postamble 3 (1) 2007 Defending Feminism in Africa Simidele Dosekun Introduction In this essay‚ I argue against the popular notion that feminism or feminists are ‘unAfrican’‚ and instead argue for why feminism has a necessary role to play on the African continent today. The claim or argument that ‘feminism is not African’ is certainly not new. It is a claim to which I have been explicitly or implicitly subjected by other Africans as I have come to consciousness as a feminist‚ while still
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Feminist Criminology: How useful is it in its analysis of female crime? MSc Criminology and Forensic Psychology Feminist criminology emerged out of the realisation that criminology has from its inception centred on men and the crimes they commit. Although it can be argued female criminality was researched by Lombroso‚ as far back as 1800’s‚ female crime‚ it’s causes and the impact in which it had on society was largely ignored by the criminological futurity. Those Criminologist who did
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have the misfortune of hearing phrases such as “inequality doesn’t exist!” or “I don’t need feminism because……” It pains me to hear these things because all they are are misinformed opinions or sexist statements. To start with‚ the dictionary definition of Feminism is as follows‚ “The advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.” Straight away‚ this demolishes any argument that feminism a sexist movement. Equality is not a hard word to understand. It means‚ in this case‚ men
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“The problem with gender is it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are”‚ which was once said by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.In other words this quote is saying that the world promotes people to cover up their true selves to be the “right” figure for the certain gender .In the documentary Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes by Byron Hurt it speaks out about how in music videos male have the more dominant power and girls are just seen as props or sex objects‚and females are called
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historical time period. Feminism means to be dedicated towards the improvement of equality with genders. There were three waves of feminism‚ which can all be seen as taking steps towards equality for women. The first wave came about around the mid-19th century and had to do with the right to vote for women. This was a huge step forward for the white women’s population. The second wave of feminism had to do with the lack of presents of females within the work field. This wave of feminism was not taking into
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women had to face this led many female authors to discuss the struggles that follow women throughout history. Simone de Beauvoir‚ Bell Hooks and Christine Delphy asked questions and thought critically about the real meaning and function of women and feminism. First‚ Simone de Beauvoir in her article "The Second Sex" wonder about what is the appropriate definition of a woman as she differentiates between female and a woman. In the same article Simone compares women with men as she argues that women
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TITLE PAGE FEMINISM USING BUCHI EMECHETA’S ‘THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD’ AND ZAYNAB ALIKALI’S ‘THE STILL BORN’ BY AKINFOLARIN OLUWATOYIN ORE-OFE MATRIC NO 07/15CD042 A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH‚ FACULTY OF ARTS UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN. IN PARTIAL REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR’S DEGREE (B.A HONS) ENGLISH LANGUAGE. JUNE‚ 2011 THE CERTIFICATION This project has been read and approved as meeting the partial requirement for the Award of the Degree of Bachelor of
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“Don’t separate us‚ we are all equal” minority feminists often hear that sentence from white feminists‚ but are we equal? Can we compare a black feminist who works two jobs to support her family‚ to a financially stable white feminist? Is feminism one size fits all? In a perfect world‚ it is. However‚ our world is far from perfect‚ and this is where the term intersectionality emerges. Intersectionality is a term that was first founded by American professor Kimbrle Creshnaw in 1989. According to
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The Evolution of Civil Rights and Feminism in the United states from 1960-2014 The paper is an essay that will make a critical analysis to the “Feminist music video”. The paper will further address the Feminist movement from the point of view of the presentation made in Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to have Fun‚” and Indigo girls’ “Hummer and Nail‚” and analyze how feminist movement has evolved since the year 1960 to the year 2014. From the lyrics‚ “Girls Just Want to Have Fun‚” Cyndi makes it
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In Reading “ This Bridge Called My Back” we examine the multiracial feminism movement. The book includes the writing from various women of the movement. In these writings and poems are about the painful events that women have suffered through as women of color. Women of color have experience harsh treatment and the anger of the suffering is evident in these poems. Also the injustice that white feminist by ignoring women of color as part of the feminist movement the texts states “We are challenging
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