Pro-feminism

Jesus interacting with the Samaritan women would have been something interesting to witness. Jesus was known for doing things that went beyond the social norms of his society. He did this to further the kingdom and there is a lot we can learn from it. In order to fully understand what Jesus means in John 4, we need to look at different perspectives as well as the literary context and the historical context. A feminist and womanist source will be crucial for this. Starting out with more of a…

the Feminist Movement allowing families to have similar roles without being discriminated because of their sex. Feminism is society accepting the mindset that both genders can hold the same occupation without facing criticism because of our cultural norms. It is the elimination of gender roles because it withdraws the certain expectations that we are being categorized to live up to. Feminism movement was long overdue because oppression of women started from as far back as the 1400s where the…

For my presentation I chose The Trigger: What Gives Rise to a Story? By Debra Spark. Spark argues, weaving together multiple examples throughout her article, that anything can be a trigger for the inspiration of a story. That trigger could be anything: ranging from an object, to a setting, to another story, or even a single word, and varies from person to person. What is a incomplete for one person may not be incomplete for another, which is why everybody has different triggers. And sometimes, a…

Works Cited Bird, Kym. “Leaping into the Breeches: Liberal Feminism and Cross Dressing in Sarah Anne Curzon's "The Sweet Girl Graduate."” Australasian Drama Studies, 1996. ProQuest. Web. Bird’s article focuses on female cross dressing in Canadian theatre through Sarah Anne Curzon’s protagonist, Kate from the Sweet Girl Graduate. Bird suggests that female cross dressing is a mechanism used to critique male sexuality and expose the socially constructed relationships between sex and gender. Bird…

Even though most women in the world have equal rights in a lot of countries, women’s rights are still an issue. Women who are born in countries where their rights almost don’t exist are mentally hurt and these women possibly become unstable. In Ronald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter”, and in the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the abuse of men towards their wife affects the women’s mental state negatively. In fact, people tend to underestimate those who seem to be…

Llywelyn, C. (2015, June 23). Why I Left Scientology. Retrieved November 09, 2017, from http://gawker.com/why-i-left-scientology-1703997050 Carmen Llywelyn is an actress and photographer. She used to be part of Scientology and was a Scientologist for eight years. She is no longer with Scientology and I think that would make her be against it because she left for a reason. Her purpose is to show her audience, anyone that wants to know about Scientology, what she went through in…

This excerpt is taken from a book named “We should all be feminist” written by “Chaimanda Agnozi Uganda”. This book contains evidences and explains the grievances of the marginalized segment of society that is women which is more than half of population of mankind. Women aren’t treated in the same way as men are treated in our society. Men are always considered as for job and money earning machines while women are restricted to four walls of home. The waiter in hotels always greet men and…

Article Summary on “The Truth About Beauty” Article in Psychology Today Main Points of the Article The article in Psychology Today primarily focuses on how American’s perception of beauty has affected behavior of men and women. Throughout the article it is proven that this is not a world “where it’s the content of a woman’s character, not her pushup bra, that puts her on the cover of Maxim”. The author of “The Truth About Beauty” elaborates on how a man is not going to turn his head or check…

In the 1930s, women were still fighting for equality, but they were not being viewed as independent people. Women were often used as symbols in a family to show the power the man had by the control he had over his wife and her beauty. In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the author includes symbolism and heavy description about finding love and independence as a woman in the 1930s through her carefully crafted characters. In the novel, the main character, Janie, undergoes…

Christine de Pizan and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda were both influential authors from their times, despite addressing very different settings in their literary works. Pizan wrote The Book of the City of Ladies, a metaphorical story about building a city where women could thrive, protected and segregated from the sexist attacks of men. Sepulveda wrote Democrates Alter in support and defense of colonial conquest and slavery of the native peoples in the New World. Despite the apparent lack of…