Lesbian feminism

Motherhood Motherhood is a special gift granted to woman which allows them to experience a creation of a new life. The idea of a living thing inside of a woman is something not every woman desires to experience which is why motherhood is not necessarily instinctual. Woman are by far more than just a baby maker and serve many other purposes. The desire to reproduce is completely up to the woman considering she is the one carrying the life. +Having read Betty Rollin’s “Motherhood: Who Needs It?”…

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…

The Narrative of Amnon and Tamar: Moral implications The second book of Samuel narrates the violent history of the sons of King David (2 Samuel 13: 1-22). The author of the book understands the story of Amnon and Tamar as a narrative essay about violence. In the text, the author tries to problematize gender and power relations. Amnon acts driven by a fantasy of power without limits; his behavior is a fulfillment of his father’s sin with Bathsheba. The first two verses of the story are devoted…

This paper analyzes the Instagram posts of Serena Williams. I will focus on how she represents herself on her Instagram. Especially, I will focus on how to deal with her representation as a black woman. Looking through her Instagram, it is obvious that she implicitly emphasizes on her blackness and womanhood in her post. Instagram is one of the popular SNS (Social Networking Services) in the world. We can post a picture with a comment and hashtag on the Instagram. Because we need to choose…

Fantasy and science fiction have for a long time depicted woman as possessing inferior roles than their male counterparts who are often the sung heroes in most of the literary work. Fiction and fantasy genres are a representation of the real world whereby most of the authors concentrate on the traditional roles and attributes of women such as being, submissive, passive, obedient, and powerless and in most cases have few or no roles in the pieces of art. On the other hand, men are portrayed as…

Voicing the Voiceless: Subaltern Female Identity in Mahasweta Devi’s Standayani Dr.Rupali Sharma Lecturer in English, GCW, Udhampur Email id- rupalisharmaju@gmail.com Contact No.- 07298115353 When we talk about position and identity us different email as strong mode of privileged and marginalized oppressor and oppressed, or ruler and subject. But, we could find those people who are not recognized in any part of human world with their level of consciousness and unheard voices. It is the issue of…

The Societ cinema in the 1960s sees a shift from the portrayal greatness of society to the focus on an individual. Larisa Shepitko’s Wings (1966) is about an identity crisis of a female war veteran. It depicts the ambivalent treatment of women in the patriarchal society, in which women in authority experience greater freedom in wartime and are expected to assume a domestic role in peacetime. The film shows the contradictions experienced by the protagonist, Nadezhda Petrukhina, through a…

Chopin and Gilman do not only use the setting to present the profound desire of freedom and autonomy of their main female protagonists; they also employ irony to criticize and to change the misogynistic society. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” uses many deep ironies to express the desire of freedom and selfhood. For example, as other characters (Josephine and Richard) think that Louise is “making [herself] ill in her room” (Chopin 426), after her husband dead she is “she was drinking the…

Sweta Patel Professor White FTVE-210-5204 July 13, 2017 Compare and contrast the underlying themes in a film required for the class with a non required of your choice? The film "Bend it Like Beckham" mirrors the teen classic "She's the Man" by using strong, determined female leads to depict women’s oppression in male dominated sports in a male dominated society. In the comedic-drama “Bend it like Beckham” Jess an English-Indian, tries to balance her life surrounding the conflicting…

Because of the significance of the heroism of men in “Beowulf,” the importance of women is often over looked. The women are vital to the story even though they play smaller roles. In “Beowulf” there are a few important women including Wealhtheow, Freawaru, Hildeburh, and Grendel’s mother. Mary Dockray-Miller argues that the femininity or masculinity of a person is not set in stone just because they are one sex or another but rather “that performance, not biology, determines gender,”…