Women's studies

was a changing point for women. In the 1970’s, the women’s movement gave women freedom, independence, and equality. I think women in the 1970’s were depicted as submissive, dependent, and judged by appearance. My first article explains the depiction of women in Iranian cinema from the 1970’s to the present. Iranian women were portrayed as invisible, desexualized, and submissive in the war film genre. In 1979, Islamic Revolution eliminated women’s visual sexual commercialization from the…

field of gender studies. The financial aspects of a woman’s life, productively, theoretically,…

Literature Review on Anthropology of Gender in Southeast Asia and its implication on Gender study in Vietnam. Introduction This essay reviewed the key literature regarding Southeast Asia gender studies in anthropology and Vietnamese gender studies. The Southeast Asia gender studies in anthropology mainly focus on the ambivalent role of gender in societies and the conflicting ideological representations and practical representations of gender. Moreover, the influence of economic transform in…

An Analysis of the Historical Devolution of Gender Inequality for Women in Canadian Education Introduction: This study will define the devolving gender inequality for women in Canadian education. The overarching focus on a longitudinal historical progression of women’s rights in the education will be defined from the mid-20th century to the 2000s. A majority of the findings suggest that women have had greater access to secondary and post-secondary education as a part of an increase of…

Women’s and Gender Studies Reflective Essay My journey through Women’s and Gender Studies has been an eye opening experience. I say experience because this was more than a Quest I class for me, with each new topic we discussed in class, I became more aware of the social justice issues around me. Women’s and Gender Studies has not only made me more aware of social justice issues, but also helped me gain the confidence and knowledge to speak up when I see injustices around me. What every lecture,…

Although he challenges the field of study in this way, there exist other ways in which he can improve or further explain his argument. Cambridge University Press published an article by Marlis Schweitzer, titled Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change at the Turn of the Century (Review). In the article, the author argues Schorman has made a “persuasively argued, finely researched exploration of the social and cultural factors that shaped the American men and women’s clothing industries in the…

changing. First the traditional place of the women was the home, but now women work as much as men and women are not considered weak anymore. Women should demand equality defending it with knowledge because knowledge is power. Now is the time where women’s voice should be…

used by historians to examine their subjects. Scott’s article is a part of a larger study of gender published in her book, Gender and the Politics of History. This book rallies historians to break away from biologically constructed notions of what it means to be male and female and what their sex-roles…

The Problem and Purpose of this study The purpose of the study is to find out how different types and combinations of interpersonal violence relate to a women’s mental health status. This study focuses on how how experiences with sexual assault, physical assault, and witnessing a serious injury or death throughout a woman’s life are associated with increased problems of mental health issues and substance abuse problems. This study addressing an experience of one aspect of interpersonal…

for even religious theologians to define, and there hasn’t been a clear definition for this term simply because what we know as religion is more than what one word can describe. The academic study of Religion is a major key to understanding this concept. However, in the academic discipline of Religious Studies, there are many theoretical approaches, and other discipline theories that are used to define and understand religion, and that makes it possible for religious, and non-religious…