Pro-feminism

Critique Essay In “Learning to Be Gendered” by Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet, she brings forth idea of that gender is not biologically assigned but is learned and is supported and or exaggerated by social systems. The exigence that pending argument of how gender is biologically assigned and one is not able to chose what they are. The author presents this by using persuasion such as ethos, she confirms her credibility by referring to multiple studies, surveys. She uses evidence to…

Loydy S. Massene Oct. 23/2017 Topic 1 In the book, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, she demonstrates the struggle of women in the old times and how women were very domrit and how the women didn’t take some opportunities that were out there for them . She may have been a woman in her time to break the traditional view of woman ,through her actions however she showed much of a pathetic character. The traditional women that men look for is someone who idolizes their significant other,…

Wal-Mart’s Sex Discrimination Xiaolin Wang MADS: 6604 1791959 Octomber.31.2017 Problem statement Today, I saw a friend talking about “living like a man ", I do not understand. Are men more independent, more autonomous, and stronger than women? Are women dependent on others? In fact this is not about the case, independence, autonomy, and strong are just characters, but not about gender issues. This can be reflected in the consciousness of most people, and even can be said to discriminate…

Often times people are taken back when oppression is brought up because of the weight that comes with the topic but more specifically with gender oppression. It is often believed that oppression only exists in one category at a time for example there is a oppressor and the one being oppressed. When discussing oppression the oppressor commonly rejects that the ones being oppressed are the only ones being harmed by claiming they are oppressed as well. This is illustrated in the quote by Frye in…

feminist myths, and men are no more powerful than the women. One of the key ideas of feminism is that women do not have restrictions on what they can or cannot do. A Taste of Earth, One Hundred Eggs, and The White Buffalo Woman are all feminist myths, and the main characters, Au Co and White Buffalo Woman, are both culture bringers. In the beginning of both female’s journeys as culture bringers, the degree of feminism in their cultures becomes immediately evident. Both are feminist culture…

Christine Stansell describes and outlines the lives and culture of urban working-class women in New York City from the end of the Revolutionary War to the start of the Civil War. This period represents (at least the urban area of New York) the shift from the small city economics to the beginnings of the urban industrialization. However, these were the nameless individuals (reminiscent of the Many Headed Hydra in its use of the New Left rhetoric) who basically became entirely, a female “motley…

The Book “Half the Sky” written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn a husband-wife team that won the Pulitzer Prize award and is listed as best selling authors because of their eagerness to discover and understand the truth as journalist. They have collectively described stories of their travels pertaining to women, which throughout their careers of investigating the lives and struggles of women in great depth and their discoveries can be seen throughout “Half the Sky”. In the book Kristof…

diminish to fit a specific agenda, altering the modern day understanding of the truth. The literary theory of New Historicism is based off this concept, and its goal is to understand the relationship between history, literature, and cultural context. Feminism is a movement advocating for women’s rights and gender equality, and has not been unaffected by New Historicism. Many do not understand the roots of the Feminist movement because…

How many historical events can you think of in which individuals fought for their own equality? You could most likely think of quite a large variety- but according to the articles,”From Briggs v. Elliott to Brown v. Board of Education” and “Alice Paul and the Struggles for Women's Suffrage” two most commonly recognized historical events in which equality was fought for were the fight for women’s suffrage and the fight for equality of African Americans. According to the article,”Alice Paul and…

Overthinking causes many effects on people, from going crazy to even feeling free. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson is on how the narrator of the story gets carried away in her mind by a yellow wallpaper. Through the story, the narrator finds herself both trapped and set free due to the wallpaper, which has an odd peculiar pattern and a woman, with also the writing that helps her through the story with both factors helping her gain control in her being able to break and feel…