Feminist Theory And Gender Inequality

Nelson Mandela once said, “I learned that fear and courage was not in the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” This quote relates to Harper Lee’s Atticus Finch. In the novel, Atticus Finch is a symbol of bravery in Maycomb. His children, Scout and Jem, learn from him, and that is what causes them to lose their innocence, and focus on how people are acting in Maycomb towards racism. Atticus defends a black man, named Tom Robinson, even though people that supported his opponent, Bob Ewell, were mean to him. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus portrays the theme of courage in the face of evil through defending Tom Robinson, the confrontation with Bob Ewell, and when the men came to hurt to Tom Robinson in his jail.

Feminists see gender inequality as the fundamental division and patriarchal ideology as playing a key role in legitimising it as gender differences are a feature in all societies. Many ideologies exist to justify these gender inequalities. An example of this is the belief that women should either be virgins or whores; this is shown through Mary Magdalene. This is also reinforces the idea that women are sexual objects. This also shows that ideology can be a belief system in terms of beliefs and ideas about women and how people believe that women are inferior to men.

In almost every society there appears to be a place of gender roles, with women generally being submissive to men in almost every aspect of life. Society has always held a belief that women were inferior to men across all standards, especially their intellect and physical capabilities. Feminism has many different variations and expressions associated with certain cultures or groups of people, but fundamentally they all strive to achieve the same goal. The ideology of feminism has taken a while to unfold due to the surrounding circumstances of laws, social order and the cultural acceptance of male dominance. Gender roles has played a significant part in the oppression of women in almost all cultures; jobs, duties, lifestyle and culture are

Liesel Meminger is the main character in The Book Thief. She is forced to leave her mother and go into the foster system. Liesel arrives in Molching, Germany were she is introduced to her foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann. In this book the deeper meaning of the title is explained through the voice of death. It all started on the train ride to Liesel’s new home.

After reading the articles assigned to us, my assumptions of feminism and feminists were questioned tremendously. I had assumed feminism was the superiority of women over men and I thought feminists were bitter women who hated men; however, I discovered feminism is simply the notion that genders should be treated equally. The three ideas of sexism, racism, and classism intersect because they were all ideas created in order to build a system of hierarchy. Historically, sexism and racism can correlate back to early America when woman were second to men and African Americans were second to women simply because of their color. From this, we can see that women of color were and still are underprivileged, which can mean fewer opportunities throughout life. Finally, taking class into account, women generally receive lower salaries than men who do similar

In society, men and women serve different task. Usually men do the heavier work, while women do smoother work. Women have a difficult time due to the fact that most men think that women are property, rather than a person. Therefore, women came to the conclusion that they do not want to follow the norm anymore because they know what they are capable of. The term feminism can be defined as women who want to be in the same level of equality in political, economic, and social as men are. Although many people misunderstood the definition, different strategies such as exemplification, comparison and contrast, and negotiation will be shown to help those who are not familiar with this word.

Feminists believe that women are unequal to men, and the different groups think it is down to different reasons. Liberal feminists think it is because it is down to gender role socialisation. Marxist feminists believe it is down to capitalism. Radical feminists think women are not equal to men because of relationships within the home, and black feminist think they are unequal not just because they are women, but also because of their skin colour. All groups of feminists also believe that women are subordinated due to patriarchy, (the idea that males are dominant).

"Feminism isn't about making the women stronger. Women are already strong. It's about the way the world perceives that strength." -G.D. Anderson. Feminist theory is a mode of analytical thoughts and actions of women's ideology that are excluded from society. Feminism constructs the difference in knowledge, social change, and spiritual influence of human existence. (Robbins, Chatterjee, Canda 2006). Feminism constitutes gender, as it acknowledges the different forms of feminism by examining categories of race, class, and sexual identity that exist. The theory opposes the perception of women and another group that can influence the dynamic of the dominant worldview.

The goal of this paper is to describe and analyze gender inequality, focusing on the history of feminist ideas. I will start with a basic overview of the entire feminist movement, and will then analyze feminism more specifically. In this analysis I will focus on the different types of feminism. Most notably of these types will be the main groups that consist of socialist feminists, liberal feminists, and radical feminists. I will describe the goals and ideals of these groups along with describing how a functionalist and conflict theorist looks at gender.

There is an unfortune truth when it comes to climate change and the United States specifically. Because of the fairly new technological and financial advances into a blossomed first world country, businesses and media pick up the bad habit of spreading misinformation due to buzzwords or to maintain their comfortable industries. Because of this, along with uneducated and uninformed consumers wishing the same,people will blindly accept these allegations of climate change being a hoax like it is a piece of propaganda against the government or that they are just plain wrong because in the short-term and in their perspective, they see nothing wrong. The birds are chriping, the sun is shining and everything is as it should be, but once people are educated and informed of facts, statistics, academic reports, funding cuts, and hidden personal endeavors, they begin to realize that climate change is being misunderstood either by conscious denial (and pretending to agree for the sake of making others believe so too) or by general misinformation.

(Sommers-Flanagan 2012) states that the term for “feminist theory was developed by women to address the social and cultural oppression and unequal treatment of women. Implied in the feminist perspective is the tendency for humans who wield more power to use that

It is difficult to imagine living in a world without the patriarchal roles that are present in society and have been throughout history. In the article “Feminist Criticism,” by Lois Tyson, the idea of feminism and how society has affected feminism is the focus. These ideas are seen because men have more of a voice in nearly everything and the oppression of women is very common; a society set up like this can be described with the term patriarchy which is “any culture that privileges men by promoting traditional gender roles,” where men are cast as “rational, strong, protective, and decisive,” and women are cast “as emotional, weak, nurturing, and submissive” (Tyson, 1). This thought that men are strong and women weak is not uncommon in

As we are all birth equally throughout the world, there is still contingency that causes a barrier between human kinds. What barriers are we talking about that can’t be changed through our DNA? That is our gender. When each of us are born into the world, we are labeled as male or female due to our genetical DNA and different types of organs (WHO). Yet, society still isn’t as balance enough and there are still so much discrimination in gender in even today’s society.

Many feminist theorists believe that an individual is labeled at birth as a member of a sex category, either male of female, and from that point on, is held to acting accordingly. Gender is not something that one has or something that one is; rather, it is something that one does.  Gender as Social Structure Risman does not accept the criteria of nature as a way to distinguish behavior expectations.

Many people are often misinformed or given bad first impressions of feminism. However, feminism is equal rights for all people of different race, sex, gender, and sexuality. Many of the people that give feminism a bad name, include a self-proclaimed feminist that is running for presidency, and meninists who are satirical equal rights activists. In reality, feminism is pro-gender equality and opportunities for all types of people.