162 Search Results for Feminist Point Critique of Feminism
Cyber Feminism, Gender and Technology
Cyberfeminism, Gender and Technology
Feminist movement found on the internet is known as Cyberfeminism. In recent times, the term has gained controversial status. Cyberfeminism, a fundamental issue from the fem Continue Reading...
Women and Islam
Do Muslim women really need saving?
Strengths and weaknesses
Between here and there: feminist solidarity and Afghan women.
Strengths and weaknesses
Do Muslim women really need saving? Anthropological reflections on cultural relat Continue Reading...
Domestic violence often occurs outside of marital bonds, and so will go underreported in analysis which employs the NSFH data set.
In researching the NSFH, some shortcomings are revealed. The NSFH asks short series of questions based on outcome, wh Continue Reading...
After reading the first two chapters of the book, it is evident that Bennett is overwhelmed with the amount of information she acquired regarding ale and beer brewing in the late medieval period. Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in Continue Reading...
While men ignore the kitchen as containing "nothing but kitchen things," women look for evidence precisely there because it is the only place where women are in control. As Holstein (2003) argues, women do not enter the house of Mr. Wright as a plac Continue Reading...
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Coker's article (published in a very conservative magazine in England) "reflected unease among some of his colleagues" about that new course at LSEP. Moreover, Coker disputes that fact that there is a female alternative to male behavior and Co Continue Reading...
Ross (1988) notes the development of Romanticism in the late eighteenth century and indicates that it was essentially a masculine phenomenon:
Romantic poetizing is not just what women cannot do because they are not expected to; it is also what some Continue Reading...
Even more interesting is how Roseanne was treated as if she were somehow an anti-feminist because she wished to push her own agenda on the show, creating conflict with one of the producers. Interestingly enough, Barr observed, "I made the mistake of Continue Reading...
Schwartz (2006), many arguments are presented, most of which generally criticize the Western treatment of First Nations people or address women's rights issues. As an example, "Aboriginal Australia: Current Criminological Themes" by Rick Sarre (2006 Continue Reading...
Sociology and Feminist Theories on Gender Studies
Postmodern Feminism in "Cherrie Moraga and Chicana Lesbianism"
In the article entitled, "Cherrie Moraga and Chicana Lesbianism," author Tomas Almaguer analyzes and studies the dynamics behind Moraga Continue Reading...
Her list includes the following:
culture / Nature
reason / Nature
male/female mind/body ( Nature)
master/slave reason/matter (physicality)
rationality/animality ( Nature)
human / Nature (non-human)
civilised/primitive ( Nature)
production/re Continue Reading...
in "Piaf," Pam Gems provides a view into the life of the great French singer and arguably the greatest singer of her generation -- Edith Piaf. (Fildier and Primack, 1981), the slices that the playwright provides, more than adequately trace Continue Reading...
Mary Wollstonecraft
"Freedom, even uncertain freedom, is dear; you know I am not born to tread the beaten track." -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was an outspoken political expressionist, essayist and feminist before anyone knew that the Continue Reading...
The research too has to be reliable and valid cohering to an internal and external scientific definition of reality that is more physical and eschews the metaphysical and the abstract.
Ontological Basis
Positivism accepts a certain reality of exis Continue Reading...
Jean Rhys "Good Night, Midnight"
The explanation for the title of the book, exposed as a poem by Emily Dickinson, sets the tone for the work. It is assumed from the words that a woman is coming home after a night out with a suitor and she was, for s Continue Reading...
Women in Television
In the late 1960s to early 1970s, as women burned their bras and took to the streets for equality, the female labor force grew three times more than that their male peers (Toossi), increasing numbers of educational opportunities Continue Reading...
(pp.45-58) Hooks also recognized that when integration occurred these change agents were alienated from black children and alienation and discrimination ensued, associated with being taught white history and democratic ideals, rather than reformatio Continue Reading...
Feminization of Poverty and Education in Canada
It is often assumed that gender divisions in the economy and major political and social institutions are higher in the developing countries than in the developed nations of Western Europe, Japan, and t Continue Reading...
..(Lamonaca, 2002, pg. 245)
Within the work is a clear liberalization of Jane's ideas of spiritual fate and a challenge to the standards of the day, of a wife as a spiritual and physical subordinate to a husband.
Jane's insistence on a direct, unme Continue Reading...
Post positivism
Defining Post positivism:
definitional exercise in identity politics, in expanding cultural and semiotic discourse, and reinterpreting the continuing the literary effort of the 20th and 21st century to deconstruct human life and so Continue Reading...
Indeed, if there is only one type of beautiful person, it contributes to increased insecurity in women who happen to be a different shape or size from the "ideal" women perpetuated in the popular culture.
According to Dank, Norton, Olds and Olive ( Continue Reading...
It is well-known that men and women typically experience migration differently, and the challenges of balancing work and care in a new setting often leads to the feminization of women's roles. This is because they find themselves taking up more trad Continue Reading...
Miss Irene Adler's mind does not conform to her body-yet she can become a positive protagonist precisely because of her body."(Cortiel 1999 p.110)
Therefore, it is plain that the Victorian society saw woman as the opposite of reason and intellect. Continue Reading...
This can be seen in Rebecca Karl's essay on "Slavery, Citizenship, and Gender in late Qing China's Global Context." Karl's essay asks the central question -- why, as women grew more prominent socially in the late Qing era, did they also increasingly Continue Reading...
Wollstonecraft & J.J. Rousseau
The influence of humanity and reason in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft and Jean Jacques Rousseau on education and women
The age of Enlightenment put forth the importance of humanism and reason, concepts that cre Continue Reading...
Women in the United States between the ages of 47 and 65 are reaching retirement age and are facing an unstable world of retirement in regard to dwindling income sources (Gualco, 2012). In addition, corporations are downsizing their employees, and t Continue Reading...
Haraway argues that the new feminism will pave the way for the future, where technology and the back to nature crowd do not have to have separate existence. The cyborg will come to terms with their inability to reconcile their differences into a wh Continue Reading...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Bakhtin distinguished the literary form of the novel as distinct from other genres because of its rendering of the dynamic present, not in a separate and unitary literary language, but in the competing and often cosmic di Continue Reading...
Without a doubt, a great deal of these insecurities are embedded in the modern American culture's obsession with women maintaining unhealthy, unrealistic body types. Women have been set up to fail by these expectations, which has ultimately served t Continue Reading...
true since we were children and we were told by adults that "words will never hurt us." A good many of us would most likely have preferred the sticks and stones because physical injuries often heal far more quickly and far more effectively than psyc Continue Reading...
Gender Politics and the Nation
The historical development of the nation has impacted the ability of women to participate in contemporary politics by reinforcing gender roles in the public sphere. Traditionally, the exclusion women from the internati Continue Reading...
Boys Adrift
Book Critique on the book boys adrift
Book critique: Boys Adrift
For many years, there was a great deal of concern expressed about the poor performance of girls in schools. Although girls often excelled during the early grades, boys te Continue Reading...
courtship good for women?
The Lais of Marie de France: Was courtly love good for women?
The Lais of Marie de France chronicle the trials and tribulations of various women in love, as seen from a female perspective. Little is known about the life o Continue Reading...
Science/Technology on the Modern Era
Family structures and social relationships in North America have undergone significant changes in the modern era, largely because of scientific/technological advancements. Such advancements have propelled the Wo Continue Reading...
Did Bertha not subscribe to the "cult of true womanhood" in which a real woman was believed to be without any sexual feelings, to be responsible for the man's sexual behavior, to be religious, obedient to her husband, and to provide a serene haven f Continue Reading...
Landscape as Replacement of the Mulvey Female in "The Searchers"
In her famous essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey posits that men in Hollywood cinema, responding to demands of the ruling ideology, "can Continue Reading...
Advocacy Strategy: Anti-Violence Work
Anti-violence work is really about helping a lot of women discover their strong areas and their they consider the truth for their lives. Most women contemplate should they stay, should they go or even if they n Continue Reading...
Based on the image, one would believe that housework is nothing but a minor obligation that hardly even interferes with paying attention to children and pets.
As Friedan argues, that entire image was a false one that was designed to convince women Continue Reading...
8). Under such circumstances, the theme of tragic love in the seventeenth century is rife with passionate rebellion against such marital arrangements. Moreover, Arnolphe's view of wifedom is base: "And there are four things only she must know: to say Continue Reading...