Feminist literary criticism

should be involved in solving. We need more feminism everywhere; it can’t be placed on one point in a woman’s life. It needs to be targeted at a broader audience so everyone feels as if it applies to them, including men, because if they were all feminists it would not be a problem in the first…

of features. All feminists see society as being divided and based on exploitation – the exploitation of women by men. Haralambos and Halborn (2004) state that “…Feminists see the exploitation of women by men as the most important source of exploitation” in society. Many feminists characterize contemporary societies as patriarchal which means that all institutions in these societies are dominated by men and work to maintain the systematic and deliberate oppression of women. Feminists have argued…

While women have come a very long way throughout time when it comes to rights and the way they are viewed there is still a lot more ground to cover. There are three waves of feminism which span different time periods and cover different struggles that have been overcome for women. Many diverse issues have been covered in the first three waves but there is still a lot to be done not only with things that weren’t touched on in the first three but also defining and taking a new stance or approach…

hope for the future. People use the lessons other individuals learned in the past to create a better tomorrow. Feminists are still fighting for gender equality, a struggle that began in the seventeenth century (Andersen, 2015). Many people are aware of feminist principles, even if their views of feminism are slightly inaccurate. However, they likely do not know about many significant feminists in history. Three influential people that affected liberal feminism in their own ways are Mary…

In 2015, Germaine Greer, a well-known and influential second wave feminist, was set to speak at a seminar at Cardiff University. However, Greer had previously made controversial statements on trans women, stating they were not real women, sparking a petition against her seminar by contemporary feminist students at the university on the grounds Greer’s stance was insensitive and insulting. Attempting to explain the situation, Ruth Edwards in a Daily Mail article titled “Silenced by Feminazis: The…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an advocate for women, who believed that they should be on the same level as men economically, socially, and politically. This was very forward thinking for the late 1800s to early 1900s. Gilman often used her literary work to make a statement about her opinions and her desire for gender equality. In her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator and her husband rent a summer house and she spends most of her time in a room upstairs with barred windows and…

organization that advocated for women’s “full social, economic, and political rights in the family, in the workplace, and in society in general” (p. 453). One of the main reasons she created WIN was to research “indigenous forms of feminist resistance” due to “criticisms that African feminism is merely an imitation of Western ideas” (p. 453). Furthermore, WIN was unique due to “its double attack on both class and gender oppression” (p. 453). She wanted to the issue of class and gender to be…

Feminism is a philosophy and movement advocating for equality between men and women on the grounds of social, political and, economic rights. For hundreds of years, women have been held back from opportunities because of their gender. Feminist activists have and to this day, are still fighting for women to have equal opportunities as men through social and political theories by protesting and campaigning. In Karen Offen’s book titled, Defining Feminism: A Comparative Historical Approach, she…

MENOPAUSE ( POEMS) Azeez Akinwumi SESAN FOREWORD A gloss over a poetry collection titled Menopause by Azeez Akinwumi Sesan could suggest “transvestism”; but a closer study reveals the transsexual trend of feminism as a literary and political movement. The passion with which the poet handles the gender issues raised seems more obsessing than that of many female writers. The discourse on the excruciating experience of the female gender in a chauvinistic based culture like…

“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie). This quote is said by Chimamanda Adichie and it deals with how we have the power to change culture into a more just society for women. Power is a very important aspect in a society and it determines who is going to be more superior. Power produces domination and therefore it creates and destroys. In the movie…