Final Paper The Other Feminist Film Theory During the mid-20th century, second and third wave feminism swept the nation. The feminist movements focused on combating the roles associated with being a woman and, in turn, lead them to critique how women are represented in media. The feminist movement emerged in media as Feminist Film theory, where the leading women of the mid-20th century analyzed representations of women in film(media). Unfortunately, the leading feminist film theorists where white
from feminist media theory and African feminist media theory and it has also included the theory of intersectionality, these theories will be discussed below. Scholars of media and gender do not apply similar theoretical frameworks, there are options for applying various theories in various studies, although the medium of media being studied is the same. Previous scholars, Mannya (2010), Buiten (2009) and Katembo (2005) used various theories such as discourse theory, cultural studies theory, gender
development of feminist film theory. Feminist film theory is an amalgam of different theoretical frameworks. Laura Mulvey was one of the first to propose a feminist perspective on film analysis and criticism. In 1975 Mulvey’s essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, which was influenced by Lacan and Freud, revolutionized the ideology behind feminist film theory, and for that matter feminist film criticism, and helped shift the winds of film theory toward a more psychoanalytical approach; it transformed
Introduction Feminist standpoint theory came into being in the 1970’s and 1980’s. The genealogy of feminist standpoint theory however began with Hegal’s account of the slave/master dialectic, and after that with Marx and, Lukacs’ development of the idea of a standpoint of the proletariate. Hegal’s argument was that a slaves can in time reach a state “freedom of consciousness” due to their realisation of self-consciousness through struggles against the master, and through physical labour that enables
MAREYSIA ZALEWSKI AND FEMINIST THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Mareysia Zalewski, in her very recent book, ‘Feminist International Relations –Exquisite Corpse’ is trying to study the events in International Politics with a feminist perspective that would not directly engage the readers in a conventional way but imaginatively with a set of vignettes. ‘Exquisite Corpse’ refers to the methodological concoction with a symbolic deployment of a set of techniques taken from critical theory. It takes the reader
critiques on some of the studies. (Beauty and the Belles Discourses of Feminism and Femininity in Disneyland, Allison, 2002) critically analyzed Belle in a more general and brief historiography of the fairy tale. It uses a rather general feminist approach to do so. This paper critically analyzed Belle alongside with Snow White in terms of beauty, costume, psyche and the motherless similarities between the two Disney female characters. The representations of these women can be seen to replicate
This paper offers an argument on feminist legal theory along with the intellectual and critical investigation of aspects affecting social changes within the society. The paper effectively provides answer to; how does Feminist Legal Theory defines law as well as the role law tends to play in women’s systematised inequality? How Feminist Legal Theory deals with conflicts, diversity and women equality issues? How adaptable and effective is the Feminist Legal theory for challenging situations? Meanwhile
How has feminist legal theory contributed to bringing about gender equality and empowering women in countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Pakistan and India? The concept of the feminist legal theory is so diverse that no such generic definition can be applied it , however it is often referred to as a reaction to the jurisprudence of primarily male legal scholars who tend to see law as a process for interpreting and perpetuating a universal, gender-neutral public morality. Feminist
FEMINIST THEORY INTRODUCTION When researching on feminist theory, I examined a number of important and central issues which should be considered, including: • What is “theory”? What does it mean to theorize? • What is specifically feminist about feminist theory? • Are there specific methods for feminist theorizing? • What is the relation of theory to everyday experience and practice? • What are the implications of the diversity of feminist theories? What is a theory? What does it mean to theorize
The article, “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights – Friends or Foes?” by Oonagh Reitman seeks to address how cultural relativist and feminist sees the existence of the international human rights, specifically women’s human rights. The research problem being addressed is the similarities between these two critiques of international human rights and how these two critiques have come to defy one another when it comes to the term of women’s international human rights