Radical feminism

The power and Influence of mothers in society After reading through the two novels, this one summer by Jillian, Mariko Tamaki’s and The Sula’s by Toni Morrison, we understand that the two novels demonstrate how family and friends connect to prevalent issues individual identity, sexuality, and race? The both novels expressed the gender inequality as well as the ideology of how women. View each other. A careful review of the novel, This One Summer, and Sula shows lack of love, friendship and…

Napoleon, Aristotle, and Confucius all viewed women as useless creatures. Aristotle, for instance, once said “A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave.” The countless amount of sexist opinions that come out of powerful men have greatly affected the presence of females in political affairs and have gated their entrance into equality. Hillary Clinton challenges this idea in her speech, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights.” She believes women, of all backgrounds, should be able to exercise their…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the author of a very intriguing story called “The Yellow Wallpaper.” This story is a very haunting and psychological kind of story that gives you a feminist point of view. This story is about a wife who is sick and a husband who is a doctor. He diagnosed her with a mental illness, and tells her she just needs to rest, and she will become better. The husband locks her in an upstairs bedroom, with bars, and with yellow wallpaper. She soon become kind of obsessed and…

What are six simple words that completely explain themselves? Girls have harder lives than boys... it’s that simple. But what definitely isn’t simple is girls lives. Girls go through many experiences through life that boys could never imagine or go through themselves (mainly because they are wimpy!), girls have pressure to be perfect, monthly visitors, and childbearing pains to summarize to the least of girls life of excitement. To most guys these everyday happenings in girls life are irrelevant…

The larger Implications at the conclusion of the story (“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman) "The Yellow Wallpaper" it is a semi-autobiographical short story written by Perkins Gilman in which he describes the treatment of women by Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell the husband, who was the famous doctor. During the rest of the story, it describes how a woman is submissive and childlike obedience to male-dominated society during this twentieth century. The ending of the story it has some of…

achieve her goal of financial stability and independence, Roxana altered her role in society and constructed a new identity of a prostitute in order to better satisfy her needs. Continuing with the thread of the narrative, major characteristics of feminism can be viewed primarily in the center of the story years after Roxana’s husband has abandoned her. At this point in the narrative, Roxana has been able to secure a considerable amount of fortunes in the position of a prostitute. Now…

Pamela and I are both young women with a penchant for written English living in a man’s world. Obviously, her case is more severe; given her clear-cut role as a servant and woman, it makes it next to impossible for her to speak out about her exploitation. Luckily, in the 21st century, we are making progress and pushing certain boundaries. However, these gender biases and standards are still prevalent today since they are so deeply woven into our culture. I admire Pamela’s strong set of morals.…

Introduction Sappho as an ancient Greek thinker and a great poet is credited with a number of her philosophical and educational works. She is one of the prominent educational revolutionaries. Sappho’s educational ideologies revolved around cultivating the student while at the same time serving as a mentor for young women so as to improve their capabilities as wives and Greeks (EM, 2011). Mary Wollstonecraft, although she is famously known as a political thinker, she has also greatly contributed…

Feminism is a political ideology that pushes for gender equality by ridding society of gender roles and giving women the ability to have autonomy in their lives. In Sindiwe Magona’s book, To My Children’s Children, Magona describes the hardships of Magona’s life during the apartheid era is South Africa as a black woman and how this intersectionality affected her life. While most of her life was under apartheid, it was not the main focus of her story and became only a backdrop to her journey of…

In Yezierska’s presentation of the Jewish community on Hester Street, the woman’s dependent role is imposed by hegemony rather than brute force. The oppressor can appear kind because the lack of violence also leads to a lack of response to the intangible abuse. Omi and Winant use Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explain why using the people’s will against them is an effective way to maintain control. He [Antonio Gramsci], argued that hegemony was always constituted by a combination of…