Karen Andrade
WGSS 496
Feminist Community Praxis
April 8, 2015
Essay #1
According to Rebecca Solnit, “Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply, rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earth- and in our minds, where it all begins and ends” (110). Solnit is trying to convey in her book Men Explain Things to Me the struggles women and feminist have gone through and are going through in a hierarchal and patriarchal society. Starting from the most recent second wave movement forty years ago to now, Solnit is rethinking and connecting women’s relations with in the contemporary societies locally and globally. Throughout the diverse essays that …show more content…
In Men Explain Things to Me she expresses the conversations men and women have where men wrongly think they know something and wrongly assume women do not know. However in the last essay of Solnit’s book she try’s to establish hope in feminists politics, “Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply, rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earth- and in our minds, where it all begins and ends” (110). What is she mean in this quote and what does it matter? This answer to this in my opinion can be developed by Solnit’s last essay “Pandora’s Box and the Volunteer Police Force” and Andrea Smith’s book chapter three “Without Apology”. Feminism equals change within women’s …show more content…
Because “feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply, rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earth- and in our minds, where it all begins and ends” (Solnit, 110). Nowadays as Andrea Smith exposes the coalition of Native feminist and evangelical feminist unity INCITE organization (154). Similarly, Rebecca Solnit in expressing the new form of feminism within the Zapatista revolution “which has a broad ideology that includes feminists as well as environmental, economic, indigenous, and other perspectives” where new forms of feminisms that arise from different conflicts arising in todays world
WGSS 496
Feminist Community Praxis
April 8, 2015
Essay #1
According to Rebecca Solnit, “Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply, rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earth- and in our minds, where it all begins and ends” (110). Solnit is trying to convey in her book Men Explain Things to Me the struggles women and feminist have gone through and are going through in a hierarchal and patriarchal society. Starting from the most recent second wave movement forty years ago to now, Solnit is rethinking and connecting women’s relations with in the contemporary societies locally and globally. Throughout the diverse essays that …show more content…
In Men Explain Things to Me she expresses the conversations men and women have where men wrongly think they know something and wrongly assume women do not know. However in the last essay of Solnit’s book she try’s to establish hope in feminists politics, “Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply, rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earth- and in our minds, where it all begins and ends” (110). What is she mean in this quote and what does it matter? This answer to this in my opinion can be developed by Solnit’s last essay “Pandora’s Box and the Volunteer Police Force” and Andrea Smith’s book chapter three “Without Apology”. Feminism equals change within women’s …show more content…
Because “feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply, rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earth- and in our minds, where it all begins and ends” (Solnit, 110). Nowadays as Andrea Smith exposes the coalition of Native feminist and evangelical feminist unity INCITE organization (154). Similarly, Rebecca Solnit in expressing the new form of feminism within the Zapatista revolution “which has a broad ideology that includes feminists as well as environmental, economic, indigenous, and other perspectives” where new forms of feminisms that arise from different conflicts arising in todays world