She is primarily known for her 1949 treatise, The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. ... The First major premise of The Second Sex is that man, considering himself as the essential being, or subject, has treated woman as the unessential being, or object. ... For every subject, there must be an object. ... The Second Sex. ...
The object is to provide a critique of phallocentric assumptions and an analysis of patriarchal visions or ideologies inscribed in a literature that is male-centered and male-dominated. Such a reader denounces and refuses to accept the cult of masculine virility and superiority that reduces woman to a sex object, a second sex, a submissive other. ... In her book, Lé Deuxiéme Sexe (1949; The Second Sex)2, Simone de Beauvoir argued that associating men with humanity more generally (as many cultures do) relegates women to an inferior position in society. ... On the other hand, 70s...
Examining how this victim/perpetrator framework operates in two paradigmatic examples of acquaintance rape on college campuses, this Note contends that the victim/perpetrator framework may actually be damaging to the feminist rape reform project because it relies on an overly simplistic account of the operation of power in sexual violence that fails to consider the way that sex and gender are performative, denies the possibility of a multiplicity of experiences and perspectives within individual incidents of rape, and participates in the disempowerment and traumatization of rape victims. ... ...
Initially in The Piano Ada is the object of Baines gaze, as he watches her play the piano and project sexual fantasies onto her. ... Campion again destroys the active/passive split when Ada's husband locks her up after witnessing her have sex with Baines. ... Baines on the other hand, knew he could not possess, control and treat Ada as an object and opened up to her and her desires. ...
They draw attention to the long history of men using women for domestic work, including sex work, and the pattern of domestic violence directed at women. They act against pornography and women being exploited in the media as sex objects, as well as women being forced into prostitution. ... Liberal feminists argue that equality between the sexes cannot come about by division. ...
Transcending a simple additive approach to the problem of Black women" domination, black feminist in the second wave argued against race, gender, class, oppression, and sex from the beginning of their organizing. ... If Black women oppressed by the multiplicative systems of gender, race, oppression, sex, and class domination were liberated, that would surely lead to liberation for all. ... When defining by location one may place the object of their life of one's definition in contexts of varying scope. ...
To make it easier to observe and understand the levels of authority that are meant here and the theoretical explanations of rights and liberties that have been already given to the "weaker sex", the chapter Theoretical Framework was provided with the theories, written laws and norms. ... Shortly, all 103 respondents were people of both sexes, different ages and social status. ... In the following chapters the work will be based on the objects to compare the level of using political rights between men and women and to find out the reasons for "unequal correlation of representation of both sexe...
"Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children." ... MacKinnon feels that pornography defames women as a group, teaching men to view women as sexual objects, and a gender and not as people. ...
In order to grasp the underlying concept of feminist theatre, its successes as a genre and the challenges it faces in contrast with mainstream theatrical forms, it is essential to begin with a definition of terms. What is feminist theatre? Is it concerned with women as performers, women dramatists or playwrights? Consider this striking description: "Generally speaking, feminists involved in the creation or analysis of theatre usually wish to enact, embody or inspire some kind of political, personal or cultural change via the public platform of theatre"[Sim15]. This implies that femin...
