Beyond The Feminist Critique Summary

From reading the summary on “Why We Still Need Feminism”, the writer used the guidelines for writing summaries but missed a few key components. The writer cited the author and title of the text but rarely used any direct quotes or paraphrasing. The summary was more objective but the writer did put their personal opinion in some areas of the summary but overall, the writer conveyed what the author was trying to express in a very factual way. The writer does use author tags throughout the summary, for example, by saying “Cavanaugh asserts” or “Casey Cavanaugh argues”. It is very clear in the summary that the writer is giving the author the credit deserved. My interpretation of the summary was interested. I was very keen to read how the writer

The museum in modern society is no longer a place for an unchallenged authority to civilize the barbaric masses, but instead a place fraught with conflicting views. Numerous artists and activists’ groups are performing critiques on museums for the ways they are still upholding anachronistic ideals and remain hegemonic, privileged, and patriarchal intuitions in society. This paper will be looking at these issues through the lens of Feminist critique and Institutional critique. This paper will analyse how Feminist art is de-contextualized and commercialized for use in museum spaces eliminating much of its radical meaning, and the limited successes and the failures of Instructional critique. This paper argues that while both Feminist and Institutional critiques are de-radicalized by being held within institutions, the critically specific and activist nature of feminist critique allows it to retain more power than Institutional critique. Feminist and Institutional critique will be contextualized by a case study in The Tate Modern museum, specifically the “Media Networks” gallery.

The extended essay examines women’s roles in the United States during the 1950’s. It historically investigates the mass media and the various mediums that contributed to the creation of an idyllic, stereotypical woman. More specifically, the extended essay will discuss print and television as methods of developing this image of women, exploring the question: To what extent did the mass media’s creation of an image of the idealized woman contribute to the change in women’s roles in the United States during the 1950’s?

Mass media has influenced gender norms in the United States since the 1950’s when television became a household phenomenon. Per Jacqueline Coombs in an article titled Gender Differences in the Influence of Television on Gender Ideology, she asserts, “television is a powerful source in disseminating information and shaping opinion, exposing people from many different social settings to the same messages” (207). These messages can influence gender norms and reinforce personal gender identity. Throughout the evolution of television, gender roles have expanded portraying women as leading character. However, there is still an undercurrent of patriarchal ideology.

at the time. Friedan sparked a fervor in women that is unparalleled in the realm of women’s rights. In a society dominated by men and their age old ideals, Friedan was their voice, campaigning for women to stop

The response of magazine publishers to Betty Friedan’s initial survey exemplifies the types of attitudes and gatekeeping surrounding women’s work. Her survey showed a deviation from the belief of the time and created a stir that lead to their rejection from mass market. While it’s easy to recognize modernly that the reaction and words expressed by publishers were prompted by sexist attitudes toward women and blatant misogyny, these types of ideas were the social norm of their time. The surveys rejection isn’t reflective of editors feeling or perception toward Friedan directly but instead the content of the survey’s star contrast from the commonplace narratives of the time that regarded women as largely uncomplex beings with little to no internal lives who’s biggest aspirations were to be a mother, wife, and all around homemaker.

Gender bias is the gender role that society has developed for males and females (Brym, 2014, p. 77). It is the expectation that society has created for males and females to behave a certain way. For example, women are deemed delicate, and male are deemed masculine. This is a huge problem for society because media has enforced these gender roles for many years, especially in sports. It creates certain bias or stereotypes that a male or female must follow or else they would be deemed different and be socially excluded. Therefore the media is extremely influential to the gender roles each person in society must follow. The feminist theory is the theory that theorists focus on the gender inequality between male and female because of the male dominance

The feminist movement has developed to be one of the most important political, economic, and social issues of the modern world over the past century. Because of this, feminism is an idea that is commonly covered and advocated for in the modern media. While it’s true that society in the media attempts to support women and advocate for their equality, it’s attempts still manage to be oppressed and undermined by many individuals and a large part of society. People who might not necessarily agree with the issues advocated for within the feminist movement or possibly find the constant support of it annoying and burdening have created a stereotype of feminists throughout history. The media is capable of playing a large role in whether or not movements such as feminism can be accepted within society, but unfortunately the media do not always exhibit itself as a

Women’s sexual autonomy is critical to women’s liberation. In “Feminists Do It Better,” Valenti states that women, especially young and unmarried women cannot even make their own decision about sex. Women are only supposed to have sex “only if married; only if it’s for procreation; and only with another girl if guys can watch.” We learn that sex before marriage is bad while current culture encourages girls to be more wild. She, as a feminist, argues that women should be free to make decisions about our own sexuality and should do what we want with our body without shame or guilty. However, she also claims that women should take responsibility for their choice.

In the process of evaluating Feminist Practice: Who I am or What I do? By Kate Seymore of the School of Social Services & Liberal Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia conducted a study with 10 participants who were involved in domestic violence work. The small sample size is symbolic to the fact that all of these social workers had worked with domestic violence in the past and consisted of both male and female participants. The findings of this study are hard to decipher due to the fact that feminist theory is based off of a way of looking at the world and recognizing that oppression of women exist. This is hard to quantitate as many individuals are bias to the word “feminism” and therefore struggle with truthfully acknowledging

see modern day feminism disrespect the early feminists. Many would say that if given the thought, they would help the oppressed men, that have been oppressed by modern day feminism, would try to help equalize the gender oppression.

Zena Relente Mrs. Kehrmeyer American Lit., Period 1 14 November 2016 Feminist Analysis Feminism is a movement towards equal society for both genders, male and female, without discrimination. We should be able to live our lives without having the fear of being judged and meeting the criteria assigned to each gender roles. In most feminist narratives, the protagonists of the text are led by a woman who seeks deliverance from the patriarchal oppression. The outcome of these problems is the blatant actions of women to disenthrall from the oppressive. Kate Chopin the author of the short story “The Story of an Hour” and the book The Awakening, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, portray the women’s resistance and the subverted

In the article, “Gendered media: The influence of media on views of Gender,” Julia T. Wood (1994) stated that “women are underrepresented which falsely implies that men are the cultural standard and women are unimportant or invisible” (p.31). She goes on to say that this is the main reason why media distort reality; it creates a false image of the representation that is outside the media world. In Television women continue to be predominantly lacking and many people are wondering who is to blame. As the media world is primarily dominated by men, women activist are demanding for more women to be part of such a popular medium that is television. While some researchers believe that…,

When someone thinks of Feminism and Science, they might immediately think that the two fields are incompatible and do not go with each other, or they may think that the two fields mixing are problematic. Peter Godfrey-Smith only contends with what is called “spontaneous feminist empiricism” (Godfrey-Smith 141), and somewhat contend with “philosophical feminist empiricism” (Godfrey-Smith 141). Many scientists and people like Godfrey-Smith would immediately gravitate towards these two types of feminism in science. As to why, it is because they do not completely challenge any of the established and well-regarded theories, ideas, or paradigms that exist within science, and avoid relativism. Instead, those two types of feminism critiques of science, only take a feminist point of view to examine biases and anything else within scientific work. However, the type of feminism that needs to be embraced, at least within science, should be “radical feminist epistemology” (Godfrey-Smith 141). Within radical feminist epistemology, “feminist postmodernism” (Godfrey-Smith 141) and “standpoint epistemology” (Godfrey-Smith 141) argue that everyone, especially oppressed groups view the world differently, and that the ideal of a single truth existing in the world is an illusion, as well as that the “situatedness” (Godfrey-Smith 141) of someone (their location, age, status) is extremely important in how science is conducted. Overall, however, both types of radical

In the workplace, men are represented as physically and mentally superior to women. This dominance is shown at the very beginning of the novel when all the students touring the Hatchery are males. The high positions in the World State are also held by men. Bernard and Helmholtz are the leaders of propaganda, Henry and the Director control the hatchery, and Mustapha Mond is¬ mainly in charge of the government.