Ideas Of Feminism Research Articles

Intersectional legal academy

Abstract This Afterword to Gráinne de Búrca, Rosalind Dixon, and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy’s Foreword “Gender and the Legal Academy” picks up on and interrogates a point made by the authors—that a feminist legal academy is needed for gender equality in the academy. It shows that a truly feminist legal academy has to be intersectional, both normatively and practically. This has implications, as intersectionality necessarily excludes exclusive or limiting ideas of feminism. Whether a legal academy is able to embrace the full force of an intersectional legal academy depends on the context in which that academy is situated and the acceptance of intersectionality in that context.

Plot Twist: Unexpected twists in the sexist narrative of reggaetón

Building on ideas of feminism and post-feminism, this paper looks at the development and reception of reggaetón, which has been associated with buzzwords such as machismo and sexism, especially at the beginning of its emergence around the turn of the millennium. Its aim is to show what roles these two concepts have played in this Latin American pop music genre since its emergence. It discusses and illuminates ambivalences within the genre on an artistic level as well as impulses and turning points in its reception using examples from artistic projects and post-feminist voices of women who experience reggaetón as positive for themselves and have been able to establish new perspectives in the context of sexism, feminism and the freedom of female sexuality through it.

Indigenous Women Perspectives on Gender Equality and Feminism: A Case Study of Jahai Women in Peninsular Malaysia

Most research on gender equality and feminism have been concentrated on non-indigenous women worldwide, with very few studies focusing specifically on Jahai tribe women. Indigenous women are important in advancing the ideas of feminism and gender equality within their societies. This paper is a case study focuses on the indigenous women which is the Jahai tribe women in Royal Belum State Park, Malaysia. In this case study, we explored Jahai women’s perspectives of gender equality and feminism aspects in this indigenous society. This case study employed a quantitative and a qualitative method for data collection. A total of 20 Jahai women were selected to complete a set of questionnaires and five of them were chosen for the in-depth interview. From the study, there were four main themes that emerged including socio- economic equality, equal treatment, gender responsibilities and egalitarian leadership and decision-making prospects. This research study was guided by the Transnational Feminism Theory and Theory of Gender Equality approach. The findings revealed that there was the similarities and distinctions perceptions in gender equality and feminism aspects among Jahai women. The study's conclusions shed new light on the gender equality and feminism interpretations and challenges those women in indigenous societies face. As a result, this study is important for future research since it adds to the body of knowledge about gender equality and concerns pertaining to indigenous women.

Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes in Children Literature “Chotti Si Munni”: An Application of Feminist Theory

Objectives: The aim of the research is to explore the significance of Nursery Rhymes within the lives of children and the way they make contribution to the formation of personal identity of children especially in female. The research claims that children's literatures can nurture and unconsciously but in systematic manner, develop the idea of feminism in kids through kid's literature. It is noteworthy that all nursery rhymes have a great impact on the lives of children by portraying characters in the nursery rhyme. The study is an attempt to make connection among children psychology and gender roles in literature. The socio-psychological issues like gender role, gender discrimination, class system is important in it. Methods: The critique adopted the exploratory research framework. The data collected and analyzed for this study was qualitative in its nature and scope. "Chotti si Munni" (A small girl), a Pakistani Nursery Rhyme was taken as sample of study by applying typical and critical case sampling strategy on Pakistani Kid's literature. Results: Findings of the study revealed that the portrayal of the little girl in "Chotti si munni" reflects the gendered expectations and limitations, which are foisted upon young girls in many traditional societies same as Nursery rhyme can be realized as a mirror image of the changing attitudes about gender roles and education in Pakistan. Conclusion: The summative discussions in the light of the findings obtained in this study indicate that challenging gender role and cultural norms in Pakistani society, promoting feminism and equality through kid's literature.

Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes in Children Literature “Chotti Si Munni”: An Application of Feminist Theory

Objectives: The aim of the research is to explore the significance of Nursery Rhymes within the lives of children and the way they make contribution to the formation of personal identity of children especially in female. The research claims that children's literatures can nurture and unconsciously but in systematic manner, develop the idea of feminism in kids through kid's literature. It is noteworthy that all nursery rhymes have a great impact on the lives of children by portraying characters in the nursery rhyme. The study is an attempt to make connection among children psychology and gender roles in literature. The socio-psychological issues like gender role, gender discrimination, class system is important in it. Methods: The critique adopted the exploratory research framework. The data collected and analyzed for this study was qualitative in its nature and scope. "Chotti si Munni" (A small girl), a Pakistani Nursery Rhyme was taken as sample of study by applying typical and critical case sampling strategy on Pakistani Kid's literature. Results: Findings of the study revealed that the portrayal of the little girl in "Chotti si munni" reflects the gendered expectations and limitations, which are foisted upon young girls in many traditional societies same as Nursery rhyme can be realized as a mirror image of the changing attitudes about gender roles and education in Pakistan. Conclusion: The summative discussions in the light of the findings obtained in this study indicate that challenging gender role and cultural norms in Pakistani society, promoting feminism and equality through kid's literature.

Overview of feminist movements in Turkey

Feminism is based on the principle that women are equal to men in social, political, cultural and economic fields. These principles include women's equal rights with men, women's social and political empowerment, women's sexual freedom, prevention of violence against women, women's health rights and the fight against gender discrimination. The aim of this study is to shed light on the idea of feminism in Turkey, which is on the transition route between Asia and Europe, with the last developed feminism scale and to compare the scores given by the participants to the statements of the Feminism scale according to different characteristics. It has been revealed whether there are differences between the scores given to the scale not only according to gender, but also according to demographic characteristics such as race, education, place of birth, etc.

Exploitation Againstwoman in the Novel the Woman Crying to the Black Moon By Dian Purnomo: A Study of Radical Feminism

The theme of women is often raised in literary works. Women often experience exploitation from all sides. The research is entitled "Exploitation of Women in the Novel Women Who Cry for the Black Moon by Dian Purnomo: A Feminist Criticism Study." The problem examined in the research is the forms of exploitation of women. This research aims to describe: (1) forms of exploitation of women, (2) factors causing exploitation of women, and (3) ideas of feminism in the novel Perempuan Yang Crying to Bulan Hitam by Dian Purnomo. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. Data analysis is carried out by describing, analyzing, interpreting and concluding data. The results of this research show that: first, forms of exploitation of women, namely forced marriage, harassment and rape. Second, factors that cause exploitation of women. Namely the living environment and customs and culture. Third, feminist ideas, namely rejecting proposals, defending self-respect, and breaking off relationships.

Women, Poetry and the Voice of a Nation

Anne Varty’s Women, Poetry and the Voice of a Nation is an essential guide for both academics and general readers to four contemporary women poets: Carol Ann Duffy, former Poet Laureate for the UK; Gillian Clarke, former National Poet of Wales; Liz Lochhead, former Scots Makar; and Paula Meehan, former Ireland Chair of Poetry. Rather than constructing a complex theoretical framework, Varty analyzes how such essential elements of poetry as subject matter, thematic concerns, symbols, and language greatly reinvigorate ideas of feminism and nationality. Central to Varty’s argument is that rather than subverting the patriarchal poetic tradition, these four women poets write within the tradition, constantly appropriating what is logocentric and London-centric, fusing the feminine with the masculine, the regional with the national, and the peripheral with the central. Meehan, for example, takes the American male beat poet Gary Snyder as her mentor, using the I Ching, astrology, and The Tibetan Book of the Dead as sources (78). Duffy also acknowledges her indebtedness to male predecessors, as Varty notes: “Robert Browning provides the template for her dramatic monologues, Shakespeare her love sonnets and Larkin her lyric poetry” (128).

Cindy Shermans Construction of Female Identity a Practice more than Depthless Pastiche

Cindy Sherman, a female post-modern artists, experiments with multiple identities in her artworks to disclose issues related to gender power structures, such as male gaze, voyeurism, and flawed aesthetic pursuits forced by males, and to promote positive female images, scraping off stereotypes of women being emotional, brainless, and dependent. Though she alludes to twentieth-century Holleywood B movies, fashion posters, and fairy tales, the humor and sarcasm used in her work and the groundbreaking feminism ideas altogether leads Cindy Shermans portrait photographs beyond a superfacial use of pastiche, a technique of blank mimicry that Fredric Jameson believes most postmodernists employ. Cindy Sherman achieves a complication in her topics through choices of props and settings, wearing makeups, and employing gestures.

Gender Dress Codes in Different Social Settings of 21-Century China

As society progresses and the internet becomes more convenient for people to communicate, the idea of feminism and the issue of gender equality has been widely discussed on the internet. As the living standard is improving, people tend to use varied ways to convey their attitudes and message to others, including their outfits. This research analyzes three distinct occasions, the campus, workplace, and public places, including clothing designs from luxury designers nowadays. The study aims to explore how gender dress codes in these social settings represent gender equality and deliberate on the causation of these dress codes, shedding light on the connection between gender equality and outfits and promoting gender equality in Chinese society, which makes this research meaningful. The study also fills in the blank of the former research study in which the connection between equality and dress codes is more evident and comprehensive than before.

Is Feminism a Silver Bullet to Shatter African Glass Ceiling? An Examination of the Mediating Role of Financial Wellbeing

The idea of feminism advocates social, political, economic, and intellectual equality for women and men. In the organizational context, particularly in Africa, there is a dearth of studies probing the implications of feminism toward shattering of the proverbial glass-ceiling that women face every day. The present article is aimed to address this gap. It investigates the role of feminism in promoting women’s career advancement through financial wellbeing. The study deploys a sample of 250 women working in the four breweries in the Addis Ababa area, Ethiopia. The findings confirmed our hypotheses that feminism was a strong predictor for women’s career success and that financial wellbeing acted as a mediator between the two. As a major implication, the study highlights the positive role of feminism for women’s career success, while underlining the importance of financial wellbeing for them. It assumes particular significance considering prevalent misgivings about these concepts in Ethiopian society. The study also provides certain recommendations for future researchers and policymakers.

РОЗВИТОК БАГАТОСТОРОННЬОГО МІЖДЕРЖАВНОГО СПІВРОБІТНИЦТВА ЩОДО ГЕНДЕРНИХ ПИТАНЬ НА БЛИЗЬКОМУ СХОДІ (КІНЕЦЬ ХХ – ПОЧАТОК ХХІ СТ.)

The article attempts to analyze the development of forms and manifestations of multilateral intergovernmental cooperation on gender issues in the Middle East at the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21st century. The Middle East region, in religious and civilizational dimensions, is quite specific in terms of the comprehensive implementation of the ideas of feminism and overcoming gender gaps. However, as a result of the study, the effectiveness of the region’s involvement in both global initiatives on gender issues and the formation of its own mechanisms and tools for the protection of women was revealed, which is implemented in the following practical acts. Firstly, the involvement of the Middle East region as an object of activity of the United Nations Structure for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (“UN-Women”) aimed at protecting women in conflicts and granting equal rights to women alongside men. Secondly, the formation of a regulatory framework and programs on gender issues in the activities of the regional organization  the League of Arab States (LAD). It was found that the existing mechanism of intergovernmental cooperation in the LAD regarding the implementation of gender equality and the role of women in Arab society is not sufficiently effective, given the advisory nature of the organization’s decisions, and it is not sufficiently implemented in practice by all Middle Eastern states. It should be stressed on the positive and fruitful activity of the Arab Women Organization, which has a number of programs for the protection of Arab women and their rights. Thirdly, the dialogue between the Middle East and North Africa in the format of the MENA region is quite developed – the holding of African-Arab summits between the African Union and the League of Arab States, launched in 1977, which are aimed at jointly solving gender issues. The authors concluded that the Middle East region still has to overcome a number of barriers and domestic policy changes to protect women’s rights, but the initiation and development of dialogue on a multilateral basis is a positive step in achieving global trends in ensuring gender equality and feminism in general.

Perception of the ideas of feminism and feminine forms in modern Ukrainian society

Perception of the ideas of feminism and feminine forms in modern Ukrainian society

The ambiguities and contradictions of the state-socialist way of women’s emancipation in Hungary (1948-1989). Overview and search for the traces of feminist resistance

The literature about the ex-state-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe raised the questions in what way women benefited from the legislation guaranteeing equal rights and the measures of emancipation during the decades of state socialism. The authors that also argued after 1990, the time of the social, economic and political transitions in the region, that women became the big losers of the changes. The paper aims to reflect on these examinations of gender relations during the state-socialist period and point out the contradictory ways of the introduction of women?s emancipation that led to ambiguous results in the propagated program of gender equality. Furthermore it discusses in which ways women?s positions remained subordinated and how the sexist representations of women increased in public life, the media and culture in Hungary after the 1970?s. A review of the main findings of earlier research accumulated so far concerning women?s lifes and gender relations in Hungary during state socialism will be followed by the question of in what ways these controversies of the system were articulated by the contemporary oppositional voices. Did the activists of the dissident Hungarian democratic opposition embrace the ideas of feminism and women?s issues in their criticism of the one-party system? On the base of contemporary documents and recent interviews with ex-activists it will be examined how feminist voices were articulated, yet controversially marginalized among the dissidents.

Construction of the Woman’s Image in the Lifestyle Magazine “Lilit” (2019–2021)

The aim of the research “Construction of the woman’s image in the lifestyle magazine “Lilit” (2019–2021)” is to reveal the methods used to construct the image of a modern Latvian woman in the interviews of the lifestyle magazine “Lilit” in the period from 2019 to 2021. The magazine is published in Latvia, intended for a female audience and written in Latvian. The article examines the influence of feminism in the portrayal of women in the media, the history of the development of the Latvian woman’s image and women’s image in terms of beauty. The narrative of the interviews, the ideas of feminism and photos of the interviews are analysed, as well as the visual image of a woman is compared in the narratives and photos of the interviews. The research methods used in the article are narrative analysis and the analysis of photography proposed by Roland Barthes.

Eroticism in Ayu Utami’s Novels “Saman” and “Larung” and its Implications for Literature Learning in High School

This study aims to describe the depiction of female eroticism, the idea of feminism in Saman and Larung novels written by AyuUtami, and its implications for learning literature in high school. The method used in this research is a descriptive method utilizing qualitative analysis. The data source in this research is Saman and Larung novels written by AyuUtami. Data analysis utilized work analysis technique. Based research result, the types of eroticism include metabolic erotica, biological erotica, metabolic/biological erotica, whereas the expression of erotism includes the mention of genitals, descriptions of sexual scenes, descriptions of sexual intercourse scenes, descriptions of sexual misconduct, descriptions of sensual body parts. The idea of feminism is rebellion against the rules, customs, and norms of society, the movement that always opposes unjust rulers, representating women aiming for freedom, against the patriarchy on women, the struggle for equality and rights between men and women, the struggle against differences the sex system, and the struggle to resist discrimination and cultural values that undermine women. Based research result and its the relevance of core competence and basic competence in the curriculum of 2013, these novels are not relevant to be used as a literary teaching material in schools, but in terms of feminism, ideas can add literature value in high school.

The Chinese and American elements of the Disney movie Mulan from the Cross-cultural Perspective

On the basis of drawing materials from Chinese historical stories and retaining traditional Chinese ideas and images, the Disney movie Mulan adopts a series of Hollywood story blending methods to make American-style transformation of characters and values, according to the sight of Americans the standard of Chinese beauty image is re-created for Mulan, and the ideas of feminism, individual heroism, and equality between men and women are vividly displayed in Mulan. At the same time, the characters and plots of the story have also been transformed in American style: several key characters and animals have been added throughout; on the basis of respecting the basic plot of the original story of Mulan, the feudal loyalty and filial piety story has been turned into a story of women's self-realization. The film enlightens us that only by fully understanding the cultures of the two countries can we better promote the cross-cultural communication and exchanges between China and the United States and even between China and the West.

Black Feminism & its Difference with 1st Wave Feminism

Basic idea of feminism irrespective of the two branch which is going get deal with in this paper that it is a convoluted set of ideologies and theories which aims in achieving equal social, political and economic rights for women. 1 Despite it benefitting both the sexes, feminisms’ primary goal is to achieve equality for women since men’s rights are predominantly secured and they are already institutionally protected.

Sprouts for Life: Eco-Feminism and Performance

Sprouts for Life: Eco-Feminism and Performance

Review: She’s at the Controls: Sound Engineering, Production and Gender Ventriloquism in the 21st Century, by Helen Reddington

Review: <i>She’s at the Controls: Sound Engineering, Production and Gender Ventriloquism in the 21st Century</i>, by Helen Reddington