Essays Tagged: "feminist groups"
Is Feminism Dead?
eminism is the theory that menand women should be equal politically, economically and socially. The feministmovement is a group of men and women who believe in feminism and are tryingto eliminate the ... e inequality between men and women.Feminism, as it was first known, has almost died out completely. Feministgroups today are integrating many more issues into feminism. This seems to bea good thing at ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Censorship of pornography could harm the goals of feminists.
A concern that has come to the forefront of debate by feminist groups in recent years is the censorship of pornography. After reading arguments for and ag ... censorship of pornography, I have come to the conclusion that censorship of pornography would harm feminist's goals by repressing the principle of freedom of expression and creating more difficulties ... ciple of freedom of expression and creating more difficulties that could possibly repress their own feminist goals.Helen E. Longino's view is that pornography is immoral and should be censored because ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
What is feminism?
minism is the theory that men and women should be equal politically, economically and socially. The feminist movement is a group of men and women who believe in feminism and are trying to eliminate th ... e inequality between men and women.Feminism, as it was first known, has almost died out completely. Feminist groups today are integrating many more issues into feminism. This seems to be a good thing ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Equality Beetween the sexes.
century although it is still very much a mans world with sexual discrimination and bias, there are feminist groups around the world around the western world, feminists believe that behind most every ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
"Men's Liberation" Briefly discusses the stereotypical roles we place on men in contemporary society and describes two conflicting points of view.
d bring about in society a new face on women, some men have been taking new roles as well. When the feminist movements began to really take a hold of the people around the 60's and 70's, men intereste ... round the 60's and 70's, men interested in changing conceptions of gender roles would embrace these feminist groups and form their own male liberation movement. Many of the first creators of men's lib ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Compare and contrast the role that women played in both world war one and world war two. To what extent did women expand their role in society between the wars?
Women's Support Roles in the World Wars Right up to the outbreak of World War I, feminists on both sides pledged themselves to peace, in transnational women's solidarity. Within mon ... , in transnational women's solidarity. Within months of the war's outbreak, however, "all the major feminist groups of the belligerents had given a new pledge - to support their respective governments ... s suffrage became avid patriots and organizers of women in support of the war effort. Many of these feminists hoped that patriotic support of the war would enhance the prospects for women's suffrage a ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Environmental Values Paper
t is hard to define, as there are many different forms of ecofeminism. Ecofeminism is influenced by feminist groups such as liberal, Marxist, radical, and social. Ecofeminism can be defined as a femin ... nism sees the domination of women and the dominance of nature as interrelated; as an association ecofeminist, use a structure that confronts issues of gender, race, class, and nature (feminist campus. ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Anarchist Feminism Vs. Cultural Feminism
and equality. Although many of the goals are similar, if not the same, the means by which different feminist groups reach their goals is often very different. In this essay I will compare and contrast ... al society and the issues which are important to each theory.Anarchist Feminism is a fairly radical feminist school of thought which challenges hierarchy, authority and "the logic of domination". Anar ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Are You Living Feminist or Post-Feminist?
he 19th and 20th centuries women movements have bought about tremendous changes within our society. Feminists during the old wave and second wave periods were noted for their achievements in gaining w ... ly as a man regarding social, physiological, economical, and political endeavors. In today society, feminist groups seek to broaden women?s self-awareness and challenge the opposing forces of traditio ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Battered Men. Abuse
ng and all statistics are for the United States though this problem has no boundaries.The media and feminist groups are quick to point the finger at males when it comes to intimate abuse, but other th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Environmental Values Paper
pliments the values and ethical beliefs of the author regarding environmental issues.Ecofeminism"Ecofeminists assert that there is a connection between the destruction of nature by humans and the oppr ... d spiritual relationships with nature have suppied vital trepidation of ecofeminism. The goal of ecofeminists is to institute a central function for women in the quest for an environmentally sound and ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Is it possible to speak of the 'demise of feminism' in 1920's Britain?
After the First World War and throughout the 1920's various feminist organisations which had always held the view that women should be given equal status to tha ... return to the home and fulfil their natural born duty, which is being a mother and a wife. Post-war feminist opinions and ideals appeared to have changed considerably to that of pre-war feminists.The ... fore aim to obtain acts and laws that would be useful to women like family allowances. Equalitarian feminists disagreed with these ideals as they felt these kinds of aims were bounding women more and ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Globalization and Mothering
An additional and unexpected benefit of globalization has been the increased ability of women's and feminist groups to form transnational networks.However, as feminist scholars and activists have docu ... se economic pressures often encourage women to migrate internally to find paid work, or to emigrate.Feminist activist groups have made the connection between globalization and the low status and poor ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics