Feminist movement

In what is to follow, this reaction paper will deconstruct and discuss the reading Feminist Framework Plus: Knitting Feminist Theories of Rape Etiology Into a Comprehensive Model, written by Beverly A. McPhail (2015). The foremost intention of McPhail’s work was to present a holistic feminist centered framework, which she believed would more accurately capture the reality and experience of rape. In doing so, the proposed framework would provide further insights for survivors, researchers,…

“Black feminist politics also have an obvious connection to movements for Black liberation, particularly those of the 1960s and I970s […] There is also undeniably a personal genesis for Black Feminism, that is, the political realization that comes from the seemingly personal experiences of individual Black women's lives. Black feminists and many Black women who do not define themselves as feminists have all experienced sexual oppression as a constant…

When someone says they are a feminist, people often think they hate men when in reality they do not. Many people who identify as a feminist do have anger and some hate towards men, however, that is not what true feminism stands for. Feminism is not about empowering women and putting men down, or turning a patriarchal society into a matriarchal one; it is about advocating for women’s rights to be equal to men. Even though it seems that a woman’s role in society has changed, it has not. In the…

continued a movement which transformed the role of the women and society. This counter-culture movement sprang from the oppressive decade that was the 1950’s but also continuing the social and civil rights revolution that had been seen in the first half of the 20th century. The term ‘feminism’ was coined by the French philosopher Fourier in 1837 but took decades for this concept to develop into a movement which shaped the world we see today. Most historians categorize the Feminist movement into…

It is a man’s world. From this verity, feminism has emerged and exists to empower women all over the globe. The feminist movement’s roots go back to the middle of the nineteenth century. In the United States, the first major outburst of feminism was the battle for women’s suffrage in the early twentieth century. The 19th amendment was passed in 1920, granting women the right to vote. In the 1960s, feminism had another phase and this one attracted more people. “Whereas the first wave of feminism…

Feminist views heavily criticise power in society and challenges both mainstream and critical criminology. The feminist movement is broadly speaking a movement to eliminate oppression and inequalities towards women due to their gender (Beasley, 1999). It believes their male counterparts dictate policies and practises and fails to recognise the needs of women. This implies from a feminist perspective that there is a hegemonic ideology with males possessing much more considerable authority.…

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…

In the past few centuries, feminists have taken it upon themselves to combat the misogyny and sexism women face by speaking up through any form, including poetry. They have touched on subjects such as women embracing their sexuality, the acknowledgement of the intersectionality of cultural identities, and the objectification and commodification of women. Poetry can be used to make political statements, so it should not be surprising that women would use the art form to voice their opposition to…

transform society they would need their own organisations to do so. Getting women the vote was not the only issue feminists wanted to change they also campaigned upon a whole range of issues; from guardianship of infants, property rights, divorce, access to higher education and the medical professions, to equal pay and protective legislation for women worker. Laura Mulvey is a feminist film critic who suggested that media products are viewed from a masculine point of view and created towards…

The French Feminist criticism approach advocates new ways of thinking and writing for women. French feminists in general believe that Western thought has been based on a systematic repression of women's experience. Among the greatest French feminists who have advocated these ideas are Luce Irigary and Helene Cixous. Cixous argues that one thing that will liberate women's voices, their bodies and their sexuality is that: " Women must write hers self: must write about women and bring women to…