Critique Of Feminism And Feminism

The most prevalent and popular stereotype of the post World war II era in America is one filled with women abandoning their wartimes jobs and retreating into the home to fulfill their womanly duties. In Joanne Meyerowitz’s Beyond the Feminine Mystique: A reassessment of Postwar Mass Culture, she shows how far women departed from this one dimensional image. While Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique is reflexive and focused on the mainstream, Meyerowitz’s analysis is a broader and more inclusive exploration of media, as she draws upon multiple sources. Although Friedan effectively unveiled the thought process and reasoning behind society's belief that the message of media was to make women think that their place was to be the happy housewife, Meyerowitz expanded her media archives and found a differing message in analyzing both female responses to media and exploring their stories.

This essay will outline the position of feminists and cultural relativists and demonstrate the similarities between them, namely the common ground of human rights discourse. It is my contention that both can work together to make inclusive changes to the way they interpret and understand the human rights violations of women and work to assure the protection of women’s human rights. This essay will suggest that there is enough common ground between these two approaches to provide a solid foundation where feminists and cultural relativists can combine their insights to create a more inclusive, adaptable critique of the mainstream international human rights discourse. Working together, they can have a greater impact on international human rights discourse and the actualization of the human rights of

Early feminism was typically focused only on white women, likely because racism was still extremely prominent at the time feminism began emerging. It was not until Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced the term “intersectionality” in 1989 that feminism started to look at oppressed group’s needs (Nash, 2008, 2). Intersectionality is a way of thinking that acknowledges that when a person has identities that belong to more than one oppressed group, it impacts their quality of life more negatively. In this paper, I will argue that intersectionality is important in the discussion of feminist theories and activism because it ensures that feminism is for all women, not just a select group of them. Intersectionality has changed the way the feminist movement handles the overlapping of different identities, which has helped feminist theorists understand the experiences of women of colour much more clearly. While intersectionality has a very important role in the conversation and practice of feminism, there are certainly critiques of the concept that should be brought up. These critiques, however, can offer a way to improve the study of intersectionality.

Feminism and gender inequality are not just issues that women face in the US, but the entire world. Comparatively, women in the US are actually treated much better than women of other countries, such as those in the Middle East, where women have no rights and are seen as property. Talk about objectification! Transnational feminism takes a look at the same women’s issues that we have in the US and how they affect women in other countries. Transnational feminism also takes into account the various cultural difference that might also affect these issues and create other issues that women of different origins might face. Likewise, these cultural differences also affect the social construction of gender and maintain gender inequality. For example, Asian and African countries still abide by the very traditional patriarch lifestyle, in which the men are the “breadwinners” and women do the housework and take care of the children. Because many of these countries have corrupt governments, women remain having no rights due to the fear of punishment they would receive for trying to combat these issues. It is hard to fight for rights when some countries don’t even consider women as humans, but this is where transnational feminists come in. They fight for equal rights for all women, regardless of their ethnicity, race, sexuality, size, age, etc. because women are worthy of fair treatment and shouldn’t have to prove that.

Efforts of social justice are more prominent now than ever. From Black Lives Matter to the LGBTQ community, people are making their voices heard. In the case of Black Lives Matter, it could start with a handful of people deciding they want a better life. Or, a movement can have a long lineage of people fighting to make a difference. With American culture, we've experienced many changes. But women's rights have been a mainstay for a century. We have women from many backgrounds getting their words across in different ways. But each one embodies similar core principles. They look towards feminism to provide equality and unity.

In the first reading, “Women’s Studies and Transnational Feminism,” the author discusses how beneficial it would be to have a global perspective from women all around the world and their personal stories. It would bring greater change if women’s stories weren’t only heard mainly from the U.S, but rather told by international women about their experience with oppression and way of living. According to the author the viewpoint of all the women globally is described as “transnational”, a way of challenging current basic understandings of supposed everyday women (specifically western women) and fighting to reconstruct this system to become an advantage to other women around the world. Rather than focusing on “global feminism” which doesn’t

The readings and video that have been discussed in this lesson have definitely changed my perspective on many things relating to feminism and women’s oppression as a whole. Before I started this class, I was unaware of all the events women went through in for their rights. Now, that I have started this class I have become more aware of how women’s rights has become a prominent issue in America today.

Most of the issues in Jaggar’s article stem from the style of her writing rather than the actual content in the article. Although she does contradict herself a few times, which will be discussed later in the paper, for the most part she does back up each of her claims with enough evidence. She does clearly state her four driving theses in her article. They are as follows: the first, “injustice by culture” the second, “autonomy of culture,” the

A common theme has emerged from the past readings. Feminist theory and intersectionality. I have taken some Women’s studies courses before so I am familiar with feminist theory. Intersectionality is trickier for me as I am a white, female, privilege Canadian woman who has not faced any oppressions for what I look like. The only oppressions I face are for being a woman and there is no intersectionality with having only one oppression. I will explore both feminist theory and intersectionality and finish off with battered women's syndrome in this paper as well as talk about my own personal experiences and how they relate to the course.

According to Webster’s dictionary, feminism is defined as the theory of political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. In today’s modern world, no matter which end of the political spectrum a person is on, the term can invoke strong feelings - some of which have created a sense of shame or harm associated with the concept. These associations of wrongdoing and radicalism with the theory of feminism and its subsequent movement have existed long before the era of social media activism and selfies; they existed during the time of bellbottoms and Beetlemania as well. Betty Friedan, hailed by many as the founder of second wave feminism, faced many of the same criticisms that activists face now. Her novel, The Feminine Mystique, was

The goals of the feminist and women 's rights movements are first to create equality amongst all people. All people are deserving of quality health care, unconditional love and mutual respect. Human rights are at the heart of women 's issues, whether you are a woman, man or child, everyone, is entitled to basic human rights as individuals. As a marginalized section of the population, women should be interested in the elimination of patriarchal ideologies and systems that continually seep into middle America. As women we must practice and support the feminist movement throughout the world. For even, if one woman is disregarded, we are all collectively disregarded as a movement and as a force that can emit change.

During my residence in Southern France I had a friend, Millan, who was your average “feminazi”- at least that’s what I thought at the time. In the summer of 2013, the more she spoke about gender equality the more annoyed I became with the entire idea of feminism. It seemed less like equality and more like an attack on men. The night of Wendy Davis’ filibuster against a bill with strict restrictions on abortion, I just knew that Millan and I would be bickering the next morning. Although I wasn’t actively against abortions, her constant nagging about women’s rights irritated me to no end.

Compared to the cold war period of the twentieth century, feminism in international law developed at a considerable level in last three decades. At least the word feminism is not now totally unknown to different parts of the world! Feminist scholars like Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin, Shelley Wright and others, remarkably contributed to the development of feminist theory in international law. The idea of this publication is deep-rooted to a workshop "Between Resistance and Compliance? Feminist Perspective in an Era of anxiety and Terror" held at International Institute for The Sociology of Law in onati, Spain. The editors of this book gathered the articles written by renowned feminist writer and activist and gave it a shape of publication under the name "Feminist Perspective on Contemporary International Law: Between Resistance and Compliance?" According to the words of the editors "This collection represents a ‘stock-take' of where feminist perspectives on international law are today vis-à-vis women of the world and the mainstream of international legal scholarship and practice."

With the interactions of the UN discourse and modern day feminist theories, women’s rights are advanced in theory and rhetoric, but they have little hope for change in practice for most women. Feminist approaches have gotten more diverse and sophisticated into

Feminist theory is an important aspect in looking at different phenomena outside of the male lens. It both relevant and crucial in sociology and other disciplines as well. I identify as a feminist, specifically a liberal feminist. This is mainstream feminism, with the belief in intrinsic equality of the sexes. Betty Friedan best explains, “the problem that has no name”. The gender relations, the issues that we face, and sexism doesn’t really have a name. I try to understand issues from both the lens of a male and a female, which is why I particularly have problems with certain theories in criminology. For example, in Hirshi’s social control theory, he focuses on the conformity of law-abiding people, and because women appear to be more conformist than men, it would make sense to treat women as central to his analysis. However, he mostly ignored women in his theorizing and his sample was largely male.