...Feminism is divided into two groups: intersectionality feminism and white feminism. Intersectionality feminism is a concept and movement that tackles on the oppression happening in both third world countries and first world countries. However the term white feminism is also real, white feminism rejects intersectionality as it can only benefit the most privileged and is not a term for a white person who is a feminist. Intersectionality feminism usually deals with racial, social, and political injustices. Believe it or not, racial injustices still occur today. One of the most recent racial injustices is what happened to Sandra Bland who was manhandled, arrested and three days later found dead in her jail cell. Even though it is unclear what really happened, this was an act of police brutality because if she were a white women she wouldn’t have been arrested for a traffic stop incident and she wouldn’t be dead. Another case of police brutality is when 12 year old, Tamir Rice died by two police officers who shot him to death for having a toy gun. He received no justice because of how old he looked. Not only that but the way black women and other people of color experience...
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...Sheree Oats Oats 1 April 9, 2012 Dr. April Mcray LIT 2110 Angela Davis, the daughter of an automobile mechanic and a schoolteacher, was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on 26th January 1944. Davis was brought up in an all white neighborhood where segregation was seen in every part of her life. She learned at an early age about racism and the implications that came along with being black. Her high school and college years were filled with many accomplishments. In high school Davis got the opportunity to study at Elizabeth Irwin High School in New York City where she gained an interest in both socialist and communist philosophies. Davis's scholastic achievements earned her a scholarship to Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. After graduating she became joined the Black Panthers, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and Ron Karenga's US-Organization. In 1968 she became a member of the Communist Party. (Encyclopedia of World Biography) Angela Davis life took a tragic turn for the worse when she became a public figure for being on the Federal Bureau of Investigation "most wanted Oats 2 criminals" list. On August 7, 1970 Davis was tied to a murder of four individuals who had been gunned down in a Marin County Hall of Justice Courtroom. The guns used in the crime were registered in Davis’s name. According to Davis became only the third woman in...
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...i Abortion Controversy: Conflicting Beliefs and Values In American Society By: Joseph B. Tamney, Stephen D. Johnson, and Ronald Burton Submitted By: Thomala J. Hollingsworth Sociology 100 Professor: Gwendolyn Royal-Smith February 26, 2013 ii Abstract This study examines the ideological and structured basis for attitudes and political action relating to abortion. A sample from “Middletown” in fall of 1989 showed that most people believed that abortion begins at conception, a belief in privacy rights, and religion. Social traditionalism also played an important role in a pro-life stand, which is only influential for conservative Protestants and not for Catholics. Catholics believe in abstinence and refraining from taking anyone’s life as it relates to abortion. The political action, the data showed that the pro-life movement was more important in 1989 than the pro-choice movement. Party identification was not used for abortion as a political litmus test. However, attending pro-life churches did increase the likelihood of using abortion for voting decisions. I am interested in this particular article because the subject of legalized abortion or the lack thereof, hits home for me. I feel that women everywhere should have the right to say what happens to their bodies, which is in the United States, even in other countries where women are not allowed to have freedom of speech and treated unequally. Legalized Abortion I Women...
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...abortion is okay? Do sexual offenses against a victim make abortion a “fair” decision? What about genetic testing that shows serious medical problems for a fetus? “Abortion is the most often topic written about in School. Abortion is the most often topic debated in School. Abortion is the final outcome of one out of every three pregnancies in the U.S. Abortion divides our country, our religions, our family, our society and our politics.” – This quote comes from the home page of abortioninfo.org and sums up most of the reason why I have chosen this topic to write about. This topic can keep a feminist talking and is the baseline for many political campaigns which are dependent on whether or not the elected official is pro-abortion or not. Feminism ties best into the subject of abortions because women have rights to their own bodies and the freedom to reproduce and keep the child or to abort the fetus.” Feminist movements have campaigned and continue to campaign for women's rights, including the right to vote, to hold public office, to work, to fair wages or equal pay, to own property, to education, to enter contracts, to have equal rights within marriage, and to have maternity leave. Feminists have also worked to promote bodily autonomy and integrity, and to protect women and girls...
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...Through the decades, the female fight has morphed and adjusted to reflect society. From conquering suffrage, marital rights, career options, to shattering the glass ceiling, we have persevered with dignity, paving the way for generations like ours, in the 21st century. Today, we are entering an incredibly pivotal time for feminism in the US. Recent politics have stirred and added fuel to an already blossoming, enlightened frontier of women’s rights, but the new disputes are mere skirmishes compared to the laborious battles that past generations of women fought. In reading literature from the Gilded Age, and analyzing the unimaginable despotism that was commonplace for a woman, one can understand, and more importantly, appreciate how far civilization...
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...Gender Equality Gender equality is how men and women should be treated equally and not be discriminated by their gender, though this does not mean that women and men are the same, but that they are equally valuable and should be treated just like that. This is the intention of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which attempts to create equality in law and in social environments, including democratic activities and obtaining equal pay for equal work. Although this subject has been going on for years this is actually a never-ending story in which no one ever agrees on what is right for each gender. Equal pay for equal work is one of the many fields where gender equality is not often present. Most of the time women get paid less than men for doing the exact same work. This is one of the reasons why most of the poor people are women, around 70% of the women who live in extreme poverty survive on less than US$1 a day. Even so, when applying for a job it is more likely that an attractive woman will get a call back from an employer than a man. The University of Messina made a study in which researchers sent more than 1100 fake CVs to more than 1500 advertised job openings, in all of the CVs they kept identical skills and qualifications but changed the names, genders and pictures of the candidates. They grabbed pictures from the web and edited them so the original person wouldn't be recognizable and then 100 students at the university judged...
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...She continued her life unmarried, although had many romantic relationships, the most famous of which was with her frequent on-screen partner, Spencer Tracy (Demange). At this time, divorces were just beginning to gain legality and were generally considered shameful. The fact that she received a divorce in the first place and chose to remain single was probably shocking and distasteful to her viewers. Hepburn still gained extreme popularity from her filmed roles even as she challenged accepted cultural roles in America’s mid-1900’s. Katharine Hepburn was indeed a figure for women’s equality and feminism, but she did not believe that she could have it all- both a family and a successful career (“Katharine Hepburn”). She did not believe she had the capacity to be wife with a successful career, and her public declarations of this belief led to anger from feminists. It is in this way the Katharine Hepburn did not completely embody a feminist movement, however influential she was as the “patron saint of the independent American female” (“Katharine...
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...A foremost feminist Ann Oakley distinguishes between sex and gender where she says, ‘‘sex’ is a biological term: ‘gender’ a psychological and cultural one. Common sense suggest that they are merely two ways of looking at the same division and that someone who belongs to, say, the female sex will automatically belong to the corresponding (feminine) gender. In reality this is not so. To be a man or a woman, boy or a girl, is as much a function of dress, gesture, occupation, social network and personality, as it is of possessing a particular set of genitals.’ (Oakley, 1972:158). Sex as Oakley said refers to the biological difference of being a male or female which can be usually fixed, while gender is the cultural differences between men and women in the society and it can change over time. In societies women and men are expected to behave in ways which are usually expected of them. The differences with sex and gender yet, the perception have different connections. This means despite the fact that sex is biological and gender is social, social definitions are often given to biological attributes, and indeed, most social connotations arise from biological attribute. For example, the reference to women as the weaker sex has a biological base their possession of less physical strength relative to men. Analysing the statement made by Marchbank and Letherby (2007) which says, ‘Sex is deemed to be natural whereas gender is seen as the social expression of natural, biological differences...
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...order to communicate her message that by being strong and independent, women are capable of anything men are. While people may believe ignorance is bliss, no one should be ignorant of the Women’s Rights movement that developed during 1848. Women had suffered oppression in education, employment, religion, government, and family life for far too long and sought to change it, as women were the ones who could alter males’ views, beliefs, and attitudes towards them. Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes, however, many people confuse feminists as wanting to achieve a matriarchal society. But in the end, they really want equality for all. Throughout the 1960s, feminists pushed to change the male-dominated medical profession through an increase in the number of women who went to law school and medical school to earn doctorates which led to an increase in women who held higher leveled jobs. Along with medical professions, they created women’s health clinics, similar to Planned Parenthood, and pushed for natural, drug-free childbirth while also allowing the father into the room (Galens and Edgar; 400). The increased attention towards medical professions from women demonstrates the fight for being seen as equal. In the past, one would not see female nurses or doctors, only men. With the hope of changing that, women’s health clinics were provided for women who needed a safe space to converse with a doctor over any topic of health. Now, women have...
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...Kiana Rivera ENG 101/1:00 Shafer FEMINISM IS THE RADICAL NOTION THAT WOMEN ARE PEOPLE Bra-burning and man-hating extremists, feminists are branded as insane, radical women who want to establish a matriarchy. While some feminists are angry and some hate men, not all feminists do. Actually, according to Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner in The F-Word: Feminism in Jeopardy, feminism “simply means the belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.” (Feminism, Oppoising Viewpoints, pg 14) We only ever hear of the negative associated with feminism. When anti-feminist people are asked questions, most don’t understand why they believe that feminism is wrong and extreme; they do not understand why it is so vitally important, and why, even in 2013, it is still a relevant issue. Although there's a lot of information about feminism out there, much of it is judgmental, misinformed, or quite simply false. Women should have equal rights as men, and taking a stand to achieve this ideal with feminism is what’s slowly accomplishing this goal. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary, feminism is “the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities; organized activity in support of women's rights and interests.” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, pg 1) In an article by Rachel Fudge, published in 2005 she brings up a very valid point on the issue of feminism and the many years that is has been around: “Despite 150 years of activism in pursuit of women's...
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...as fixed impediments to their rights. The 1879 Connecticut Anti-Contraception law was an example of this unpopular legislation because of the hostile treatment it got by citizens who spent many decades trying to get it modified or repealed to no avail (Johnson 17). However, this struggle brought together special interests in this case such as many physicians who believed that the law was restricting their duties and groups like the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut who aimed at finally getting Connecticut to allow a woman’s choice of using contraceptives. This was almost the same case when it came to anti-abortion laws in many states where special interest groups like the American Medical Association and the American Civil Liberties Union stated their dissatisfaction with these laws, but the sexual revolution made this different. Due to the growing sexual revolution in the 1960’s and 1970s, many American women were more open and direct about what they believed were infringing on their rights on citizens; this emergence of mainstream feminism had a major impact on the public opinion of abortion and how citizens saw these state laws banning it as a crime in most cases as regressive (Hull 92). The public opinion of citizens on what their rights should be and how their legislative representatives denied them these rights were an influence when it came to the major court cases of women’s reproductive rights. Therefore, the growing basis of citizen’s wanting to express their...
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...of a helpless life and an unfortunate way to decrease the mental health of a woman who chooses to have an abortion. To begin with, I will address why abortion should be legal. My points for PRO are #1, abortions are safe and #2, women have the right to do want they want with their body. Regarding point #1, abortions are safe, it is easy to agree with that statement due to the fact that abortion is legal to this day and data shows that abortion has a safety record of more than 99%. Since 1973, abortion has been protected under the law and is something that women have a legal right to in all 50 states in the United States of America. According to Jamila Perritt- a board-certified obstetrician, gynecologist, and medical director of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan- major complications occur less than 1% of the time in abortion procedures. Furthermore, in the cases where a complication does occur, the result is similar to the ones that may occur from a miscarriage in which health providers treat every day. Because abortion has become a more common practice in today’s society, it is a matter in which continuous research is put into and is a constant part of regular medical practice for many health care providers. Along with that, the sooner a woman gets an abortion when she is pregnant, the less likely she is at risk for death. As stated by Guttmacher Institute, an online resource now on its fifth decade of providing information to the public regarding sexual and reproductive health...
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...Introduction The Love Language video presents a male and female communicating with each other. The female initially seems very uninterested, but the male is persistent and is very interested in getting to know the female in the video. There’s constant use of nonverbal cues being sent that can easily be misinterpreted. The video depicts several communications concepts including stereotyping, barriers, non-verbal communications, mutual attraction, and self-disclosure. The Love Language video ultimately reveals the reason the female initially seem uninterested and why she was giving the male in the video a hard time; the female is deaf. Social Learning Theory The social learning theory argues that children abandon behaviors when they are punished and repeat behaviors that are rewarded. This process of reinforcement continues throughout life, where men are continually encouraged to engage in masculine behavior and women are encouraged to behave in a feminine manner (Wood, 2007). As children become adults, they transfer these beliefs onto future generations (Basu, 2004). According to this theory, girls and boys assume a passive role rather than an active role in the learning process. We see the social learning theory displayed as the male in the video initiates the interaction between himself and the female sitting next to him. He first tries to initiate a conversation by saying “nice day today, huh”, but he gets no response. He then asks to borrow her pen and then the female...
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...task of persuasion." (p.99) David Kupelian. Marketing Evil is a must read for those wishing to understand the culture war that the left has declared on American institutions, values, and ethics. Kupelian, with a calm, steady and patient hand, exposes the left as master marketers’ selling an agenda of ever increasing recklessness and corruption as a designer substitute intended for classical American ordered liberty. His chapter on the three step process (desensitize, jam, and convert) devised by sodomites to sell their spectacular species of wickedness to main street America is worth the whole price of the book. Chapters detailing the rotting corruption of the liberal education establishment, showing the manifest moral bankruptcy of modern feminism, and exposing the blood thirsty, predatory nature of the pro-abortion movement give a chilling glimpse into the cynical techniques used by the left to manipulate people into waging war against their own enlightened self interests. There is a chapter written on "Media Matrix" which is nothing short of brilliant. Kuplelian pulls back the curtain and exposes the wizards pulling the levers of fraud and deceit that has masqueraded as news for the last 40+ years. The author addresses each topic head-on without sarcasm, exaggeration or sensationalism. He is also very consistent to his theme, i.e., how the radical elements within our society have successfully, and with intent, marketed their particular view to the rest of us. Author’s Key Points...
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...Women and Equal Rights Sharon Edick Kaplan University Women and Equal Rights On August 26, 2011 women celebrated the 91st anniversary of a victory that took more than 70 years of political struggle to achieve, the right to vote. After this victory was achieved, socialist feminist Crystal Eastman stated “that although suffrage was an important first step what women really wanted was freedom” and she actually laid out a plan that is still relevant today. She outlined a four point program of what women need to achieve in order to have the same freedoms and equality as men. 1. Economic independence for women, including the freedom to choose an occupation and receive pay equal to a man. 2. Gender equality at home, men in the home sharing the responsibilities of family life. 3. Reproductive freedom, the ability to choose when, if and how many children they would have. 4. Financial support for homemaking and child raising (Ellen Carol DuBois; Lynn Dumenil, 2012). Since 1920 women have won many rights and opportunities in areas like education, professional sports and in some states same sex marriages. However, if we look at the “priorities” that Eastman identified how far have we actually come when the U.S. Constitution does not even guarantee women the same rights as men? With ground already broken in the workplace due to women’s participation in various professions, trades and unions, women believed that equality in the workplace would be the easiest part...
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