Saturday, May 9, 2015
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Feminist stories
“The woman’s blink rate tells him she’s
nervous: almost once per second, four times the normal count. Jack knows a
touch of nerves can help soften up a client, especially in the clinic’s private
waiting cubicles, but if he overdoes it she may fear opening her wallet. And
that must be avoided at all costs.”
“Feminism's association with activism is one reason
people shy away from it, says Deborah L. Rhode in this excerpt from "What
Women Want." A history of negative media coverage has also fueled this
aversion. … Public opinion polls over the last two decades underscore the
problem. Taken together, they reveal a striking ambivalence.”
Feminist plays
The
Devil’s Gateway by Sarah Daniels
“Second
floor flat in Bethnal Green, and the world is looming large over the lives of
Betty and her neighbours. If it's not Social Services, then it's Social
Security; if not's unemployment, then it's the bomb. Betty and her old friend
Enid, who is trapped in an abusive marriage, are mirrored across town by Enid's
daughter Linda, and Linda's lover Fiona, while Betty's daughter Carol tries and
fails to duck in and around the whims of her bullying husband.
And
all the while on Greenham Common, women are taking action. Against the bomb;
and against the patriarchal system that would drop it. We're used, Daniels
writes, to seeing men go off to war but we should get used to women going off
for peace.
The
Devil's Gateway was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, Upstairs,
London, in 1983.”
Cloud
Nine by Caryl Churchill
“Churchill’s
wickedly comic and compassionate study of sexual politics glimpses the
relationships of a family and their lovers, with an interval of twenty-five
years of their lives, and around a hundred years of history.
Highlighting
the parallels of sexual and colonial oppression, the first act is set in a
British colony in Africa in Victorian times. Clive is the traditional colonial
patriarch, proud of his perfectly domesticated wife and black servant (‘played
by a man’ and ‘played by a white’ respectively), and striving conscientiously
to ensure his son and daughter play with gender appropriate toys. But furtive
adultery and secret homosexuality threaten to subvert the moral order of the
household.
The
second act finds some of the same characters living in 1979, twenty-five years
older and played by different actors, finding new liberations in bisexuality
and polyamory, but finding new anxieties about gender and fulfilment. The
intricacies of these relationships and the play’s doubling create a complex and
moving account of the multiplicity of individual sexualities.
Cloud
Nine was first performed in 1979 at the Dartington College of Arts, before
touring and transferring to London.”
Testimonies of feminism
Cameron
Russel explains her struggle become the model she is today. The model agency
wanted a woman for the media when she was merely a teenager. She reaches out to
the girls that want to be like her and explains that models in magazines are
modified by technology which wrongly provides a fake image that they idolize.
Courtney
Martin had been raised by two feminists and activists. She had grew up in the
era of technological advances which meant that approaches became more related
to media and electronic devices. Surely she explains that no matter the
differences in our lifestyles being an activist is doable and applauded.
Leymah
Gbowee exposes the difficult life young girls may suffer in third world countries.
She encourages everyone to help unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of
girls to the benefit on themselves and the rest of the world. Their education is
the key to the happenings of a positive community.
Feminist songs
This
song talks about the way women are portrayed in country songs lately. Maddie
& Tae feel they do not receive the respect they used to as part of our
society. Their attire affects how men perceive them when it should not be of
importance. The singers present how stereotypical comments on how women look
will not be tolerated. They are criticizing the patriarchal image which needs
to be ruptured to its core.
Colbie
Caillat sings about women’s empowerment in being simple and natural regardless
of what society dictates. It starts with comments on how women do these
modifications to satisfy what others expect from them outside their natural
state. She asks women to not “try so hard” and if they like themselves when
they’re alone, implicitly reminding them that it is what matters.
Christina
Aguilera raps about social injustice between men and women’s standards. She
mentions how it is unfair for women to not have an opinion on the double
standards of the views of both men and women. Aguilera dedicates this song to
women around the world who are going through those struggles and urging them to
not be held down.
Short composition (NEW)
Feminism
In Post Modern times, feminism is known to attack the male population of society intending to provide more power to the female population. The reality of the topic is that it pursues equality for both genders. Nowadays, the idea of women being able to wear whichever type of clothing they prefer is a right to express themselves regardless of what society's ideals on gender roles are. Without a feminist movement, women and men would be deprived of a fair establishment of equal relationships in diverse social and economic sectors.
Suffrage was an important point in women’s lives due to the liberty it provided to the both literate and illiterate. This movement gained force when they noticed it was for the better of society’s development and enrichment. Mothers, spouses, and their entire families became exposed to a closer stage of equality between men and women. In our days, this movement for equal rights still stands strong. We must teach society not only the convenience of actual equity but of the right that is being withheld from women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an7-gDMOe4s
In Post Modern times, feminism is known to attack the male population of society intending to provide more power to the female population. The reality of the topic is that it pursues equality for both genders. Nowadays, the idea of women being able to wear whichever type of clothing they prefer is a right to express themselves regardless of what society's ideals on gender roles are. Without a feminist movement, women and men would be deprived of a fair establishment of equal relationships in diverse social and economic sectors.
Suffrage was an important point in women’s lives due to the liberty it provided to the both literate and illiterate. This movement gained force when they noticed it was for the better of society’s development and enrichment. Mothers, spouses, and their entire families became exposed to a closer stage of equality between men and women. In our days, this movement for equal rights still stands strong. We must teach society not only the convenience of actual equity but of the right that is being withheld from women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an7-gDMOe4s
Draft of expository essay about impostor
There is no doubt that
feminism important in our Post Modern Era.
Matt Robertson is young tv
host who supports Christian ideals and topics like the relevance of feminism.
As a Christian, he supports ideals that provide an equal status for both women
and men in our society with the help of these specific beliefs. Patriarchy is
not the guide he wishes to promote. He finds himself connecting feminist points
of view and human rights for our people.
Robertson has been
internationally known for charisma on the topics of human rights and equality
between men and women. He has popularized religions as advocates of the
feminist movement. He has appropriately fostered freedom of speech and the
liberal Christian ideas of a better society hand in hand with feminism. Matt
Robertson has even prized the companies for their development on equality. He
understands human rights should be respected regardless of the different ideals
they have from one another.
This way, he demonstrates
his respect of ideals that are substantial to the society and are implicit in
his Christian beliefs. He has never dishonored the feminist movement. He has
not undermined the relevance it has in our society and has funded organizations
regarding that ideal. Matt Robertson separates the purposes of feminist from
ill intentions and links them to Christian beliefs for people to acknowledge its
importance.
Finally, he sustains the
idea of women and men being equal in social, economic and political aspects and
our need for a suited change for better living standards. He understands it is
a necessity because of what his Christ taught and the commandments implicitly
teach. With this euphoric personality, he provides an innovative view to all
those in our society. Robertson includes social, economic and gender roles for
the commonwealth this way reinforcing his spiritual way of living and the uprising
equality.
In conclusive, Matt
Robertson encourages people to revolutionize to extent and let equality between
genders in our society prospers relying on Christian beliefs.
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