Women's studies

Judith Sargent Murry is not a well-known name in everyday life, but to women activists and historians she was a key part of the women’s rights in the eighteenth century. She was an advocate for women’s right to an education. Judith’s upbringing had a lot to do with her work toward equality. She was raised in a wealthy household where her brothers had an excellent education and she was not given the same opportunities. Judith wrote many manuscripts, essays, and poems throughout her life. One of…

The women's activist development of the 1960s and '70s initially centered around fixing work environment disparity, for example, dissent of access to better occupations and pay imbalance, through against separation laws. In 1964, Representative Howard Smith of Virginia proposed to include a forbiddance sex separation into the Civil Rights Act that was under thought. He was welcomed by giggling from the other Congressmen, yet with initiative from Representative Martha Griffiths of Michigan, the…

convention floor because of their sex. However, the issue did not stop the women from expressing their opinions and exercising their invisible rights. Mott and Stanton later on held a women’s conference in Seneca Falls, New York which is now known as the notorious Seneca Falls Convention.…

What is feminism? According to Amy Kesselman in Illuminating How Identities, Stereotypes and Inequalities Matter through Gender Studies, Feminism by definition is “the belief women have been subordinate to men as well as to commitment to working for freedom in all aspects of social life”. Women have gone down a long, winding road when it comes recieving their rights. The feminist movement first stemmed all the way from the 1890’s when women joined efforts in prohibition. Women, during this time…

NOVELS OF SHASHI DESHPANDE AND MARGARET LAURENCE Women’s writing has reached a stage where its voice has reached globally throughout the world. Women are transformed from being the devastated and invalid victim of male power into becoming a subject in her own right. Thus the role of women changed into a one who can create a new world. Women writers have been turned out to the twenty first century with extraordinary self-confidence. The present study on “Postmodernistic perspectives in the…

her how to observe the sky. Maria broke several barriers for women during her life. She influenced the Women’s Rights Movements greatly. This remarkable woman was one of the best scientists of the 19th century. She was also the first professor hired at Vassar college. One of her famous quotes was, “ There is so cosmetic for beauty, like happiness”. Maria’s legacy will live on through our studies of astrology. Maria was born August 1, 1818 of nine children, in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She…

right to vote which was a huge accomplishment to the women of America. (Women’s Rights Movement). A group going on around this time was the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). This association formed around 1869 and would often “stir public debate through its reform proposals on a number of social issues…” (National Women’s Suffrage Association). They also helped the women to gain their voting rights in 1920. (National Women’s Suffrage…

Because young ladies are preferred for marriage, older women (widows) lean on prostitution to support themselves. Afghanistan speaks in terms of complementarity and separation, not equality. This is to say, men and women have their ascribed roles and women’s subservient role is designed to compliment men’s more superior role (Lynne Manganaro). Thus, the promotion of gender equality is less prevalent amongst the general population due to culture and religious…

many women (“National Women’s”). In fact, of the 13,000 employees who served at the agency’s peak in 1944, about 4,500 were women (“National Women’s”). Women were perfect spies since they were less suspicious in enemy territory than men, and even though they usually lacked the necessary background for recording data, they were often able to get unknown knowledge of German military intentions from enemy officers (“World War II”). Women were also employed as cryptanalysts who study ciphers which…

Pratt talk about black not all being from Africa dominant discourse of Bible relative to homosexuality or lust vs. love Native Americans and White people Anzaldua Bilingualism being the other in two different cultures so you have to make your own-because she is not a certain culture fully, she can not be accepted Transculturation-the dominant discourse influences the marginal group it is an autoethnography because she discusses ways that others perceive her - mocks the way they think-invents…