The theory of intersectionality, coined by legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989 in her ground-breaking article Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color, has been regarded as one of the most important contributions to feminist scholarship. This theory allows for examination of intersections of identities, and how these intersections form individual identities. However, this definition is vague and does not explain how one should study…
Feminism, a concept born from women’s rights advocates, has existed as a term in history. Recently the definition of feminism has become unclear to modern society. According to Mirriam Webster dictionary: “Feminism: the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes,” However; because feminism has become such a negatively associated word, efforts to strengthen the unity and equality between the sexes have been weakened and only expand the gap due to the misconceptions…
She contrasts this mode of criticism with what she terms the ‘feminist critique’. (Eagleton, 1991) Therefore, rather than adapting male models and theories, Gynocriticism constructs a female framework for the analysis of women’s literature which develops new models based on the study of female experience. Gynocriticism is a literary theory that is relatively new and continues to evolve. From the perspective of Gynocriticism, until the patriarchal ideology…
have presented a critical study of three feminist utopias written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century viz. The Palanquin Tassel (1889), Sultana’s Dream, (1905), and Herland (1915) from a comparative perspective. All these three works provide significant feminist critiques of the society of their times. They are therefore, I argue, significant contributions to the utopian ideas of nineteenth and twentieth century as well as to feminist theory. It is surprising, given the scope of…
Hill Collins in Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, black feminists try to establish a voice for black women’s experiences in the world (p. 221). Black Feminism theorists such as Collins want to create knowledge and power within the black women to stand up to the patterned social domination, and allow subordinate groups to express and establish their own reality (p. 221). According to Ritzer and Stepnisky (2013), feminism theory explores the reality…
To start with, women’s studies are the destabilization of modern theory. Is there a cause for women’s oppression? Can it be specified? The intention is to challenge, or reverse theory. To better understand, one must consider the differentiation of feminist theories. Feminism was divided into “liberal, socialist and radical varieties.”(Barrett & Phillips 3) Liberal feminists emphasized on prejudice, discrimination, irrationality, basically the stereotypical gender aspect…
The feminist innovations as a whole made it possible for women to be considered as much important as the dominant culture which is men; it also helped advance women's rights. All together with feminist theories and activist, the feminist innovative artists have given chances for women in art. Lacy has plenty of work to show for along with ideas that promote gender being relevant in art, the connections between gender and art, and the different aspects of gender still being an issue in art. A…
The feminist theory is always adapting to new cultures and always changing. What stems from the feminist theory is feminist literary criticism “feminist criticism examines the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforces or undermines the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women” (Critical Theory Today, 4 Feminist Criticism, pg. 79 Tyson, Louis). This theory shows us how patriarchal our society is and that’s how Susan Glaspell’s shows her work in…
intervention to a system based on financial aid and development projects, development theories encompass a wide range of ideas from plumbing like Water Aid to exported democracy and renewable energy. Diane Elson was among several 20th-century feminist critics to argue that contemporary development thought recreated older divisions, particularly notable in the exclusion of women’s perspectives within development theories, arguing that: “It facilitates the view that ‘women’, as general category,…
Contrary to the social comparison theory, which states that individuals typically seek to make social comparisons that will help them view themselves in a more favorable light, women continually compare their own bodies with unrealistic thin images (Myers et al., 2012). Levi-AriLev-Ari et…