Essays on Feminism

Since the mid 1800’s, women all around the world have been motivated to create a powerful life for themselves. From winning the right to vote to securing equal pay grades, these women will not stop until they get what they desire. However, the question still...

Lydia Taft was a wealthy widow, allowed to vote first time in the town meeting in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, in 1756. In the colonial era, no other women are known to have voted. The New Jersey constitution of 1776 emancipated all adult residents who owned a...

Background and Education Dr. Freda Adler (born 1934) is an American criminologist and professor, perhaps best known for her contributions in feminist criminology theories and ideas regarding female criminality – primarily her theory on how the feministic social movement has influenced female criminality. Dr. Adler...

In most cases, a cartoon speaks louder than a text, so that is why cartoons are very important and cartoons are highly valuable sources of history because it puts light on events that has taken place in the past. The most important part of a...

From a very early age; the Hunter-Gatherers bands (the hunters being the male and the gatherers of fruits, etc. being the female), to date the gender roles are predefined and associated with each gender by society. “Gender roles are sets of culturally defined behaviors such...

Historically, across Latin America women have been consigned to traditional gender roles which present an idealised perception of the way a woman should act as well as dictating the way that they should behave. Within this idealised construction a woman is expected to be passive...

Despite the great strides women have made in achieving equality, there are two types of oppression that are unique to the Latina experience. Latinas, in many Latinas countries, are often labeled as an ethnic minority who are overwhelmingly marginalized by men. Women are constantly oppressed...

Since Dracula was written in 1897, I wanted to talk about women’s lives during that time. During that time we see that women had very limited freedoms and were typically expected to stay in their homes to the housework. “Not only was it their job...

Prominent suffragists led to progressive causes. Jane Addams established Chicago’s Hull-House, and Ida B. Wells led a campaign against the lynching of African Americans. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women joined national organizations in great numbers. Women became leaders in a range...

Iceland, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2009 is “the country with the narrowest gender gap in the world” and has remained centuries ahead of others when concerning equal rights. In 1815 it became one of the first to introduce partial female suffrage, granting...

In the past, most of the role of woman- a role in my opinion was limited to the house and raising kids ,she is princess in her home ,trusted by her husband ,who giver her his money and mark and works hard to obtain it...

The younger generation don’t know how to behave because the representations in films contradict society’s values. From an early age, we are sitting in front of a tv watching our favourite shows and movies on a Saturday morning with a bowl of cereal. As we...

In both movies Mean Girls and Clueless, there is clear relationship between socially aggressive girls, popularity, status and power, but you may be thinking, how could this statement be portrayed in a negative manner. In the films the more popularity, status and power girls gain...

Introduction Victorian era was important time in the literature of England, it was changing period. Charlotte Bronte as a female writer was one of famous and important persons in the world of literature. Many readers admired charlotte Bronte’s works that were well known and popular....

“Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of the insignificance of my existence…” (99). Charlotte Bronte sets the tone of chapter X in its very first sentence: a Victorian young woman that have lived in accordance with its role in society and now transcends...

Feminism is the “belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men”(Gustafson). Many inspirational feminists have “challenged the traditional gender roles and demanded more opportunities for women throughout history” (Gustafson). In 1920, women finally gained the right to vote in the United...

Suffragette movement launched by British women is to fight for the voting right between 1897 and 1918. And Civil Rights movement in America led by African Americans aims to end racial segregation between 1950 and 1968. These two movements share the similar aim, gaining equal...

The 1930’s was a very interesting time for society, for many reasons. For example, gender decrimination still continued. The Great Depression impacted many, but especially women. Women’s rights in the 1930’s were limited due to the lack of jobs, but other privileges for women did...

Throughout history women served one purpose, to be the watcher of the house and children. Especially in the U.S, due to being a newly founded country, women haven’t gotten the opportunity to enhance their political and social roles. Men in society have always been the...