During the weeks reading, many questions that I am sure most people have about a course such as Intro to Women Studies, for me I wanted to know why and how Women Studies started. After reading Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s “Forty Years of Women’s Studies” and New York Radical Women “No More Miss America”, I can truly say that I have better understanding of the original reason Women studies course developed. Both articles examine the ways women of different ethical groups have come together for the betterment of women over 40 years as the one title states. As a young Black woman, I can defiantly relate to the described women in each article. Unfortunately, in some black community’s woman and girls are care takers and/ or have minimum wage jobs. However, this is not an ethical norm for all black woman there are some women that want to develop themselves and stand out from stereotypes given to them.
The authors identified separation of women because of physical difference as one of the primary issues in current studies of women around the world. In the article, No More Miss America the author highlights that African American, Puerto Rican, Alaskan, Hawaiian, Mexican or Native American that became a finalist have ever become Miss America this is extremely surprising to me because I have personally been to pageants before and there are …show more content…
Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s “Forty Years of Women’s Studies”, focuses on how women overall have come to a common ground that the knowledge that each background should offer is worth more when able to combined the research with other scholars in universities across the world. I do feel that Women Studies is a very powerful interdisciplinary field that has a huge ability of changing the ways the human body interact with people outside of their immediate backgrounds, as well as any discipline that incorporates increasing the knowledge of
The authors identified separation of women because of physical difference as one of the primary issues in current studies of women around the world. In the article, No More Miss America the author highlights that African American, Puerto Rican, Alaskan, Hawaiian, Mexican or Native American that became a finalist have ever become Miss America this is extremely surprising to me because I have personally been to pageants before and there are …show more content…
Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s “Forty Years of Women’s Studies”, focuses on how women overall have come to a common ground that the knowledge that each background should offer is worth more when able to combined the research with other scholars in universities across the world. I do feel that Women Studies is a very powerful interdisciplinary field that has a huge ability of changing the ways the human body interact with people outside of their immediate backgrounds, as well as any discipline that incorporates increasing the knowledge of