Sex-positive feminism

While women make up over half of the current world population, historically women have been oppressed and forced into submissive roles. Only recently have women in the United States begun gaining equality. We have gained these rights and liberties because of the commitment past women, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretica Mott, and Betty Freidan, have made to social transformation. While the fundamental rights we have today-- such as the ability to obtain education, to vote…

Feminism has become a negative word because anti-feminists either are ignorant about the beliefs of true feminists, believe women should not have rights, or do not think society can change. Society must unlearn rape culture, and it can. Only 3 out of every 100 rapists go to jail (“97 Of Every 100 Rapists”). Feminists know that this needs to change. Feminism is not just for women who have been assaulted or abused. Feminism is for all genders, for all ages, for all jobs, for all races, for all…

As a middle class, heterosexual, white female there are certain privileges that I have grown accustomed to. My life has been lived from the point of remote feminism, I have sprinkled my services as the privileged protector across the realm of the marginalized only when it has been convenient to do so. However, the time in which remote feminism is acceptable has now come to an end. Donald Trump has been elected to the presidency. The reality of this election cycle and its myriad of radiating…

sides in relation to the battle between sexual autonomy and safety. While anti-pornography feminists assert that pornography use is just as harmful to the consumer as it is to the women being objectified, coerced, and abused in its production, sex-positive feminists argue that restricting…

their work out there. When defining Graffiti, it is hard to come up with a single definition that everyone will agree on. Many different websites and organizations define it by how their work explains it. People who enjoy graffiti will give it a positive connotation, while people against it will make it negative. Graffiti is made by all different types of people too,…

Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism bell hooks, a social activist, feminist, and author, of Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism, goes into great detail of the burden sexism has had on black women during the late 1800s, when the women’s rights activists started to collaborate. Which is what formed the start of the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, the cause of racism within the women’s movement. Black women could not have been apart of the women’s movement. Ain’t I A…

Feminism In the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word feminism is the theory of the politic, economic, and social equality of the sexes. Though many believe people this, few actually call themselves a feminist. I consider myself to be a feminist. When I tell people that, I can see in their eyes that they are judging me even though they most likely believe the same things as me. When I ask them why they don’t consider themselves one, their answers always shock me. Most of the time, they respond by…

Feminism, or the belief that all individuals are entitled to equal rights and treatment regardless of gender, is often viewed as one of the most controversial movements concerning the subject of human rights. Opinions surrounding the topic tend to be rigidly divided, with individuals either strongly supporting or strictly against the culture. Though this group can include anyone who believes in and wishes to fight for equal rights, rampant stereotypes and misunderstandings tend to ward off many…

1.DEFINITION OF FEMINISM According to different social structure theses have been put forward regarding the status of women within the historical process. One of the most popular of these is the patriarchal / patriarchal society structure of matriarch / matriarchal. Particularly, women were regarded as masters of power and power in the matriarchal period in the hunter-gatherer society when they were in a more prestigious position. In the patriarchal / patriarchal period where agriculture was…

United States during the coming decades caused the tabling of gender inequality. The Progressive era of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought the resurgence of the Women 's Rights Movement. The organizations involved in the first wave of feminism focused on women 's suffrage and succeeded in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. The 19th Amendment signified both the end of a 72 year battle for women 's suffrage, as well as the end of the first wave of women 's rights. During…