Feminism

One well-known gender theory is Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity. Butler theorized that gender is completely socially constructed. She wrote that gender “is a set of repeated acts...

Sherryl Kleinman begins by saying that sexist language is one of the least understood areas of feminist discourse. She singles out the popular expression "you guys" as one to which most people...

Audry and Katie both have the same goal while preparing for this meeting with their boss regarding their pay. Audry's liberal feminist outlook would likely lead her to argue her status and...

The term “feminism” is controversial for at least two reasons. First, there is controversy as to what the term should mean. That is, different women define feminism in different ways. There are...

First, one should note that social change is not uniform across all classes and regions and also that the feminist movement occurred at the same time as Civil Rights, gay rights, and other...

In the eighteenth century, feminist and enlightenment philosopher, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote that "I do not wish [women] to have power over men, but over themselves." This sentiment summarizes much...

What this slogan means, in its most common usage, is that there is no real difference between women’s political issues and their personal issues. It was used to argue that issues that people...

Since it is the current wave of feminism that is being mobilized as I write this, it's hard to argue that fourth-wave feminism is not clearly the most relevant today. In the past, feminism focused...

In the 1950s, the media's depiction of women was one in which women were supplements to men. All endeavors and the fiber of a woman's being was geared towards helping a man. Consider the words of...

The exact contours of an answer might exceed the space allotted here. Certainly, I think that one would have to concede that the media representation of women has changed over time. One can see...

Feminism has broadened itself to ensure that women of color are included in its theoretical foundations. Feminist theory has evolved to recognize that women should not be in the position of having...

One reason why feminist theory can be seen as true would be that it is an ongoing struggle. Even the most optimistic view of gender relations would concede that there are issues of gender...

Liberal feminism is a brand of feminism that pulls from Classical Liberalism. In liberal feminism, there is a complete demand for equality. External forces such as government should not create...

Marxist feminism views the oppression of women and the construction of gender in light of class relations and particularly the division of labor created by industrial capitalism. For Marxist...

One of Douglas's points is that the media did a very good job in depicting women in a way whereby patriarchy was intrinsic to the message and women struggled with being able to formulate identities...

The approach that the feminist movement took in deconstructing the pathology behind patriarchy was to examine on as many levels as possible why reality was constructed in the way it was. Some of...

Using a post-structural approach, feminists seek to uncover (or deconstruct) the ways in which gender and all aspects of social interactions have been structured by a historically male-dominated...

We can take Bell Hooks' feminist article "Straightening Our Hair," published in Z Magazine (September 1988), as an illustration of how to elaborate upon a Hooks article. After having read and...

The changes in the status and roles of women have reshaped western society. The first, and somewhat self-evident changes appear in the way that what used to be all male preserves, including centers...

I would think that there was a great deal of fear at the Convention. Indeed, there was much at it which was liberating. Yet, I would have to figure that there was an equal amount of the unknown...