Essays on Feminism

Introduction “Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpected effort that might have saved the world”- Jane Addams. This quote means for a person to give up too soon is worst because you never know...

“She is plucking the Bird of paradise of its dead branches, leaning around the plant every time she hears a car”. This is the opening line to Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies within her book; Alvarez addresses many themes throughout the book,...

As a result of the legislation that sparked controversy over issues such as abortion and female bodily autonomy, female agency and motherhood takes stage front and center. From critiques of canonical thinkers, to scientifically conducted research and beyond, it is clear that there are explicit...

On Saturday 30 May 2015, New York City witnessed a huge event; Hillary Clinton inflamed Lincoln center’s hearts visitants by her poignant speech ‘Women in the World Summit 2015 Keynote Address’. People from all social classes and genders came to support this event and upholding...

Without question, the Pro-choice versus the Pro-life debate has to be one of America’s debates topics with no doubt, and rightfully so because it is such a serious, and difficult topic to discuss. Everyone has their own opinions about abortions, and there are a lot...

Abortion has been the most controversial topic in our society since the 1900s leading to our modern society today. Since the 1970s, the new laws of Roe vs Wade changed the outcomes of abortion into making it legal, even though it has been legal in...

“You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion”. Hillary Clinton.  According to the World Health Organization, 25 million of women were exposed to unsafe abortion just in 2018. Family planning is...

The position of women’s sexual as well as their reproductive rights in several cases in developing countries such as Namibia are undermined. This is so because, human rights privileges in some of the tropical cases such as abortion still remains an unturned stone. However, evidence...

What are women’s rights? Women’s rights are the human rights that were established by the United states for everybody specifically women about 70 years ago. These rights include the right to live free from violence, slavery, and discrimination. They also give us the right to...

Feminism or gender equality, a current hot topic that is all over the media and that every day we heard something related to it. However, what we understand with Feminism? To answer this question, I personally prefer to define it as: equality in the social,...

Women have been discriminated because of their gender since before we can even remember. Luckily, women have been acquiring the rights they deserve as human beings since the First World War. But, due to the history of discrimination against women and the role they used...

Introduction Advocating, developing international human rights standards, monitoring human rights violations, service delivery and activism on human rights issues are the salient functions of several Non-government organizations (NGOs) especially in third world countries. In the globalized world order, the NGOs tend to fill the geographical...

Women should have the control over their own body to protect themselves from any physical or mental harm. Many women endanger their lives for continuing the pregnancy or they are not ready for the change that the baby will make in their lives. This research...

Charlotte Gilman’s literary piece “The Yellow Wallpaper” is set in a period where women were oppressed and restricted from their true potential. Gilman was a fervent believer in women’s rights. She believed that women had a right to exercise their intellect and talents that were...

What are some of the major themes of the short story “the yellow wallpaper”? Freedom, mental illness, loneliness, oppression and more. This essay will explore one of the themes of the Yellow Wallpaper – feminism. Feminism, also known as the women’s rights movement, is a...

Although women didn’t have many rights or power in the time of Beowulf, there have been many influential women since then who have contributed to gaining women equality. Viewed as prizes and obedient play-things, women didn’t get the respect they deserved in the epic and...

After reading “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, the feminist criticism expressed concern with ‘the ways in which literature reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women’. During the time Susan Glaspell was writing “Trifles”, women were briefly apart of the social role...

In 1916, the play “Trifles” was made by Susan Glaspell. She was conceived in Davenport Iowa. “Trifles” was produced using a real killing court case and subsiding of a farmer’s better half that Susan Glaspell was covering while then working for Des Moines News. The...

According to the UK government (2016) Women still earn 20% less on average than men. Firstly, gender equality is where Men and Women can enjoy and experience the exact same resource opportunities and rewards within the workplace. According to CIPD (2017) The Uk’s gender equality...