"Changing attitudes in Britain Society towards women was the major reason why some women received the vote in 1918". How accurate is this view?…
Dr. Rampage a Feminist Counselor looks at how gender as it’s construed socially impacts the client’s problem and this is a case where a single mother, who is single-handedly raising her 6-year-old son by herself where the father is not very active in the son's life as a responsible man should be. Due to the heavy load of responsibility, like working long hours and her son failing in school.(19:45min).…
Feminism is the theory of how men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. In the past, men and women haven’t had the same rights, especially in the eighteen forties. The Puritan society thought Hester’s sin was a disgrace and shunned her for it. The Scarlet Letter shows feminism from a different perspective such as Hester stepping completely out of Puritan beliefs becoming an outcast, wearing her punishment proud, and being a single mother and loving it.…
Jones-Smith, E. (2012). Feminist Therapy and Lesbian and Gay Therapy. In Theories of counseling and psychotherapy: An integrative approach (p. 387).…
Throughout world, and particularly in mainstream media, women and girls are depicted in a sexualizing manner. I know that this exists because I have grown up in a society that objectifies women and it has had a negative effect on my whole life as well as the lives of all my female friends. Sexual objectification is vicious and it needs to stop because it is harming women everywhere; women are essentialized as sex objects rather than individuals with personalities, thoughts, emotions, and their own desires.…
Liberal feminism may be classed as ‘inadequate’ compared to other approaches to feminism, however, in itself, liberal feminism is actually groundbreaking. In 1994 the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act made it illegal for a man to rape his wife. This revolution was attained easily by dismissing the word ‘unlawful’ from the statuary definition of rape as it appeared in the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976. Astonishingly, prior to this change there were acts of rape which could infact be legal, due to the law interpreting the meaning of marriage as a continual consent to sex, consensual or not. This law that has protected married men from committing crimes is what feminists label ‘the patriarchal legal system’. The law’s interpretation here created a view on marriage that: all husbands owned their wives, as if a piece of property. For example in the 1736 case of R v R Chief Justice Hale ruled that a husband cannot be guilty of raping his wife due to marital exemption and therefore…
Women in the early nineteenth century were viewed as the weaker sex and their only job was to take care of the domestic chores (wic). Women had to be delicate, well behave and well-polished. In Willa Cather’s book, “My Antonia”, Antonia is a bohemian immigrant who comes to America with her family to start a new life.She becomes close friends with a boy name Jim who helps her learn english and together they have adventures out in the prairie. Jim sees Antonia as a lovely girl but soon changes his views when Antonia begins to take on a more masculine role. Antonia’s character is unlike other women of her time, she is independent, strong-willed woman who has a passion for nature.…
The definition of feminism according to the Webster’s dictionary is, “the belief that men and women…
Domestic violence has been framed to be understood as a women's issue, while men are often overlooked; making this a social conflict in our society. When we think about domestic violence, we think of women who are battered by their husband, boyfriend, or a man they used to involve with. However, every year in the U.S. about 3.2 million men are the victims of an assault by an intimate partner. Most assaults are, though many are more serious and has ended in homicide in some cases. About 15% of men are victims of reported intimate partner violence. Women who abuse men are not much different than their male who abuse women. Men can be hit, kicked, punched, pushed, or bitten by women abusers. Women also use weapons such as knives, guns, or other objects just as men do.…
Women’s Rights have changed without a doubt since 1945. Many opportunities arose for women and women could do things they could never do before. They were able to voice their opinions without being suppressed and this made women very happy.…
The focus of this essay was on how the female body and the disabled body are seen as inferior in society. This reading really made me realize how we view disabled and female bodies in our society, and how we typically look the disabled so differently. I also thought about how often people so easily overlook the struggles that many disabled bodies have to deal with, like disabled women who want to have children or public facilities not having wheelchair access. It’s sad to recognize how most people see the disabled as inadequate and compensate for that by pitying them, rather than trying to treat them the same way as an able-bodied person. This essay made me think of one of my good friend’s older sister with Down syndrome, and how when we are out in public with her how many people stare at her because her disability is visible. I found it interesting how this essay talked about how the female body is seen as disabled and inferior to men’s: weak, soft, passive, etc. This essay sheds light on how our society has been trained to undervalue those whose bodies are considered abnormal.…
Women’s suffrage has always been a major conflict in the United States, but also all over the world. Generations of women have taken action to protest, fighting for what they believed in; feminists. The struggle of not superiority but equality and respect as any other male was the message activists of the women's rights movement was trying to convey. Although many of the women were well educated, they were still were still denied the right to vote. The Women’s suffrage Movement took several years to make its way through and successfully in 1920 women won voting rights.…
* The female lead is still a glamorous actress, who is sexually appealing men. The camera encourages the audience to view the women in a voyeuristic way.…
According to Brown et al., (2006) blending these two approaches allows the therapist to understand the way women talk about their bodies without pathologizing their experiences. Feminist therapy is aimed at achieving both personal goals and societal change (Corey, 2013). The theory is not static but is continually changing and maturing in nature (Corey, 2013). The primary goal with in Feminist therapy is to replace the current patriarchal system with feminist consciousness and in turn create a society that appreciates equality in relationships, values diversity, stresses interdependence, and encourages both men and women to define themselves rather than allowing society to do so (Corey, 2013, p. 385). On the other hand, Narrative therapy encourages the therapist to establish a collaborative approach with special interest in listening respectfully to clients stories and search for instances in the client’s life when they were resourceful (Corey, 2013). The therapist then utilizes questions to engage clients and facilitate their exploration (Corey, 2013). There is a special emphasis on not diagnosing and labeling clients, assisting clients in mapping the influence of a problem on their lives, and assisting clients in separating themselves from the dominant stories they have internalized so that space can be made for the creation of alternative life stories (Corey, 2013, p.…
Feminism and feminist theory is inherently rooted in validating the experiences and struggles of women; it is meant to critically analyze and deconstruct the ways in which gender intersects with other experiences to create inequalities for women. Through the analysis and deconstruction of these intersections do the experiences of women become validated and are in many cases made “real.” I do consider myself to be a feminist, one that considers the importance of validation to be vital. My experiences of emotional abuse, alcoholism, and anxiety were, and are still, horrible experiences that I will never be able to “get over” or to completely move past, but I am now able to understand that my experience have not tainted me. That I, and all people, deserve to live dignified lives and to have our experiences validated in healthy and safe ways. Feminism, I believe, is the pathway to deconstructing these systems of oppression, these “lens’ of…