Radical feminism

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…

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…