Feminist writers

John Stuart Mill thought that women were caught in a “cult of domesticity”. He believed that women entering the workforce gradually would have immense benefits for society. For instance, if a position was needed in a town, wouldn’t it be best for the town to fill that position with the best person for it regardless of the person’s gender. He focused a lot on women in the workforce whereas Simone did not mention women working. For his time John Stuart Mill broke the mold of men of his time. He thought women being a greater influence and working would benefit both sexes. Virginia Woolf was very opinionated when it came to how women should be treated and their role in society. She was an outspoken advocate for feminism. Woolf was an English writer and was a modernist in the twentieth century. Much like De Seaviour she believed that women needed to become independent from men and marriage to be successful. But she thought that women could become powerful only by achieving financial and psychological independence from men. She also argued that equal opportunity for education and economic advantage was even more important than the right to vote. A major difference between Virginia Woolf and Simone De Seaviour was how Simone tried to please both sexes and Woolf was about fighting for women. Woolf believed it was owed. One example of how outspoken Woolf was is when she wrote “A Room of One’s own”. This was written in response to a clergyman who believed that there was no woman that…

societies. In Igbo and Yoruba cultures, histories are preserved, and cultural norms are passed down through folktales and fables. 1.3. "Ngambika" and the Commitment of African Female Writers. Ngambika is a word that captures the totality of the African woman’s feminist thought or need. This phrase is used in Carole Boyce-Davies’ coedited work Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature (1986). African feminist discourses are made largely possible through female authored literatures by…

Project 2 Toni Morrison, bell hooks, and James Baldwin are all writers, professionals crafting fully realized people living in black and white, and poetically weave humor and personal tragedy into their essays about injustice. In the past, I always avoided calling myself a writer because I simply could not compare with them or their contemporaries. Throughout the years, I realized that forbidding myself from using that title was not a humble act, but instead, limiting myself from strengthening…

Living Writers has introduced me to literary professionals that changed my way of thinking. I don’t consider myself a strong writer by any means. However, meeting Danielle Evans, Laila Lalami and Andre Dubus III made me realize being a great writer is just about being human. It’s possible with pure honesty, curiosity and bravery. Meeting Laila and Andre in person humanized them in a way I never expected. It gave context to their stories. Understanding their background, personality and…

To begin with, we will analyze objectives of FYC. We can use as reference for FYC objectives the chart provided by Carnegie Mellon’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation. Objectives outlined for developing effective writers, paraphrased, are: the ability to conceive of writing problems in their complexity, shaping writing to the needs of the audience, commitment to the writing, extensive revisions, and ability to pay attention to the various aspects of the writing tasks,…

Quite often, authors draw from their own personal memories when writing. Sue Monk Kidd is no exception. Kidd is a feminist and a writer-activist known for writing fiction reflecting the context of the civil rights movement in The United States. Combining the best aspects of fiction and broad conceptual ideals, Kidd used narrative as a tool for igniting social change. The significance of Sue Monk Kidd’s life, work, and legacy will last for years to come. Sue Monk Kidd was born and raised in the…

I consider myself to be an awful writer. My whole life I've seen myself as mediocre throughout various schools and classes. I love writing and I feel like the things I create in my free time are pretty good. However, when I'm required to create an essay based off of a topic I either don't know or don't care about, I slack off and wait until the very last minute to get to work. I know I'm not alone in this endeavor, students today feel as if they are extremely average. If a student can find…

can consider her perspective on the topic, which I also primarily agree with. In the article she explains how “plenty of colleges and numerous universities force-feed young adult men radical feminist nonsense, sexual and domestic violence, ‘body shaming’”, and other specific problems. She explains how all of this can be ‘destructive’ simply because not all young men are the same, and not all young men have corresponding intentions. Suzanne Fields convinced me that I agree with how she sees…

“Anti-Beauty Myth” by Christine Rosen and “Taking Beauty’s Measure” by Rachel Shteir are articles from Commentary Magazine and Chronicle of Higher Education respectively. Both articles are resistant to the anti-beauty claims made by feminist writers. “Anti-beauty myth” discusses why people are still beauty conscious despite feminist efforts to punish over-emphasis on beauty while “Taking Beauty’s Measure” believes beauty should be desired rather than being ostracised. Even though both writers…

In this article 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,…