Category: Feminism

The emergence of the global network society in the late 20th century led to a significant rise in the global feminist consciousness. In this essay, I aim to examine this fundamental globalisation process by relating it to the contemporary Chinese #MeToo Movement. The internet as a TCP/IP domain system was a democratic, all-inclusive space which…

Women in both the past and the present, and maybe even in the future, lived a life under unfair conditions. These conditions were decided on by men. To further explain the depth of these conditions, I am going to analyze the following stories: The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, The Yellow Wallpaper by…

Within this essay, I will be comparing and contrasting the portrayal of feminism shown in Behns Oroonoko and Swifts Gullivers Travels. Numerous critics have analyzed Oroonoko from the perspectives of genre, cultural history, feminism, and postcolonialism – as a faux travel narrative, an early romance novella, a political allegory of the Stuart monarchy, a proto-feminist…

Feministic values are very prominent in the play The Merchant of Venice, mostly those involving the radical feminist concept of a patriarchal society. The female personas were able to exploit the activity of cross-dressing to accomplish the business they needed so that their lives might be more tolerable while under the control of men within…

Simone de Beauvoir published her book The Second Sex following world war II in 1949. Her book would later become known as a feminist bible (Beauvoir, Borde, & Malovany-Chevallier, 2011). It became an epithet bound to discourage impious readers wary of a sacred text and a personality cult. It is through Simone de Beauvoir, that…

In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne created a story about a woman who was to endure the disgrace of the scarlet letter A that sewed on her garments as a symbol of her adultery. This character’s name is Hester Prynne. Nathaniel Hawthorne created this story after he was fired from his job working in the…

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is regarded as an important work of American Feminist literature as it explores the attitudes towards womens mental and physical health in the 19th century. The short story is fictional yet can be considered semi-autobiographical as it was written after Gilman experienced severe post-partum depression. In this passage,…

Introduction to Feminism in ‘In the Time of the Butterflies’ It has been argued over many years, that women are no less than men, that women are strong, powerful and that women do not need a masculine figure to represent them in any way. How correct are those statements? Do women really need to prove/argue…

The work of women writers in the 19th century is termed to have been very limited in both physical and artistic sense. Many facts can be attributed to that including politics of the time and the places of women in the society at the time. Women of that time saw the need to emancipate themselves…

The underlying feminism in the famous classic Little Women by Louisa Alcott is a topic widely discussed since the novels publication in 1868, just after the first wave of the feminist movement. The real discussion revolves mainly around the main protagonist Jo Josephine March and her character traits that are very clear to critics and…