Socialist feminism

Eleanor Roosevelt, better known as the person who change the role of the first lady through her active participation in American politics, earning with it the respect, admiration and acceptance in society. Eleanor, had more participation in politics than other first ladies in the past, she was not ready to stay in the background and dedicate herself just to her family; for her it was important to show the world that the first lady was an important part of politics. The woman in that time of…

Women have been at the gaze of men for the duration of time for as long as we can remember. Laura Mulvey places this fact very strongly in her writing Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, and asserts that this has made a victim of the female gender. However, she seems to consider not how scopophilia can be a sensation felt by a woman, nor how she can also be the barer of the same gaze that a man may give. It is also discussed that, perhaps, men are unable to even receive the gaze, suggesting…

women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past” (Yousafzai). The story “A Jury of Her Peers” is an intriguing story about a murder in which anti feminism plays a role. Feminism is an ideology still around today, in which some disagree with. Throughout the country thousands of people gather to protest for equality for women. In this story, something terrible happens. It starts out with Mrs.Hale, Mr.Hale, the…

Feminist theory is often misunderstood and considered to focus on an inherent goal to promote superiority of women over men. Instead, feminist theory seeks to magnify forces that support and encourage inequality, oppression and injustice and replace it with equality and justice for all oppressed people, especially women. Historically, women’s point of views has been excluded from social theory and social science, therefore, feminist theorist such as Patricia Collins and Gloria Anzaldúa have…

CARTOONS: AN ARGUMENT WITHOUT WORDS Rhetorical pieces convey powerful and persuasive messages in various textual or visual mediums. Two cartoons in “Marking A Visual Argument: Cartoons and Stereotypes” portray strong stances about social injustices. In the work by Barry Deutsch, a woman on the street sees an opportunity for a great job, but can only enter the building if she is a man, demonstrating the lack of equal opportunity in the workplace. Meanwhile, the cartoon by Clay Bennett…

Caitlin Loera 09/25/17 CH 201 Section 1001/Discussion 1004 Gender Equality. Fair or Unfair? Gender, a term that brings up so much controversy not only in today’s society but as well as in the bronze age regarding the Odyssey and in the BC ages regarding the Genesis. Both ages treat women unfairly because back then women were objects, also in today’s day in age women are looked at the same. I believe that the way women are looked at is in the view of just a simple sex symbol, good for nothing;…

In the ted talk video, We Should all be Feminist, that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke about a huge topic “feminism”. Adichie describes and explains her different encounters of “feminism”. Should we all be more feminist? What does it mean to be feminist? Is there a difference between double standards and feminism? Adichie starts off the video mentioning to her audience that Okoloma,her childhood best friend, died in a plane crash in 2005. Adichie explains to us her first encounter was when she…

“Home Life” is a manuscript that was written in 1875 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is unknown where she wrote “Home Life” but it was mostly likely in New York because she was lived there her whole life. Elizabeth Stanton was a white woman, well educated, and an activist for women’s rights. Elizabeth’s characteristics will affect her perspective while writing. These characteristics will shape her perspectives because she is going to support women’s rights in her writings. In her writings, she…

As Jane Addams wrote this source on “Why women should vote, 1915”, she directed an issue that women faced during the early twentieth century, known as woman suffrage. In this historical document, Jane Addams explained the importance of a woman’s right to vote. First, she makes a claim that for all centuries it’s evident that a woman’s role is to take care of everything pertaining to her home, including her family. However, Addams explained that women (in general) cannot fully maintain their role…

Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is a book about one woman, Edna Pontellier, and about every woman in her society. Though it is not in itself a book of feminist teachings, its purpose was to enlighten---and hopefully awaken---its female readers to their selves and their humanity by showing the awakening of one such woman. Presumably, her intended audience was young to middle-aged women, both married and single, who were interested in love stories, art, scandals, or social analysis. As a young, single…