Dara Birnbaum's Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman is meant to discuss gender roles from society's perspective. The Wonder Woman character in the film constantly changes from a secretary into a super hero and has audiences concentrate on a few Continue Reading...
Feminism and "A Doll's House" In the globe, feminism is a common practice in the social customs of both developed and developing nations. This is because, in both cases, there has been an apparent similar portrayal of women, who have gone through va Continue Reading...
Representation of women in Jane Eyre, Great Expectations and the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales In Victorian culture, Women were Idolized, Protected and Oppressed During the Victorian era from the year, 1837-1901 there was Continue Reading...
He also examines the link between the phenomenon of feminism, the increase or impact on female political participation and the influence of the 1972 elections in the activation or growth of the working women phenomenon. Caroline Ramazanoglu. Femini Continue Reading...
Offen, Karen. Defining Feminism: A Comparative Historical Approach. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14, 1: 1988, pg 119. Offen, in her book, has very successfully and clearly laid out the history of feminism and its overall impact. Continue Reading...
The purpose of the character is to create an identity for herself and all the black women which suits her own criteria. In this regard she wishes to eliminate the abuses which have been performed upon the black females and black people in general. Continue Reading...
" A story narrating the life of the abused Minnie Foster, wife to John Wright, and her killing of her husband as a means to express her oppression and experiences of abuse from him. Like the narrator's downfall to insanity in "Yellow wallpaper," Minn Continue Reading...
Feminism How sports reproduce or challenge gender, sexuality, and/or racial norms The world is made up of people with varying races, religious practices, regions, developmental capacities and levels, access to natural resources, gender, and many ot Continue Reading...
Feminism & Gender Theory 'No boys allowed:' Legos for girls In her book, As Long As It is Pink, author Penny Sparke notes the great 'distaste' she felt when wrapping up some glass ornaments she had bought for her mother. She knew her mother wou Continue Reading...
Thus, the television shows, or their producers would have us think, do not actually promote violence and sexual promiscuity, they simply depict it as part of the reality of the particular people they chose to show on their programs. The problem, h Continue Reading...
This, to me, is an attempt to be realistic rather than feminist. Today, women are increasingly viewed, and portrayed by the media, as strong, independent creatures who can make decisions, pay bills, and "even" drive cars. They do, however, experienc Continue Reading...
Representation of Women Through Media Has Changed From 1960s How representation of women through media has changed from the 1960s Susan Douglas suggests that fifty years ago, mass media existed in the form of music, television, and magazines. Howe Continue Reading...
Reading Reactions One of the interesting surprises about “The Latina Domestic” was that focus on Lupe Ontiveros who played a maid character approximately 300 times in film and television in her career. What was interesting about this, how Continue Reading...
Feminism 19th and Early 20th Century America Writing and woman suffrage were inextricably intertwined in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Suffrage gave them a voice, and they used that voice to challenge the early American patriarchal status quo. By Continue Reading...
1960, the world of women (especially American women) was limited in very many aspects, from the workplace to family life. American women who were employed in 1960 were largely restricted to jobs such as being nurses, teachers or secretaries. Women w Continue Reading...
Contrasting Views on Multiculturalism and Women\\\'s Rights, and a Hypothetical Dialogue between Lila Abu-Lughod and Susan Moller OkinIntroductionThis essay examines the critical dialogue between Lila Abu-Lughods Do Muslim Women Need Saving? and Susa Continue Reading...
Sexual Objectification of Women in Music When compared to the female singers of the early 20th century, the women in music today represented a much more blatant example of sexual objectification. This is not to suggest that three-quarters of a centu Continue Reading...
Feminism/Humanities Love and the Developing and Unstable Female Sense of Self Lord Byron, in his epic poem "Don Juan," famously noted that although love may be an all-consuming passion for men and women, only for women does it provide the reason fo Continue Reading...
Throughout her novels and short stories, Jewett uses the weakness or malicious of the male characters to allow her female characters more power and therefore independence. Many scholars also believe that Jewett was also commenting on the decreased i Continue Reading...
Italy is a cultural hub of gender identity where issues of feminism and masculinism have been deeply entrenched for many years. For centuries Italy has been considered a more masculine country, though the majority of work documented related to mascul Continue Reading...
This is to the extent whereby the theorists have begun to look at lesbianism as a provisional identity in that it takes into account the racial, class and ethnical differences and these are what the queer theory has failed to do so far Epstein, 1994 Continue Reading...
Art Abjection of the Body & Cyborg Jewelry Design The examples of jewelry located and examined for the purposes of this paper align with the definitions and ideas of the authors that contextualize the conversation. (Refinery 29, 2012) Notice ho Continue Reading...
Carnal teachings: raunch aesthetics as queer feminist pedagogies in Yo! Majesty's hip hop practice" by Jilian Hernandez, the essay explores the concept of 'raunch aesthetics' in the video for the song, "Don't Let Go." H Continue Reading...
Feminism and colonialism Gayatri Spivak's essay "Can the subaltern speak?" is a complex and sometimes elliptical essay which can be summed up in a very simple answer: "no." Spivak poignantly illustrates the reality of many Indian women's lives thro Continue Reading...
This has often made it very difficult for black individuals to become high educational and social achievers. Racists then twist the reasons behind this lack of achievement and use it as evidence that members of the group are inferior (Gimlin, 2005). Continue Reading...
Serena Williams, one of the most strong and prominent young female role models for athletic women today is shown as using her tennis prowess to 'slam' nature in the face in one recent advertisement. Williams' femininity and her athleticism are clear Continue Reading...
A broader music discourse of English culture of early modern is reflected in the use of music dramatically with unrelenting relations between excess, music and feminine (Dane 435). Christian and platonic thought presents music ideologies which are c Continue Reading...
Women's Oppression, Racism, Colonialism And Feminism "The Committee is concerned that women's access to justice is limited, in particular because of women's lack of information on their rights, lack of legal aid, the insufficient understanding of th Continue Reading...
From girlhood," Sula shows a natural gift for daring, Lorie Watkins Fulton writes in African-American Review (Fulton, 2006). Sula in fact persuades Nel to join up with her in order to confront the bullies on Carpenter's Road; and when Sula shows th Continue Reading...
Willa Cather’s 1913 novel O Pioneers! was the first of her Great Plains trilogy. It was also one of the first American novels to depict the pioneering feminism of a main character. The heroine in Cather’s novel is Alexandra Bergson, the d Continue Reading...
CL's "Hello Bitches" and the Post-Feminist Representation of the Body In the music video by CL entitled "Hello Bitches," CL has managed to escape the constriction of the typical K-pop girl group (sexy, innocent, seductive, chic) by asserting a more Continue Reading...
Gender, Consumption and Ideology: A Look at Three Ads Introduction When the nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays became the father of advertising, he used a simple trick that he learned from his uncle: sex sells. Bernays understand, as Freud did, Continue Reading...
Sexyuality Sexuality The 1950's and Sexuality World War II can be seen as an ending and then a beginning for different eras. Prior to the war, the world was in a the most severe economic downturn that anyone had experienced in modern times, wherea Continue Reading...
Feminism today is especially being guided by the Feminists of old, prominent leaders of the past who continue to forge the path ahead for the modern women's movement: these are leaders like Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court and Gloria Steinhem Continue Reading...
Cultural Anthropology: Post-Feminism in the Media of the Modern Era Introduction In the wake of Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement that made women who speak out about sexual assault Time’s Person of the Year in 2017, a reassessment of th Continue Reading...
As such, she fails to address the central problem of feminism in the Pontellier perspective, namely the impossibility of female individuality and independence in a patriarchal world. It is only in isolation that Edna can find any happiness, and she Continue Reading...
Media Communications Representation of characters and role models in different media outlets is based on perceptions and preconceived notions held by the producer, co-producers, and audiences at large. Only those representations are drawn that large Continue Reading...
Canadian Feminism Expression, Action, Rebellion, Reflection, & Attention: The Power and the Problem of Canadian Feminist Media How does use of the media inform and propel the feminist movement in Canada? How is media used as part of the femin Continue Reading...
Post-Feminist Society Contemporary Feminist Advocacy Although there is not absolute consensus, popular writings about feminism suggest that there have been three waves of feminism: (1) The first wave of feminism is said to have occurred in the 18t Continue Reading...
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...
