That fact that the female gender has been historically viewed as weaker, more ignorant, and biologically dependent on the male sex is well known. What is surprising, at least to modern eyes, is that this idea held up for so long, and throughout so many cultures regardless of technology, wealth, or education. Any degree of political, social, or economic power that women possessed varied throughout assorted societies. These ran the gamut from what arguably could be called "political equality" to the more common assignment of value determined only by the ability to bear legitimate children. .
Even under historical constraints, women of history did not accept total un-autonomous control of their fate. The women of ancient Rome took to the streets in protest of a double tax based on their gender to support an ongoing war. They successfully argued that they were already doubly taxed, by their wealth and by the sons they supplied for the war. After winning the repeal of the tax, they returned home to their children and traditional duties. .
But why? Why did it stop there? Educated Western women throughout the most recent two thousand years such as Christine de Pizan and Olympe de Gouges (Declarations of the Rights of Women) have called for the emancipation of women and female education. While arguing for the Biblical re-interpretation of female roles based on a new understanding of the Hebrew and Christian Bible, they didn't get much farther than public ridicule and unfortunately for de Gouges, the guillotine. Even with the acknowledgement of such radical ideas, until the Woman's Movement of Great Britain and the United States, woman's place in society remained mostly unchanged. The fact that there was a Women's Movement at all is noteworthy, but the fact that it has spanned continents, society stratifications, and gender (the movement had many outspoken male supporters) is unique in the whole of human history.
How can one dismiss this preconceived image and see where a woman fits in a truly Muslim society? I can only try to highlight the status of women in the actual teachings of Islam as opposed to the practices of many so-called Muslim countries and the misrepresentation of movies. Then, it would be up...
This paper will show how feminism is portrayed in the film by examining the attuned anxieties of feminism. ... In the film Alien, there are many maternal and motherly ways the film goes about feminism. ... This is just is just one of the ways this film expresses feminism and the sexual equality. ... In this scene, conception and pregnancy occurs, just not in the way we are used too. ... This is a confrontation with feminism and the patriarchy of the blood running down her face. ...
Feminism in itself contains a number of different, even opposing, ideologies - essentialist, culturalist, Freudian, anti-Freudian the list could go on and on. ... Any pre-conceptions of a logical and causal history will have to be abandoned. ... Feminism is often now seen as yet another filter through which to view, critique, or make art. ... The art world was being affected by social movements of sixties, including feminism, as well as changes within its own structure. ... Looking back today, "in its broadest terms, we would define the impact of feminism on art history as an adjustment o...
The focus is on the sociological conception of gender differences & inequalities with & special reference to their occurrence in contemporary Britain, to understand the major differences between socio-biological, psychological & sociological perspectives on gender. ...
Much emphasis is placed on pregnancy as a result of rape, even thought the statistics show only about 0.1% of all rapes actually result in conception. ... A second major reason is that to declare abortion immoral would mean that we would have to consider the factor of how the conception came about. ... If conception occurred as a result of rape or incest, I am not saying that having the babies of rapists or in cases of incest is okay. ... While the article in The New Republic contains large amounts of relevant information pertaining not only to abortion, the history of abortion rights and t...
During which she followed the traditional eighteenths century critics (gadfly philosophy's), along with her formal philosophy to voice her sentiments on feminism and existentialism. ... Simone drew heavily on Sartre's conception of human beings as creatures who are free. ...
Like any cultural movement its defining characteristics have changes shape and meaning since its conception in the late 1950's. Its slight changes in name such as post -Modern, postmodern and Post-Modern Movement have isolated it from other advents such as Pop art and feminism, which took place quite independently, (hence the lack of the word "post"). ...
During the depression feminism began to wane, nearly reaching extinction in the post World War Two era creating one of two effects: a stigma regarding abortion as taboo, or an attitude of complete oblivion. This reversal of feminism, peaking in the 1940's, paved the way for a resurfacing of the cult of domesticity. ... The abortion matter was accumulating attention rapidly, being ram sacked with questions such as: what is the starting point of conception? ...
Charlotte Bronts Jane Eyre stands as one of the most prominent literature works about feminism. ... Suppressed by masculine power and social conceptions, the eldest of the Bront sisters hoped that Jane Eyres independence and happiness are ultimate goals which every woman could achieve. ... The social conceptions at the time had made women believe themselves to be much less worthy than men. ...
