Women's studies

STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL IN BAPSI SIDHWA’S “THE PAKISTANI BRIDE” ABSTRACT BapsiSidhwa’sis one of the most prominent women writers in English. Her fictions are an exclusive paean to women’s zest for empowerment. As an activist, she gave a new dimension to the feminist consciousness. She is an energetic advocate of women. She utilizes her position as a writer to help foster an awareness of their rights. This paper attempts to explore the struggle for survival in Sidhwa’s “The Pakistani Bride”. It…

Women’s activist Marilyn Loden derived the phrase “glass ceiling” in 1978. A metaphor for the barrier that keeps women from rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy, this phrase served as an inspiration for women apart of the second and third wave feminism movements. In particular, women experience a glass ceiling within the workplace, as women are unable to achieve higher-up positions within their specific field of work. Even further, those who do manage to secure a rank equal to their male…

that sluttishness “encourages sexually vulnerable girls to feel protected by highly sexualized femininity”. The reason we are meant to believe this is because it “probably encourages girls to rely on appearances”. This is apparently supported by a “study from Kenyon College” that found that “about 25 percent of the clothes found in popular stores for girls was ‘sexualized’”. This, combined with the “evidence and concern about the naïve idealization of sluttishness” that one can seemingly find by…

and epistemological. The empirical claim shows that the first victim of impact of environmental deterioration is women. As Heather Eaton vocalizes, “Ecofeminists’ empirical claim examines sociopolitical and economic structures that restrict many women’s lives to poverty, ecological deprivation, and economic powerlessness. The degradation of environment has affected women in the most parts of world. The United Nations in 1989 remarked, it is a now universally established fact that it is the…

Margaret Sanger : Women against the Law During 1873 The Comstock act was in effect and its mindset was alike to the Victorian era. These ideals were based around the ideas that a woman should not be able to do anything vulgar or anything that would show a women being attracted to anything sexual and anything that would oppose to a woman conceiving a child. Margaret Sanger was one of the first women in American history to go against the past feminine ideals. Sanger’s main motivation to go…

Feminist science fiction emerged as a prominent sub-genre of science fiction at the early of the twentieth century. It deals mainly with women’s role in society. Science fiction has paved the way for female writers to present their actual subjects of sex and gender roles by exploring alternative prototypes for future societies with different beliefs and ideas. For most of these women writers, science fiction has become a very fitting tool for deliberating such taboo topics. Women writers…

Rani Laksmi Bai was a very brave women and she is one of the few women known in history who fought the Britishers fearlessly to defend Jhansi. Rani Laksmi Bai died a martyr. This report is a chronological account of her life, starting from her childhood, her wedding in the royal family, her understanding of fighting skills, her talent for state affairs, her despair and above all her love for Jhansi. You will read in the report, what a pillar of strength Rani Laksmi Bai really was and words like…

GENDER DISCRIMINTION IN ARUNDHATI ROY’S “THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS” 1. Introduction Arundhati Roy was born on November 24, 1961, in Shillong Meghalaya, in Bengal, North Eastern India. Her father was a Hindu tea planter, and her mother was a Christian teacher and social activist. Roy began her education at "Corpus Christi," a school founded by her mother in Aymanam, India. This school was very informal. As a result, Roy developed a way of thinking and writing. From the beginning of her…

themselves socially as much as men did, whether through drinking, sex, or indulging in the pleasures of urban nightlife.” Woman gained the freedom which they didn't have before ww1, they were to stay at home to be a ‘house wife’. This essay will study how the woman gradually became more indented and got the freedom they wanted, plus showing the woman through…

In November of 1648, a remarkable woman was born that would alter the course of history forever. At the time, she or others would never have been able to imagine the impact her works would have on a multitude of people. From the big picture, these efforts may go unnoticed, but her progressive ideas are not to be overlooked. Though they may not be extremely conspicuous, a change is a collective effort made through the strives of many people, she being one of them. Thousands of relationships could…