Radical feminism

There is no question that throughout society, women have faced overt challenges within sports. This is including women joining various sports that are identified as masculine, sports journalism, and more. However, since the installation of Title IX, there has been an increase of women’s involvement within both institutional and unconventional athletics. Though there has been substantial improvement perpetuated sexism within sports, there is still a strong fight against the patriarchy in present…

child-raising strategy which enforces feminist ideology and attempts to teach children to transcend gender roles. As said by former feminist Andrea O’Reilly, feminist mothering entails feminist philosophies, theorizing, and world-view (O’Reilly, 400). As Feminism includes these things, it also has numerous positions and perspectives. The majority of the feminist community, if not all, can recognize that the patriarchal culture favors and awards the masculine and ensures the imbalance between men…

The novel The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts an anti-feminist view of the world. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, feminism is defined as the theory of political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. During the time period in which the novel was published, the feminist movement was starting to expand. Although, contrary to what was going on during that time, the novel portrays the opposite of what the feminist movement stands for. Feminists strive to…

Anne Spencer and Modern Feminism Anne Spencer was a lot of things; a poet, a teacher, a daughter, a wife, an artist, a scholar, a mother, a black activist, and she was recently recognized as a feminist. She is known today for the extremely modern ideologies that she believed in and communicated in her works. The feminist messages expressed by Anne Spencer and the modern feminists of today showcase a multitude of similarities; however the audiences and the methods used to share those ideals are…

First time novelist but long time comedian Amy Schumer has captured my attention yet again. I love her stand up so I knew I was going to enjoy her book, but I had no idea I would love is as much as I did. The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo being one of many books written by comedians I have read, I fully expected it to be like all of the others, but I was so wrong. Similar to other comedian-turned-authors, Schumer opened up about the struggle to break into the industry, her sexual history, and…

Charlotte Perkins Gillman wrote a story that is considered to be one of the classics when it comes to feminist literature. Helped by her own experiences with patriarchy, it allowed the readers of today to almost relive a woman being driven to madness by a Victorian "rest cure", a once frequently prescribed period of inactivity thought to cure hysteria, depression, nervousness and anxiety in women. In the period of which this specific piece of literature was created was not only a time where…

Feminism: For and Against Every second of everyday people make choices, they decide if they are for something or against it. Most decide to keep it to themselves but the ones who decide to voice their opinion are the ones who are persecuted the most. Feminism is a touchy subject to most people; generally males find it obsolete and women find it valuable to keep alive. There are a handful of males who are in favor of feminism and a good portion of women who are against feminism. There are…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the story of a woman trapped. The narrator tells her story by writing in her journal. We never learn her name, but we do meet her husband, the physician. The narrator and her husband, John, have moved into a colonial mansion for the summer. She has been diagnosed with hysteria, which was thought to be a feminine disease. This was thought to be the cause of most feminine ailments because of their fragile mental and physical nature.…

time periods and genres, which make these societies hard to fully dictate whether or not a person would like to live in one. One story that describes a society without males was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman during the era of first wave feminism. Her story, entitled Herland, depicts three men who stumble across an all-female society, who are invited to speak to the women who have not seen men in two thousand years. The women are diverse, ranging from highly feminine, to more masculine,…

Roughly around the first century C.E, Northern China was ruled by the Han Dynasty. This Dynasty promoted a philosophy that was based off of Confucianism through their own government. Confucianism was built around social order and peace through patriarchy. Majority of the time men were the only gender to have a say in government. North Chinese women were always left out of their beliefs in community. Their role was to honor her husband and take care of the house chores and to reproduce. North…