Feminist movement

era for a new kind of movement: the rise of the right. However, even in this conservative period, feminists were just beginning to raise their call to freedom. They pushed for new legislation, held marches, and spoke their mind in a way that the country had never experienced before. The Equal Rights Amendment was their culminating ambition, creating equality for all genders under the law. But, of course, opposition arose too. As ERA NOW became the rallying cry for feminists everywhere, the…

Contemporary feminist theory has established that gender is a social construct, but Judith Butler takes this a step further and says that if gender is a social construct then sex is too. A quote that says this somewhat clearly is “Gender is the repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance, of a natural sort of being (33).” What I got from this was that famous Judith Butler idea of how…

admiration but most importantly, to provoke deep questioning of our social and political landscape. The Feminist art movement that emerged in the late 1960s paved way for women to create liberating and inspiring messages to encourage change towards equality. Feminist art aimed to strived to change the world around them as used their art to influence societal attitudes and transform stereotypes. While the movement worked to act as catalysts for change, there are three artists who…

An analysis on how patriarchy is undermining the growth of women. A case study of The Colour Purple. 1. BACKGROUND Patriarchy is a social system where man holds primary power and predominant moral authority, social privileges and political power. The fathers exercise power over his wife and children. Patriarchy is undermining women’s growth economically and socially there by impacting the growth and development of the country at large Despite the economic social and developmental achievements…

Feminist theory as it relates to domestic violence highlights femininity vs masculinity and authority disparity in heterosexual relationships. It concentrations on the public messages that punishes a male’s use of viciousness and violence throughout life, and the forbidden gender roles that determines how men and women should behave in their intimate relationships. “Violence against women includes all verbal, physical, and sexual assaults which violate a woman’s physical body, sense of self and…

this dinner party, all of whom besides Marlene and Griselda I would argue represent what are known as the first-wave feminists which was the feminist movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on the legal oppression of women, especially in regards to suffrage. Marlene, however, seems to represent the second-wave feminists. This movement is defined as the feminist movement from the 1960s into the mid-1980s which focused on the unofficial but still highly noticeable oppression of…

Feminist theory tries to understand gender inequality, and it examines women’s social roles, interests, experiences, and politics in all aspects of life and fields. There is a strong focus in discrimination, objectification, oppression, patriarchy, and stereotyping. Feminist theory appeared as long ago as the late 1700’s with a Navajo Myth that spoke of woman who populated the world. Later in the mid 1800’s Sojourner Truth created a publication which discussed women having limited rights…

very important issue that commendably changes the lives of girls everywhere. However, I do not call myself a feminist because, in this technology driven age, Buzzfeed represents feminism. I can’t physically throw up in my mouth, but… B. I have a vested interest in making feminism work. I have impartially judged whether or not I would like to take part in the feminism movement and have done a lot of outside research on what feminism is. So I have seen the effects of Buzzfeed firsthand…

Vagina Monologs is a play by the American feminist Eve Ensler. It is, evidently, a questionable gem. Eve Ensler's play, The Vagina Monologs, challenges rhetorical critics, feminist activists, and scholars of numerous types, to reconsider the relationship between the body, especially the female body, and current understandings of public and private. Thusly, Ensler's play additionally moves us to investigate the status of the body inside rhetorical and feminist studies. The Vagina Monologs'…

“’Where are the women?’” This is the central question to Cynthia Enloe’s pioneering book Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, in her endeavour to resituate women and women’s labour (whether domestic, sexual, manual or emotional) in their deserved spot within the centre of both the discipline and day-to-day practice of international politics. Enloe skilfully demonstrates the fundamental role women continue to play in the international arena through a series…