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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Five of the thirteen plays we read this semester have killers who see their options limited due to the value that they place on life‚ either their lives or others’. Lisa from The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilman‚ Mrs. Wright from Trifles by Susan Glaspell‚ Jo from Self-Defense‚ or Death of Some Salesman by Carson Kreitzer‚ Jessie from ‘night Mother by Marsha Norman‚ and Medea from Medea by Euripides all shared this common theme. However‚ they also have differences and similarities of how they value
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The Trifles of Men and Women “Trifles” is a classic tale of patriarchal society in which women are in the home and men deal with the out of home issues. Things dealing with the home are “Trifles” according the 1917 play by Susan Glaspell. In her play she demonstrates how‚ in her society‚ people are changed by marriage‚ especially women‚ and how man and women find different things important. Mr. and Mrs. John Wright had a seemingly healthy relationship to the public‚ however‚ their marriage had
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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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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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Andrew Smith English 1020 Professor. Jeanty Introduction “Trifles” and “A Doll’s House” By Susan Glaspell and Henrik Ibsen Women have been treated as lessors to men in the past‚ feminine equality is a new concept that has only been around for about a century. In both plays “Trifles” and “A Doll’s House” they address stereotypes of women during these time periods. “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell explores the mysterious death of Mr. Wright (Mrs. Wrights husband). As the play progresses the
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Afan H Prof. Harshbarger English 111 13 Nov. 2010 Comparison Analysis The Yellow Wallpaper VS. Trifles Both‚ A play titled “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell and a short story called "The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ are alike in many ways. Both of these works of art were produced at a time when women did not have a lot to say‚ by authors who were pre-feminist. As we analyze the similarities between both works it is obvious that both are written by‚ to advocate and for‚ women
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