Pro-feminism

In the post- independence period woman was struggling in patriarchal societal set up for her identity. In 1960, feminism rose against the colonial rule, patriarchal practices and traditions enhance the ideology of female subordination. Shashi Deshpande’s novel In the Country of Deceit is a story of a woman Devayani who began to see the universe with their own eyes and not through the male gaze. She is shown recovering from the stage of catastrophe and mental dilemma through spiritual realization…

Do you consider yourself a feminist? In the novel Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, she writes about femininity and traditions that occur in Tita’s life. Also a bit of magical realism to captivate her readers. Throughout the plot, most of the characters present themselves as independent and rebellious or while others are seen doing what women are expected to do like cooking, cleaning, taking care of children themselves, and etc. However, out of all the characters I can conclude that…

Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, a memoir about the author’s journey of self-discovery hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail, is a literary piece that has resonated with readers around the world since its publication, especially the female ones. The memoir is indeed deeply relevant to modern feminists as it addresses several aspects of the feminist movement. Wild’s removal of gendered stereotypes from its characters, expression of female sexuality, raising of awareness of women’s rights and issues and…

course, most prominent during the AIDS crisis of the eighties – though they have since died down, they are just as important now. A big reasoning behind why those tensions are less prominent now is because American society is steadily becoming more pro-LGBTQ+, as the individual rights start to become societal claims. In Canada, Prime Minister Trudeau just helped to legalized medical euthanasia for adults with debilitating health conditions – something that had remained a point of contention in…

The ongoing campaign for women’s rights in a country characterized by traditional views and a history of Catholicism has led to many waves of feminist movements in Italy since the abolishment of the Italian monarchy (Dawes 2011). The effects of women’s activism on regional and national politics has resulted in unique and complex struggles in the country. Efforts towards gender equality have led to significant legislative achievements, but that traditional ideas about women and gender continue to…

Mabel Dwight’s Summer Night 1955 found in Gallery V of the Chazen Museum of Art, is a lithograph on 8 5/8 x 11 1/8 inches. This print represents an idealized representation of the feminist movement in the twentieth century. The shadows in the work are personified by two women like figures undressing and one man like figure standing by an open door. The light shining out of the windows and open door highlight the women’s undergarments which hang loosely in plain view by the man’s shadow. I argue…

In America the woman in the 1970,s were almost never respected and always limited from being a mother at home as well as their workplace. Woman never had a chance from the start. They were expected to get married in their early 20s and devote her time and energy to running the household. Woman basically had one purpose be the keeper of her kids or her husband. Woman devoted most of their time taking of the kids and spent around 55 hours a week cleaning the house and whatever else she needed to…

inner tension for them. At the end of That’s So Raven, Raven does not necessarily make a choice to choose to keep her physic power or not because it is something within her she can never rid herself from. Instead, she accepts that her power comes with pros and cons and so she continues to move forward with life as is: living life with conflict and dealing with the fact the dichotomies that do exist in life, such as public and private life, are essentially mutually exclusive. Raven’s life is…

Laura Mulvey on Feminism in Cinema and Theater Laura Mulvey is best known for her essays written in “Visual Pleasures and narrative cinema” published in 1973. In this book she argues that the controlling gaze in cinema and theater is always male. Mulvey’s concept of the “male gaze” is only mentioned twice in “Visual Pleasures and narrative cinema” but it has become the main point in feminist film debate. “The Spectacle is Vulnerable:Miss World 1970” offered a good starting point for the…

Miss Congeniality is an action comedy film that came out in the year 2000. This film starred the very well- known actress Sandra Bullock, who plays an FBI agent who has to undergo a transformation in order to become a contestant in the Miss America pageant. Bullock was later nominated for Best Actress at the 2001 Golden Globes, for her performance in Miss Congeniality. From its opening weekend till now Miss Congeniality has made close to a hundred and seven million dollars. The director of this…