Feminist therapy

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s essay Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, is an excellent example of analytical social history, that is aimed to educate other historians, women, and others interested in social history (the history of groups that might not have participated in mainstream life), the intersectionality of women’s history, and pop-culture. Ulrich’s essay uses several rhetorical devices to create a convincing argument for the existence of collaborative history and the importance of…

Natalie Stoljar in her journal, Autonomy, Oppression, and Gender, argues that adaptive preferences can undermine an agent’s autonomy. Stoljar explains that there are two types of arguments against her theory. The first argument Stoljar discusses is by Anita Superson. This argument claims that deformed desires impair autonomy. The second argument, which is the argument Stoljar undertakes as her own, is that deformed desires are autonomy impairments, which she names adaptive preferences. Stoljar…

emphasized the primary forms of nature in a cropped photograph method she learned from photographer, Paul Strand. Many critics assume there is hidden symbolism in her artwork that leads her audience to believe she is working towards an outer goal, a feminist movement. Although many of her flower paintings indeed look like a woman’s intimates from an angle, none can be said more true of than Grey Line with Black, Blue, and Yellow. O 'Keeffe makes an interesting statement in associating the vagina…

story we identify the marriage life of two couples that are passing through out a difficult phase of their marriage. One of the approaches of the feminist theorist remark the idea that “all feminist activity, including feminist theory and literary criticism, has an ultimate goal to change the world by prompting gender equality”. The main goal of the feminist movement to promote gender equality that is illustrate in the story “the storm”. The women characters represented a devoted wife and mother…

pressure from media, and the lack of female representation in the government. These imbalances and many others become the forces that drive feminist movements globally. Adichie portrays the Nigerian postcolonial feminist movement and challenges of the patriarchal society through Ifeoma, Beatrice, and Kambili. Aunty Ifeoma is the independent, outspoken, radical feminist with a heavy influence on those around…

As many people know, feminism is the advocacy of equal rights between the sexes. But fewer people know about ecofeminism, which is not only the advocation of equal rights, but is the inclusion of the advocation of ecological issues in the advocation of equality. Ecofeminism sees that the oppression of women and the oppression of nature are inherently linked and therefore the advocation of the rights of one means that the rights of the other must be advocated for as well. Karen Warren, a…

It is universally acknowledged that women empowerment is strong when women empower each other to best fit in the society. In Patty Jackson’s amazing movie Wonder Woman, Princess Diana protects herself and the people surrounding with her courage and martial art skills. Women in the modern world should be taught some sort of martial art for self protection. She was accompanied by an American Pilot Steve Trevor who protected and promised her to be with throughout their end goal. Best on the…

During the mid 1970s and into the early 1980’s, feminists critiqued ideologies and the system of beliefs in the patriarchal society. Feminist filmmaking became key to portraying fairer representations of women in film denied to them in Early Hollywood, whilst also using experimental techniques to give authorial voice to women filmmakers. Marleen Gorris’s Dutch film ‘A Question of Silence’ (1982), is considered one of the fundamental films in early feminist filmmaking. The film follows Janine, a…

As said by Hillary Clinton, “Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.” Likewise, women’s rights in Saudi Arabia should be fought for just like human rights. However, in Saudi Arabia, strict laws and regulations cause women to be inferior to men. For instance, women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to obtain a passport or travel out of the country without male consent. This highly sexist way of life is justified by the government by proclaiming how these laws are…

I have presented a critical study of three feminist utopias written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century viz. The Palanquin Tassel (1889), Sultana’s Dream, (1905), and Herland (1915) from a comparative perspective. All these three works provide significant feminist critiques of the society of their times. They are therefore, I argue, significant contributions to the utopian ideas of nineteenth and twentieth century as well as to feminist theory. It is surprising, given the scope…