Feminist therapy

1. Summary of Issue As a woman, I was drawn to digging deeper into the models of women’s development, focusing on Gilligan, Bem, and Shame Resilience Theory. While looking at this section, I found myself comparing what I was reading to the issue of equal pay for men and women. Currently, women make less than 80 cents for every dollar men make, and that can cause a lot of psychological, as well as physical, ramifications for women. Women can be made to feel inferior to men, “tricked” into…

Feminist theory is often misunderstood and considered to focus on an inherent goal to promote superiority of women over men. Instead, feminist theory seeks to magnify forces that support and encourage inequality, oppression and injustice and replace it with equality and justice for all oppressed people, especially women. Historically, women’s point of views has been excluded from social theory and social science, therefore, feminist theorist such as Patricia Collins and Gloria Anzaldúa have…

Caitlin Loera 09/25/17 CH 201 Section 1001/Discussion 1004 Gender Equality. Fair or Unfair? Gender, a term that brings up so much controversy not only in today’s society but as well as in the bronze age regarding the Odyssey and in the BC ages regarding the Genesis. Both ages treat women unfairly because back then women were objects, also in today’s day in age women are looked at the same. I believe that the way women are looked at is in the view of just a simple sex symbol, good for nothing;…

In the ted talk video, We Should all be Feminist, that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke about a huge topic “feminism”. Adichie describes and explains her different encounters of “feminism”. Should we all be more feminist? What does it mean to be feminist? Is there a difference between double standards and feminism? Adichie starts off the video mentioning to her audience that Okoloma,her childhood best friend, died in a plane crash in 2005. Adichie explains to us her first encounter was when she…

Although there is an abundant amount of evidence that P&R is feminist within the text, another area that needs to be understood is the industry. P&R is undeniably sitcom, but this doesn 't take away from its value in potential social change. In fact, the relationship between comedy and society is something valued highly amongst those in the sitcom industry (Mills 64). P&R takes advantage of TV as a cultural forum, “the notion that TV shows gravitate toward issues we care about (Thompson 204).…

whether Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is an example of proto-feminist literature. The first wave feminist movement wasn’t put into action until the late 19th century, a few years after The Scarlet Letter was written and published, prompting questions regarding if Hester Prynne was one of the first feminists and a pioneer for the foundation of the early feminist movement. The Scarlet Letter is unintentionally a feminist novel because of the way Hester rejects the Puritan’s cruel…

Adopting a feminist methodological position, the central thesis of this dissertation can be separated into three interrelated claims: 1) the UK austerity project is ideological, 2) austerity is a gendered phenomenon, and 3) austerity is actively reversing progress towards a more gender equal society by pushing gender equality issues back into the so-called ‘private sphere’. These central assertions are supported primarily through a combination of the qualitative methodologies of literature…

For my persuasive writing task I chose write an argumentative essay, focusing the lack of women in STEM fields. I chose this topic because it is relevant, somewhat controversial and will potentially affect my future. Recent studies have revealed that the gender inequality within STEM subjects is alarming, and with intervention, it will continue to increase. The purpose of my text is to bring awareness to this issue, and begin the gender rebalance process. If nothing is done, females will…

Serena Joy is a character in The Handmaid’s Tale, she is the Commander’s wife and was a former academic and feminist. She is given more freedom than other women, yet she is still chained by the laws of Gilead because she is a woman. In episode 6, the viewer experiences part of Serena Joy’s life through her eyes. She was an author and domestic feminist before the rise of Gilead, she wrote a book and preached about how women belong in the home. When Ms. Castillo asks her, “back then…

Throughout Democracy in America and Domestic Manners of the Americans, Alexis De Tocqueville and Frances Trollope analyze perspectives on the status of women, the pursuit of wealth, and American’s assertions of social equality. Both authors share viewpoints in the sense that American women are different than European yet contrast in the aspect of their independence. Tocqueville and Trollope share many opinions on what impact the pursuit of wealth has throughout the nation. As for social…