Women

political depiction of Muslim women on both a national and international spectrum. The indication that it is the West’s responsibility to protect the orient women stems from orientalist values and strengthens the “sense of [Western] superiority”. It is this savior thinking that Lila Abu-Lughod critiques as other women experience many of the issues these women faced across the world. The male-dominated Orientalism, initially termed by Said, is put into question as women become more involved in…

of their images? Why are there so many women harming themselves because they hate how their body looks? It’s because our society projects an idea of beauty that is false and a far cry from the average woman’s size 12. Everyday woman are bombarded with an unattainable ideal that is impossible to emulate and the results are shocking. These unachievable standards need to stop being promoted and instead the media needs to promote the message that women of all shapes and sizes are…

Country to be a Women Afghanistan is one of the worst countries to live as a woman due to the poor conditions, and the mistreating by the men. Women’s rights have been taken away, leaving them having to accept the miserable life. Being tortured, killed, forced into marriages, this has become normal to them. Throughout the world women’s equality is improving except in Afghanistan, women had their rights increasingly rolled back. Not a lot of information has been found about the action women have…

was born before 1950, noted that when she grew up makeup was something that women were expected to wear when dressing up. When I inquired if she presently wears makeup daily, she said no but that when she goes out she sometimes chooses to wear makeup. According to Paula Black, author of The Beauty Industry : Gender, Culture, Pleasure, women I this generation used makeup as a social ritual. She goes on to say “Young women in the 1950s saw experimenting with appearance as a vital element to…

Lysistrata, a play written by Aristophanes in 410 BC is a comedic battle of the sexes as the women of Athens decide to take it upon themselves to end the Peloponnesian War. Lead by the titular character Lysistrata, women from both sides of the war agree to abstain from having sexual relations with their husbands to have the men cease fighting. In the end men from both sides, in obvious and extreme sexual frustration, agree to end the war and return home with their wives. Although Lysistrata is a…

exemplifies a kind of social and often (if not monastic) enclosure. And the stories of women in Beowulf develop cumulatively, each validating the cultural functions of enclosed femininity through both imaginative and structural patterning” (Discourse of Enclosure 20), the point is that they use the space or their enclosed space for their own gain. Though some of these women fail to achieve the purpose of peace-weaving, the women in Beowulf, despite their failure, they use the space they have for…

or are supposed want. (Unknown, 2016) The photograph represents the way which women are so often portrayed in the media and advertising. Women are regularly depicted as objects with the purpose of satisfying male ‘needs’. This photo in particular communicates that a woman’s body parts, physical appearance and sexual function determine worth. This photograph pulls into the idea of objectifying and sexualizing women, as well as the idea of living up to beauty ideals. The photographs are…

This study looks at the correlation between mental health status of homeless women and their ethnicity. The hypothesis being tested is whether ethnic differences exist in the relationship between the predisposing and enabling domains of the Gelberg-Andersen Behavioral Model for Vulnerable Populations and mental distress. Face-to-face interviews were conducted on 821 women in the Los Angeles area. The sample was sixty seven percent African American, 17% Hispanic, and 16% White. Due to the nature…

The women in Macbeth are presented by Shakespeare to be powerful and ambitious which was unlike the typical views during Jacobean times. The playwright portrays Lady Macbeth and the witches to be highly influential to male characters in the play, which again contrasts the contemporary views to that time. Their ambition and power are demonstrated through the perversion of nature. This highlights the evil and immoral side, they possess. Shakespeare, however, presented Lady Macbeth and the witches…

Little do they know, these advertisements are affecting our beautiful women in various ways. No one ever acknowledges that these advertisements are affecting many unique individuals insecurities, body image, and self-esteem. Advertisements are a huge reason to why women become insecure. Music videos, magazines, and social media are the major reasons for lack of self love. Music…