Introduction A Thousand Splendid Suns is a work of realistic fiction based on Khaled Hosseini’s trip to Afghanistan. The story is set in Afghanistan between the early 1960’s and early 2000’s and features two main protagonists. The first is Mariam, a quite, thoughtful child at the start of the book. Born out of wedlock to a rich and married businessman named Jalil and his former housekeeper named Nana. Mariam resents her mother’s strict ways and the fact that she sees...
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Interdiction In this project I will be looking at feminist art and its effects, influences and relations in the Islamic culture. I want to explore and study some of the impacts the and differences between eastern and western cultures on feminist arts and artists. In particular I will be looking at Shirin Neshat, an Iranian born visual artist, film maker and photographer whose artwork evolves around the contrasts between Islam and western cultures, her work is both political and controversial,...
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The world of science is in the midst of gender reckoning. Women cannot go on being persistently ignored. They also play a key role in our lives. From the earliest times of human civilization there are some very significant contributions which women have played a key role in by offering their scholarly research. They have made their own success stories while also facing barriers. Many of the world’s largest problems would have gone unsolved if men would have continued the...
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Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella is the twenty-first century because it reflects feminist ideals, conveys an updated message of love, and explores the duality of human nature. In most of the stories analyzed in class the Cinderella character was subservient and very passive. However, the 2015 Cinderella is feminist in many ways. One aspect of the movie is that she is intellectual. In most if not all of her conversations with the prince she points out the wrongness of some traditions. During...
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Charlotte Brontë created a piece of literary revolutionary work in a world where women were marginalised in a society dominated by men. Powerfully written, she commands a dominating, liberating woman’s voice and using it as her strength we can relate to Jane’s struggles and explore the twists and turns of her turbulent world. Sophie Franklin writes that the ‘Woman Question’ was a major issue of the 19th Century. It centred around the social position of women and until the Married...
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Although the term “feminist” has only recently come in to use, universally, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë, has been acknowledged as a ‘feminist novel’ since published. The character of Jane Eyre is looked up to by many, due to her strong nature and ability to bounce back from the mental and physical abuse afflicted by her aunt and teacher from a young age. Despite the hardships she faces, Jane Eyre seems to come back stronger than ever, even risking her...
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This week’s discussion takes a look into LGBTQ+ and disabled feminism and activism. In the articles written by Abelson and the speech given in the Incite page, we take a look at LGBTQ+ feminism along with black feminism. In the article written by Abelson, we begin by discussing both the inclusion and exclusion of transgender feminists, which begins in the 1970’s and continues into the early-mid 2000’s. During this time, lesbian feminists began to “turn from a patriarchal and male-centered...
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Manifestation of Modern Feminism in Handmaid’s Tale It was in the early nineteen hundreds with the addition of women’s suffrage when the first waves of modern feminism began. This was one of the first steps in altering women’s previously thought power, identity, and individualism. These factors continued to be at the crux of later feminist movements especially the second and the third. A manifestation of the perceived issues of the time period along with a humanistic approach to showcasing these...
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In all history men were favored and privileged. Men were given freedom, an education, pride, and an opportunity to share their opinion, however women in ancient Greek were not given any of these privileges. The play Medea by Euripides, shows how women were seen by ancient Greek society and how some women did not fall into these expectations. Therefore, “Medea” gives accurate examples that help with the feminist theory of poststructuralism and deconstruction; this theory focuses on how language supoorted...
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Introduction In the nineteenth century, male dominated the world of literature. Even so, it is often referred to as the age of the female novelist (Showalter 3). The reason being, that it is characterized by great women writers such as Jane Austen, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Shelley and the Brontë sisters. These women are just some examples of women writers that were able to contribute to the literary scene in the nineteenth century, which had previously...
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The play A Doll’s House written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879 is one of the first plays featuring feminism, which contributed to the spread of feminism. Using a visual form of text made it accessible, where feminist ideas could be spread thoroughly in the society. The play is an important work in terms of understanding concepts which of feminism; hence it still plays a significant role for feminists today. The interpretation of the play would differ for a woman being...
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Norway's Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, published in 1879, is a play about Nora Helmer, who has committed a crime of forgery to repair her husband to good health. As a dramatic play, A Doll's House inspects the relationship between Torvald, her husband, and Nora, especially the limited social choices available to women and the roles and expectations placed on women by society as a whole. The central character being Nora is a protagonist and allows viewers to recognize the...
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a timeless classic in feminist literature because it features many crucial themes that deal with issues women of that time and often times even today face such as the importance of self-expression, mental illness being misunderstood or even ignored, and the danger that gender roles pose to women’s self-identity. Gilman accomplishes this by criticizing the traditional gender roles that were imposed on women in the late nineteenth century, which is when the...
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Kate Chopin (1850-1904) have become distinguished in the field of literature, especially in feminism and liberalism. She is quite remarkable by her independent spirit, her rebellious desires and her native aptitude for narration. At an early age, Chopin’s initial signs of depression can be easily spotted after the losses of her father, her great-grandmother, her half-brother and her friend Kitty in a short time (wikipedia). The death of her husband and mother aggravated the disastrous situation. Chopin was left alone...
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Introduction to Feminist Criticism and The Color Purple Feminism in a layman language is giving equal rights and status to women. Unfortunately, women across the world are deprived of their basic rights. The woman is always considered as a “Secondary Sex”. (Quyoom 2017) “As a social movement, feminist criticism highlights the various ways in particular women have been suppressed, oppressed, and repressed …” (Bressler 2001). However, according to (Tyson 2008) feminist criticisms occurred in three main phases, firstly the feminine...
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Introduction Portia’s character in The Marchant of Venice plays a significant role in how the story goes on to the extent that we can consider it as the main character of the play. She is the one who does different things to alter the destiny that befalls Shylock towards the end of the play. Thus, this play and Portia’s personage may be from on aspect regarded as feministic with regards to the historical and cultural context in which the story...
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The late 1800s to the early 1900s was a time in America where revolutions occurred and where the foundations of feminism were laid. This statement is proven through evidence found in movements, conflicts, politics, and literature of the time period. In particular, when analyzing the author Kate Chopin and her writing, it becomes clear that she played a crucial role in establishing the beginning of a modern feminist movement. Through her pieces, such as The Story of the Hour, ...
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Introduction John Milton’s Paradise Lost is one of the most controversial and discussed epic which has only one female character who is Eve. Apart from religious point of view, many critics declared it as a misogynist text or represented Even as a female version of Satan etc. Analyzing different opinions of critics and considering many factors, this paper is a small attempt to conclude that this epic is neither misogynistic nor Eve is Satanic in nature rather a proto feministic...
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In the fairy tale Snow White by Jacob Grimm, a girl named Snow white is taken in by a group of dwarves after getting lost and to be honest they were pretty messy. I chose a feminist lens because women should be seen as people not objects and this story is a perfect example of how they do end up being portrayed as objects. in order for Snow white to obtain protection and shelter, the Dwarfs forced her to perform...
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At the time of its release, A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen was both radical and influential with respect to both society and storytelling. Ibsen’s controversial work was often associated with gender politics, with it opening a dialogue on whether feminist ideals had a place in theatre. Because of this, my production of A Doll’s House aims to further highlight the effects of inequality within society through establishing connections between its effects on characters like Nora to similar occurrences in...
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Art is not therapy. As a young artist, expressing grief and trauma through art, this is what I was told by an art teacher. In order to examine, unpack and refute this comment, this narrative exploration will define the use of art as a therapeutic tool, the differences and links between art and art therapy, storytelling from the female perspective, the rise of feminist art and female artists who use their practice to talk about trauma and grief. When I...
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Beatrice is one of the main characters in the play “Much Ado About Nothing” by Shakespeare. She is a strong, rebellious character who shows both independence and vulnerability which makes her more realistic and relatable. She is a complicated character who develops as a person throughout the play. Beatrice stands out from the rest of the characters due to her charisma and expressive personality, and because she is almost the opposite to the rest of the females in the play....
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Back in the days the female population in France wasn’t treated equally as the male population and there were a lot of inequalities which disadvantaged women in front the mans. In the book Candide, wrote by Voltaire, during the whole story women are getting treated like objects and have no rights. The book shows Voltaire’s point of view towards the situation at that time and many people think that Voltaire was trying with this book to criticize the society and...
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In her Prologue of “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath gives readers a complicated picture of a medieval woman. As it explains how the Wife of Bath is shameless about her sexual exploits as she makes use of her sexual power to get what she wishes. In other words, it is a way of doing exactly these matters as she is confirming the horrible stereotypes about ladies by proving that ladies are both manipulative and deceitful....
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Wide Sargasso Sea is a novel that was written as a response to the text Jane Eyre in 1966. The novel was written by Jean Rhys, who wrote the text to give a voice to Antoinette Cosway, and provide a background to her story before she became ‘the mad woman in the attic’ in Jane Eyre. As such, one of the main themes throughout the text is identity, or a lack thereof. In this speech, I will examine Antoinette’s identity...
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In Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, has many comedic moments and the acting is quite humorous. There is also plenty of chaos ( love and hate relationship) between lovers that is resolved by the end, resulting in marriage. However, as a reader, I find that whole idea about women is not so humorous when you look at a plot closely. Throughout the play, women are constantly involved in severe mental suffering due to complex of love with male characters....
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In this assignment I will be talking about enlightenment and how sociologists discard women and their main focus is on the man, then I will include how feminist theorists challenge enlightenment representations with their theories about inequality and power. Also including how this affected women throughout. The Enlightenment period was a movement that dominated the world in Europe during the 18th century. Philosophers of the period shared their ideas through meetings at scientific academies, these philosophers were mainly white and...
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Based on the discussion about theory, I choose feminist ethics, because feminist ethics is focused on advancing women’s interests and correcting injustices inflicted on women through social oppression. Also, feminist ethics is not only concerned with women’s interests. However, feminism is about working against the systems built to keep certain groups of people oppressed and striving toward equality for everyone. It means fighting for intersectionality and acknowledging how race, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status affects feminism. So, it is very...
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Women have always had to fight for their safety, the only difference now is that they get to be more open about it. The fight for feminism can be a bit difficult to understand when one has not personally experienced trauma or helped a loved one through it. The world in which feminism and law enforcement come together can be a very touchy subject as so many people have so many different opinions. Typically, people that have been through instances...
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Bell Hooks response to Beyoncé’s visual album, lemonade, contains five main charges on why she is not an ideal role model and does not deserve the title feminist. In this essay, I will be analyzing bell hook’s charge that the album over-sexualizes women and contributes to the unachievable beauty standards thrust upon people and is not an attribute of equality and feminism. I will be arguing this against the charge and how it is an outdated feminist thought that is...
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