Women's studies

what we study, will improve our ability to investigate and understand nature. Waking up such metaphors, by becoming aware of their implications, will rob them of their power to naturalize our social conventions about gender”. (Martin, 1991) Always, a feminine product company has started a campaign to combat the negative influences that advertising has on girls and women’s self image. Their #LikeAGirl campaign is striving to turn the phrase from an insult to an empowering message. Studies…

Introduction: Trans as Dueling Definitions For a rather simple five-letter word, the prefix “trans” is given an awful lot of work to do. In current gender identity discussions and debates it is called upon as convenient shorthand to refer to the experience of living with/through a transcendent gender; any individual who identifies with that experience; a community comprised of such social actors; or any composite of these choices. Yet this pervasive Western liberal definition has not…

fight is still going on for women’s rights. Out of all of the United States, it is shown that Wyoming was the 1st territory to give women the right to vote in 1869. The chapter then goes on to tell us that this leads to women’s studies and the many misbeliefs of it. Including women studies being used for “feminist propaganda”, claiming to have only women’s issues, and only a white, middle class, “western thing”. Later on a main theme of…

If it had stood alone on its quantitative components and qualitative narrative (ending with a case study of Hurtado’s brother), Beyond Machismo would be compelling research that adds critical data and analysis to the lively ongoing conversations that define Masculinities Studies. Yet its rather bold visibility of Chicana feminist throughout its analysis to underpin its sociological conceptual framing signals a fresh if not unique methodological…

In her 1981 bibliographic essay, religious scholar F. Ellen Weaver highlights a lack of creative studies on women and gender in early modern France. To answer the “exciting challenge” of combining women’s history and religious history during this period, she calls for not only the translation of some of the best French studies and primary sources, but also innovative studies which will use new perspectives, raise new questions, and make use of “the sources available in French archives,…

Introduction In the beginning of the course I want to study about women empowerment. When I read the transformative learning, I really see that as a tool for changing the society in a good way. I think that transformative learning can be the solution for the some misconcepts about gender issues as well. Then I realize that I can combine transformative learning and women empowerment issues, I can write about the women’s transformative learning paths. I decided to write about transformative…

submissive women in advertisements. It was surprising to see how women’s home magazines focused more on dismemberment photos than women’s fashion magazines. It is thought that fashion magazines are always the culprit of making women seem always beautiful and flawless. The biggest debate recently is whether or not these models should be photoshopped. This debate seems to be more geared toward women’s fashion magazines, not the women’s home magazines. It is also interesting to see that data shows…

examination of why feminism is important for political science as a whole. The area of political science has been, compared to “other branches of social science, among the most resistant to feminist analysis” (Ritter and Mellow, 121). Feminist and gender studies have the ability to address current global politics as well as inform traditional theories that constitute the backbone of the discipline. As a result, the focus of gender in IR appears to be “toward reconstituting the foundational…

Culture Culture is a thing which compound whole and which includes various things like knowledge, art, belief, moral laws, customs etc. culture is access by men as a member of the society and it is transmitted through generation to generation. Gender Gender is known as male and female typically referred with social and cultural traits rather than biological. History of Sub-Continent Sub-continent history started from Indus Valley civilization one of the oldest and first civilization of the…

Research Questions This research seeks to answer the following questions: 1. How does the life and works of 16th-century writer Veronica Franco and 18th-century writer Leona Florentino defend or promote women's rights in the earlier centuries? 2. What specific issues of women’s rights did their work address? 3. What struggles of the poet are reflected in their works? Theoretical Lens The use of the second-wave feminism called as “Gynocriticism” as a theoretical lens will help us understand…