Indian Journal of Gender Studies http://ijg.sagepub.com ’Feminism ’ in Print Media Maitrayee Chaudhuri Indian Journal of Gender Studies 2000; 7; 263 DOI: 10.1177/097152150000700208 The online version of this article can be found at: http://ijg.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/2/263 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Indian Journal of Gender Studies can be found at: Email Alerts: http://ijg.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions:
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What is Feminism? Feminism is establishing and defending equal political‚ economic‚ and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal rights and opportunities as men. There are three main types of feminism: Radical Feminism‚ Liberal Feminism and Socialist Feminism. Radical feminism promotes the basis for many of the ideas of feminism. Radical feminists believe that society must be changed at its core in order to dissolve patriarchy. Radical feminists emphasize their difference
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Feminism and Postmodernism: An Uneasy Alliance http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/benhabib-seyla/uneasy-alliance.htm Source: Feminist Contentions. A Philosophical Exchange‚ Seyla Benhabib‚ Judith Butler‚ Drucilla Cornell‚ Nancy Fraser‚ with an introduction by Linda Nicholson. Published by Routledge.‚ pp. 1-16. 1. The Feminist Alliance With Postmodernism A decade ago a question haunted feminist theorists who had participated in the experiences of the New Left and who had come to
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In the late 19th and 20th century‚ there were two definitions of feminism. One definition of feminism was that women were the same as men‚ and deserved civil rights accordingly. The other definition of feminism is that women are different than men‚ and in some cases‚ superior; and thus‚ deserved civil rights. In Herland‚ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ she reflected on these perspectives and untimely chose the perspective that women are the same as men‚ and from her novel‚ teaches us that women are
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Defining Feminism What comes to mind when you hear the word “feminism” or “feminist”? Let’s start with the basics. Sex‚ politics‚ women‚ oppression‚ equality‚ media and etc. only make up a portion of what feminism stands for in our society today. With so many varied opinions‚ feminism can be very difficult to define yet alone understand. However‚ by conducting research online and studying the works of both Hooks and Valenti‚ I was able to articulate my own perspective on what feminism personally
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Feminism is the theory of ‘social‚ political and economic equality of the sexes’ (Mathews‚ Class Notes‚ slide 3). Bell Hooks‚ more formally know as Gloria Jean Watkins born September 25th in 1952‚ is an American author‚ social activist and Feminist. Watkins took her pen name ‘bell hooks’ from her great grandmother Bell Blair Hooks‚ but uses the name in all lowercase letters to distinguish herself from her great grandmother. She held a leading role in the Second Wave of Feminism which lasted from
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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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for me at night to tickle my feet . . . And look at me! I don’t even like my hair. (Ally McBeal) Cultural feminism According to (Alcoff‚1995 ) Cultural feminism is the ideology that a woman needs to appropriate the value of her female nature in an attempt to authenticate her female attributes that were previously determined and undervalued by masculinity itself. In cultural feminism‚ a woman’s enemy lies not just in an economic institution‚ backward values or even a social system but the root
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is also called the women ’s liberation movement. The Wikipedia Encyclopedia defines feminism as being "a diverse‚ competing and often opposing collection of social theories‚ political movements‚ and moral philosophies‚ largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women" . Feminism is erroneously assumed as being Eurocentric for two reasons. Firstly because many people tend to reach the history of feminism with the works of French and Anglo-Saxon feminists. Secondly‚ American feminists and
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Leah Taylor 11/12/2014 Beyonce and Feminism when it comes to this topic there is so much that there could be said just because it’s a very broad topic. People believe that there has not ever been a single united fiminism. They believe there have been multiple feminisms representing the efforts of women to live into their full humanity in a world shaped by and for the generally larger and more violent male half of the human species. In the 19th century there was a feminist movement its roots came
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