Feminist film theory

Women Incarcerated. The Facts, Theories and Solutions Women over the course of history have been inconspicuous in the eyes of the criminal justice system in the United States. Today, women have begun to double the incarceration rate according, to the FBI’s Unified Crime Report. To understand this phenomenon, one would start by utilizing scholars and various methods of crime reports to compile a list of facts and evidence to understand the why’s and how’s, however this type of information…

The author, Lauren F. Serrano, believes women should not serve in the U.S Infantry. Serrano’s article, “Why Women Do Not Belong in the U.S. Infantry”, provides arguments supporting her main points. The main points Serrano includes; why the U.S. is not in need for women on the frontlines, the infantry brotherhood, and sexual assault cases. Serrano served as a Marine Officer and contributes her personal experiences from her service. Although Serrano agrees women are capable to serve in the…

Gender Theory is a lens that can be applied to a novel by analyzing male and female characters. It involves analyzing gender roles, stereotypes, etc. In the novel In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, there are different roles assigned to women and men. In the time that the novel took place in, women had the role to be obedient wives and good mothers. Men had the role to wear the pants in the relationship. Some characters in the novel conform to the roles that are given to them, but…

“A Room of One's Own” by Virginia Woolf is a breakthrough of twentieth-century feminism. It displays the history of women in literature through a series of analysis in which Woolf stresses that social and material necessities are vital in order for women to survive in the world dominated by the patriarchal. As a modernist writer, Woolf in her essay innovatively depicts an account of a woman’s thinking about the history of women. Woolf’s narrative process of using fictitious character heightens…

Forbidden Freedom In history, human rights have always been a problem, and yet to this day, it still remains. Specifically, in the past, women had adapted to live in a suppressed environment, solely because their limited rights have never allowed them to cross a certain boundary. In fact, the United States, foremost in the race of modernization in the world, enabled women to vote in 1920; however, prior to that, individualism, freedom, and equality did not exist in the dictionary for women.…

society? Well, that’s hard to explain. My theory is that people were just afraid of being more than what society defined them as. If others like you for this gender role you stepped into, why would you change? You would have everything; status, friends, and the wholehearted acceptance of others. The danger of these gender norms is comfortability. We get so comfortable in these roles that sometimes, we forget that being ourselves makes us truly happy. To end my theory, I believe that Shakespeare…

Throughout the years, women have fought for the same rights as men do. Some may argue that women are still doing this with the current wage gap and the fight against sexual assault. But poet Carmen Giménez Smith does this in a different way. In her poetry, she shows the raw reality of being a female in the darkest ways. Giménez Smith work explores many issues that affect the lives of females. Many of her works have an underlying tone of brutally honest realism in it. For example, in “Bleeding…

The Representation of Women in Katie Roche and Kathleen Ni Houlihan ‘There can be no free nation without free women’ (Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington) Discuss the representation of women in two plays on your course in relation to this statement. Women are represented in a poor manner in Katie Roche and Kathleen Ni Houlihan. Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington states, “There can be no free nation without free women”. (Kiberd) This statement is true and it also has a relation to the two Irish plays Katie Roche…

Based on Marx’s concepts in Marxist criticisms written in the theoretical framework above, the Marxism of the necklace will be analyzed. 3.1 Economic Power in “The Necklace” “The Necklace” short story gives us clear image about society in which the distribution of goods are unfair. Mathilde described as a woman who has no skill or even commodity to sell for. She has only beautiful face and appearance that she uses to attract her husband who has similar status to her. She has no access to join…

In the post- independence period woman was struggling in patriarchal societal set up for her identity. In 1960, feminism rose against the colonial rule, patriarchal practices and traditions enhance the ideology of female subordination. Shashi Deshpande’s novel In the Country of Deceit is a story of a woman Devayani who began to see the universe with their own eyes and not through the male gaze. She is shown recovering from the stage of catastrophe and mental dilemma through spiritual realization…