is called an idea or the belief of an essentialist because people assumed that women, being women had limited skill sets that were present by their gender. Carole Vance looks at this idea of a social constructionist theory, and then looks at it again against the essentialist theory in the setting or the background of feminism. Essentialism as a tool of identification is. ...

Considering human rights as an issue without culture, diversity, and without complicated frameworks means it is about what it implies – "human" rights. In reality, the question arises why Western ideology of feminism exhibit so many gaps when it comes to the female of the human species. The Western feminist belief about human rights as a means for establishing a commonality among global women empowerment causes limitations in bridging gaps from a global perspective and consequently demands a new way of thinking.
Theorists on universalism and women's human rights including Grewal, Bunch, and Hua provide the textual dialogue for examining this predicament. Globally, ...

The article by Njamabadi is an engagement on the state of women studies in the 21st Century. It takes an Islamic perspective as it carefully but strongly interrogates the challenges and hurdles faced by Muslim women as scholars as compared to their male counterparts. One of her concerns at the beginning of her article is the misconception she perceives to come from those who invite her to make a presentation at “The Politics of Interdisciplinary Location: Teaching and Learning Intersections” conference. It is clear from her arguments that her status as a Muslim woman makes it difficult for her to choose ...

Wollstonecraft is more concerned with feminist issues whilst Kant is more concerned with ethical and spiritual issues especially due to the explanations regarding humanism and dignity.
2. How does Romanticism differ from the Enlightenment?
Romanticism is principally based on imagination and fantasy while the Enlightenment is usually based on scientific discoveries and advancement of man
3. On what basis does Wollstonecraft argue that obedience is contrary to Virtue?
Again this is a rather feminist statement since virtue is usually a woman’s thing while obedience would be something to do with blindly following what is wanted from ...

ABSTRACT

Gender is not genetically or biologically inherited and there is therefore no ‘natural’ division in gender relation between men who will always be dominant while women are confined to the domestic sphere. Gender relations have been socially and politically constructed over time, and among present-day sociologists are generally considered a social institution. As an institution, it is also related to other institutions such as the family, the economy and the state, as well as to race, region and social class. It is not a fixed and unchanging institution, however, just as masculinity and femininity are not monolithic, but one that has ...

Article Review: Gender Climate Change: A Feminist Criminological Perspective

Executive Summary
The article “Gendering Climate Change: A Feminist Criminological Perspective” by Wonders and Danner (2015) represents the study on the dialectical relationship that exists between socially constructed gender and climate change. Within their study, the scholars examine several issues to support their idea and explain logically the importance of the problem under consideration and the usefulness of feminist criminological perspective for analysis of climate change issues.
First of all, they provide the results of the review of the current criminological literature, stating that feminist perspective has been largely ignored in most criminology literature covering the issues of climate ...

The feminist disability approach attempts to reshape the thinking of society concerning physical impairment and variations. Garland Thompson likens a disabled or gendered body to an irreducible physical challenge or biological sex. The feminist studies now look at the relationship between gender and disability as well as class and race. Physical impairment just like gender is associated with a pervasive cultural outlook that stigmatizes particular types of body movements and variations (Garland-Thomson, 5). Disability is attributed to inferiority, misfortune, or inadequacy because of the social and cultural perceptions in the community. This article conceptualizes on the ability and disability ...

Review on the article “Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution and Organized Crime”

Full reference of the work:
Fondation Scelles Group. (2012). Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution and Organized Crime. Retrieved from http://www.fondationscelles.org/en/prostitution/prostitution-by-countryhttp://www.fondationscelles.org/pdf/rapport_mondial/sexual_exploitation_prostitution_Fondation_Scelles.pdf

The article of the Fondation Scelles Group (2012) is against prostitution, and considers prostituion as sexual exploitation in whichever cultural, economic or political contexts. The article gave overview of the prostitution globalization, commoditization and trivialization. Global prostitution is possible because it surpasses borders since human go from one country to another so as to perchance sex or practice prostitution. Some people leave their country with the hope of a better opportunity but were caught by traffickers who exploit them around the ...

The article’s title is “HERS; Why Boys Do not Play with Dolls”. The article was published in The New York Times on October 8, 1995. The author of this article is a poet and essayist named Katha Pollitt. The author’s main idea in this article is that the different preferences in girls and boys are not innate but due to influences from their parents and the whole society. She demonstrates that even though everyone would like to believe girls from birth have always liked to play with dolls and love wearing party dresses while boys like playing ...

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The problem is that a male –centric society doesn’t perceive beautiful women as full members of a society. Ann Cahill proclaims that beauty is a problem for the feminist theory. The author states that «feminists have often encouraged women to throw off the demands of beauty to gain social and political equality.» The idea of «male gaze» means that people change objects –especially women’s bodies – according to their «masculine» standards. In other words, men tend to perceive the beauty without their inner world (Cahill 42-64). For example, a woman makes herselfs beautiful and the ...

Deviant Bodies

The issue of deviant bodies has been a contentious issue for quite some time now in the contemporary society and especially in the American society. There have been several studies attempting to describe the ideal body of both males and females. Emphasis though has been on what the ideal woman’s body in the American society should look like in terms of skin color and body size (Terry & Urla, 1995).
Deviant bodies can be described as those bodies which deviate from the norms set forth by the society. For instance according to deviant bodies, critical perspectives on difference ...

Part 1: General Response

1). Thesis/Claim:
The claim in this paper is: “This paper is going to analyze both of these movies on their own excellence based on reviews and superiority in comparisons with each other and lastly since they have quite the same genres, similar criticisms of them”. It is evaluative, interesting and arguable and it is written well because the writer does everything that they mention in the claim. There is a comparison between these two films regarding the reviews and criticism, which is what makes the claim evaluative. It is focused enough because everything that is mentioned is examined throughout ...

Donna Haraway attempts to create an ambiguous political myth that supports the concepts of materialism, socialism, and feminism. She formulates the analogy of a cyborg by using gender to create a manifesto of the creature’s power. The cyborg that is central to her myth entails a cybernetic being that is a hybrid of an organism and a machine. It is a creature of science fiction as well as a creature of reality. The cyborg is utilized as a metaphor for new technology and political and postmodern identity. This essay provides a succinct evaluation of the primary ideas in ...

Hortense Spillers “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book” was written when the author was looking for her generation of black women in the late 1970s and the mid-1980s. The history of black people has never been given the kind of recognition it is entitled to. The beginning of the essay provides several reflections on naming and the author opens a series of thoughts on the use of overdetermined nominative properties to describe black women. She describes how the everyday terminology is deeply historically embedded and it will need going back in time to undo what is done. ...

Political cartoons are a common way for many artists to make a social commentary without sparking a national debate. In the past they have been used to represent issues of the time within the social context, and were published in journals and newspapers. These newspapers circulated all over the country, with different variations per province, and were used for mass media production of ideas and messages. An important message circulating through the press in Canada in the early twentieth century was the suffragist movement, during which women fought for their right to vote and be recognized as equal citizens ...

Both the articles demonstrate the essence of gender equality and human or national security. Reading the two articles I noticed several relevant information regarding (1) gender branding, population racism, human security, and (2) the gender equality and neoliberal governmentality. In the advertorial genre, the description presented in the article about the Kenneth Cole’s photos and text, it made the theme of security as a way of fashion. I commend the way Cole expressed the gendered codes of fashion through photos and texts. It links the idea from national security to human security. In a visual way, it shows ...

Introduction

I chose this article because it examines the fundamental issues in contemporary society. This is so because it examines the cultural ideologies that degrade the old age in society. These cultural norms are motivated by the media, which attribute the female body with consumer culture. Therefore, society should realize that aging is a sense of maturity and should embrace it as a Self-identities associated to the appearance and performance of the bodies. Similarly, aging should be based on feminist and gender ideologies because it cut across gender, race and class in various societies.

Summary

The article uses a feminist approach to explore aging ...

Forrest, A. A. (1993). View from outside the wale: The treatment of women and unions in industrial relations. In Women challenging unions: feminism, democracy and militancy. Linda Briskin and Patricia McDermott, eds. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
This chapter explains how industrial relations as a female discipline suppressed women activism to almost invisible levels. Without doubt, this chapter delves on issues of gender, labor, work, and changes that have occurred in both academic cycles and policy in that period. The authors successfully make women activism visible while giving a brief history of involvement of women in unions. Unsuccessful visibility ...

Jennifer Conlin, writer of “The Freedom to Choose Your Pronouns,” explores gender fluidity in teenagers and college aged students. She asserts that this is just another way teenagers are trying to go against the grain, but she also pairs this with showing that this is not just an American trend. During an interview, she recalls an individual’s example of gender fluidity by saying, “Maybe one day you wake up and feel more like a boy.” While this does not quite define the complexities of gender expression, it is one example that is easy for the general public to understand. ...

Monique Wittig asserts that lesbians are not women. The argument has not only excited academic and non-academic interest, but perhaps most importantly, it defies dominant cultural definitions and categorizations of sexuality and gender. This argument also threatens the established theoretical structure of political work that is founded upon women’s identity, including feminism. There is effectively no natural categorization of women, and thus equally no natural subject matter upon which feminism could be founded. Hale questions the possibility that women do not exist outside the conceptual context of the heterosexual political regimes. Instead, Hale develops an alternative construction of ...

Introduction

In the article, the writer makes the case that women have better instincts for the ecological sustenance of the earth. Her case is based on the fact that women are more fundamentally materially grouped in the ecology of the planet than men. She regards these instincts to human existence on the planet. She says that human-caused environmental problems of the planet are extensively due to an exploitive, paternalistic, male dominated culture (Warren & Erkal, 1997). Mary approaches the argument from a Marxist, materialistic view combining it with ecofeminism and non-anthropocentricity. She argues that, there is no necessary conflict between a Marxist approach ...

According to T.V Reed, a feminist writer, poetry is not a luxury to women but the way they give names to the nameless for its thought, something vital for their existence. The poetry aims at serving the feminine interests and their personal interests which makes it political. The ability to read the lines communicated to them by other women, it gives them a sense of belonging to women faction. Their experiences and thoughts are reflected in the lines metaphors of the women’s writing.
The writing is public rather than personal hence applies the woman lot. The 1960s women’ liberation movement ...