How Does Feminism Affect Society

Radical feminism viewed patriarchy as dividing rights, privileges and power primarily by sex, this resulted in the oppression of women and privileging men. Radical feminism opposes existing political and social organization in general because it is inherently tied to patriarchy. Radical feminists were skeptical of political action within the current system, and instead they wanted to focus on culture change that undermines patriarchy and associated hierarchical structures. Radical feminists are often more militant in their approach in terms of getting to the root of the problem as opposed to other feminists. A radical feminist aims to break down the patriarchy system instead of just making minor adjustments to the system through legal changes.

In her book, Wollstonecraft argues and slams Jean Jacques Rousseau’s multiple times on his view on education and his belief that women should only have education on how to be a better wife and mother (Poonacha 428). Wollstonecraft critiques him, “Rousseau declares that a woman should never, for a moment, feel herself independent that she should be governed by fear to exercise her natural cunning, and made a coquettish slave in order to render her a more alluring object of desire…” To add, Rousseau is advocating for the rich and upper-class families, while Wollstonecraft is speaking up for middle class women who most of them are forced to please men and take care of their children (Poonacha 430). Rousseau is not the only guy she critiques, she also mentioned Edmund Burke in her pamphlet The Vindication of the Rights of Men. Despite education for women being an emotional and personal topic for Wollstonecraft, she balances her writing with reason (Volkova 896). She provides details and logic that back up her statements.

The way she exemplifies how the Taliban deprived girls from education is truly devastating to the ears. School is not a basic right in these areas and it is time to fix this insufficient issue. Women's´ rights are very limited and Malalas´ tone towards it is highly invigorating. Once Malala has put the pen to paper and crafted this into a speech, it has deeply affected the audience rather than utilizing physical force. Moreover, her tone allows the audience to have their full attention towards her protest on the right for education to the girls who are deprived of it.

‘I was amazed and disgusted to learn that I was classed among criminals, infants and lunatics – in fact that my status as a woman was worse than any of these’. Sheehy-Skeffington came to really recognise women’s irrelevancy to the plans of the Westminster parliamentarians. Now, more than ever, she felt it was her moral imperative to flout the traditional laws and radically change the political status of women in

Conformity is all around us. There are good things to conform to like laws & bad things like racism & hate. The novel Stargirl has a heavy focus on conformity & social norms so to balance this they brought in a nonconformist to cause a ruckus. In the novel, Stargirl, author Jerry Spinelli suggests that though many people do conform to social norms, some special few are still their true selves. Throughout the novel, ‘Stargirl’ Susan Caraway has been doing weird & goofy things that disrupt the students in some way, this is the first time she is introduced.

During the Enlightenment people changed the way they thought of culture and took a scientific approach to almost everything. People began to think critically about what lies around them and started to counter their beliefs with scientific approaches. Everything was not perfect during the Enlightenment, even though many things improved for some; people were still prejudiced towards others. Women were not acknowledged as someone who could be educated or work, while “men had many opportunities: for education, for service in government or diplomacy, for the exercise of political and economic power” (The enlightenment 2). Contrasting the writings of Rousseau and Wollstonecraft we are able to identify how each of them feels towards the treatment of women in society.

During the Cold War era women desired equal participation in the country both foreign and domestic but felt that their unfair treatment in the government and industry was “in itself a deterrent to the aspirations of women (270). The National Organization for Women worked “toward a fully equal partnership of the sexes” (268). The lack of women in the war room displays both the gender inequality in government decision making and possibly the effect of women’s ambitions being ruined by the messages sent by people like Turgidson. The women’s rights movement gained traction as the Cold War incubated several other anxiety driven movements throughout the

Throughout history, society has shaped the lives of individuals by assigning individuals a specific way to be a part of society while deviation is most likely viewed as unacceptable and will likely be censured. Betty Friedan in chapter 1 of her novel “The Feminine Mystique” describes society’s assigned role for females and how women sacrificed their desires to fulfil the role assigned by society. E.J Graff in his essay “The M/F Boxes” describes how transgender and intersex individuals suffered humiliation and alienation because they did not meet society’s expectation of what a man or a woman is. Stephen Hinshaw in an excerpt from “What is the Triple Bind?” brings to attention the contemporary issue females are facing as they are expected to

Stereotypes dealing with gender like the one promoted by David Brooks and studied by other authors are created through the influence popular media has on society in order to manipulate people to think a certain way and create conflict. David Brooks’ assertion that women are better students than men is not only incorrect , but also exceedingly dangerous. Of course, any statement that attaches an offensive stereotype to half of the human population and is reinforced by the pervasive influence of the popular media can 't be a good thing. To back this claim, the author provides evidence such as, "[Girls] are less likely to be diagnosed with a learning disability" or "Kindergarten teachers rebport that girls are more attentive than boys and are more persistent at tasks". To be less likely to have a genetic disorder doesn 't turn you into a better student, nor does your personal

While some people continue to hold onto discriminatory values and remain uneducated in important topics, it is necessary for governments to make ending gender inequality a priority, especially in these middle eastern countries where radical religious groups like the Taliban force their restricting values on others and male guardianship strips women of the freedom of being in charge of their own lives. It is essential for governments to continue the fight against the Taliban and other extremist groups that are preying on women. The attack on women’s rights began immediately after the group took control when “the Taliban closed the women’s university and forced nearly all women to quit their jobs” (“Report on the Taliban’s”). Before the rise of the Taliban in 1994, Afghanistan was making steady progress towards equality. Women could vote by 1920, gendered separation was abolished in the 1950s, and in the

“On the one hand there was liberal feminism; on the other hand, there was women’s liberation. People also sometimes talked about that wing as comprised of radical feminism and socialist feminism, with radical feminists regarding women’s oppression as the root of all oppression and socialist feminism placing women’s oppression within the other context of other forms of oppression, particularly race and class” (Finsterbusch, 2013, p.147). Epstein goes on to suggest that the women’s movement currently has narrowed its politics and as the women’s movement has aged it has become vulnerable to absorbing the current trends within its own class and as a result this has led to the movement not taking center stage. Epstein concludes that we need to “return to a sort of revised version of radical feminism and place feminism within the demand of an egalitarian society and a demand for a society that respects human connection and communities and promotes them rather than destroying them” (Finsterbusch, 2013,