Feminist film theory

Staying Alive by Vandana Shiva makes a person see the world in a different light. Shiva is one of the world's most prominent radical scientists and her work are focused on women nature relation. In Staying Alive, the developmental science, the patriarchal system experienced all around the globe, women and her relation with nature are among the core aspects of the book. She examines the position of women in relation to nature and violation of nature with marginalization of women. The author has…

extensively criticised for making few references to women and to the issue of gender in his work, Foucault’s focus on the relations between power, the body and sexuality have made a significant contribution to a feminist critique of essentialism (Diamond & Quinby, 1988, p. 167). However, contemporary feminist, including Dorothy Smith, are critical of Foucault’s silence and position on women oppression, and the impact of gender relations within the theoretical community (Wijitbusaba, 2005, p.…

In the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ Skloot develops variety’s of central ideas throughout the text. One of the central ideas is patients rights. She anylisis this central idea by demostrating how the patients have their rights, yet its like they didnt have any. First off with HEnrietta, Henrietta was a african american patient at hopkins hospitl. Which was the only option she had since segregation was a thing back then. They made henrietta sign a consent form, On page 31 it…

conservative thinking on the one side they are talking about women rights on the other had they are considering white women have right to live.Taliokng about Dr. Ritu Tyagi in his journal “Understand post-colonial feminism in relation with post-colonial and feminist” discussing the issue of Harem and veil and quoted Fatima Mernissie who argued that: “there is an ideological divide in Muslim society between…

Feminism in Fifth Business and Hamlet The current society has various perspectives of women both negative and positive. Moreover, literature exemplifies the different role of women comparing the roles of ancient and modern women. These comparisons have one thing in common, and that is the multifaceted roles of women in the ancient and modern society. This comparison is evident in two works of literature centuries apart; Fifth Business by Robert Davies and Hamlet by William Shakespeare. The main…

use a combination of repetition, feminist language, and a sense of equality to get their message across. Even though each song and band fit under the riot girl genre they take different approaches to addressing the feminist topic and stance. The song “Feminazi” by Fea is a perfect example of modern day riot girl. In the song, the concept of feminism is explicated, by the lead singer, Theresa Moher blantly stating her beliefs. Throughout the song, the word feminist is used as a term of…

utilizes them to show how some of them may promote the interests of women. In her work Feminist Transformations of Moral Theory, Held critiques the presumed male biases in philosophy and prompts readers to read philosophy in a different light. She argues that philosophy has misread the human condition by assigning terms like “rational” and “human” to a specific gender. Throughout Feminist Transformations of Moral Theory, Held brings up the idea that the concept of human has always been…

had many differences they both covered the common thread of feminism and inequality in the world of art. The first of which was Sheila Butler, a visual artist, former professor, and a founding member of Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, or MAWA, a feminist visual arts education centre. They were responding to the inequities that they perceived in the art community in Winnipeg, that stems from the general subordination of women by men in society. She observed that too few women were receiving…

After World War II, eugenics theories which favoured the purity of the race and heterosexuality, were still in people’s mind and common in many societies. Many traditional norms were still spreading and part of societies. The article The Continuing Struggle against Genocide: Indigenous Women’s Reproductive Rights by D. Marie Ralstin- Lewis, written in 2005, analyzes how the weight of women’s choices over their bodies were limited in the science domain which was influenced by politics and the…

A common theme in Audre Lorde’s “Zami: A New Spelling of My Name” is the idea of intersectionality and how these different categories make up a person’s identity. Lorde has many different identities that make her a whole. She has a hard time separating these things within her, because she is never just Black, or just a women, or just a lesbian. However, she is often forced to pick between her identities and is rarely allowed or comfortable enough expressing all three. Therefore, she quite often…