As the youngest of 3‚ with 2 older brothers‚ I am constantly bombarded by the sheer inequality between our genders. This is why once I watched actress and author Blythe Baird‚ I knew that I found the right piece. She wrote the poem‚ “Pocket-Sized Feminism” back in 2016 when she was 19 years old and it ranked as the #1 most viewed poem on Button Poetry. It sends a strong message and somehow creates a space where women can feel safe. Her words are so vivid‚ brutally honest‚ and reaches out to traumatized
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The F-Word Conference: Reflection on “White Women and their White Feminism” White feminists is a type of feminism that believes that all women face the same oppressions‚ ignoring how race‚ class‚ ethnicity and sexual orientation impact the way discrimination is experienced. Yasamin Graff‚ in “White Women and their White Feminism‚” explained how white privilege should be addressed when talking about feminism. Especially in western society feminism’s goal seems to be the liberation for the white
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Feminism Might not be Bad After all. Mary Wollstonecraft is a very unusual author‚ due to the fact that she writes everything how it is‚ without any “sugar coating”. And how she came up with ideas way ahead of her time. She writes how men are not allowing women to grow and earn a place in society and that equality shall be a must for both sexes. If we think about it‚ this could be one of the earliest work of feminism out there‚ and one of the articles that changes the course of history in ways that
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Moving on‚ since the crash of the First Wave of feminism‚ we have seen an on and off switch of freedoms and limitations. The 1920’s or better known as the Roaring Twenties brought out women’s votes to play and the presence of “flappers” led women to unprecedented freedoms when it came to the way they dressed and acted in public settings. After the Stock Market Crash‚ the Great Depression‚ and diving into World War II‚ more women were brought into the working force like never before. As Claudia Goldin
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Third-wave feminism the movement thriving into the 21st century By Susan Graham The Second-Wave Damage and repairs in the next decade • Third-wave feminism refers to several diverse strains of feminist activity and study‚ whose exact boundaries in the history of feminism are a subject of debate‚ but are generally marked as beginning in the early 1990s and continuing to the present. The movement arose partially as a response to the perceived failures of and backlash against initiatives and movements
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In Professor Linda Zerilli’s lecture‚ titled “Feminism without Solace: Reading Simone de Beauvoir in the 21st Century‚" Zerilli questions the proper approach to Simone de Beauvoir’s theories presented in The Second Sex. As she mentions‚ the The Second Sex evokes a feminist ideology for most of its readers. But the question stands as to whether or not de Beauvoir was truly a feminist or if she was an unbiased observer. The claim that Zerilli makes is that de Beauvoir’s theories cannot nor should not
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Chinese Women: Becoming Half the Sky? ---An Analysis of Modern Feminism in China On November 7th‚ 2013‚ in order to promote a feminist student group’s upcoming campus performance of The Vagina Monologues‚ U.S. playwright Eve Ensler’s controversial play (Jaffe 2013)‚ 17 female students at the Beijing Foreign Studies University posted online photos of themselves holding up messages of “What My Vagina Says: …”. However‚ they probably didn’t expect to cause such a stir on Chinese social media. While
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Comparing and Contrasting Liberal‚ Socialist‚ and Radical Feminism In today’s society it is nearly impossible to go a day without being subjected to some form of media that does not marginalize women. The media takes a myriad of forms that include but are not limited to televisions‚ phones‚ and the radio and it is no surprise that the media has a huge impact on society. Most of the time the media is heralded as a pivotal source of news and entertainment however‚ many look down on the media giving
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Liberal‚ Conservative‚ and Socialist Ideals vs. Feminism before the 20th Century Tales from the beyond‚ story one: a parent binds his baby girl’s feet in China‚ so it will not grow more than five to six inches because small feet in women are a sign of elegance; story two: a wife is burned alive in India‚ so she can accompany her husband in death. Are these stories? No‚ things like this really happened in the past. They are part of the reason that contributed to the birth of the Women’s Movement
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In a World of Feminism "In the world according to Garp‚ we are all terminal cases" (609). This is Garp’s famous line featured in his half autobiography‚ biography about his struggle with his feminist leader for a mother and her feminist movement. According to John Irving’s novel‚ The World According to Garp‚ feminism can be considered as one of the many important aspect of the story. This is shown through the life of T.S. Garp. When Irving refers to Garp’s mother Jenny‚ feminism is shown as a
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