Assessing Issues of Gender in Social Work Practice: An Overview of the De-feminization of the Female

This literary study will define the historical construction of submissive female gender roles in the domestic sphere in Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Existential Paralysis of Women” and in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. Beauvoir’s article defines the suffering that women endure as servants in the home due to the overarching construction of submissive gender roles in the “masculine world.” This construction of gender role relies on male-based institutions that have educated women to believe that are inferior as an innate biological fact, yet these

Throughout history, women have constantly been objectified and forced into submission by the male dominated society. Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophical work, The Second Sex, echoes the intense oppression of women and reflects the first wave feminist movement. Her existentialist decoding of genders resulted in the idea of the Other, which explores the phenomenon of women forced into the role of an object, while men are the subject. In the second chapter, “The Girl”, Beauvoir further studies the idea of this oppression during one’s transition from a girl into a woman. Beauvoir states that no matter how much freedom and sense of self a girl holds, she is always forced into the role of the Other in society. Beauvoir 's idea of the Other held

Married for 15 years, an African American male cousin married a Caucasian woman. They have three bi-racial children, two girls and a boy under the age of 14 years old. The Caucasian mother entered into an affair with a Caucasian woman, who came by the house frequently on a weekly basis. The affair resulted in a divorce full of turmoil and emotional pain experienced by the husband, children and mother. Of the three children, the 14 year-old son, the eldest child suffered the most emotional pain and has been acting out in various ways since the affair was discovered. The son started using drugs, ran away from home temporarily, his grades dropped and a host of other issues. In addition, there have been many issues since the divorce experienced

With the revival of the feminist movement in the 1960 's many women started to renounce traditional theories of psychotherapy, arguing that these theories were sexist, oppressive, and ultimately detrimental to the psychological and emotional well-being of women. Feminist advocates highlighted the limiting nature of socialized gender roles and the damaging effects of the various levels of oppression experienced by women. In response to the recognition of these perceived injustices, feminist support groups formed and eventually a feminist approach to therapy was collaboratively developed. Feminist therapists practice with an awareness of how gender socialization and systemic

Crenshaw and De Beauvoir are both feminists who are writing about the period of the second-wave feminism. However, their conceptions about the kind of discrimination faced by women in the society differ. This essay will examine De Beauvoir’s and Crenshaw’s viewpoints toward the discrimination faced by women, in particular, Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality, and De Beauvoir’s idea of women. I shall argue that both of their conceptions show that the second-wave feminism is exclusive. However, if Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality is adopted as the framework to analyze discrimination that is faced by women in the future, feminism will be more encompassing and beneficial in formulating solutions that will help women fight for their rights

Gender roles and expectations have a lot of impacts on our society and it needs to be changed in order to create a better civilisation. Although our society has ameliorated tremendously in the past years, there are still some discriminatory actions among genders that are affecting someone 's life negatively. Any remaining differential between genders need to be changed for a better moral standard of living.

Simone be Beauvior wrote The Second Sex in the 1940’s, decades before the second feminism wave, however this work has a large influence on the second wave. This could be due to the slow process of passing the story along or women became more moved by her words years later. One of the reasons for the large

Simone De Beauvoir in The Second Sex suggests that to resolve the tension between bad faith and authenticity, people must regard women as subjects and not objects. They must also collectively fight against the idea of womanhood in order to remain authentic to themselves.

The rise of the service economy has increased tendency for service workers to engage in emotional labour meanwhile increase the employment opportunities for women (Nixon, 2009). However, women remains concentrated in low paid and low status occupations in the contemporary economy as opposed to men. The workplace culture is gendered due to the social expectation towards the occupations that reinforce existing stereotypes and cultural expectation about the gender in the workplace (Nixon, 2009; Kerfoot and Marek Korczynski, 2015; Hanser, 2012). Hochschild (1983) suggested that a job requires emotional labour when its performance involves direct interaction with customers or colleagues (Nixon, 2009). For instance, service workers are required to

Moreover, feminist therapy stands out since it does not have one distinct founder. Rather, this therapy developed by the numerous contributions of female theorists, practitioners, and researchers (Evans, Kincade, Marbley, Seem, 2005). Unfortunately, this paper lacks the space to acknowledge all of the influential women who made feminist therapy possible. I will, however, highlight a select few – Olivia Espin,

However the value of the book died down with the rise of other such feminist authors like Betty Freidan, Kate Millet etc. But in my opinion it is Beauvoir’s highly analytical judgement of sexism that has given feminist theory a huge contribution. Her argument that man is the essential and the woman is the other only required for doing inessential work has a great appeal. She has also followed up her argument with her most famous saying “one is not born a woman, but rather becomes a woman”, where she explains that its only a woman’s society that subjugates her and makes a woman what she is and not what she would like to be. What appeals to me Beauvoir’s complete opposition to Freud’s theory of “Anatomy is Destiny”. The measures she advocated to overcome this disability of inferiority is quite appealing as well. The idea that work can bring about equality and independence of women has had a profound influence on many women that patriarchy is not that powerful, the superior “man” does not have the right to dominate solely on the basis of biology thus the distinction between sex and gender paved the way for a greater fight that women had to overcome in a largely sexist

Now this work will attempt to examine the different approaches that feminists apply to social work. According to Collins English Dictionary, “social work” means “social services that give help and advice to the poor, the elderly, and families with problems.” (www.collinslanguage.com). It is very hard to define social work as its work is so varied and sparse within society today. Feminist social workers tend to work more with women and help them to understand and alleviate their problems. Dominelli (1997: 246) postulates “ I define feminist social work as a form of social work practice which takes gendered inequality and it’s elimination as the starting point for working

The following text comes from Simone de Beauvoir called “The Second Sex,” which discusses the ideas of the feminist

De Beauvoir’s “Woman as Other” lays out an elaborate argument on gender inequality; using the term “other” to establish woman’s alternate, lesser important role throughout her work, the author dissects and examines from its origin the female’s secondary position in society in contrast to man. Indeed, from the beginning of recorded history, the duality of man, by definition, positions woman at the opposing end of the spectrum in relation to her male counterpart. Even by today’s modern and accepting standards, the female suffers under the brand of being the sub-standard half of the duality equation; compared to her male opponent, women are paid lower wages, have fewer and limited expression of rights, achieve lower

Lastly, “femininity” refers to behavioural activities or interests that are assigned to the female sex, such as cleaning and cooking (Beauvoir, 617). Although many critics have read her text and become confused due to her stylistic choice to fuse her voice with the voices of famous men, it can be said that the text ultimately leads the reader to begin to question what society sees as a woman (Zerilli, 1-2). Despite Beauvoir’s The Second Sex appearing to recognize the oppression of women throughout the world without giving an actual solution, I will argue that Beauvoir’s evaluation of each “natural” aspect of female oppression allows readers to recognize that the only thing holding themselves back as a woman is society’s unnatural definition of their body, relation to men, and personal freedoms. Of course, when it comes to one's freedom, it is difficult to obtain when your body feels like a