Feminist movement

domestic violence against women, predominantly by men, in order to offer more specific insight into the issue. As a result of this focus, the theories explored will focus on a feminist theoretical perspective, although other sociological theories will be drawn on through discussion of subsections of feminist theory. Feminist theory in general provides a valuable basic framework to explore…

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”…

Not following any specific artistic movement of her time, O’Keeffe experimented with abstracting motifs from nature. She practiced realism to produce works that emphasized the primary forms of nature in a cropped photograph method she learned from photographer, Paul Strand. Many critics assume there is hidden symbolism in her artwork that leads her audience to believe she is working towards an outer goal, a feminist movement. Although many of her flower paintings indeed look like…

Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's What is Feminism? Rosemary Radford Ruether Professor of Feminist Theology at Claremont Graduate University says that Feminism is the affirmation of the full humanity of women. As a man I was kind of skeptical about getting to this section on gender. I got even more worried when I found out the book that we had to read was about Feminism. I know that women have been oppressed and that they don’t get equal rights now, but while…

to question whether or not the feminist movement is still necessary, as they believe equality has been achieved. Some people, beyond believing that men and women have become equal, believe that women have surpassed men in terms of gender equality and that men have become the oppressed group. This has lead to a recent trend of men’s rights activists, or “meninists” which started as a satirical stance on radical feminism, only to later be taken and turned into a movement. In this paper, the…

Hooks we are given an introduction into the feminist movement with regards to marriage and partnership. Hooks brings her view on the role of feminism and marriage into light as she walks us through the early feminist movement and the impact it had on marriages and partnerships. She argues that man’s view on women must change in order for the patriarchal view on marriage to reform. First of all, one of the most important ideas in the feminist movement was the one based around the idea that women…

Feminism, a highly controversial issue in the late eighteenth century England, and the key figure of this particular movement is John Stuart Mill and Mary Woolstonecraft is seen to be the leading figure, who fights for social equality among men and women, especially by providing equal opportunities and rights in the fields of education and marriage. Women’s rights were a disputatious topic during the eighteenth century and Austen certainly concerned herself therefore, Feminism, is a belief that…

reference to specific images, placed in cultural and historical context. The word feminist, in today's day and age, is passed around in sentences that can be the complete opposite of one another. Today feminism in society can be seen as a dirty word, not because it is, but because many people are unaware and unsure of its meaning. For some obscure reason many people today believe that feminists are something of a cult movement that is making a negative change in today's society. In this essay,…

The Anti-Rape Movement in the United States The anti-rape movement started in late 1960`s and early 1970`s. According to Gornick and Meyer (1998,p. 375), it emerged from the women`s movement. The anti-rape movement began due to the increasing concern of rape and violence against women in late 1960`s when there was an upsurge in the number of women entering the workforce. The rise of rape cases was first seen as a social problem that pulled the attention of major feminist activist, which…

Perhaps one of the most relevant feminist art movement works on the theme of striptease and raunch culture is American visual artist Hannah Wilke’s: Super-T-Art -1974. Captured at the Kitchen, New York; Super-T-Art shows the artist in a progression of twenty poses in which she portrays the transformation…