The third-wave feminists are critical to the first and second waves because it ties all of the women’s movements previous accomplishments to all women‚ regardless of race‚ color‚ sexual orientation‚ and class. Without the third-wave feminists only white women would have the luxury of being able to vote‚ being provided equal employment opportunity‚ being heard when faced with sexual harassment and marital rape‚ and being able to broadcast the discrimination of gender. America wouldn’t be the country
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Timothy Vita Lisa Cecere CINE 120 1 December 2010 Feminism in Aliens Having carried their gender as a burden for years‚ woman have now grown to have a massive and essential influence in worldwide cinema. Feminist film theory challenges audiences to understand the source of gender inequality. Predominantly a masculine industry‚ early film have been said to contain the "male gaze‚" where the audience is placed in the shoes of a heterosexual male and woman are a merely objects to be viewed or
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Tamar and the Patriarchy: A Feminist Analysis of Genesis To the modern day reader‚ The Bible greatly exemplifies an oppressive patriarchal social structure. Women are often raped and otherwise objectified with no consequence. Typically in the Bible‚ when a woman is a victim of misfortune due to her husband or father ’s lack of virtue‚ God has little pity for her‚ as she is portrayed as something owned by one or the other. However‚ the story of Tamar and Judah in Genesis 38 deviates from this
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As a female in a highly patriarchal society‚ Anne Bradstreet uses the reverse psychology technique to prove the point of her belief of unfair and unequal treatment of women in her community. Women who wrote stepped outside their appropriate sphere‚ and those who actually published their work frequently faced social censure. Compounding this social pressure‚ many women faced crushing workloads and struggled with lack of leisure for writing. Others suffered from an unequal access to education‚
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The suppression against women is an extremely important issue to this day. Women have been treated as the inferior gender for almost as long as recorded history. Sexism was typical in the 1920’s‚ the time period in which this novel‚ Of Mice and Men‚ takes place. Though its frequency is familiar to Curley’s wife‚ it is quite damaging. She shows recurrent outbursts of distress and tells of decisions she has made in her life that tell the reader that she is strongly affected by this sexist phenomena
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Harper Lee writes To Kill A Mockingbird staying true to the sexism that took place during the period of the 1930s. At this time‚ how women were viewed was a paradox. While women were seen as pure‚ perfect‚ and dainty‚ they were also highly disrespected by men‚ labeled as dumb‚ and forced to work in the home and bear children. This paradoxical treatment of women was convenient for men who desired to control women and maintain their submissive demeanor. This mistreatment was highly integrated into
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Have you ever stopped and thought about how the views and roles of women have changed throughout several generations? I certainly have. Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour is very powerful short story about a woman‚ Louise Mallard‚ who becomes very independent and calmed when she hears some terrible news about her husband‚ Brently. We are first introduced to Mrs. Mallard‚ but the reader is not given a first name until closer to the end due to it is not considered important. Louise Mallard suffers
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Social movements are a widespread event that have happened throughout the years of modern life (Wienclaw 1). Each movement has its own different form of success; some want change while others want harsher means of answers‚ like death of a certain group of people. Throughout the years‚ women’s roles in society have drastically changed. Instead of the women being just a servant to her husband and having only authority in the house she now can have whatever job she sets her mind to. The social movement
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Screen and Scholarship 3/11/2012 Legally Blonde: Feminist Film Theory Feminism is a movement that has had a great impact in the world of film‚ and how we interpret it. During the second wave of feminism that occurred throughout the United States‚ feminist scholars began developing and applying more theories‚ that arose during this movement‚ to the way they analyzed film. The various tactics and topics that are contained under the umbrella of feminist film theory are‚ but not limited to‚ sexism‚ female
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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa is a notable Chicana feminist‚ cultural theorist‚ and activist because of her many contributions to social movements regarding minority women. Not only did she impact this “renaissance” for Chicana literature through her own writings‚ but she also encouraged other aspiring minority artists and writers to help expose the diversity that was rapidly growing in the United States. Personally‚ Anzaldúa interested me because of her efforts in promoting feminism‚ so I wanted to
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