Nancy Drew : A Positive Feminist Role Model

In The Color Purple, Alice Walker illustrates the lives of a female African American before the Civil Rights Movement. A novel that describes female empowerment, The Color Purple demonstrates the domestic violence women faced in the South. Walker tells the story through Celie, a young African American girl who faces constant hardships until she stands up for herself with the help of her closest friends – other women undergoing the same difficulties. Even though men controlled females in the South, the author emphasizes the strength of female empowerment because females struggled to survive during this time.

Nancy, I believe, perfectly represents teenagers, past and present. Nancy shows that we don’t have the slightest clue who we truly are. That is why our teenage years are so important. These are the years in which we begin to find ourselves, beginning with our signatures (heart or no heart?). There are so many people who expect us to know what we will do with our future when, in actuality, we are only beginning to discover our likes and dislikes, nowhere near deciding what we will be doing for the rest of our lives. So many of us teenagers (and some adults) are trying out different handwritings, or ideas of what we want to do with our lives, before we settle on the one type of calligraphy that we will carry with us forever. Throughout my life, my handwriting has changed drastically, as have my aspirations. As a child, I would write in big loopy letters, which perhaps represented the loopiness of who I wanted to be at the time (a princess). Over the years, as my letters became more refined and smaller, so did my aspirations.

Women are meant to behave and act proper. Though it may not be quite the same today, however, every once in awhile society still expects women to behave and act a certain way. In the past women were supposed to act like ladies and be the proper quiet housewife. Women were raised to speak, behave, and perform tasks a certain way that society deemed as right and proper. Jamaica Kincaid’s short story “Girl” shows just that. Her story is about a girl who is basically scolded by her mother on how to act and perform daily tasks. Her mother's belief is that a woman's reputation is everything and if her daughter keeps acting the way she does she will lead a promiscuous life. She does not want that for her daughter, or for her daughters reputation to come back to her if it is not a good one. Kincaid utilizes the theme of image and social acceptance are most important for woman through symbolism, repetition, and tone .

Alice Walker wrote ‘The Color Purple’ in order to capture and highlight the hardship and bitterness African-American women experienced in the early 1900s. She demonstrates the emotional, physical and spiritual revolution of an abused black girl into an independent, strong woman. The novel largely focuses on the role of male domination and its resulting frustrations and black women’s struggle for independence. The protagonist, Celie’s, gain of an independent identity, away from her family, friends, work, and love life, forms the plot of the novel.

Snow White is a fairy-tale known by many generations; it is a beloved Disney movie, and a princess favoured by many kids. But did you know the fairy-tale was made to teach young children, especially little girls, their duties in life? It also values beauty over knowledge, portrays women to be naive and incompetent, and assumes that women cannot understand anything other than common household chores. Throughout this criticism, I will be using the feminist lens to analyze the fairy-tale, Snow White, through the perspective of a feminist.

Nancy was known for her patriotism. While her husband was fighting at war she dressed up like a man and entered British camps pretending to be dumb minded so she could gain information. Her most famous act had to do with six British soldiers. The soldiers killed Nancy's last turkey and ordered her to cook it for them. She decided to give them some of her corn liquor, making sure that the soldiers she planned to capture were drunk. While the turkey was cooking, she sent her daughter to go get some water from the spring. She also told her to warn her father who was working in the field, by blowing on a conch shell they had hidden for this reason. While the soldiers were eating and drinking wine, Hart began sneaking their guns through a hole in the wall. She had gotten two of the guns through but she was caught while trying to take the third one. Nancy quickly aimed the gun at the soldiers and threatened to shoot whichever one moved first. She stayed true to her word and shot one of the soldiers who moved toward her. The rest of the soldiers were unsure of whether to make a move or not, but they decided to try

He tries to bring sympathy out of the reader for Nancy by bringing up a conversation between her and her home economics teacher, Mrs. Polly Stringer, which Nancy states that the midnight where her "time to be selfish and vain" and in this time she would a cleansing, creaming ritual, and washing her hair. In the text he also talks about the clothes she was planning on wearing to church the next day. He talks about these clothes in order to show that a beautiful red velveteen dress that Nancy made on her own and it it ironic that it would be the dress she was buried in. The audience is heartbroken knowing a selflessness adolescent child is living her last days.

Many women have experienced discrimination due to their gender. Society views women as inferior beings that cannot achieve greatness. Furthermore, women have acquired a set of rules and expectations to meet within their role in society. In the 1850 romance novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts the beauty and strength of women. Despite society’s strict views of gender roles, women can convert society’s oppression into freedom due to the qualities they possess, which surpass society’s assumed capabilities of them.

When Wonder Women was first popular she started to join the DC Comics in 1941.The reveal of Wonder Women brought about a change to the DC Comics world.Wonder Women is representing feminist icon and Women’s Movement.She is a role reflecting the changing time in the world and reflects passion for change.Wonder Women is also a role model for all young girls and women that want to persuade their dreams or do anything that they believe they can do.

Who doesn’t love a good superhero? The perfect figure, the spandex suit, the flowing cape, flawless looks, and the powers we can only dream of having. Superheroes have been around for ages now, leaving an everlasting imprint on our hearts. It is no secret that males dominate the superhero industry; both the heroes themselves and those who create them. Superman, Batman, Ironman, and Spiderman have become the top heroes of all time; there is nothing wrong with them holding the spotlight, but female heroes are underrepresented. There are notable female heroes, but they tend to be drawn with a busty figure that few women are naturally blessed with, and show little emotional rational in fights. Take Black Widow (Marvel) for example, anyone would love for her figure and kick-ass moves. Wonder Woman is our hero of the hour, she has made her way onto the big screen; casting her into the spotlight more than ever. She screams fights for love, promotes peace, is a beacon of hope, and screams feminism. What’s not to love? The new movie released on June 2, 2017, has called more attention to the American-spirited, Amazonian woman than ever before. The movie is the first fully female directed movie, Patty Jenkins brings a great female to the big screen. Although the movie is great and supports feminism, is the movie the depiction of Wonder Woman that should be idealized?

Faulkner makes the image of Nancy changes throughout the story. At the first few paragraphs, Faulkner describes Nancy as a tough woman who is vigorous even though people disdain her skin. “She would go down on her hands and knees and crawl through the gap, her head rigid, untitled, the bundle steady as a rock or a balloon, and rise to her feet again and go on” (Faulkner). This part portrays Nancy’s physical vitality as a strong woman. She has swift moves and she is good at keep her head steady. She is also a sloppy woman who can lean her head around the porch, “without any clothes on” (Faulkner). She usually shouts to the white kids she serve, and she does not care about that too. Furthermore, when she is on her way

Unfortunately women are treated unfairly. For example, birth control became a big issue with women not able to attain them. Many people have been “powerfully influenced by the suffrage, feminism and birth control movements. And each of those movements had used chains as a centerpiece of its iconography” (Lepore pg 6) Many suffragist threatened to chain themselves to the gates barricading the White House. In addition women that didn’t get the right to vote marched in chains. This all ties into to the makeup and creation of Wonder Woman. A woman that goes by the name Sanger created a book with a bunch of letters from different women asking for information about birth control. “When Marston created Wonder Woman, in 1941, he drew on Sanger’s legacy and inspiration” (Lepore pg 7) Wonder Woman represented all women in that time era. What they went through and how they fought and strived to get through it. They conquered all the obstacles set in their path like champions. Women are like superheroes just like Wonder

Little Women considers the place of women in society by presenting the portraiture of several very different but equally praiseworthy women. As we read the novel, we experience their different interpretations of femininity, and we see a range of different possibilities for incorporating women into society. Because the novel was written in the mid-nineteenth century, historical setting places limits on what women can do. However, modern readers may be pleasantly astonished by the novel 's tendency to push the boundaries of women 's traditional roles. This book insists that women have a great deal to contribute, certainly to the home and domestic sphere, but also to literature, art, and an honorable society.

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices, and she writes in her preface to the 10th anniversary edition released in 1999 that one point of Gender Trouble was "not to prescribe a new gendered way of life [...] but to open up the field of possibility for gender [...]" Widely taught, and widely debated, Gender Trouble continues to offer a powerful

In today’s world of 2017, feminism is more relevant and controversial than ever, with a new, controversial president and more and more women in positions of power. However, feminism has changed and evolved since the first writers expressed their wish for more women’s rights, as do all movements. “It is time to … restore to them their lost dignity—and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world,” wrote Mary Wollstonecraft in her Vindication in the Rights of Women (Wollstonecraft 49). Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of the feminist movement wanted women to be able to be a good wife or mother through education, but today’s feminists are educated already- they want more rights for women, such