The Feminist Lens Analysis

Teenage rebellion is typically portrayed in stories, films, and other genres as a testosterone-based phenomenon. There is an overplayed need for one to acknowledge a boy’s rebellion against his father, his life direction, the “system,” in an effort to become a man, or rather an adult. However, rarely is the female addressed in such a scenario. What happens when little girls grow up? Do they rebel? Do they, in a sudden overpowering rush of estrogen, deny what has been taught to them from birth and shed their former youthful façades? Do they turn on their mothers? In Sharon Olds’ poem, “The Possessive,” the reader is finally introduced to the female version of the popular coming-of-age theme as a simple

The theory focused on is the exploration of feminist theory developed by Mary Wollstonecraft in the 1790’s. The traditional interpretation of this theory is based on the common ideology of feminism within the Communication world. Illustrating gender inequality the feminist theory analysis into the social fields of politics, business, media platforms, and social normalities. Research traditions include socio-psychology and semiotics due to the cause and effect relationships that help create social standards while also the symbolic forms of media that influence how people perceive and view women. The epistemology foundation used in this theory is interpretivism. The interpretation of how society views women and how feminist view society. Formed from the perspective of a feminist standpoint researches analyze social normalities and political figures.

It can be argued that in Jamaica Kincaid’s short story “Girl” that the mother is loving towards her daughter because the mother is teaching her daughter how to be a woman, and because she wants to protect her in the future from society’s judgment.

While discussing So Long a Letter in class, many of my fellow classmates had very interesting takes on what Mariama Ba may have meant in each section of the novel. They had ideas on the internal fight between tradition and modernity, and also respect for the independence Ramatoulaye gains throughout the novel. What I found intriguing was that almost each of my classmates had a different idea, and while most ideas were followed with textual evidence, they were not the same ideas that I had while reading. My classmates opened my eyes to the many different parts of the story that I did not notice on my own. They focused on different themes of the story and within the themes could point out topics they agreed or disagreed with. When I started doing research and finding my peer reviewed sources for this paper, I quickly realized that it was the same case throughout the sources. While no two sources were alike and many had very interesting takes on the novel I decided to choose the two that stuck with me the most. These were Teaching Mariama Bas So Long a Letter in a Women & Literature Course by Lisa Williams and “A Feminist Just like

In order to properly view a story from a feminist perspective, it is important that the reader fully understands what the feminist perspective entails. “There are many feminist perspectives, and each perspective uses different approaches to analyze and interpret texts. One is that gender is “socially constructed” and another is that power is distributed unequally on the basis of sex, race, and ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, ability, sexuality, and economic class status” (South University Online, 2011, para. 1). The story “Girl” is an outline of the things young girls

Grecia Mejicanos Mrs.Kehrmeyer AP English, Per. 1 9 November 2015 One Is All It Takes The first woman in the U.S to become a physician, Elizabeth Blackwell says “for what is done or learned by one class of woman becomes by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all woman.” Blackwell is well recognized as a major role model in feminist history. She introduces one of the various categories of feminist analysis in her quote. One that Donald Hall delivers within various types of feminist analysis that all share the same idea, the advocacy of women’s rights on political, social, and economic levels, feminism. One of the categories is liberal feminism. Blackwell exemplifies liberal feminism as she focused not only on her but all women’s

On the other hand, the socialist feminism view is based on the ideas of Karl Marx, which largely criticized capitalism. This perspective argues that chronic poverty could be resolved by eliminating capitalism. Poverty was viewed as the most apparent classification to categorize how rights and freedoms were exercised by women, where the lowest classes were treated as second class citizens compared to higher classes. The social inequalities were then compounded by viewing sexuality as a status, thereby exposing women to unequal treatment based on their race and social class.

Moreover, a fundamental issue that feminist anthropology attempts to theorise is the widespread inequality between the sexes (Reiter, 1975). Many feminist anthropologists see the secondary status of women as being ‘universal’, although simultaneously acknowledging the cultural differences between societies (Ortoner, 1974). This is an important part of feminist anthropology as it enables the theory to exist without erasing the individual experiences of women. Furthermore, feminist anthropology acts as a means to explore the origins of this sexual inequality. For example, the study of simpler societies from a feminist perspective presents the argument that women’s roles were underplayed and less celebrated than male roles, although remaining

Gender is a main aspect family structure.I grew up in Kuwait, a conservative Muslim country with a prosperous oil-based economy. My family of orientation is comprised of my mother and my sister. My mother divorced my father when I was 2 years old. Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, my mother was exposed to Feminist and Western values. My sister and I were treated equally by our mother without considering gender as a major factor in her parenting style. My mother started working at the age of 18 which was very very different from the traditional housewife role that her mother had. From my observation during her rare interactions with my father, my father always asserts his " natural dominant male" role while talking to

Wood talks about the rules of Feminist Standpoint Theory. One of the rules talks about power and how it affect situations making it hard for the marginalized as they are controlled and can do as much in bad or good situations even if they can see more of what the problem are. (Wood, 2005) People can infer from this that people of power, or privileged, control what people do and can be against the marginalized and not know what is truly going on. When she wrote about the claim, “Society is structured by power relations, which result in unequal social locations for women and men: Men are the dominant, privileged, or centered group, and women are a subordinate, disadvantaged, or marginalized group,” (Wood 2005).

“One of the means by which humanity addresses the inequities in society is through art. In its various forms, art has, in particular, confronted the double standards waged against women throughout the ages” (Foster, Reetz). As depicted by the Pantene Commercial, “Labels Against Women”, double standards against women are shown through the motif of the milieu. The surroundings of the individuals portray words that are used to describe the same exact actions in different points of view based on gender. The Miller’s Tale in Canterbury tales explores Alison’s point of view and describes double standards about women’s sexuality and behaviors. “#LikeAGirl”, by Always, creates the idea of how the words, “Like a Girl” became an insult, and how double standards of how girls are weak, or incompetent/inept affect them. Both “Labels Against Women” and “#LikeAGirl” show the oppressive society in which those of the female gender are faced with. The Miller’s Tale shows Alison as the oppressed female who wishes to escape that oppressive environment. “#LikeAGirl”, “Labels Against Women”, and The Miller’s tale all show examples of double standards faced by women while also examining feminist theory using the motif of an oppressive environment, analyzing the cliche “Like a Girl”, and by describing the behaviors of stereotypical women and showing objectification.

Though feminism and the feminist theory are often construed as the same philosophy, the two are related, yet different concepts. Feminism is defined as, “the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes” (Merriam Webster Dictionary). In turn, a feminist is an individual who believes that men and women should be equal politically, economically, culturally, and socially (Definitions of Branches of Feminist). However, the feminist theory is not simply the belief that the sexes should be equal or that women have been historically subjected to lower status and treatment than men. Rather, the feminist theory is the culmination of many beliefs about men, women, and gender roles; mainly, the feminist theory addresses how gender roles are unequal and how gender influences aspects of everyday life (“Feminist Literary Theory”) (Moffitt). In this way, the feminist theory can be used to analyze a variety of texts, including the poems, the “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood and “It’s a Woman’s World” by Eavan Boland. Both poems display connections to the feminist theory, particularly in how gender roles and inequality between the sexes influence the poets’ purposes to address male and female stereotypes and encourage change.

During this time, the young female leans between two polarized state: maturity and innocence. She experiences biological changes, inducing the maturation of her body with notably the swelling of hips and breast. This inevitable natural episode induces girls to prevailing female representation as she enters the stage of ‘to-be-looked-at-ness’. On the other hand, despite their womanly body, for their young age, the girls remain childlike minded which promises the men dominancy to remain unchallenged (American Girl 1999, Lolita). However, this liminality, innocence and experience, endangers the stability of the established patriarchal structure. This figure simultaneously intrigues and derange: her newly acquired sexual power represents a threat for the society as she can use her body for disobedient purposes. This anxiety around teenage girls has been greatly expressed in American teen-girl narratives (Lolita, American Girl).

Words like snap and shatter have an unsettling sound to it, just as if the foundation of a firm building has been shaken, making the entire building unstable. Whether it be a quick moment or not, these moments change your life in some sort of way; consider it to be somewhat like the ripple effect. One small movement, changing the entire direction of the water. This position paper will discuss the importance the feminist snap and why everyone needs to have one in their lifetime. The readings I will be looking at are Sarah Ahmed’s ‘Living a Feminist Life’, Audre Lorde’s ‘Sister Outsider’, Camila Nurka’s ‘Public Bodies’, Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kate M. Miltner’s ‘#MasculinitySoFragile: Culture, Structure and Networked Misogyny’, and Hester Baer’s ‘Redoing Feminism: Digital Activism, Body Politics and Neoliberalism’. Each of these readings will exhibit and unravel the layers of the foundation in the lives of women and those who sign under women, to which the snap has either shaken or shattered.

Social construction is what the society thinks is right or wrong when it comes to crime, through the things that are done and said with other people. Social construction of gender is due to biological facts with social implications. There is a view that there is a difference between sex and gender. Sex is the biological traits, that society uses to allocate people in the male or female category. The sociology of gender looks how society influences our perception on the difference between masculinity and femininity. Masculinity is what society thinks is the appropriate behaviour for a ‘male’ and femininity is what society thinks is the appropriate behaviour for a ‘female’. Women as a group lack the level of cultural power as men. Some women challenge gender norms by refusing to let dominance portray their femininity. Gender norms are what are learned throughout our childhood when we socialise. We are taught was is expected from our gender through our parents/guardians. We are also taught through socialising at school, the media and other social institutions e.g. Facebook. https://othersociologist.com/sociology-of-gender/