Women's studies

Avalos Women’s Studies Dr. Michèle A. Schaal 9 September 16 Critical Analysis Paper In the article So You Want to Change the World? Michele Berger sets the mood as an informative article by describing the history of women’s studies and also all the institutions that have added women’s studies to their curriculum. The author chose to begin her article this way not only to give an introduction to what a women’s studies major can choose as a career, but also to make the audience aware that women’s…

gap becomes even more overwhelming. One of the examples he gives to show the interaction of labor, gender, race and class is domestic work. The author believes that the norm for domestic workers is to be a woman and usually of color, which limits women’s abilities in the work field and leads to constructed stereotypes. This phenomenon displays the privileged and non-privileged groups of people in this…

in sociology and that feminist theories were seen more as an add on to sociology rather than part of it’s core. Feminist theory thus focuses on inequality against women in both macro and micro levels. It was not until the early 1970’s in which the women’s movement turned its attention to rape (Barkan,…

Many people classify gender according to both biological differences and the constitution of one’s mind. Gender should not be perceived just as a natural fact. Despite, women and men were born with biological differences, they both obtained the same rights from the birth. Gender relations are differentiated and asymmetric divisions and attributions of human traits and capacities. Despite the increasing complexity of our questions, most feminists would still insist that gender relations are not…

design is described by Creswell and Plano Clark (2007), as providing a “theoretical perspective to help address injustices o bring about change for an underrepresented or marginalize group” (p. 194). The feminist research Telling It All: A Story of Women's Social Capital Using a Mixed Methods Approach conducted by Hodgkin’s (2008), attempts to explain the concept of social capital and the varying differences that it has on men and women. The research “sought to explore the different patterns…

However, a reported form of speech that has gone through the re-orientation phase in which certain portion of the discourses are altered or deleted due to the intervention of the composer’s own accountability may lack the characteristics that a naturally occurring speech has. Moreover, in the process of the re-construction of the stories, the writer’s own world view that is shaped and influenced by social, cultural, and gender ideologies can play role in the re-production of what originally…

Cohabitation, I feel I have a better understanding of gender and cohabitation. The main goal of this article was to explore the possibility of gendered meanings and motivations behind cohabitation among young adults. The authors were motivated to study gender and cohabitation because all that they did know about meanings and motives to cohabit were drawn from quantitative analyses of surveys and with close-ended attitudinal questions. As stated in the article, the motivation for why young adults…

sexist oppression. b. Cott says it is a “Principle of being conscious.” II. How did the outbreak of feminists form? a. Rupp and Taylor notes that the NWP (National Women’s Party) implemented reproductive choice and racism into the women’s movement. b. Nancy Cott’s author of “Grounding of Modern Feminism” -- book is history of women’s movement in 1910’s&1920’s. (According to Cott’s, that is when feminism was born in the US) c. Cott also states that feminist took up political and cultural…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is often considered a feminist classic. Evaluate this claim. THESIS STATEMENT: The yellow wallpaper is a short story that describes the attitude towards women's physical and mental health in the 19th century. By writing this short story the author likely attempts to shed some light on being mentally ill women in male-dominated society. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wallpaper” www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescript…

road for the equality and empowerment of women. Steinem stands as one of the cofounders of Ms. which is a women’s feminist magazine. Steinem has devoted her life and whole heartily fought for women’s rights by means of writing, lecturing, and political activity. Her article relates to Women’s Studies 201 course, because she and her work references social feminism. Based on the book, Women’s Lives, social feminism means, “A view that sees the oppression of women in terms of their subordinate…