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A feminist celebrates what it means to be a woman, and a feminist is definitely not what Chaucer meant his character to be interpreted as. If anything, the Wife of Bath could safely be called a sexist. She constantly emphasizes the negative connotations associated with women throughout the ages, and believes that all women are inherently that way. The Wife of Bath describes women as greedy, controlling, dishonest creatures. Also, even though it seems contradictory, she has no respect for her body or the rights of women, and is an insult to true feminists everywhere.

The definition of feminism can be tricky. What is it exactly? Are we talking about those hippies or Hilary Clinton? Society has created this stereotypical image of feminist and what they have provided whether it is positive or negative. I could not really tell you what a feminist is because I feel as if I have been told so many different things, but as I read through the articles I began to see feminism in a different light, I saw that it is much more than just rights.

Feminism For many years, a political, culture, or economic movement aimed at establishing equal rights and legal protection for women. Feminism involves political and physiological theories concerned with issues of gender difference. Feminism seeks to achieve equality and social rights for women in all key areas, which includes education, personal economic, employment, and cultural sphere of human endeavors. Women's rights is an issue that not many people cover, but affects every woman's lives. There are both pros and cons to this issue.

I found the discussion of power in Paula Gunn Allen 's piece "Where I Come From Is Like This" to be particularly interesting. Her internal dynamic between the White society and the American Indian society allows her to speak to power in a unique way. She writes about never seeing any of the women in her life as weak but still holding negative imagines of American Indian 's at large in her head (31). She also speaks to the internal struggle that I believe most women, or at least myself, have experienced, when we discount our own strength due to society telling us that we are weak. Contradicting my strength because I am told constantly that I am weak, or at least weaker than my male peers, is something that I have to unlearn, just as she struggles to unlearn the ideas the White society gave her about her American Indian

Gender Inequality was what Woolf emphasized as the major downfall of women writers and Stael shared thos... ... middle of paper ... ... Both Woolf and Stael were extraordinary authors of their times, especially when one considers the hardships they faced. Woolf would indeed find much of her arguments written within Stael’s work. In her reading she would be pleased to find agreement with many of the arguments brought up by Stael, but of course she would not agree to them all. The pity Stael says women should be shown would not consist in Woolf’s vocabulary.

Elaine Hall and Marnie Salupo Rodriguez (2003) argue that post-feminism is a myth and that women continue to support feminism and find it relevant nowadays. However, recent studies show that there is the so -called fear of ‘feminism’ and many women reject to call themselves feminists for the sake of their social recognition. As follows, I will examine three main aspects of post-feminism as a concept. Firstly, I will investigate post-feminism in popular culture. Secondly, I will discuss why there is the fear of the word ‘feminism’ and why do women try to distance themselves of these ideas.

These characters really don't speak well for womankind for two reasons. First of all, it's difficult to tell who their real life counterpart is, assuming that this... ... middle of paper ... ...st writers. It's obvious that Atwood intentionally set herself apart from these writers with The Handmaid's Tale. At times, she seems to disagree with them completely, such as when she shows pornography in a favorable manner. At other times, she portrays feminists themselves as the powerful women they would like to be seen as, but it's always with full disclosure of their human frailty.

However, her only point seems to be that in Ian Bell's criticism as well as in Washington Square, the writing is completely phallic, capitalistic, and patriarchal. In defending the reading of Washington Square and Ian Bell's critical essays, from a feminist perspective, Rasmussen believes that it can change the way one sees these writings. She seems to think that James's and Bell's writings both depend on a "phallocentric exclusion of difference, but will themselves be just as complicit…in the face of patriarchal inadequacies" (66). Yet, this seems to be the contradiction that poses as the general project of a feminist re-reading of American Literature. This article was hard to read.

Themes explored in feminism include discrimination, stereotyping, objectification, sexual objectification, oppression and patriarchy. While generally providing a critique of social relations, many proponents of feminism also focus on analyzing gender inequality and the promotion of women's rights, interests, and issues. Modern feminist theory has been extensively criticized as being predominantly, but not exclusively, associated with western middle class academia. Feminist activism, however, is a grass roots movement which crosses class and race boundaries Feminism is not a single ideology. Over-time several sub-types of Feminist ideology have developed.

Gloria Anzaldúa writes in her essay ‘Speaking in Tongues: A Letter To 3rd World Women’s Writers’ that the “woman of colour is invisible both in the white male mainstream world and in the white women’s feminist word”. Anzaldúa refers to the other International feminist writers and thinkers as her “dear Hermanas”; it speaks to other International feminists thinkers as a collective branch of sisters, fighting the male patriarchy and female racism. Anzaldúa does not advocate for women of colour to stay complacent in the name of preserving the sanctity of the Feminism with a capital F. Instead her essay makes clear that “we cannot allow ourselves to be tokenized”, and as a result should use writing, in and out of academia to make ‘our’ points heard. Anzaldúa is an International Feminist, specifically as she refers to it, as a 3rd World feminist despite living and writing in the US. She is an International Feminist as she is writing in a language that is not her native Spanish.