people snarl at the word Feminist and while I used to shy away from calling myself one I now proudly accept it. I AM A FEMINIST AND I’M PROUD. I value my feminist views and defend them whenever people attack them. My values changed a lot due to my feminist views as I saw the way women were being treated and the way I was taught was the correct way for me to be treated and realized I wasn’t placing enough value on women and more specifically on myself. My values as a feminist made me realize I needed
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Nanette Salomon‚ a very well known feminist writer‚ wrote the article‚ “Judging Artemisia: A Baroque Woman in Modern Art History.” The article opens up with a discussion about the 2001-2 exhibition of Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy. The author explains that three things are unusual here: the fact that two famous artists were presented at the same time‚ that they were related as father and daughter‚ and the fact that the woman was better known than
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Media Presentation Feminist Theory Introduction * Feminist in the 1960’s and 1970’s was brought to address inequalities related to female/male gender roles. * Promotes equality for both male and female in political‚ economic‚ and social issues. * Believes women are oppressed due to their sex based. * Social division benefits for men. * Women in the media are representation of “domestic way of living”. Laura Mulvey (1975) * Women are represented in which media emphasis
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A Feminist View of “Everyday Use” Tracy Huffman ENG1002 January 22‚ 2011 South University In Alice Walker’s Everyday Use‚ Walker focuses on the mother‚ the narrator‚ and her two daughters‚ Dee and Maggie. The two girls are very different in personalities and identities. They both have different views of their heritage. I think it was clever of Alice Walker using the quilts to show how each girl felt about their heritage. Walker did a fantastic job at describing the mother. The mother
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The Scarlet Letter is set in 17th century Massachusetts. It follows Hester Prynne and the consequences her “sin” has on her‚ her child‚ and the community as a whole. Most believe Hester is going to hell and that she gave birth to the devil because of having sex out of marriage. Her husband‚ Roger Chillingworth wants revenge on her and her unannounced partner in crime. Pearls involvement in Hawthorne’s novel in crucial by bringing Hester’s sin to life; therefore‚ creating challenges for her within
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humiliated people to make them think twice before committing a sin. For example‚ they made her wear a letter A on her chest for seven years. Hester didn’t hide from her shame or run from her problems. I felt that she dealt with it in a helpful servant type way. Hawthorne stated “So strong was Hester Prynne‚ with a woman’s strength.” Hester dealt with her guilt wisely and in an unselfish way. For example‚ she donated the excess of her wages to the needy people in her town. In addition
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Feminist Theory‚ the Body‚ and the Disabled Figure The focus of this essay was on how the female body and the disabled body are seen as inferior in society. This reading really made me realize how we view disabled and female bodies in our society‚ and how we typically look the disabled so differently. I also thought about how often people so easily overlook the struggles that many disabled bodies have to deal with‚ like disabled women who want to have children or public facilities not having wheelchair
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While traditional therapeutic approaches can and are helpful‚ feminist therapy is distinct in its addressing the role of gender in psychological distress. Gender is a reality that shapes our behavior. Our world is organized through its influence. Feminist therapy recognizes that environmental pressures affect a woman’s identity. Women live in a world dominated by males and masculine patterns of thought and behavior‚ or the patriarchy. Until recently‚ studies of human behavior were almost always
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alienation in literature would be Hester Prynne’s role in The Scarlet Letter. Because Hester Prynne has a child out of wedlock she is looked down upon by society and labeled with a scarlet let “A” for adultery/adulteress. This alienation highlights the values of society in the time period of the story based on women and pregnancies. Hester’s suffering reveals societies true feelings and assumptions based on her actions as a woman. As a woman in her time period‚ Hester does not fit the role of the
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The movie‚ ‘Easy A’ is set in present day in Ojai‚ California. It tells the story of Olive Penderghast‚ a high school girl whose situation mirrors the novel‚ ‘The Scarlet Letter’ which is a reading assignment for her English class. She tells a lie to her best friend‚ Rhiannon‚ that she had sex with a boy from community college. This lie quickly spread throughout the school causing classmates to treat her differently; the boys wanted to date her and the girls treated her unkindly. Olive decided
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