Gender studies

the original definition of the subaltern given by Guha and others to include the struggles and experiences of women also. According to her, “Both as object of colonialist historiography and as subject of insurgency, the ideological construction of gender keeps the male dominant. If in the context of colonial production, the subaltern has no history and cannot speak, the subaltern as female is even more deeply in shadow”(287). She argued that the subaltern women are condemned to silence because…

Gender Conflicts in Trifles What is gender inequality? A person’s idea of gender inequality can be drastically different from someone else’s. Gender inequality is the concept that men and women should not be treated the same. This brings up another political movement that is known as feminism. However, people tend to have the wrong idea about feminism. Feminism is the idea that women are equal to men, not superior to them. There are many ways to experience feminism. Short stories are one of the…

In opposition to Freud’s theory that biology was the main factor in gender roles, Horney believed that both biology and cultural, impact one’s personality. However, Horney pushes biology toward the back burner and mainly focuses on culture and societal pressures. In his studies, Freud developed the view of penis envy, that due to biology, women felt inferior to men. However, Horney was determined to show that, “females have intrinsic biological constitutions,” which are not a sole, “product of…

Introduction I am studying Connell 's concept of hegemonic masculinity because I want to challenge all assumptions about the gender system and raise a series of problems and issues about masculinity. I want to emphasize the plurality and diversity of men 's experiences along the lines of class, race, sexual orientation, and ability. Furthermore, the common misunderstanding of hegemonic masculinity is that the concept is referred to men behaving badly or being hyper-masculine. However, it is…

is the main ingredient for social order. There are four main parts of conflict theory: feminist theory, Marxist/socialist theory, critical race theory, and the intersectional theory. Feminist theory is the belief to aim to understand the nature of gender inequality for women; it examines the roles, interests, jobs, experience, etc. in being a woman. Issues like oppression, discrimination in school or the workplace, objectification, stereotyping, and patriarchy are explored in this feminist…

sex educator, feminist stripper, pornographic actress, magazine editor, writer and sex film producer. She received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1986 and earned a doctorate in human sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco in 1992 (Annie Sprinkle, 2016). The Post Porn Modernist Show is the story of Annie Sprinkle's sexual evolution told, and explored, through a series of burlesque-like autobiographical multi-media vignettes.…

Throughout the content of this essay I am going to be concentrating on Adrian Piper and Oreet Ashery who have both focused on their bodies as a means to pinpoint alternative models of representation that address gender and race. As well as this I will be discussing to what extent both artists resist the discourse of western patriarchal society. Piper, aged 67, was born in New York on 20th September 1948 and is an American Conceptual Artist and Philosopher. She campaigned for social change and…

The male sex role theory popularized by Robert Brannon created a great foundation for gender studies, specifically studies concerning masculinity. The following essay will uncover his research design and analysis, his key contributions to the theory, and some strengths and weaknesses of his theory. Ultimately, the central premise is to show how his conception of masculinity and the sex role, in particular, has many faults and lacks evidentiary basis, which conclusively leads to its demise.…

has always been a desire to understand what, how and most importantly why certain things do exist? Urry argues that “Sociology is made up of a multiplicity of perspectives that are not unified by a common idea of what society is” (2002: 223). The study of social theory wants to address and explore more on some of these ever existing questions. In the history of humans there has been great contest of ideas and how the society should look like or be shaped. Others believed that certain ideas were…

1. Would you agree that Beckett’s Waiting for Godot perfectly encapsulates all the uncertainties of modernity? Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd. The absence of a meaningful plot, of objective dialogues and of absolute certainty is the state of absurdity. Beckett utilizes absurdity to play around with the concept of existential nullity which saw man trapped in a hostile world. Human life is meaningless and this created a sense of alienation, despair and…