Feminist theory

"Feminism is the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes." In the next few paragraphs, I am going to tell you about three different essays or speeches involved with feminism. These women show strength beyond imagination. They live very different lives and battle with similar aspects of prejudgment. A perceived privilege does not guarantee an easy pathway, even being a strong woman who seemingly does everything for others needs understanding and assistance in life. As…

Feminism is the theory of political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. Many people, however, have different theories on what feminism actually is. Feminism focuses on women’s rights and interests. Different forms of feminism are: radical feminism, socialist feminism, and cultural feminism. Radical feminism asks society to completely eliminate the concept of gender as a cure for the strong societal practice of sexism. Socialist feminism, even though less extreme, calls for a major…

subtly different background, allowing almost everyone to relate to them, if only in a small way. In the 1960s and 1970s, Bambara wrote fiction, academic, and even produced screenplays. She was a very politically driven writer often described as a feminist. Her story is the primary source of this paper. Cartwright,…

Everyday Feminism is an online magazine that teaches readers to relate feminism to actual life and mend from and stand up to daily oppression. Everyday Feminism attempts to uphold a considerate, appealing, and sympathetic society of feminists who are encouraging of each other’s marginalized identities and knowledge. Everyday Feminism is an enlightening stage for individual and communal freedom. The mission that this website has set out is to help people take apart day by day brutality, prejudice…

show created by Shonda Rhimes. It’s main character, Olivia Pope, played by Kerry Washington, helps to leave her viewers in awe. Through all the success of this show, there is still one question still remains, “Should Scandal be considered the best feminist show on television?” Now, there is no way to answer this question if you don’t understand it. There are numerous ways to define feminism taking into consideration that every definition is based upon someone else’s opinion. Many are mislead…

own female identity. Throughout the novel, she allows herself to be absorbed that is to be possessed by the patriarchal principles. The personality of Marian finds a development paralleled to the women’s trajectories described in Betty Friedan’s feminist classic The Feminine Mystique…

by Jennifer Jacobson, Wineapple contradicts herself when she says, “I don't entirely quote him as a feminist. He's partly a feminist. And he's partly not...He may not be able to handle the [female] characters he creates” (“VERBATIM”). It may be contested that if Hawthorne agreed with some female-limiting customs of his culture, as Wineapple’s statement implies, then he cannot be considered a feminist at all. In fact, in American Notebooks, a collection of Hawthorne’s journal entries, Hawthorne…

constraints of patriarchy. This paper consists of Irigaray’s theory while also comparing and contrasting it to other theorists including Bartky, Anzaldua, and Daly. Luce Irigaray is a well-known and well-respected French feminist theorist. She works as an interdisciplinary thinker in linguistics, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Irigaray’s recognition came from her writing of Speculum of the Other Woman, in which she explained her theory of the exclusion of women by men philosophically and…

"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians” (Pat Robertson, 1992). With respect to Mr. Robertson, Feminism is about equality. Despite its focus on the female gender, Feminism does not correlate to man-hating. Feminism, while an American design, is a global movement. Despite advances in women’s…

variety of theories that in some way explain the causation of domestic violence, the superior theory that explicitly justifies why domestic violence occurs is the feminist theory, in particular, radical feminist theory. The Radical Feminist Theory emerged out of the second wave of feminism which was in the 1960s and 1970s focuses on the main cause of woman oppression and domination typically from male supremacy and patriarchy. In comparison to the radical feminist theory, strain theory and…