Feminist film theory

Hooks’ approach to capitalism, power structures and feminist movement in this text suggests she is a radical feminist. Here, she aligns conservative and liberal feminism with bourgeois ideology, a concept which occupies much of her criticism throughout the book: “It is no accident that feminist struggle has been so easily co-opted to serve the interests of conservative and liberal feminists since feminism in the United States has so far been a bourgeois ideology” (8). Radical feminism seeks to…

Mona Hatoum and her Palestinian family lived in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 but she now lives and works in London and Berlin. Mona Hatoum has transformed familiar, every-day, domestic items such as chairs, and kitchen utensils into things foreign, intimidating and daring. Mona Hatoum works with a random collection of materials, spaces, and visual genres, the only real consistency and noticeability in Hatoum's work is her use of home style everyday used products. The viewers of Mona’s artwork can…

Thesis Argument: The Choice Feminist acceptance and endorsement of modern day body modification practices, procedures, and sexual behavior as one of individual choice, is a flawed representation of feminine power. In fact, I contend that women are diminishing the respect they receive from male counterparts, and are continuously objectifying their bodies with the various body enhancements and explicit public sexual behavior. Susan Bordo, John Gaventa, and several feminist authors that I will…

thus creating a specific form of discrimination: trans-misogyny (14). Trans women not only need to fight their rights as a trans person but also for their rights as a woman, a difficult position in itself. Therefore, at its core, trans-activism is a feminist movement…

secular liberal feminism, which has at times been exploited to serve imperial projects and to promulgate Western ideas at the expense of local, non-liberal ones. Ultimately, for this essay I will explore Mahmood’s critique, the application of her non-theory of agency, and her ethnographic presentation. First, without a doubt, this book is…

Importantly, the second feminist movement made profound objectives when it came to the reconstruction of law. Women are not denied jobs except the ones businesses think that they cannot fulfill, like doctor, lawyers, etc. "’Hell yes, we have a quota...We do keep women out, when we can. We don 't want them here — and they don 't want them elsewhere, either, whether or not they 'll admit it.’" Moreover, women are also not afforded the same amount of gratuity for the jobs they can work at that men…

What Does the Term Empowerment Mean? ‘Empowerment’ began with the concept of ‘conscientisation’ coined in 1968, by Paulo Freire, a Brazilian academic. Defined as process to which an oppressed person perceives the structural conditions of oppression. Subsequently, through conscientisation, groups are able to take action upon oppressors. In other words, groups and people become critically aware and awareness turns into action. The term empowerment took its origins from conscientisation in the 70s,…

Professor Magers Eng 160 WP4 Nov 23, 2016 Feminism A feminist can be defined as a person who supports feminism. Feminism is a range of political movement, ideologies and social movement that share the common objective of characterizing, building up and accomplishing political, financial, individual and social right for the women (Hawkesworth 12). Hillary Clinton, a Democrat presidential candidate in the United States of America, can be regarded as a feminist due to her act of defending women…

Higher Education respectively. Both articles are resistant to the anti-beauty claims made by feminist writers. “Anti-beauty myth” discusses why people are still beauty conscious despite feminist efforts to punish over-emphasis on beauty while “Taking Beauty’s Measure” believes beauty should be desired rather than being ostracised. Even though both writers draw attention to the plausible flaws of the feminists’ claims, Christine Rosen, in “Anti-beauty myth”, provides an alternative perspective of…

Introduction Transformative design is described by Creswell and Plano Clark (2007), as providing a “theoretical perspective to help address injustices o bring about change for an underrepresented or marginalize group” (p. 194). The feminist research Telling It All: A Story of Women's Social Capital Using a Mixed Methods Approach conducted by Hodgkin’s (2008), attempts to explain the concept of social capital and the varying differences that it has on men and women. The research “sought to…