Feminist film theory

Modern Myth, Meet Feminism Jennifer K. Stuller Jennifer Stuller is an American writer, editor, popular culture critic, and historian best known for her work on female representation in comic books, TV, and movies. The main idea of the text is that as the later half of the 20th century progressed, women depictions in media became increasingly progressive, sexy, and complex. The reading was assigned to give us a sense of how hard and long it took for women to be depicted as equals. Modern Myth,…

“Is Female to male as nature is to culture? Thoughts on Making Gender” Henrietta L. Moore analyses Sherry Ortner's position on the difficulties related to gender analysis and on those theoretical tools used by the anthropological thought of the feminists in the 70s. It is here highlighted the struggle of contextualizing her work with structuralism and universalism, the role of agency, and the question of female subordination: is there a universal dichotomy between man-female as there is between…

Carol Cohn and J. Ann Tickner both offer a feminist critique of the field of international relations. Cohn focuses specifically on the language associated with nuclear weaponry while Ticker contextualizes Cohn’s work to more broadly analyze the field; however, they would both agree that the field of international relations is dominated by a male perspective that largely ignores the female voice. For this paper, I argue that Joe Nye’s conception of liberal institutionalism manages to be more…

Bell Hooks is one of the most well-known feminist figures of today, having written many books on feminism including Feminist Theory From Margin to Center and Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. She is also a well-known academic who has taught at Yale University, Oberlin College, The City College of New York, and is currently a professor at Berea College in Kentucky (Net Industries). In 2013, Hooks wrote an article for a blog called The Feminist Wire called “Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In”…

education and political representation. Therefore, feminist belief is based on the notion that men and women should possess equal rights and opportunities in all fields as dominated by men. Thus, women are intellectually and socially equal to men. The article aims at evaluating whether the selected texts, “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and “The Story of an Hour” support the feminist belief. “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin reflects the feminist belief. Mrs. Mallard as the main character is…

Our Communities, Our Self-Determination” by Winona LaDuke through a feminist technoscience lens, and argue that Indigenous environmental conservation practices are long standing form of technology that can be used to resist harmful neo-colonial capitalist practices and renegotiate the treatment of land, sovereignty, and the rights of women. Feminist technoscience is an interdisciplinary field of study that emerged from feminist critiques, and takes a social constructivist approach to tackle…

In today’s society, many controversies like feminism has been a major topic of discussion. This feminism is essentially the public support of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. Men believe that women should not have the same rights as them. These men do not know what it is like if roles were reversed. If men were women and women were men, the men would fight against women to obtain the exact same rights as what women were asking for. This is very…

in order to explore their ideas and opinions on feminism, sexism, and racism. The authors put forth several ideas that are still relevant today, over thirty years after the book was originally published. One concept, created by Cherrie Moraga, is “theory in the flesh.” Moraga wanted to look at women’s real-life experiences, bring these women together to form a powerful group, and actively confront contradictions associated with women of color feminism. Bridge uses this concept by presenting…

held back by unequal pay, being denied leadership roles, having to be the primary caretaker of children, and more. Feminists argue that they are trying to improve society by correcting these issues. Richard Dorment is his essay “Why Men Still Can’t Have It All” explores the topic of feminism and attempts to show a different view of it by showing some negative aspects of the feminist movement. This stance challenges a movement that proclaims it is fighting for an honorable cause. In his essay,…

Book review: Mahmood, Saba (2005) Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Politics of Piety is about the formation of Islamic female subjects in Cairo, Egypt. In this monograph, Saba Mahmood follows the lives of participants of a female mosque movement. Her informants attend weekly prayers and religious lessons at local mosques in a conscious effort at religious furtherance. The mosque movement emerged in recent decades as part of…