To reiterate, Chicanas/os did not have full rights to their citizenship due to racialized ideas influenced by white superiority. Formal citizenship grants rights to a citizen and substantive citizenship is the ability to exercise them. The three cases illustrates that physical features dictate whether a person can exercise their rights and be free from discrimination.…
How Gender and/or Sexuality challenge Chicana and Chicano identity The Main Character in Gil Cuadros City of God, does not clearly state his name. In “Indulgences” the main character is the only non-adult sitting at the table when someone says “Eat Gilberto, eat” which is a statement usually associated between an adult and child. Asking Gilberto to eat is similar to parent saying, ‘eat before you go out to play’ and because Gilberto is the youngest at the table it seems appropriate and most likely that an adult is telling the youngest to eat. Another reason why Gilberto is the name of the main character is because this is the author’s auto biography.…
Previously, I attended a GSWS event with speaker Bonnie Dow from Vanderbilt University. At the event, Dow presented her talk about rhetoric’s in correspondence the Second Wave of Feminism. To explain more in depth, Dow explored the documents that contributed to the various movements and activist groups within the Second Wave. However, she also explains that these rhetorical documents were rather underrepresented. The underrepresentation of these rhetorical documents provided miscommunication of multiple intersectional groups that bloomed during the Second Wave.…
Chicanas in America faces difficulties when seeking their identity. Although Chicanas/o find it difficult to balance two cultures, they feel isolated doing so. The author acknowledges the power of what art and literature obtains when carrying out their goal or message. Chicanas uses these tools to aware the public about issues they face and how hard it is to be a Chicana in two distinct cultures. Many Chicana struggles with their identity and they communicate through art and literature.…
At last, chapter 6 concludes Chicana feminist movements in 1960’s to 1970’s leave legacies today, which involves into racial, political, and gendered movements, and the movements affected on today’s culture, such as music and print…
She fails to recognize and acknowledge individually the women activists who fought against poverty, racism, and gender issues. In the book, Marsden ignores the roles these women played in achieving the milestones women made back in those days. She does not include the different and specific types of feminisms that developed during each era; she ignores radical feminists who were mainly popular back in the early 90’s, and whose activism provided a foundation and breeding ground for many ideas arising from feminism that was then shaped into various other types and forms of feminisms. Radical feminists goal was to eliminate patriarchy and focused on social change, which is the core of Marsden’s book and it would have added a little more to the book if Marsden had acknowledged their works and the changes in the different types of feminism that have occurred since…
Higginbotham correctly identifies two major fallacies of the traditional feminist historical lens that prevents it from being accessible to women of color. Her first issue is of the overwhelming omission of black female perspectives in mainstream historical analyses of gender which create an incomplete picture of gender oppression. Her indict of the new wave of feminist theories center around the problem of theorists “find[ing] little to say race.” Higginbotham’s extrapolations indicate that the lack of analysis done on the perspective of women of color ironically reproduces the very subjugation and repression of consciousness that many feminists hope to eradicate in the male versus female power imbalance. Her second criticism of the traditional feminist movement is of the “homogenization of womanhood.”…
Thus, one can observe how the "all" women rhetoric is a façade, and that realities are subject to change based on intersectionality. Here, then, we see a connection to Connell (2009), who states that "the differences among women" are "highly relevant" to our social world and must not be dismissed for the…
History curriculum as each navigates the simultaneous “common sense” and complicated tropes of an “angry feminist” culture, this study highlights the importance of feminist historians and feminist scholars of history education in creating and circulating the rhetorical resources necessary to build and sustain gender as a category of historical analysis. __________________________________________________________________ To understand how the “common sense”rhetoric of curriculum influenced by policymaker responses to revisions that would embrace gender as a category of historical analysis, this dissertation enacts a rhetorical-historical approach blending rhetorical criticism with rhetorical history in understanding the complicated nature of the use of gender as a category to reframe curriculum.…
I have to recount the most profound statements I have read in Lying-In. After an exchange with an ignorant Montana Senator, a Kentucky House Representative defends child and maternal care as a governmental duty and the newly minted Children’s Bureau in 1919. He says “a right to expect that they will have an equal chance with every other child in the world, not only to be born in health… but… to survive.” I thought back to my high school introduction to feminism. I was sitting in the classroom of one of the only black teachers in my art school.…
As well as looking at the commodification of people, where people are treated as commodities. They might also focus on how social classes are represented and how they interact or conflict. Feminist…
Women’s and Gender Studies Reflective Essay My journey through Women’s and Gender Studies has been an eye opening experience. I say experience because this was more than a Quest I class for me, with each new topic we discussed in class, I became more aware of the social justice issues around me. Women’s and Gender Studies has not only made me more aware of social justice issues, but also helped me gain the confidence and knowledge to speak up when I see injustices around me.…
Moi and hooks point out that the need for easy to understand literature needs to be developed, hooks has even attempted this by writing Feminism is for Everybody. However, the issue that arises is that people simply don’t want to read or talk about feminism outside of academia, even if it’s easy to understand. The demonization of feminism is a huge hurtle to o overcome. With that in mind, putting forward a new idea of feminist theory is the only action that can be taken. Moi states that feminism must be updated for modern culture and ideas, however she doesn’t provide an answer.…
Frailty, thy name is woman”- Hamlet The above quote from hamlet clearly states the position of women in a patriarchal society. Woman are considered physically and morally weak. They are considered as beings of less intelligence and have lesser understanding of the world. According to (Z., 2011) , studies related to heroines of any play are somewhat underrated, even though the plot is strengthened due to female characters.…
Women have endured social tyranny in their homes and in their countries, but it has not stopped them, it has pushed them forward. The gained then were victories that motivated the women to keep fighting and make their voices heard. Although there may still be discrimination against women today, the gender roles and social injustice is gradually diminishing. The movement was a turning point in history, and has affected women world…