Feminist Criticism Essay

destroying that toxic mindset should be the main focus of the revived feminist movement. If feminism had done what it is intended to do, then women of all ages would be experiencing the same rights and status as men. Instead, some women, mostly younger, are being treated properly- either due to their high beauty appeal or the fact that they live in a feminist bubble (a place where people actually understand and live by feminist ideals of equality)- while the rest are not, with an added emphasis…

The Male Gaze and Gender Stereotypes in Popular Culture Popular culture is significance of structuring race, class, and gender. “Although popular culture can be a powerful mechanism for sharping us, it can also be a vehicle for challenging structured inequalities and social injustices” (Guy, 2007, P. 15). According to Guy (2007), popular culture emerged as a concept in nineteenth-centry England and was taken to mean the culture of the masses. It was frequently used in contrast to ‘high culture’.…

and Minnelli’s wife, Judy Garland. While The Pirate endured tumultuous filming, negative critical reviews and underwhelming box office, it still stands as one of Minnelli’s most intriguing pieces of work. While he had been less outright with his feminist perspective in Meet Me in St. Louis, he enjoyed his newly allotted creative freedom to explore the idea in more depth and with a greater sense of satire toward patriarchal…

both can exist. She stated that many therapists were focused on feminist therapy when she was in university. She took courses that helped her develop her feminism style of counselling and provided her with an open mind. She states that over 35 years, counselling has evolved from "the position and power of the therapist to one that most often privileges the power and voice of the client." (Myers Avis, 2005, p.7). She states feminist therapy is growing as there is an increasing number of…

Equality between the sexes. People who strive to achieve this goal are called feminists. This is an idea that everyone usually talks about once in their life, and of course everyone has their own opinion about the topic. However, even in the year 2016, gender inequality is still happening and there are so many people out there who are working so hard to even make some difference in this matter. Feminism is still a big topic in today’s society, and cannot be fixed unless it is talked about and…

Introduction: Feminist sociology is a way in which sociologists are able to look at the world in a way in which other sociological theories do not thoroughly explore. They do so by looking at the world from the female perspective. The novel Oryx and Crake (2009) can be critiqued using feminist sociology, focusing primarily on the socialist feminist theory. The effect that the capitalist society has on the opportunities of the female characters within this novel will be addressed, as well as the…

Miss Congeniality is an action comedy film that came out in the year 2000. This film starred the very well- known actress Sandra Bullock, who plays an FBI agent who has to undergo a transformation in order to become a contestant in the Miss America pageant. Bullock was later nominated for Best Actress at the 2001 Golden Globes, for her performance in Miss Congeniality. From its opening weekend till now Miss Congeniality has made close to a hundred and seven million dollars. The director of this…

Faust considers that The Piano’s extrapolation into both feminist discourse and postcolonial readings emanates from the “various interpretations of the film [that] may result from national differences”. Faust elucidates her ideas further illustrating that Western viewings might “sometimes overlook the historical…

Critical review of the article Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory by Judith Butler Gender is a difficult term to define. Some people might think it is the external characteristics of a person what marks it, others believe it is what it is what you feel inside, and another may hold that is what society imposes them. This critical review examines an article that argues that “gender identity is a performative accomplishment compelled by social…

To explain, in the mid-nineteenth century the women’s suffrage movement occurred, and continued until gaining women the right to vote. In the nineteenth century, a feminist art movement emerged in the late 1960’s with the goal of feminist artists seeking to change the world around them through their artwork, mainly focusing on intervening in the establishment art world, the art historical principle, as well as everyday social interactions (DiTolla)…