Feminist Article Reviews Samples For Students

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...