Feminist movement

Both Mills and Marx/Engels focus on the oppression of women and their liberation from the subordination women experience. Mill’s arguments oppose women’s oppression through utilitarianism. Mill’s argues that the subjection of women hinders their progress as humans and puts them at a road block for success. Mill’s also discusses the idea of legal equality between men and women and acknowledges that the parliament needs to face their fears of allowing equal power to women. The power dynamics that…

Contemporary Indian women writers have focussed a women’s “Self image” and their attitude to their bodies, enabling them to transcend narrow confines defined by patriarchy. Shashi Deshpande represents the half century since 1947 and the changing concerns of feminist thought. She deconstructs the traditional image of Indian womanhood by creating female characters that break the shackles of docility and compliance. Deshpande explores and exposes the prominent patriarchal premises and…

understanding of the three critical lenses. The first of three critical lenses is Marxist which is a lens that helps us influence the characters, plot, setting, reader/viewer, author, time period, and any other aspect of an exhibit. The second lens is the Feminist lens which is an ideology that “opposes the political, economical, and cultural relegation of women to positions of inferiority.” Finally, the Archetypal lens which is character types that recur (and relationships) or patterns of…

Ethos, Pathos, and last but not least Logos are all persuasion tactics to gain an audience to agree with the topic. Daniel Defoe defined these Rhetorical tactics in his piece An Academy for Women. Defoe’s argument on women deserving equality just as men in pursuing their free will in education and knowledge was not only defined by Rhetorical tactics but by his pure morals on the view of women and men being equal in one another. Defoe wrote this piece to identify his view on the topic on women’s…

When thinking of the year 2017, the present, the thing that comes to mind is usually that it is the year Donald J. Trump became the president.One of the years that women are able to freely express their identity and sexuality without being shunned for it. However, in Oates story ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’ set in the mid-1960s, Oates highlight that a revolution was happening. American women were starting to assert their rights and independence from men's patriarchal tendencies…

In Janes Gaines’s, White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory, Gaines wanted to show how a theory of the text and its spectator, based on the psychoanalytic concept of sexual difference, is unequipped to deal with a film which is about racial difference and sexuality. “The Diana Ross star vehicle Mahogany (directed by Berry Gordy, 1975) immediately suggests a psychoanalytic approach because the narrative is organized around the connections between voyeurism…

Silvia Federici author of Caliban and the Witch argued that women’s unpaid labor and reproductive labor were the preconditions to the rise of a capitalist economy in Europe. Federici presents the argument that women posed a threat to the power structure. Women were feared because they gained power from their sexuality, control of reproduction and the ability to heal. The fear of the power that women held was deeply instilled in men and these men were made to believe that they had to protect the…

Women have assumed different roles throughout human history. In some societies, they have been subjugated, oppressed, and debased; in others, they have assumed roles of leadership and responsibility. In John Wyndham's The Chrysalids, the author gives female characters significant roles in an effort to demonstrate how powerful women can be. Clearly, Wyndham believes that women are strong, effective leaders, who have a positive impact on our world. One of the significant female characters is…

Githa Hariharan’s works are known for their feminist and social concerns. Along with the other women writers she believes in creating women who suffer on one hand and try to break the traditional setup in order to lead a free life on the other hand. Though she talks about various subjects in her works the major theme of most of her novels is rewriting of myths and stories. The Introductory chapter of the present study had discussed the role of women in Indian society and the impact of…

Introduction: Mmasculinity as an antonym of femininity which has the greatest focus of sociologists, historians, activists and critics. As a discipline, femininity budded earlier than masculinity in the works of several novelists whether male or female. This is because in most historical as well as literary eras society was patriarchal per se. The flourishing of feminine studies is a reaction to that sort of the patriarchy of Man. Novel is the best literary genre to tackle with the…