Mertis Morrow Women’s Studies 151 2039819 Final Essay question #1: Give 5 examples of negative stereotypes of feminism mentioned from the text and videos throughout this course. Where do these stereotypes come from? How do these stereotypes serve to perpetuate the dominant social order (give a 3 examples including citations)? In the Women Images & Realities text Western concepts of femininity include a combination of ideas about female good and evil that feminists have identified
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Mainstream understanding (TV‚ media‚ science literature Egg and Sperm ideas) 2. Intersectionality Feminism is for Everybody‚ Verna St. Denis Intersectionality: How racial positions‚ social and economic class‚ and sexual identity interact and intersect‚ gender vs. race oppression in black women’s lives‚ reinforcing inequality and social exclusion Aboriginal women critique of feminism 1. Irrelevant‚ racial and colonial 2. Assumes patriarchy is universal historical references of Aboriginal
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where artists took to repurposed materials in order to convey bold personal points. Among these creators were the young female founders of the feminist punk rock movement‚ Riot Grrrl. Radical‚ edgy‚ and angry‚ they were driven by the feeling that feminism had become antiquated and secluded. Their women’s studies professors used language that felt arbitrary to them‚ and they wanted to open the feminist conversation to include their own young life experiences‚ all while taking over what they saw as
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Because the Chicana feminist movement members were lesbian‚ the feminists viewed them as an extreme deviation of feminism. The feminists were just anti-male and not lesbian‚ and due to the Chicana feminists being lesbians‚ lesbian and feminist were often used interchangeably. It was hard for people to accept that they were lesbian because the Chicanas were viewed as good house wives and mothers before (Chicana/o P.216-217). The feminists and lesbians saw the criticisms and resistance was due to sexism
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In the 21st century young Australian women are considered the lucky ones‚ we have more opportunities‚ more freedom and more equality than any other women in the world. When reflecting on the women in Australian society‚ we realize that the suffering and the challenges of those women who have come before us have enabled us to live the lives we do today. We can be whoever and do whatever we want with nothing to stand in our way. Young women in Australia today are just a distant reminder of a past world
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During the production code‚ there were very few representations of gay and lesbians on screen. The only few representations were filled with stereotypes and lacked variety. People will call each other when they see another gay person on TV. The story lines in movies featuring gays and lesbians were controlled and restricted. The whole story was not often told in gay movies. Even after the code was lifted‚ Hollywood still struggled with their portrayal of gays‚ the “proud sissies” and the “regular
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they could console themselves by feeling superior to women. <br> <br>The Enlightenment‚ with it’s egalitarian political importance‚ and the Industrial Revolution‚ which caused economic and social changes‚ provided a favorable climate for the rise of feminism‚ along with other reform movements in the late 18th and the 19th centuries. <br> <br>Of deeper significance for women was the Industrial Revolution. The transformation of handicrafts‚ which women had always carried on at home‚ without pay‚ into machine-powered
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Fate And Feminism In both Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan‚ the reader is pushed to understand the nature of feminists in a new way. This purpose is carried out with the use of multiple feminist characters‚ a drastic change in a characters outlook on their situation‚ and the concept of making your own destiny. The protagonists in both of these literary works is female‚ and they are amazingly similar considering Shaw wrote Pygmalion eighty seven years
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because in one of the comics it discusses how even though as a whole were all feminist‚ we are completely different from one another and face different types of challenges that we both could not relate too. That’s why we have different components to of feminism (Black feminist‚ Muslim feminist‚ and Asian feminist.) For the other three pages of our zine we decided to do it on song lyrics we picked “Do It Like A Dude” by Jessie J we picked this song because we feel like this song is about what are zine stands
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Since the wave of Feminism in Canada‚ Feminism has been written into the literature by Canadian authors. They believe securing women’s rights would enhance the recognition of women’s value in society‚ which can lead to the moral and social improvement of all humanity. Secret daughter introduces a weak female character Kavita‚ who is prohibited from keeping her child in a distorted society. The handmaid’s Tale reveals a new career called handmaid in the future society‚ whose mission is to have children
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