Can you imagine a world where individuals change who they are to fit in and have similar rights as those with more power? Minority groups‚ such as immigrants and women‚ are usually oppressed and do not have equal rights in society. How important is equality in today’s society? What factors influence people the need to fit in? Is it fair for some groups to have more rights than other groups? These are questions we all ask ourselves as we walk through the streets of our hometown. Has it ever crossed
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The following is a response paper to the text “The Master’s Tool Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House”‚ by Audre Lorde‚ an African American lesbian feminist. She was also a writer who fought in the Civl Rights Movement. This text was written in 1984‚ eight years before her death and it was an essay answering to an event that took place in a conference in New York. The essay analyzes the role of minorities in the Academia and reflects about the concept of sorority and intersectionality in feminism
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desired freedom and survival to occur. In learning from the 60s‚ Lorde addressed her personal feeling about Malcom X and speaks on how the black community tend to fight with each instead of working with each other to fight a common enemy. “Unity implies the coming together of elements… varied and diverse in their particular natures” (Lorde 136). Although we may have slightly different outlooks‚ two minds are better than one. Lorde makes it clear that black people’s main goal is survival‚ but one
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In Paul’s Pornified‚ one of the male she interviewed says that “We’re raised with women objectified in our culture.” Historically‚ women do not have control in their bodies‚ but having sexual autonomy has a big connection to women’s liberation. Segal who is a pro sex or sex positive feminist argues that women who are in control of their sexuality can become autonomous individual. For instance‚ she says that pornography is a form of freedom to women as they can “explore their own desire and pleasures”
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affect women and some of them are not very well understood. While reading “Breast Cancer Power vs. Prosthesis” by Audre Lorde‚ I realized that women who had to suffer from breast cancer sometimes must have a mastectomy‚ this is when a surgeon removes the whole breast. The story that Lorde talks about where the nurse pressures her to have a breast implant or used a prosthesis because Lorde actions were going to harm the image of the office. I was surprised to hear a nurse say or even think something
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allowed women to survive; the male wage suggested a contribution to national economic well being" (Kessler-Harris 1990‚ p. 191). Women deserve the same pay as men. There is no reason that a woman should work the same job as a man and receive three-fourths what the man receives in salary. Without equal pay there remains an imbalance of power between the sexes. Evening out that scale will allow both sexes to stand on equal ground. As history has illustrated‚ the inequality will continue until women stand
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Audre Lorde’s The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power offers powerful new ways to think about eroticisms and how they are enacted in everyday life to empower women. She defines the erotic as a source of power‚ a source of knowledge‚ and a lens through which we can analyze aspects of our lives to evaluate the satisfaction and joy we receive and deserve. We see themes of the erotic in Sapphire’s Push through the interactions the main character‚ Precious‚ has with her social world. In Push‚ Sapphire
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carried a significant meaning to people around the world‚ especially to the millions oppressed because their inability to speak up and take matters into their own hands. Audre Lorde‚ the author of “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action‚” reveals to the readers of a woman named Winnie Mandela. Through Mandela‚ Lorde is able to demonstrate that silence will only continue oppression‚ and oppression can only be stopped if the oppressed speaks up for themselves. Lorde’s argument of oppression
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“Poetry Is Not a Luxury” (1982) intertwines feminism and poetry together. Author Audre Lorde says that for women‚ “poetry is not a luxury‚ but a necessity of our existence” (Lorde‚ 1982‚ pg. 281). In today’s society‚ women’s opinions aren’t really expressed‚ because it’s not widely accepted in this man-built world. Lorde’s quote “poetry is not a luxury‚ but a necessity of our existence” means that women should use their voices and channel their energy into poetry. Since poetry is accepted‚ women
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In the readings and video presented in week 3‚ I think‚ that each one’s main theme was about gender‚ race‚ age‚ intersectionality‚ and the traditional cultures that people were raised in. In Sister Outsider‚ where Audre Lorde discussed age‚ race‚ class‚ and sex‚ she states that within the women’s movement today‚ white women focus upon their oppression as women and ignore differences of race‚ sexual preference‚ class‚ and age. She talks about the struggles of colored women in the todays society and
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