Feminist Criticism Essay

It also opens a discussion of feminism. “The Search for Wonder Woman An Autoethnography of Feminist Identity” article, writer writes about her own transformational learning about feminism. When she struggle about the feminist theory, one day one of her friends call her a “Wonder Women”. This cartoon character become her inspiration and she find out her understanding of feminism. She realize that she is really…

The figure of Mariam in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam has been of tremendous interest to feminist critics who view her as a character embodying the contradictions of female identity in patriarchal culture. The play exposes this culture as conflicted in itself because of contradictory ideas about the proper "performance" of femininity which not only sever the female subject, but also create irreconcilable dilemmas for males. Mariam must choose between speaking as her own "inner" voice…

This essay will critically analyse the role of feminism in the extract from Sarah Waters’ “Affinity”. I will examine how women in this extract are defined by their relationship with men. This lens will also focus on the power that men holdover women in this extract. I will analyse how this power affects and controls the women we meet. At first glance it is easy to tell that there is some kind of upset in the first paragraph in this extract. It doesn’t take long to realise that it’s the fault…

PARTICIPATION OF THE BODO WOMEN IN AGRICULTURAL AND ALLIED OPERATIONS : A CASE STUDY IN BAKSADISTRICT OF ASSAM, INDIA DETSUNG SWARGIARY, JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, DEPT. OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH, GAUHATI UNIVERSITY, ASSAM, INDIA detswargiary@gmail.com ABSTRACT The women in the Bodo society occupy a crucial place. They play a vital role in social, cultural, religious and economic means of life in their society. The Bodo women of village folk actively participate in agricultural…

FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF “TIP DRILL” Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. popularly known in the American music industry as Nelly came out with “Tip Drill” on his 2003 remix album Da Dertty Versions, he featured the St. Lunatics on this song. The expression tip drill is a slang vulgar expression, describing a well-known ugly girl with a nice body, hefty breast and backside. The lyrics of “Tip Drill” describe a girl who can only attract the opposite sex with her body and not her face, she is cheap and ready to…

Anagha Bandaru 12/14/17 Pd. 5 Things Fall Apart and Gilgamesh Comparison Essay: Gender Roles Women always have been undermined in society. Though now, in the 21st century, they have more rights and freedom, it wasn’t always like that. They were always the lesser sex, including in today’s society, always coming after men. However, some civilizations/countries had slightly different views on men. For example, in Gilgamesh, even though women are still depicted as lustful and house wives, women…

Mary Shelley, the author of the novel Frankenstein was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, a woman whom many consider to be the first modern feminist. Mary Wollstonecraft authored the pamphlet “Vindication of Women’s Rights” in 1792, in which she argued that women were not, by their nature, inferior to men, but may have appeared so only because they lacked the same educational opportunities to which men had far greater access. Much has been written about Mary Shelley’s life that demonstrates…

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” (Mary Wollstonecraft) Women’s rights remain as some of the biggest issues talked about in society today. Women in this generation sense a need of representative who obtains their rights in mind, and willing to fight for them. For this reason, the article “Dreams of My Mother "by Anna March attempts to convince readers regarding the legitimacy of Mrs. Clinton's candidacy by using issues, pathological appeals and…

Nightingale (2006) critical analysis was to recognize gender-environment nexus from different point of views (feminists, political ecologists, essentialists, historical materialists etc) for innate knowledge to conceptualize about relationship between gender and environment. Her main argument was ‘gender’ is biologically constructed social, cultural and political phenomena defined by sex where women are more oppressed and marginalized by male hegemony but also dominated by class, race, color and…

In the article “We Should All Be Feminists,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about what is wrong with today's norms that are set around gender and the word feminism.This article confirms most of my thoughts on the stereotype associated with feminism, but fails to give the point of view from a male feminist which is much different. Adichie does a great job of pointing out the problem of discrimination towards women and, even more so, women that identify as feminist, but doesn't go into detail on…