Women's studies

The title of this article is “Contraindications in a Hip-Hop World: An Ethnographic Study of Black Women Hip-Hop Fans in Washington, DC.,” written by Tia L. Smith-Cooper. This article was published with UMI Microform in June 2002. In this article, Tia L. Smith-Cooper is scrutinizing the current (in 2002) problem of male rappers objectifying females and women still being content with this fact and continuing to be hip-hop fans. Not only does she attack male rappers, she also attacks female…

Extensive academic journals in feminism and women’s political participation agree that women are underrepresented in national and state governments because of the oppression they face while being elected. Even though, the passage of the 19th Amendment has given women full means of access into the American political system. Women are faced with discrimination and stereotyped to staying at home to tend to their children. Which contradicts, with the feminist theory that women are equally to men.…

1848, the birth of a movement that would change the lives of women in the United States(Wheeler, p.9). What would later be known as the The Women’s Suffrage Movement planted roots in a developing area for this country. Post Civil War era the likes of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and a host of other women began speaking out for women in the hopes that their rights could be advanced alongside those of African-Americans. Up to this point in time women rights were under the idea of…

equality among the women. During this time, women were treated as another race than a gender, or sex. This movement known as Women’s Rights Movement is the reason that women started reaching equal treatment between the workforce and government. Although there was a Women’s Rights Movement, there are issues that still have not been address. These issues are dealing with women’s economics, leadership, education, safety, etc. The things that women are being denied have broken the boundaries of…

As I respond to this essay, I will focus on why we, as society, must look at gender through the eyes of race and racism. I will do this by explaining the concept of intersectionality and its effect on gender oppression. Before I explain how different racial groups experience gender oppression, we must first understand intersectionality. According to Patricia Hill Collins, intersectionality is described as the combination of factors such as: race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic class, and…

quote was said at the Women’s March on Washington which had many smaller, sister marches throughout the country, and one of these marches was held in Madison. The Women’s March on Madison was an event that aimed to contribute to this movement with the goals of promoting equality for all. People of different races, genders, sexual orientations, and ages could be seen filling the streets marching towards the Capitol, expressing their thoughts, and chanting for a cause. The Women’s March on…

In “The rise and Fall of Feminist Organizations in the 1970s: Dayton as a Case Study” by Judith Sealander and Dorothy Smith, analyzes the growth and decline of feminist organizations in the 70s. A variety of organizations were born at the beginning of 1970 and others emerged after the establishment of Dayton Women’s Liberation. Centers were provided so that women could discuss issues in the workplace and provide advice for them. This was successful for the moment, but it took a downturn once…

Collins have is that they have sought a sociology which takes women's experience as a vantage point where they could see the full picture of society. They are empiricists who experienced marginalization in the patriarchal or racist society whether as housewives or professional and academic women, and of course for Collins as an African-American woman. They composed their theories depending on their own experiences and their case studies. In her thesis entitled…

dividua Oonagh Reitman’s article “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights”. The purpose of this article are by the social relativist study, I mean the investigate which is made of the assert that human rights are general, that will be, that human rights are those held basically by temperance of being human and whose substance, shape and translation are not subject to varieties in culture (Donnelly 1989: 109-110). Social relativism comprises in the…

the forefront of this issues, is that of gender equality in sports. One of the main controversies in regards to the gender equality issues in sports, is the equality of media coverage in women’s sports at the colligate and professional level. The majority of conversation in the realm of media equality in women’s sports is the lack of media coverage and exposures compared to that of men’s sports at the colligate and professional level. The purpose of this paper will be to…