What do you need to know about in order to contextualize and discuss your subject? Meaning, what academic subjects does your project relate to? Through research at the library and on the web, identify the […]
During this semester, I’ve learned a lot about feminism. I gained a lot of insight on what feminism actually is, instead of what society makes it out to be. I also read a lot of material that I enjoyed, and […]
This has me wondering, do we want to alienate totally from gender performance, or just certain parts? and how will those parts be decided? would it be based on the individual or the masses?
This can also be taken as the fact that books carry history and are used all through time, and words hold a lot of power. So all of the anti-feminist works and even the books that hint at it have and can cause a […]
I really like how you highlighted Claudia and Frieda more than I did. I didn’t even realize the symbolism that they held in the book. I focused more on Pecola and her experiences.
This is actually really redundant when I think about it. You fight for equal treatment in daily life but you don’t give it to people who are even more affected by unequal treatment. I really hope that this can […]
The Tony Morrison book that I chose to read, is The Bluest Eye. The book starts with sisters Claudia and Frieda, who live in Ohio, with their parents. It is set at the end of the Great Depression, and the parents […]
Material Feminism is feminism that focuses on the material conditions of the social world. According to the idea of material feminism, gender is a social construct, and gender roles are forced onto women. The […]
Judith Butler is talking about her belief that gender is a performance. She says that the performances of women are compelled and enforced by historical social practice. It was passed down from generation to […]
The culture wars are a conflict between social groups, and the fight for dominance for their beliefs, values, etc. They have to do with feminism because there are a lot of cultural values that go against certain […]
To disidentify with something means that you don’t have any personal association with something or an experience. One time in my life that disidentified with something, is when I was in middle school, and some […]
“We are challenging white feminists to be accountable for their racism because at the base we still want to believe that they really want freedom for all of us.”
In order to use a Hypothesis to annotate a text, you have to first create an account. Then you have to click on the latest chat, click on visit annotations in context and read the article. Once you finish […]
The women that led the women’s liberation movement were influenced greatly by the civil rights movement. The women were inspired by African Americans who came together to end discrimination and racist beliefs. […]
In the event that feminist and anti-racist activism has succeeded and we live in a more egalitarian and less oppressive world, life world be more bliss and enjoyable. An average day for me would probably be me […]
Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. I agree with this definition because it is very general, and seems to cover the entirety of feminism. In my own words, feminism is a […]