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    themselves of their femininity to achieve the level of acceptance that they hope to reach‚ while others are proud of being feminine and feminist. This has become a point of contention amongst many women‚ causing women to question whether femininity and feminism can coexist. If we abandon femininity‚ we are creating a new stereotype. While being strong and achieving gender equality is a noble cause‚ no one should be required to sacrifice their femininity; unfortunately‚ many women are. All over social

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    working to provide for their family. I also learned about the first-wave feminism and the second-wave feminism. The first-wave feminism focused more on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality‚ voting rights‚ and property rights. The second-wave feminism broadened the debate to a wide range of issues like sexuality‚ family‚ the work place‚ reproductive rights‚ and official legal inequalities. The second-wave feminism also focused on domestic violence and marital rape issues‚ establishment

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    The View Towards Feminism and A Room of One’s Own Written in 1929‚ A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf has been broken apart into many different view points and meanings that in a whole‚ affect woman and/or artists. The interesting thing about Woolf’s piece‚ is that it’s an essay that uses fictional characters and narration that would later be used to debate whether it was completely a true feminist approach to women’s writing and money‚ or if wasn’t enough of a feminist approach‚

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    the historical connotations of being sexually excessive. Chapter 8: Outlines the refusing recognitions of feminism‚ the women all had a general idea of what feminism entails however‚ the representations of feminism were negative or portrayed to be not accessible due to capital deficiency. The women failed the desire to be positioned in an individualistic autonomous discourse of feminism moreover‚ agreed with elements such as The Equal Pay Act. Many of which wanted to remain in a traditional patriarchal

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    movements were closely related to individuals‚ specific protests and the broader transformations which took place in the American culture and other parts of the world. However the history of feminism was divided into three waves and each wave dealt with different aspects and goals. These different waves of feminism were not only reflective to the cultural revolution in America‚ but it was also the way in which the feminist movements used in different social movement tactics to encourage women to become

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    Historians have sorted the American Feminist movement into three distinct “waves‚” the first of which began before World War I. Although World War I should not be credited for the beginning of the Feminist Movement‚ it led to its triumph. First-Wave Feminism merely began as women’s desire to be granted political‚ social‚ and economic liberties; this being represented by the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848‚ the first time a discussion of women’s rights had taken place. It was not until World War I that

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    Susan Miller Okin’s “Is multiculturalism bad for women” attempts to address key reasons as to why she feels multiculturalism cannot coincide with feminism. She begins by defining the specific notions of feminism and multiculturalism that she is referring to in order to provide clarity to the reader. She refers to the liberal model of feminism‚ which is the belief that women should not be look down upon due to their gender‚ and should be widely recognized as equal‚ not unequal‚ to men. By multiculturalism

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    Criticism: You Dropped the Bomb on Me‚ Baby Feminism and gender studies have been described as having the ability to "challenge literary and culture theory to confront the difficult task of assimilating the findings of an expanding sphere of inquiry" (Contemporary Literary Criticism 567). This area of study has taken center stage during the last fifty years‚ not only in our society‚ but also in literary criticism. Although the terrain Feminism traverses can hardly be narrowed down to one single

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    socialized to act according to their culture. • Cultural feminism: emphasizes characteristics and qualities of women that are devolved and ignored in society. • Division 35: APA’s division of the psychology of women (est.1973) • Engendering psychology: a psychology which gender considerations are mainstreamed throughout the discipline. • Evolutionary psychology: developed by Wilson; psychological traits are selected through evolution • Feminism: belief that women and men are equal and should be equally

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    continual teaching and information brought about the several literary theories that we apply today to the analysis of all literary works. Our focus in this study is the application of feminist theory to literary works‚ with emphasis on drama. Feminisms & Feminist Theory According to the Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia) feminist literary theory is a complex and dynamic area of study which draws from a wide range of other critical theories including anthropology‚ psychoanalysis‚ Marxism‚ cultural

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