tons of people ask me‚ why I’m prolonging this feminist “nonsense” They say its high time people accept that men and women are equal. They have the same opportunities‚ same rights. I wasn’t really keen on the ‘feminist’ name tag either. Mostly‚ due to its association with single‚ angry women burning bras and holding sign boards saying “We don’t need men to dictate us.” It took me a while to reflect upon my purpose for calling myself a feminist. It involved intensive googling at 3 am and long
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Abbie Alexander Profession Feminist Theory September 26‚ 2015 The Importance of Personal Narratives Personal Narratives carry more authority than scholarly studies‚ because they are the voices of women varying in color‚ ethnicity‚ nationality‚ religion‚ and cultural background. The feminist movement operates on the assumption that experiences of upper-middle class white women represent a universal female identity. In order for the feminist movement to gain traction‚ we must recognize the systemic
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One of Anne Bronte’s most popular novels‚ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall‚ greatly invoked a sense of autonomy within women of Victorian England. The Bronte sisters were some of the most influential feminist writers of their time. Anne Bronte’s literary career drastically developed after she published The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Anne Bronte‚ the youngest of the Bronte sisters‚ was born in 1820 near Thornton‚ England. She lived a short life and died at the age of 29. Juliet Barker notes that‚ “When Anne
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overtly feminist themes; because this is not a story about her marriage or her motherhood but instead a story about the woman herself and her thoughts about life. Thoughts which are sometimes radical‚ sensual and certainly autonomous and separate from her role as a wife or mother‚ an idea as yet unexplored in English literature and quite challenging of the Chopin’s patriarchal society . This is an excellent piece of literature to explore through the lens of feminist criticism. Feminist criticism
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factors that triggers the civil war between North and South to free the slaves. Beside to this central target of the book‚ it is considered as a feminist novel as well‚ yet it is written before the widespread growth of the women’s rights movement in the late of 18th century. Actually‚ there are some people‚ however‚ claim that this novel is not a feminist novel because as Tracey Thornton said in his article" ....Stowe empowers woman to change the complexion of society...yet on other hands‚ this power
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true success of certain actions. A human is all about making people choose their own choices rather than being labeled and told what to do. Feminist analysis is all about recognizing the different stages of social power that men and women have in political‚ social‚ and in economic views. Authors like Donald Hall have expressed their perspective on feminist analysis and believe that women cannot be able to express themselves and demonstrate the same qualities
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The Little Mermaid – Feminist Analysis When interpreting The Little Mermaid from a feminist theory perspective‚ it becomes clear that a beauty of a female lies in her appearance and matters above all else. In the fairy-tale‚ the little mermaid falls in love with a prince‚ but she cannot be with him because he is human and she is not. The little mermaid cannot be with him until she makes the modifications needed to achieve her desired look‚ which is done by sacrificing what she had previously valued
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What Mitr‚ My Friend Really Does? Feminists have come up with the relations of family and the marginalisation of women. And there are many stories in novel and movies that showed the struggles of women as a wife and a mother. Mitr‚ My Friend is a movie like that‚ where it highlights the identity crisis of a woman as a wife and as a mother. When I saw the movie I found that even though the women crew highlights the struggles a sense of heteropatriarchy is established in the movie which again makes
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Feminist Lens vs Marxist Lens When reading a book‚ or any piece of literature of that matter‚ the readers background is important. It is apart of how the reader perceives the piece. Two different readers with different viewpoints and backgrounds are naturally going to have different opinions and will analyze the same piece of writing very differently. For example‚ a feminist lens and a marxist lens. A feminist lens would notice all cases where a man and a women are not being compared as equal or
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The feminist approach is a lens that reflects on bias and presents an inaccurate image of women. Feminist lens focuses on the gender criticism and the male point of view upon the image of women. The social ethics revolving around the symbol of women‚ being suppressed and male‚ being dominated. The novel‚ “ The Kite Runner‚” by Khaled Hosseini‚ can be perceived through feminist lens. The Kite Runner is a male dominant novel in an Afghanistan society‚ which distinguishes lack of women rights. The
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