Liberal Feminist Ideology

Judith Butler is an eminent and prolific writer, who has assumed an exceptionally powerful part in moulding present day feminism. She is Professor of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and is well known as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity. She's composed broadly on sex and her idea of gender performativity is a focal topic of both present day women's rights and gender hypothesis. She has composed numerous books and papers on gender and society which include Performative Acts and Gender Constitution (1988), Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990), Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (1993)

In 1927, the United State Supreme Court had a case called Buck v Bell who set a legal example that states may sterilize prisoners of public institutions. The court argued that imbecility, epilepsy, and feeblemindedness are heredity, and that the prisoners should be prevented from passing these defects to the next generation. In my opinion if Buck v Bell were to argue in this year I believe that Bell would not win because in today’s society the legal sterilization of the prisoners has been allowed in many cases. (Antonios, Nathalie, and Christina Raup. “The Embryo Project Encyclopedia.” Buck v. Bell (1927). The ruling of Buck stated that feebleminded and a moral delinquent was issued but did not have valid proof of that problem. Carrie Buck

Althusser ignores the active struggles of the working class which can change society. There are also criticisms that he assumes that the communist party knows what is best and that workers should blindly follow the policies. In his satirical book based on the Russian Revolution “Animal Farm”, George Orwell shows how the Russians overthrew one elite group, only to replace them with another. JK Galbraith comments that Marxists ignore the point which Karl Marx made; that the state apparatus and rule by dictatorship of the proletariat as being a necessity in the short run but not in the long run. His criticisms is not so much about Karl Marx as the way that people calling themselves Marxists have misused his name to introduce

"I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back" (Yousafzai, 1). It takes a tremendous amount of courage to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change because a woman’s silence will not protect her. Throughout society today, the idea of feminism stirs up many different types of emotions and views of exactly what feminism is. A lot of people think that women's rights have already been accomplished. For example, yes, we've earned Title IX and laws against gender discrimination. But people fail to understand that there are still so many forces against women's rights, such as reproductive

It has become an ordinary practice within feminism speculation to claim that women’s lives are established by multiple intersecting structures of oppression. This insight of oppression is not committed by a single authority or a political relation, but is better acknowledged as established by various assembled or interwoven systems. Dynamics that have been repeatedly overlooked include the differing distribution of wages, socioeconomic background of individuals, rights of transgenders, and reproductive rights. This oppression includes neglection of political and social justice because anti-racism activists are developed by men of color and anti-sexist reforms are developed by white women. Therefore the benefits are not applied to them, as

In every course of time and across the world, throughout many different cultures and people, there have been several different movements for justice and equality. This push for to attain these freedoms have all been shown by a large array of different ethnicities, races, genders and groups. Some of these people, despite their efforts, are still being oppsessed today, and can be compared to the African-Americans during the time of the Civil Rights Movement. One example of this that is a particularly sensitive subject is the rights of women, which usually refers to whether or not women have equality with the rights of men. The Liberal Feminist Movement was first initially fueled by the black Civil Rights movement, and is directly in correlation

Feminism is a movement against the rejection of the views or suppression of women 's rights (Karen, 1988). Feminism is aware of the gender inequality in society and in the family, among others in the form of oppression and exploitation of

The United States of America is a relatively new country that evolved exceptionally fast. Yet the common ideas of gender haven't evolved much. Namely, many historical events were accomplished by women or involved women; however, they aren't taught in high school. Most, if not all, educated individuals know these great male historical figures that influenced the US: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, and etc. Most of 'American history' is white men history, or better summarized as (his)story. But do students know Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Maria Stewart, and etc.? Maybe. How about Sojourner Truth, Lucy Stone, Ida B. Wells, and other marginalized women? Most people don't know or never heard

The theory that will be used in this paper is the liberalism feminist theory. Liberal feminism has its core in the fight for women to have the same fundamental democratic rights as men. They see women’s lower position in society as a consequence from earlier in history when they have been excluded from political and legal rights, and also that they have been stopped from participating in the work life on the same conditions as men. Instead they have been directed to the private sphere of the family. Historically, liberal feminists have fought for education for women, for legal rights and especially for women’s right to vote. Liberal feminism concentrates upon fight and argumentation to ensure that women will have access to the public,

“Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes. This includes seeking to establish educational and professional opportunities for women that are equal to those for men. Feminist movements have campaigned and continue to campaign for women's rights, including the right to vote, to hold public office, to work, to earn fair wages or equal pay, to own property, to receive education, to enter contracts, to have equal rights within marriage, and to have maternity leave. Feminists have also worked to promote bodily autonomy and integrity, and to protect women and girls from rape, sexual harassments, and domestic violence. Changes in dress and acceptable physical activity have often been part of feminist

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal. It defines, establishes, and achieves equal political, economic, personal, and social rights for women. “This was also the perspective conveyed by the best know histories of the American women’s movement published prior to 1970, in which feminism effectively began in 1848 at Seneca Falls and the focus was on votes for women” (Offen 6). In Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale shows how women advocated feminism in order to increase a political ideal. However, people say that it is impossible to read the novel without being aware of the issues of gender and the aspects of feminism, that are central to it. This novel presents a complex

The first wave of feminism has been a revolutionary social movement in terms of that it could lead to an overcoming of the previous social order (Newman, 2012 p. 487) through its social agents and create, through this, a new social ordering of time and space. Moreover, through reaching their previously described aims, the first wave of feminism has been able to literally “overthrow the entire system itself, (…) in order to replace it with another one.” (Skocpol, 1979, as cited in Newman 2012, p. 487). Thereby, one can even state that a new ordering of time and space by which routines and routinised behaviour has been challenged as well as changed took place. The interactions influenced the way how societies work today. (Allan, 2013, p. 323).

from the fact that many issues such as the family, child care, intergenerational relations, and the inequalities in these areas have not been addressed totally.

According to Wikipedia, “Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social rights for women”.

First, Radical feminism focuses too heavily on essentialism – who’s to say what constitutes a female body? Next, the Radical feminist theory homogenizes women, as if we are all the same, which we clearly aren’t. Like several other feminist theories, Radical feminism also is somewhat racist and fully Eurocentric. Radical feminists marginalize certain types of women, while liberating others. And finally, Radical feminism segregates women by mainly focusing on the idea of being “lesbian”, which often leads to the exclusion of heterosexual women, or women who do not identify as lesbian. There is certainly still some room for improvement in regards to the fundamentals of Radical feminism. However, I still feel that the ideals of Radical feminism have made a significant difference in the lives of many women around the