Feminist movement

Hilary Clinton once said, " I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. " I agree with this statement, and today I would like to talk about why female education matters. I will base my examples on the situation in South Asia. According to UNICEF this region is the most gender-unequal in the world. There is a clear preference for boys' education, it is mostly because people think that investing in girls' education is just a waste of money, since…

discuss artwork created in the 1970s by the group Las Mujeres Muralistas. In addition, I will be recounting the history of the women’s group and how from their social and political environment, that they were able to contribute to the Chicano art movement by making it more inclusive by demanding space for themselves, which eventually gave way for other aspiring Chicana artists. Las Mujeres Muralistas were reacting against the art norms created by Los Tres Grandes by showing history through…

The figure of Mariam in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam has been of tremendous interest to feminist critics who view her as a character embodying the contradictions of female identity in patriarchal culture. The play exposes this culture as conflicted in itself because of contradictory ideas about the proper "performance" of femininity which not only sever the female subject, but also create irreconcilable dilemmas for males. Mariam must choose between speaking as her own "inner" voice…

This essay will critically analyse the role of feminism in the extract from Sarah Waters’ “Affinity”. I will examine how women in this extract are defined by their relationship with men. This lens will also focus on the power that men holdover women in this extract. I will analyse how this power affects and controls the women we meet. At first glance it is easy to tell that there is some kind of upset in the first paragraph in this extract. It doesn’t take long to realise that it’s the fault…

PARTICIPATION OF THE BODO WOMEN IN AGRICULTURAL AND ALLIED OPERATIONS : A CASE STUDY IN BAKSADISTRICT OF ASSAM, INDIA DETSUNG SWARGIARY, JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, DEPT. OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH, GAUHATI UNIVERSITY, ASSAM, INDIA detswargiary@gmail.com ABSTRACT The women in the Bodo society occupy a crucial place. They play a vital role in social, cultural, religious and economic means of life in their society. The Bodo women of village folk actively participate in agricultural…

Anagha Bandaru 12/14/17 Pd. 5 Things Fall Apart and Gilgamesh Comparison Essay: Gender Roles Women always have been undermined in society. Though now, in the 21st century, they have more rights and freedom, it wasn’t always like that. They were always the lesser sex, including in today’s society, always coming after men. However, some civilizations/countries had slightly different views on men. For example, in Gilgamesh, even though women are still depicted as lustful and house wives, women…

Mary Shelley, the author of the novel Frankenstein was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, a woman whom many consider to be the first modern feminist. Mary Wollstonecraft authored the pamphlet “Vindication of Women’s Rights” in 1792, in which she argued that women were not, by their nature, inferior to men, but may have appeared so only because they lacked the same educational opportunities to which men had far greater access. Much has been written about Mary Shelley’s life that demonstrates…

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” (Mary Wollstonecraft) Women’s rights remain as some of the biggest issues talked about in society today. Women in this generation sense a need of representative who obtains their rights in mind, and willing to fight for them. For this reason, the article “Dreams of My Mother "by Anna March attempts to convince readers regarding the legitimacy of Mrs. Clinton's candidacy by using issues, pathological appeals and…

Nightingale (2006) critical analysis was to recognize gender-environment nexus from different point of views (feminists, political ecologists, essentialists, historical materialists etc) for innate knowledge to conceptualize about relationship between gender and environment. Her main argument was ‘gender’ is biologically constructed social, cultural and political phenomena defined by sex where women are more oppressed and marginalized by male hegemony but also dominated by class, race, color and…

3. Thesis Outline Part I of this thesis evaluates Susan Moller Okin's feminist critique of multiculturalism, which provides the basis for the argumentation of this thesis. Her provocative article, “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?”, is often seen as the starting point of academic debate about the compatibility of women's rights and minority group rights. Nevertheless, this article is reviewed and analysed in Part I along with the rest of Okin’s work concerning the relationship of feminism and…