Long Research Proposal

Long Research Proposal
The first wave of women’s rights movement which emerged in the late 19th century and lasted till the early 20th century focused mainly on women’s political rights. As a result, they gained their property rights as well as their rights to vote. However, those rights only represent women’s triumph in getting a broad social position. In fact, women were still treated unequal to men occupationally, domestically and personally. Because of this, women’s movement reemerged in the 1960s which had a tremendous cultural impact such that women’s had the same opportunity as men in their careers, households, and persons. Through this movement, a procedure called “consciousness-raising” along with the burst of feminist poetry enabled
The reemerge of women 's movement is a social movement with such a great cultural impact on humans ', in particular, women 's rights. The movement started out with different social events among which “consciousness-raising is the major event to start it such that women gathered together and discuss political and social issue that they observed or experienced and thus form the feminist thoughts. Moreover, the movement was developing through various of medias among which, poetry played a huge role in expressing how feminist ideas were formed either socially and culturally. By using poetry, women use their non-violence protest which is their voice of knowledge to fight for the gender
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann argued for women’s self-assumed obligation in his article “Universal Women’s Rights since 1970: The Centrality of Autonomy and Agency.” He suggests that women’s autonomy “means that women have the legal, moral, and personal capacity to make decisions as to where their interests lie, what social roles they value, which of their various identities they choose to emphasize, and which beliefs they hold or principles they emphasize”( Howard-Hassmann 2). His assumption is really helpful in my research paper because it identified the feminist role in the society that women should have so that I can use this to support my discussion of women’s social protest. Toni Cade Bambara wrote the first feminist collection “The Black Woman: An Anthology” which includes poem, essays and articles on black women. In the book, she annotated the consciousness-raising of black women that “Throughout the country in recent years, Black women have been forming work-study groups, discussion clubs, cooperative nurseries, cooperative business, consumer education groups…” (Bambara 4). Her writing of black women’s consciousness-raising can be used as an example and help me illustrate the consciousness-raising of all women in the movement. In Audre Lorde’s essay “Poetry is Not a Luxury,” she makes an analogy between consciousness-raising and writing a poem such that they both require a start of personal experience and