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Women have been at the gaze of men for the duration of time for as long as we can remember. Laura Mulvey places this fact very strongly in her writing Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, and asserts that this has made a victim of the female gender. However, she seems to consider not how scopophilia can be a sensation felt by a woman, nor how she can also be the barer of the same gaze that a man may give. It is also discussed that, perhaps, men are unable to even receive the gaze, suggesting…

Malala Yousafzai once said “We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past” (Yousafzai). The story “A Jury of Her Peers” is an intriguing story about a murder in which anti feminism plays a role. Feminism is an ideology still around today, in which some disagree with. Throughout the country thousands of people gather to protest for equality for women. In this story, something terrible happens. It starts…

Gender roles are generally neither positive nor negative, they are simply inaccurate labellings of the female and male attributions. Gender stereotyping can affect each person's thoughts, feelings, desires and most importantly their identity/individuality. The actions that take place in the stories Alice Munro boys and girls, Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour , Anton Chekhov The Ninny portray different types of stereotypes that affect the woman's individuality and depict them as powerless.…

Feminist theory is often misunderstood and considered to focus on an inherent goal to promote superiority of women over men. Instead, feminist theory seeks to magnify forces that support and encourage inequality, oppression and injustice and replace it with equality and justice for all oppressed people, especially women. Historically, women’s point of views has been excluded from social theory and social science, therefore, feminist theorist such as Patricia Collins and Gloria Anzaldúa have…

CARTOONS: AN ARGUMENT WITHOUT WORDS Rhetorical pieces convey powerful and persuasive messages in various textual or visual mediums. Two cartoons in “Marking A Visual Argument: Cartoons and Stereotypes” portray strong stances about social injustices. In the work by Barry Deutsch, a woman on the street sees an opportunity for a great job, but can only enter the building if she is a man, demonstrating the lack of equal opportunity in the workplace. Meanwhile, the cartoon by Clay Bennett…

The smile; universally known as a symbol of happiness. However, for women, the smile means something much different. Women are expected to have a smile plastered on their faces at all times, despite what their true emotions are. Amy Cunningham, the author of Why Women Smile has a strong belief that smiles are used to oppress women and make them appear more docile. The smile has evolved into the symbol of the simple woman: kind, motherly, and overall powerless. Women should feel comfortable to…

Morggan Edelbrock’s Declaration of Independence From society's expectation for the way people should dress Society has their own visual on how everyone should dress. In my opinion, it's one of the biggest problems in society today. People need to stop harassing others for the way they dress. Many people get made fun of for not having “modern clothing”, wearing the newest shoes, or the most expensive jewelry. Not every child's parents buy them everything they want, many kids have one, two or…

Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is a book about one woman, Edna Pontellier, and about every woman in her society. Though it is not in itself a book of feminist teachings, its purpose was to enlighten---and hopefully awaken---its female readers to their selves and their humanity by showing the awakening of one such woman. Presumably, her intended audience was young to middle-aged women, both married and single, who were interested in love stories, art, scandals, or social analysis. As a young, single…

often leaving strong female characters in the shadows dependent on their male counterparts. Historically, there…

Works Cited Mardorossian, Carine M. Framing the Rape Victim: Gender and Agency Reconsidered. Rutgers University Press, 2014 “We live in a “rape culture” … not because U.S. culture is inherently in the business of normalizing sexual violence against women but because violence is an inherently sexualized phenomenon of which rape is the extreme form” (Mardorossian 8). In Carine M. Mardorossian’s, Framing the Rape Victim, the feminist professor voices how gendered crime continues to remain…