Essays on Feminist

Response Essay "Jane Eyre" – The Emerging Feminist Self

Primary to understanding first, the novel "Jane Eyre" and, second, following the eloquently expressed reading on the subject of the novel's protagonist is the dire need for having a fundamental understanding of the times the author lived. Understanding the limitations of every woman of that era who maintained a superficial no matter her social status, education, and sense of self, she remained almost invisible in the world run by men. This academic response to "A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress" reading focuses on how the characterization of Jane forms the underpinnings of the fundamental angst experienced by women ...

An analysis of the poem by Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop aims to demonstrate female suffering. Women were forced to live under violent conditions and inequality circumstances. Therefore, Plath and Bishop used metaphor and irony to show the desire of feminism and equality in society. This paper shows how profound feminism has developed over the years as denoted in different writings by various Authors

Black-Phones: Postmodern Poetics within the Holocaust Poetry (Sylvia Plath Boswell), Matthew Critical Survey20.2 (2008): 53-64,112.

This journal talks about the suffering of Plath. She uses the poem ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘Daddy’ to describe her generation. Plath’s technique of using “Lady ...

In Sally Markowitz's "A Feminist Defense of Abortion," she argues that abortion is an equal right for women, due to the fact that women currently do not have equal status and rights in society as compared to men. In her eyes, women are not given the rights they are entitled to (and which men enjoy), and therefore abortion is justified in order to help even out that imbalance. Markowitz's argument is, for the most part, extremely sound and strong, though there are a few logical fallacies that must be addressed in order to more fully understand her argument.

Markowitz lays ...

There have been several theories and perspectives that have been advanced in the past. The criminal theories expose many instances of the oppressive practices of domination, inhumanity, and inequality in the structure of power in most communities. In the classical theory by Beccaria, the argument is that the benefits of the crime outweigh the costs involved in committing that crime. The theory is influenced byrational choice especially in deterrence. The punishment in this theory was not based on substantial evidence, but it was rather based on deterrence so that crime offenders could avoid participating in certain crimes due to ...

Question 1:

The Chattri and the Muqarnas

The Chattri is a memorial which was built in appreciation and recognition of the input of the Indian Army in subduing the enemy in the First World War (Chattri.com n.p.). Chattri is a word meaning umbrella in Punjab, Urdu and Hindi. Its umbrella-like design also signifies protection. There is an annual pilgrimage ritual which is done to remember the soldiers.

Muqarnas is a prominent feature of Islamic architecture used in the Muslim world. This style consists of domes, niches and doorways. Their function is primarily decorative although they are solutions to structural problem as well. They give an occasionalist perspective of the ...

Conscious-raising refer to a situation where women share and discuss their personal experiences with each, which are then turned into political actions. It has been used by women till date in their fight for equality due to its effectiveness and its origin from feminist poetry. There are three waves of feminism, which were based on timelines with the first beginning in the mid-nineteenth century culminated by the 19 amendment, which enabled women participation in voting. The second wave of feminism was more radical, and it began in the late 1960 based on the creation of sexism. The third wave started ...

The notion of self-critical individuality is distinct from the dominant social structure. The article “alternative modernities and medieval Indian literature” refers to a patriarchal social structure and a caste-based value system. It also provides a feminist critique of and defends the values of work done by women. This literary-critical analysis addresses alternative modernities in an Indian context. Modernity, in this regard, is infinitely expandable. This presentation focuses distinctly “modern” values in women and gender studies.

In the overview of “new” modernist studies, Gaonkar (26) characterize modernities field in three major axes i.e. vertical, horizontal and temporal, by which they expound the ...

Reflection

Understanding the history and the current status of feminist movements has been of great importance as it helps one understand the struggles women have passed through in fighting inequality. My favorite readings of the quarter were the article by Shaw and Lee, which explained the system of privileges and inequality in women's lives and the book by Reeds. In the article by Shaw and Lee, an expeditious explanation has been made in explaining the relationships and hierarchies in the society. Reeds, on the hand, provide a detailed explanation of the experiences of civil and women's rights movements from different societies ...

Learning goals

As I join this class my learning goals are quite many, but the most notable one is to gain deeper knowledge of the causes and solutions of social problems. In so doing, I will seek to comprehend the role of individuals in solving or reducing the possibility of social problems. Secondly, I aim at understanding the connection between the social problems faced by a society and the economic strength of such a society. Thirdly, I aim at expanding my knowledge on the different interpretations of social problems, such as the conflict theory, and the structural theory, and so on.

My understanding of social problems

In my ...

Abstract

Pop culture of the 60s that originated in Britain and spread to US followed a string of philosophical and theoretical movement turning into mass culture. Pop culture has had many proponents in fashion, music and literature as well as numerous characteristic features. Studying the 60’s fashion design trends in ...

Introduction

There is a growing contention among critics about the number of people of color that makes up the population in prison or parole. Pettit and Western (2004) have questioned the credibility of the justice system when it comes to incarcerating, policing, or sentencing of people of color. Current statistics reveal that blacks are handled disproportionally as opposed to the majority white community (Pettit & Western, 2004). Further, these theorists related the incarceration, policing, or sentencing pattern to racial disparities in the criminal justice system. United States has had a long history of racial disparity that led elicited activism by the blacks. Presently, ...

Part one

A cyborg manifesto is a brilliant article authored by Donna Haraway. It is solely aimed at criticizing the traditional notions of feminism, especially through putting greater emphasis on the issue of identity rather than affinity. In this article, Haraway uses the image or metaphor of a cyborg to urge feminists to move beyond the retrogressive limitations of traditional feminism, gender and politics. The idea of Haraway’s Cyborg calls for a non-essentialized and material-semiotic metaphor that is considered capable of uniting diffuse political coalitions through the notion of affinity (Haraway, 1991, p.153). She clearly addresses the rift between a feminist discourse ...

Although the image referred to in this text is often called Your Body is a Battleground, the original image, created for a pro-choice march by artist Barbara Kruger, was untitled (Drohojowska-Philip). The image, created in 1989, is a photographic silkscreen on vinyl, and shows a black and white image of a woman overlaid with red and white text (Drohojowska-Philip). The original image is a perfect square, and a relatively large piece, measuring 112 inches by 112 inches. The woman’s face is split down the middle, with the left half a black and white image of the woman and the right half showing the negative of the ...

How does education, employment, or medicine create identity categories that may liberate or oppress individuals?

Oppression is a social reality that has been existing for many years. Our history will show that various efforts were made in the past to curb oppression in various institutions and social structures. Although there has been some success, our experiences will tell that oppression is a social evil that continue to exist in the current times even in education, medicine, and most especially in employment.

Miriam Webster defines oppression as unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power. It is also a condition weighing down one’s mind and body (Miriam Webster, Online). In the educational sector, oppression is evident ...

Abstract

In the pre-colonial era and shortly after the colonial period, border crossing by communities was a common phenomenon and occurrence. The realization of indigenous communities of the presence of an immigrant community amongst them did not come as a shocker to the natives. These immigrant communities moved from one place to another for different reasons. There were those who crossed these borders in search of better lifestyles. There were those who had also been displaced by war activities and, therefore, had to cross these boundaries in search of peaceful settlements. Still, there were those who moved from one boundary to the ...

Is Affirmative Consent the Answer to Sexual Assault on College Campuses?

The following paper deals with a Senate Bill 967 that is proposed to control the number of sexual assaults occur on campus the public as well as private universities of California. A Senate Bill 967 has been introduced by Senator Kevin de Leon, and the objective of this law is to establish certain criteria following which the public and private colleges in California will manage with the sexual assault incidents occurred on campus. The law requires all the universities and colleges in California to pass a mandate ensuring that all of the students will give an active or affirmative consent before ...

- Definitions of the four perspectives

Functionalist looks at the society as parts that are interconnected and are able to work in harmony with each other to attain equilibrium and social balance. The state educates children whose parents are paying tax to maintain the same government.

Conflict perspective looks at society as having different interest and groups, which are competing for power and the scarce resources. This perspective is according to works of Karl Marx.

Symbolic Integrationist tends explore dynamics of the psychology of the individuals that interact in various small groups. It tries to explain ...

Introduction

The place of women in traditional and modern society differs greatly. In the past, the society held that women’s roles were more domestic and confined to the rules of men. However, things are much different today as most societies realize that women are equally important as the men. The disappointing fact is that they are still subjects of prejudice, ill treatment, and poor perception. Countries like Syria and Iraq still record many incidences of murder and raping of women. On the other hand, India and Guatemala still have a high number of rape cases as many men still men ...

Conscious-raising is the process through which personal problems of women are transformed into a shared awareness defining them as social or political concerns. It facilitates women understand the relationships between individual aspects and public systemic conditioning, which makes the personal aspect to be political. It comprises a fundamental component of social change. The stages in conscious-raising involve an individual woman presenting a certain issue of concern to other women. The issues presented by women are then discussed in the group, after which they undertake political actions in regard to issues affecting them. Conscious-raising still exists today in different forms and also takes ...

Sexism and Classism were seen majorly in the communist China during the period lasting from the year 1949 to the year 1979. Sexism which refers to discrimination and prejudices that is not based on race but on the sex of the individual. This usually is channeled towards the female sex due to some ancient cultural, religious or social beliefs. This can surprisingly be seen till date in our present day society. Classism on the other hand refers to this same practice but with the tendency of being based on the race and ...

John Updike’s ‘A&P’ and Tillie Olsen’s ‘I Stand Here Ironing’ are two short stories that seemingly do not have anything similar, yet share some themes that form the central core of the stories. Although there are more differences between the two short stories the themes of conflict, feminism and self-analysis runs through both the stories.

Updike is multifaceted and was a novelist, an art and literary critic and a poet. He was a proliferate writer and is one of the very few writers who won the Pulitzer Prize more than once. Most characters in his works go through a personal ...

Question one

Liberal feminism is the approach that seeks to achieve equality of men and women in all aspects. Proponents of these theories argue that if subjected to the same conditions, female and male are equal in terms of intelligence, strength, and professionalism.

Early liberal feminist such as the late philosopher Auguste Comte has come out strongly arguing that women needed to be protected by men and not subjected as slaves. He further installed the adoration of women as the pillars of his ‘religion of humanity’, which he had explained in his school of thought. In his sentiments about women ...

Women Studies (or at times referred to as feminist studies) is a holistic, interdisciplinary academic field that taps issues both from the past, current and even future that concerns women. The course is interdisciplinary because it tackles different professions including politics, societal, psychological and historic through the point of view of feminists. The main reason behind the subject is not to make women superior, but to promote gender equality and eradicate oppression, discrimination and the misleading stereotypes against women. The subject is a timely answer to the growing cases of women discrimination in different areas of society. Although there has been a ...

In your view, why did Lu Hsiu-lien and many others in her generation become advocates of "Taiwan independence"?

Taiwan independence is a politically-motivated movement who primary aim is to form an independent and sovereign Republic of Taiwan from the lands that are currently governed by the Republic of China (ROC) (modern-day Taiwan) and claimed to be owned by the People’s Republic of China (PRC, China). It aims at renaming the Republic of China to the Republic of Taiwan and obtaining the status and recognition of a sovereign state internationally.

This movement is divided between two major coalition organizations: Pan-Green Coalition and Pan-Blue Coalition. While Pan-Green is in favor of the objectives of the movement, Pan-Blue seeks to oppose ...

Annotated Bibliography for Sexualization of Girls

Annotated Bibliography for Sexualization of Girls

Sexualization of culture or pornification as stated by popular culture is the practice that has dominated today’s media society. Ranging from advertisement to entertainment, young girls and women have been used as objects of sexiness and sexual appeal. This has been the popular culture portraying women and girls to be not more than their physical appearance. This is despite the fact that most of the women are highly educated or celebrities in different ways. The aim of this paper is to point out the fact that sexualization of girls and women has ...

Politics maily rely on the element of power. An individual or a group of people must acquire a control over the rest since he, or she has the power over them. The power in politics may be properly understood with proper understanding of the various political notions. Although, there are a number of notions that define political power the most critical ones at the moment are conservatism and feminism. Each of them is unique on the principles that define them as well as the political power that they hold. They have exclusive command on the flow of politics in the different countries ...

Feminism is a complex concept that is not easy to define. It is an ideology that brings together several different subcategories that uniquely differ from one another. The stylish and radical author of the twentieth century, Angela Carter, exposes her feminist view through her various writings including Fairy Tales, The Sadeian Woman and The Bloody Chamber. As observed by Anna Katsavos in her interview, Carter believes that the view of the female gender is negative with their role being less than ideal to an extent that does not please nor give them glory (Carter and Katsavos 12). In her earliest ...

The paper tends to discuss the oddity of Aphra Behn, who is a female writer of 1688 and known as a very famous female novel writer. Her writing style depicts her personality, and her chosen topics are indicative of her station and feminism. The writing style of Behn affects the understanding of the readers. Therefore, the paper is based in the oddity of Aphra Behn novels, writings and her personality.

It is evident that the Behn’s chosen topics are clearly indicative of her feminism. After reading her written work, it can be said that there are many topics in which ...

There have been many studies on the relationship between feminist and conformity to masculinity. Being born a male or female in a society is more beyond a mere biological fact. The Social setup usually redefines, revalue and represent the biological sexes. There are various normal associated with being born a woman or a man. According to an American Anthropologist, Gender is defined as a set of arrangements by which the society has transformed biological sexuality into a reflection of human activity. The society expects that individuals meet the transformed sexual needs. According to Nancy Fraser in her theory on status, stated that there is a need for ...

- Basing my argument on the maxims advanced by Kantian ethics, the banks in the United Kingdom did not act ethically. The tree maxims advanced by Kantian ethics are used for vetting the ethicality of actions. Under the first maxim, ethical actions reflect an underlying principle that can be followed by everyone. Under the second maxim, ethical actions are those that treat people with dignity rather than as means. Under the third maxim, all ethical actions are universally accepted by all human beings. An ethical act should satisfy the threshold set by the three maxims (Crane & Matten, 2010, ...

THEME 1: Culture, Gender and Social Norms

Haught, John. Making Sense of Evolution: Darwin, God, and the Drama of Life. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010. Print.

This work traces the origin of humankind and the underlying values that have often informed behavior of man. Ever since the emergence of evolution theory, many questions have been posed in regards to its viability and especially on how it impacted human behavior over time. Evolution gives a scientific account of the development of man and it is often at loggerheads with the theological account of creation. The author of this work has a similar professional background with the author in the previous entry. Both authors have strong theological backgrounds in the Catholic Church and they are accomplished historians. This book gives ...

According to feminist researchers, the intimate violence is widely committed by men against women. In the event of family violence, researches show that the rates of violence are evenly distributed among men and women relatively. Sexual violence is omitted by feminist researchers; they ignore the gendered relationships inequality, reasons, intents, and effects of any violence. The fact that women are on average in terms of strength, they are weak compared to men physically. For example, men punched stronger than women do and caused more injuries. However, there are instances that it is hard to identify who first initiated the ...

Introduction

Youths living in North America and other areas of the world that are considered relatively liberated grow up with considerably more gender equality now more than in the past. This is seen through many aspects in the society like opportunities for education, status of the women in the society and the socialization of gender roles. These youths take up courses in institutions of higher learning that were predominantly thought to be a preserve of the men. This is because the society has evolved to perceive women as an equal gender, and one deservedly worthy of equal opportunities as the male ...

Women’s events and developments influenced every life of the women because it motivates women to have a strong unity towards equality. In the African American community, the complexity of the personal moral development and social movement leadership among women were wives, teachers, farmers, mothers, and workers from politically active experiences. Many changes swept in the United States that altered the lives of women at all levels of the society. The nature of these changes helped the women to face circumstances that gave them the path to enter in the political arena in behalf of other women. It was not only ...

1. Nietzsche in his work distinctly differentiated slave and master morality. During his time, and for conservative thinkers of today, there are traits that are considered noble and positive. These traits including meekness, humility, pity and other characteristics that might be universally defined as kind are to him, weak. This kind of thinking is what he refers to as slave morality because it is not assertive and people who think that way are not strong enough to become masters of their own world. He condemns the philosophy which embraces these characteristics. To him, a master morality is one that is opposite ...

Introduction

Women’s movement also goes by many other names. However, the general concept is used to describe a series of campaigns that ate designed to champion for reforms on different issues in the society. These issues include domestic violence, reproductive rights, maternity leave, women’s suffrage, sexual violence, equal pay and sexual harassment. The women’s movement priorities are not the same across the board. Instead, they vary one country to another. It also differs from one community to another. The history of the movement can be traced down to the Western World in 19th century.

The movement has evolved ...

Booth, H., Creamer, D., Davis, S., Dobbin, D., Kaufman, R., & Klass, T. (1972). Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement. Retrieved November 21, 2013, from CWLU herhistory Project: http://www.cwluherstory.com/socialist-feminism-a-strategy-for-the-womens-movement.html

This paper was written to share and express the ideas of new strategies in women's movement from the current ideologies emphasizing on women’s lifestyles from the cultural perspectives. From this perspective they place emphasis on personal growth and liberations and how women relate. The women's movement was based on breaking the old patterns in social, cultural, economic and political realms. This was driven by ...

Betty Friedan wrote ‘The Feminine Mystique’ in 1963. This is a non-fiction novel. The book focuses on feminism in the United States of America. Friedan conducted a survey of her former classmates during their 15th anniversary reunion and found that most of them hated their lives as housewives (Agonito, Rosemary 76). This made Friedan conduct interviews with other women who were housewives in the suburban areas, so ran introduction about the spread of unhappiness amongst women in the 1950s and 1960s. Friedan explains that despite living in material comfort, the housewives from America were unhappy. The situation in some states ...

Theories of Criminology and Deviance

Kraska, P. (2006). Criminal justice theory: Toward legitimacy and an infrastructure. Justice Quarterly, 23 (2), 168-185.

The article offers great and valuable information regarding the criminal justice theories that play a leading role in promoting justice in several criminal systems around the world. The source deals with the criminal justice theory, which deals with crime rates and crime. The article points out the fact that pursuing criminal justice is in some cases implicitly, and tacitly, referred to the narrow responsibility of descriptive and evaluative scholarship.

Thus, this article explores the details for the field’s failure to identify the prominence ...

In the month of March, 2013, an unprecedented protest created an enormous stir all across the world. A nineteen year old Tunisian girl, Amina, had posted two pictures of her own on a page of the social networking website, Facebook, where she posed topless. She had written “My body is my own” in Arabic over her naked body. This bizarre form of protest was in consolidation with the Femen movement that had hit the world society with its immense impetus. She later gave an interview to the Ettounisia television channel where she conveyed her support for the Femen movement ...

1930-39

Probably one of the best films of the 1930’s was ‘Top Hat’ with Cyd Charisse in the title role. Here one can observe feminism demonstrating that the woman was not just a pin up girl but she is capable of coming out with dance rhythms too. Kay Francis and Elizabeth Taylor also showed that the woman did have acting talent and was not just a simple bimbo.

1940-49;

Margaret Sullivan started focusing on the more sensual portrayal of the woman in ‘The Shop Around the Corner’ with James Stewart, her acting was definitely something out of the top drawer ...

1. Outline the categories of violence as described by Jamil Salmi.

According to Salmi, the phenomenon of violence has many characteristics, with particular causes per characteristic and with particular causational agents per cause. Violence also exists in several forms, including direct violence, indirect violence, repressive violence, and alienating violence.

Direct violence is characterized by any physical, in-person act causing intended harm. In this category would be included A) any act resulting in death (homicide, genocide, infanticide); and B) any “coercive or brutal” (Module 6, 44) at threatening or resulting in physical or psychological damage or suffering—including rape, spousal abuse, political imprisonment, for example.

Indirect violence is characterized by ...

Introduction

The women’s movement or feminist movement is a series of campaigns whose aim is reforms on various issues like domestic violence, reproductive rights, equal pay, sexual harassment, sexual violence, and women’s suffrage, all of which fall under feminism label. The priorities of these movements vary among communities and nations and actually range from the opposition to FGM in one nation or to glass ceiling in the other. These movements began in western world in 19th century and have gone through the first wave feminism, second wave feminism, and third wave feminism.

During 1950s and 1960s, there was an ...

KewalRamani, A., & National Center for Education Statistics. (2007). Status and trends in educationn of racial and ethnic minorities. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Dept. Of Education.

This is a report by the National Center for Education Statistics detailing the trends and status of education of ethnic and racial minorities in the United States of America. It examines the challenges and milestones covered by ethnic minority groups in the United States. The report details that over time; many minorities have finished high school and continued higher education in colleges across the country. These ...

The articles presented examine the emerging phenomenon of specialists proposing clinical responses to traumatic events with a philosophical approach. Eastern meditative therapies have been used for extended lengths of time and are becoming more accepted in some professional circles. The unique ideas of the feminist culture are also making headway into mainstream trauma treatments is crisis centers become more empowerment-based.

The basis of all counseling is to create social awareness and help victims of trauma cope and grow through intervention. Every counselor should have as his or her goal readjustment and function after crisis. According to James (2008), “Creating ...

1. Liberalism and Feminist theorist 

Central to the theory and practice of Liberalism is the freedom of individuals to make choices that will result to social outcomes. This particular school of thought believes that “the purpose of society is the advance of freedom, equality, and human happiness” (Auster, 2007, LA reply section). It is important to note though that when one person chooses not to respect the freedom and rights of other people, this violates the concept and therefore could not be considered under Liberalism. The various forms of liberalism: economic, social and political, adopt the central tenet, albeit in different contexts.

Liberalism, ...

Nobody hates looking at women’s funny character in movies. Something that mulvey well put across. The conditions of watching a move in the cinema gives authority to a voyeuristic spectatorship. All spectators are chirping characters taking pleasure and watching others while they remain unseen. In other fields, feminists have identified voyeurism as violence that is because of gender. The chirping character is most often a man-watching female without her knowledge. Most of the funny erotic scenes, you find a woman fully exposing her body and private parts but never will you find a man doing so. The power of the man’s look ...

In Virginia Woolf's literary essay "A Room of One's Own," the author explores themes of feminism through the viewpoints of a narrator who has a unique and principled view of how women are represented in the world. Throughout the text itself, Woolf denotes many things that have held women back from holding positions of power and wealth, as well as granting them agency in society. This then extends to the limited and restricted body of work that women are allowed to have, seemingly due to the inequalities presented by a patriarchal society. This text sheds some light on ...

Abstract

This paper talks about the study of Design history, the changes and the view of 19th and 20th century historians. Design history is not a conceptual development however it was developed over time and was criticized post evolution. Pioneers of the Modern Movement(Nikolaus Pevsner 1936) can be remembered as the first work which was later revised with a different name and introduced a narrative for design history, this is something criticized by today’s writers basically due to the discussion on historical narrative.

Till 60’s Pevsner & fellow historians were still very favorable of the aforesaid theory, though its not ...

In the modern world, several activists have called upon different stakeholders to ensure equality is maintained between the two genders. A lot of caution is taken in most sectors to ensure that both genders are presented with equal opportunities in any endeavor. This is very different from what the practice was some years back. Traditionally, men were considered to be superior to women. Such discrimination saw women reduced to objects whose purpose was to ensure men lived happily. To overcome these traditional myths, women have struggled hard to air their views. One of the ways they have aired their ...

Introduction

This research plan originated from a course focusing on research design proposals in political science. This proposal will summarize the existing information and find room for discovery and additional development of the dialogue surrounding women’s rights worldwide, specifically using Saudi Arabia as a focal lens. It will focus on the effect of the American media’s influence on Saudi Arabian people, and their consequent disposition towards gender equality. It draws upon data collected from numerous publications reporting on perception of America media and any changes that Saudis may have in opinion regarding women’s contributions and place in society. ...

Feminist accused the male dominated society of the subjugation of the rights of women. The history of the human race is marred with the oppression of the female gender. The injustice perpetrated by women can be attributed to the ideologies taught in mainstream religions that women are responsible for the fall of the human race and the current evil that has salvaged the society for centuries. Nevertheless, communities and ethnicities that do not subscribe to the mainstream religions undermine women in the society. Towards the late twentieth century, feminist’s movement arose as a result of the skyrocketing of the ...

Does the Marxist perspective hold any significance for contemporary American society? Why?

The Marxist perspective views social change on the socio-political and economic aspects of philosophy as being a result of economic factors. The means of production is the central tenet that determines a nation’s political life. Marx viewed capitalism as a class structure that would soon come to be outdated following revolution (socialism) rather than modification and this ideology forms the foundation for communism. The answer to the above question is NO. This is because the ideology does not seem applicable on a national scale. Furthermore, capitalism is so embedded on American’s conscience that it would be difficult to revolutionize against it. ...

It is been said that a generation can change its society. Comparing the past generations of Saudi women to present ones, one can observe significant changes in the two different age groups: those over forty years and those less than twenty years. One of the social approaches that this research paper focuses on is social conflict. Social conflict relates to how society moves forward in as far as the definition of its cultural habits is concerned. However, the social conflict in Saudi Arabia has three perspectives. First, the admission of the conflict about certain things with the willingness to discuss ...

In Kimberly Pierce’s 1999 film Boys Don't Cry, the true-life story of Brandon Teena (played by Oscar winner Hilary Swank), a transgendered man who attempts to pass for a biological man in rural Nebraska, is told. Over the course of the film, Brandon (born Teena Brandon) tries to fit in with a group of male friends he encounters, and continues to pose as a man in order to woo her friend Lana (played by Chloe Sevigny). However, by the end of the film, his friends find out about his anatomical femaleness and is raped and murdered by them. The film is commonly ...

It is of concern, it worries me, it begs the question, and ‘who am I?’ It is a life of self-seeking; searching trying to make sense of what makes me what I am. Who defines me? Is what I think I am what should be entitled of me, or is this a life of conformity? Femininity, unfortunately, confined us to the unfortunate position of finding a place to fill, occasionally, which turns out to be most of the time taking up roles which, if we have not volunteered to take yet, relegated to us by manhood. I am seven years of ...

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 ...

Sophocles was one of the most prescient and well-regarded playwrights of Greek drama, whose tragedies have established many literary and theatrical conventions that are still alive today. While Sophocles’ work is indicative of the culture in which it was created, it is also a trenchant critique of human nature as well. This comes across especially clearly in his Theban plays – Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus – in which he uses his stories and characters to reflect flaws and issues he sees with the human condition and its relationship with the gods. Exploring these critical aspects of Sophocles’ Theban ...

Introduction

History pages allow knowing a person from the past. However, there are different ways in which historians treat a subject from the past or a person who influenced the past, present or has the ability to influence the future. Such a person was Betty Friedan and this essay explores how she was perceived by two historians, respectively Daniel Horowitz and Stephanie Coontz, analyzing their account of her personal and activist life.

Body

First, there will be analyzed the work of Daniel Horowitz (“Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique: Labor Union, Radicalism and Feminism in Cold War America”, published in 1996 in American Quarterly, ...

“Personal is Political” is an oft heard cry during the 1960s and 1970s. The real meaning behind this phrase has always been identifying the grim situation of women and that the consciousness-raising groups that they formed were not for any group therapy, but so that they could make a positive contribution towards society by solving the problems that a woman faced. Such endeavors would enable them to make the society realize that women have a position in the political system. Many writers and thinkers have expressed themselves at length on this topic. One such writer is Robin Morgan, who edited the ...