Feminist film theory

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question of why intersectionality is imperative to feminist discourse and praxis. Feminism, in simple terms, refers to collective desire to end the oppression of women. Because oppression takes various forms and affects those who are victim to it in a number of different though often intersecting ways, feminism can therefore be termed a multifaceted set of movements working towards multiple aims and ends. In terms of intersectionality, feminist discourse faces the task of acknowledging and…

Through Simone DeBeauvoir’s The Second Sex and Dorothy Smith’s The Everyday World as Problematic, both of these writings integrate the roles and expectations of women in situations of their development, sexual intercourse and the exclusion of women from the dominant culture of men. In the development of American society and its capitalistic economy, the function and success of the American economy partially depended on the collective notion that women were inherently inferior. For women, this…

‘redefinition’ of the archive itself: wherever the traditional archive is insufficient (particularly concerning women’s history), recourse to ‘different’ sources in which the ‘subaltern voice’ can be heard is necessary. It is through the alternative that feminist history is constructed; it is in the margins that is woven the history of this ‘silenced subaltern’ whom Gayatri Spivak seeks to expose in her seminal work “Can the Subaltern Speak”. Indeed, after independence power shifts to…

In this section, I shall examine the aspects of subverting power/relations in the two novels by the two authors. Therefore, examining images of resistance and representations, which are used from the periphery to voice women’ stories and to make them shift from being part of the subalterns to the center, and from being the subject of producing knowledge about by others to the ones who produce knowledge about the self and the other. That is to say, postcolonial writers including Abouzeid and…

The first well documented feminist theorist in the Anglo-American tradition is Mary Wollstonecraft who produced a social theory of the subordination of women in her tract, A Vindication of Rights of Women (1972). Wollstonecraft engendered a political activism that has remained as the core of western feminism. Wollstonecraft examined the society in which she lived, a society in which liberal Individualism was becoming the dominant ideological formation of personhood and social organization. What…

Amidst the support and backlash, feminism has played a vital role in shaping today’s society. To some, feminism is the belief that the woman should be equal to men, while others have defined feminism as a movement that teaches women to see themselves as victims of an unjust society as led by perverted, power-hungry, misogynistic men. Of the varying definitions above, they all share one similar aspect: the standards and perception of a certain gender, specifically the female gender. In my eyes,…

The two sources I will be evaluating are The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan and Home- Grown Radical or Home- Bound Housewife? Rethinking the Origins of the 1960s Feminism through the Life and Work of Betty Friedan by Lori E. Rotskoff. I will be evaluating these sources by looking at the origin, purpose, and content through the lenses of values and limitations. I am going to answer the question, to what extent did The Feminine Mystique lay the ideological foundations for second wave feminism?…

feminists) view the oppression of women as part of a larger structure and call for the destruction of the present structure; liberal feminists are trying to find solutions within the existing structure for the gradual realization of reforms, drawing attention to the many different influences that contribute to the inequality between generations. Liberal feminism, socialist feminism and Marxist feminism; we do not come up with obvious approaches like the radical and cultural feminisms. These…

indicate in her article “Where We Stand; Feminism and Class Power" her outlook on how the feminist movement began and how class powers play a role in feminism. In her article, Bell Hooks analyzes the term feminism as a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and other forms of oppression against women. In her article, Bell Hooks gives a great example of the concept of Feminism through her example of when the feminist movement began. When feminism began to receive media attention, only…