Feminism Is An Interdisciplinary Idea

so many disparate theories joined together as if they formed some kind of unity.” Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Gender Trouble is an interdisciplinary work, Judith Butler uses different disciplines like philosophy, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory to investigate where our gender identities come from. Simone de Beauvoir´s ideas from the 1940s have encouraged feminists to explore the belief that genders are not natural but formed by culture

Coco Fusco is who I’ve chosen to do my art presentation topic on. Coco Fusco was born June 18, 1960 in New York City. Coco Fusco is known for being a Cuban American Interdisciplinary artist and writer, Coco Fusco is known for focusing on exploring the politics of gender, race, war, and identity. Fusco is also known for working in varieties of formats where Fusco staged multimedia productions in incorporating large scale projections, closed circuit television, and web based live streaming performances

influenced my intellectual journal through feminist theory. Feminism is a contentious topic with matters that pertain to contemporary feminism, including the following: reproductive rights; equal access to education and employment; marriage equality; violence against women; and the sex trade. While these are only a few of the issues faced by feminists, it is evident that feminism has great value in today’s society. My journey with feminism began in high school when a professor shared negative assumptions

Legacy and Respect: The Usefulness of Feminism In a letter to students who participate in Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges' bi-college Feminist and Gender Studies department, Head of the Department Anne Dalke outlined an argument in favor of changing the program's name. She wrote, "Our argument for re-naming the F&GS program "Gender and Sexuality" is based on 3 claims: 1. that it will be enticing for prospective and current students and faculty, because it names their personal and intellectual

Woman’s studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning women, gender and feminism; exploring our gender existence, how we perform femininity and masculinity and how this interacts with other aspects of our identities, such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and sexuality. Women’s studies emerged in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s as a concerned women being misrepresentation and trivialization in the higher education curriculum and as well as being excluded from

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

1. Women-directed education provides society with a more intellectual understanding of their history, however, education cannot provide the necessary means in order to live life actively and allow women to become committed to themselves. In Adrienne Rich’s piece titled “Claiming an Education”, Rich delves into this concept of having women as subjects. She explains that although the presence of women’s studies reflects a bold perspective and exhibits a great way to gain a critical basis for their

their contributions altogether. I am interested in unearthing: 1) how this subordination belies the active and robust roles black women play in ensuring that the voice and struggle of black Americans is amplified and heard, and 2) how it propagates the idea that contemporary black led social justice movements are

"Domains of knowledge and skill mastered by men are called technical or technological while those mastered by women are considered crafts" Architecture is the affirmation of a world; immensely diverse, complex, at times even brutal. The human preconceptions of what is 'normal ', usually dominate the reactions of those bound in them as well as those who demean them. Through the origins of time, 'architecture ' was a profession; the greatest of the arts and as such it had to be operated by the

Lombrosian project, the idea that crime can be understood by dividing into those that are criminals and “non- criminals” and the characteristics that each possess (Garland, 2002). This stemmed from Lombroso, who attempted to identify physical features of a person which he suggested made a person more likely to partake in “criminal behaviour”. There is no one way to define criminology it is too vast and expansive and as time goes on criminology changes, varying as an interdisciplinary approach. Not only