Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women?

Throughout this course, we learned that women’s studies originated as a concern at the time that “women and men noticed the absence, misrepresentation, and trivialization of women [in addition to] the ways women were systematically excluded from many positions of power and authority” (Shaw, Lee 1). In the past, men had more privileges than women. Women have battled for centuries against certain patterns of inadequacy that all women experience. Every culture and customs has divergent female

For many years women have been forced with unequal and oppressive “community” by men. This article highlights the reason as to why women were oppressed and why “gender Blindness” exists and how it only occurs due to manipulation of women’s daily lives (Hayden, P). In this text she references government documents such as the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. She highlights the fact that Gender Blindness has been occurring way before 1979 and still persists.

Chapter 1, Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide, discusses the history of and gives us an introduction to genocide. The author talks about the treatment of bodies, in particular Native bodies, and how colonial thought and theory regards Native people as inherently “rapable” and “violable,” a colonial conviction that stretches past the physical bodies of Natives, to Native independence and lands as well. She explains that patriarchy is the foundation by which power is established over Native women's bodies because hierarchal, patriarchal authority and control systems of society are seldom found within native societies. Europeans, on the other hand, have long depended on these methods to suppress and infuse fear into their people.

Throughout most of documented history women of all cultures and civilizations have lived under patriarchal circumstances. In almost every religion and civilization women's status was not equal to that of a man's. Women in most cultures are looked at as subservient, obedient creatures that were put on this world for very few reasons, mainly to bear children and do what their husbands require of them. In fact, religions are a big part of the reason of this oppression due to the religion's reinforcement and justification of patriarchal conditions. In this week's selected readings from different aspects of Islamic, Byzantine Christian, and Western Christian cultures, it is very apparent as to how these three religions did reinforce and

In this articles the author is argued by listing points to show or to prove women are treated with injustice and that they are not treated equality to men,

Appiah believes that it is not important what motive a person has, but what they do that stems from that motive (66). However, this debate requires that we discover the underlying factors that make this gender imbalance acceptable in Eastern Europe and Asia. Other nations, for the most part, believe that it is morally correct to treat women as equally as possible (though we are far from total sex equality). If another country’s morals contradict that, what makes them think that way? Discovering this can help each party engage in each other’s ideas and also help us come to a compromise much more quickly. It is possible that the people of these areas of the world are not aware of the grand and positive impact women are making in more developed nations, and Appiah’s concepts can remove the blinders in order for them to realize how vital women are in society. However, it is still important for those who support gender equality to comprehend that this is their system of belief and it is to be respected, even if the ultimate goal is to change the

Why do people struggle to accept those who are different from themselves? As one of many age old questions, examples of discrimination have been traced throughout history for ages. There are many categories of discrimination and inequality, including those aimed at people due to their race, sexual orientation, and gender. Gender inequality in specific has gone through a vast amount of changes, especially as women eventually began to speak out against the rules and laws that bound them. They protested against their lack of rights, the notion of being entirely dependent on their fathers and husbands, and the idea that they were even to be viewed as less than human by men. Because of this, it is almost impossible to track back the root of gender equality to one instance in history, as across the world before countries were even connected through exploration, women were thought of the inferior gender. Therefore, this essay is meant to show that, while we are making progress, there is still a lot to be done before women, men, and every other gender is accepted as equal.

In all areas of life and society the treatment and well being of women have always been challenged. In many religions the role and status of its women are usually overwhelmed by the actions and roles of its men this inequality of religions between male and female allows these feelings and ideology of which sex is superior or inferior to bleed into a society’s culture thus shaping their treatment of their men and women.

Women’s rights in the seventeenth century were distinctive, “Differences of culture, nationality, and historical memory are exacerbated by distinctions of race, class, ethnicity, ability, and sexual preference” (Women’s P.6). Human women equality is important in today’s society because women challenged the notion to fight the Civil Right’s

America in three words: tremendous, free, and tolerate. The Statue of Liberty, a perfect American symbol, shines rays of hope into the dim, dirty lives of immigrants. Sadly, the luck runs short for some, even in our utopia of porcelain-made beauties. Women everywhere, not only in the Western hemisphere, deserve to choose their own life. Non-American females delude themselves that they are overcoming sexism and prejudice when they are only accustoming themselves to it. No effort to make a better future seems important to the women raised in these narcissistic cultures. These Eastern religious practicing women accept the sexism of Sharia law; yet, to endure does not mean to triumph in the similar way that to breath does not mean to live.

This memoir reminds me about my culture in a sense. I would like to point out a difference between race and religion. Me, personally, I’m an Arab Muslim. In my religion, sex before marriage is forbidden, and those who do it are a huge disgrace because its haram (forbidden), and will result in a major punishment by god. Of course, in many religions, adultery is also forbidden, such as in Christianity, but sex before marriage is still highly common; at least in the west. Now, thinking about what happened to “No Name Woman,” I can relate to what could happen to a Muslim if one did what she did. Although the differences here I believe is religion. For example, If I was just Arab, and not Muslim, having sex before marriage wouldn’t be such a major

Women face two key forms of oppression in this world, powerlessness and exploitation. These two forms fall into Iris M. Young’s ideas of oppression in her article “Five Faces of Oppression”. The definition of cultural imperialism and exploitation used in this essay are taken from Young’s essay. Cultural imperialism is where the dominant customs and morals of a society are rendered as the norm and those who are not in the norm are considered others. Exploitation is a form of oppression where a class structure is present and this class structure includes a dominant group of people who are in power of a subordinate group. Two authors, John Stuart Mill and Simone de Beauvoir, talk about how the oppression of women is not due to nature. It is rather, in Mill’s view, due to a premodern law of force which divides men and women between the strong and the weak. Beauvoir sees this oppression of women as a result from socialization, which conformed women to become immanent. Both these authors have reasonable arguments and have a similar understanding that the inferiority of women is not from the simple nature of being women. Other factors come into play when understanding why women are oppressed, and both authors recognize the fact that society and old habits must change for the equality of women and men to become a reality.

Religion is a major cornerstone of human identity and culture. Anywhere you look on earth where there are people, there is a religion or set of beliefs that those people follow. Many times, the teaching of these Religions can be twisted and manipulated to justify gender bias. The Simple truth is people are treated very differently based on their Gender by followers of two of the most popular religions in the world: Islam and Judaism. I am going to examine some ways the teaching of these two major religions are used to oppress, abuse, and differentiate women.

This is a significant aspect of the course because the article examines the strengths and weaknesses of femininity through a cultural Muslim perspective and the reading is a prime example of how ideologies regarding race affect those involved. In class we have discussed the significances of social constructs and how assumptions are made on the basis of physical characteristics. In this situation, identity is related to gender as Muslim women are categorized as both good/respectful and rebellious/evil individuals because they are apart of a culture where they are both oppressed and liberated simultaneously.

My paper studies the three most significant and most commonly known western religion Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in terms of the role that the woman played and a brief synopsis of the religions itself. Religion is a system of human though which usually includes a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices that give meaning to the practitioner’s experiences of life through reference to a higher power, deity, or ultimate truth. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are the only religions that are based on a single creator and that are why they are called western religions. These three religions are monotheistic faiths practiced by about half of the world’s population. Believers of the three religions are found on every continent