Non-American Women

In Miss Representation, many female actresses, news anchors, politicians, directors and producers talk about how females suffer a lot of social, political and economic inequalities in today’s society. There are double standards against women in magazines, on TV, in movies, the news, politics, and the workplace. The media is an influential part of modern culture. When women are portrayed as objects for men to use -- never as the protagonist or president -- and when female news anchors are objectified, this will cause girls of all ages to begin viewing themselves as objects. Girls grow up in a world where their voice does not count; where our culture does not embrace them in all of their diversities, where

In light of this year’s monumental and thought provoking presidential election between business magnate, Donald Trump, and New York senator, Hillary Clinton, the misogynistic rhetoric drew controversial division amongst the country. The value and significance of a woman have advanced from the cult of domesticity to a politically intricate executive, but that graduation exhibits seldom progress for women in media such as television, film, and theater. The depiction of females deters the accuracy and complexity of African American and latino women and limits their characteristics as peripheral, unoriginal, and one-dimensional objects of a man’s pleasure. Absurdity conveys in continuously seeing women setting the tables, giving a kiss on the cheek

The Netflix documentary Miss Representation by Jennifer Siebel Newsom explores how the media contributes to influence the young girls and boys in America. Every day in America we are showed this unrealistic look of what the so-called perfect image of women is supposed to be from the TV shows we watch, the movies we see, to the magazines we read, to the online social media outlets we visit. This documentary shows the negative effects it's having on teenage boys and girls in America, Miss Representation interweaves between the stories of teenage girls, telling their own experiences and how the media has portrayed the image of women to them. They share their stories from pressures they feel they have to live up too from how the media shows them

“Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?” by Lila Abu-Lughod, challenges universal human rights framework, cultural differences, stability of gender and its inequalities, and the role of Islam. The article main concern is to determine if Muslim women need to be saved from the oppression that binds them to wear the burqa. The article portrays the issues of ethnocentric approach of trying to understand another foreign culture, by focusing on the symbolism of veiling. Veiling which an article that covers a woman completely from head to toe, or a covering for the head and shoulders.

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Though the veil forms an inconvenience in the lives of all Iranian women, it serves as a form of protection in their lives against the dangerous religious extremists fighting for the revolution. Marjane and her mother did not believe in the religious importance of wearing the veil but knew they had to wear them for their own protection against radical religious men that could try to take advantage of them. The president claimed that “women’s hair emanates rays that excite men” (74). Supported by this proposition, men could claim that a woman without a head scarf excited him and he would rape her because that is what she deserved for being a “little

Many middle eastern women that have religions like Muslim or Islamic are either required or choose to wear a form of veil, whether fully covered or just their hair, but lots of women who have can decide still choose to wear these articles of clothing. The most commonly known veils are burqas and hijabs, although there are much more options that all range on preference and religion. In middle eastern culture, religion and clothing are two main customs that they practice, which includes women being or not being oppressed by headpieces. “A Thousand Splendid Suns” is a book based on the Afghanistan war, showing the viewpoint of two women and how their different lives collide. “From Behind the Veil” is a story about a middle eastern veiled woman meeting a man and, by religion, is forbidden from seeing him, but she continues to see him in the privacy of her burqa.

Another aspect of the veil is the identity value, many women from different countries affirmed they feel that the veil is part of them; it is so important for them that “many women […] feel self-conscious, vulnerable, and even naked when they first walked on a public street without the veil […] as if they were making a display of themselves” – paragraph 22

The rise of enlightened sexism: How pop culture took us from girl power to girls gone wild

of the veil is to conceal and hide women as well as to prevent women

Saudi Arabian women should feel free about the way they present themselves in public places. There’re a lot of rules and regulations about what women can wear and do in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Women aren’t allowed to drive, they must always have a guardian, and there are separate buildings and lines for women and men. For example, women must cover her whole body in public and in front of men. In the essay “Saudis in Bikinis” by Nicholas D. Kristof, talks about a time where he was in Saudi Arabia, and women were wearing a abayas. An abayas is a long black cloak worn by Muslim women, it covers the whole body head to toe, but their eyes. Kristof calls them, “black ghost”, it’s part of the women’s culture to wear

In the movie, the producer discussed about the struggle women, which includes minorities women had to face in America such as cratering for the family, working, and at the same time treated like they were nobody in the society. The ladies with low income rate had to live with cheap cloths and bedroom with no windows. Likewise, there was no law or rules that prevent men from attracting the ladies who decided to protest against the action. It was a patriarchal society. Most women worked at the Triangle short way factory and the men made sure the ladies worked very hard and was pay low wages. Also, the producer analyzed that the women and children were locked in the factory and none of them were able to leave until their hours were completed.

Sarah Margaret Fuller, America’s first true feminist, was born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts on May 23, 1810 to Timothy Fuller and Margaret Crane Fuller. Her father was a lawyer and congressman while her mother had a short teaching career. Margaret Fuller was born in a time period were women were raised to be well-cultured and obedient. On the other hand, Fuller was the opposite she was known to be assertive and a freethinking. She was the first women to be allowed into the all men library of Harvard University and later on to graduate from the university. Fuller is known today mainly as a transcendentalist, she surrounded herself with philosophers like Emerson and Henry David Thoreau because they shared similar believes and ideas of a new way of thinking (Allen 1981) .

The authors claim that the western culture also has an invisible harem for women. She gives the examples of Muslim culture’s veiling and compares it with western beauty standards. She states that western women’s veil are the cultural norms and set rules for beauty. Veil is necessary for Muslim women to cover their beauty. She says that size 6 is the veil of the western women. According to the author, western men aspects the western women to look like a teenager. She supports her claim by describing that the saleslady of her same age has the “thin body of an adolescent girl” with her “knee-length, navy blue, Chanel dress”, “and white silk collar reminiscent of the subdued elegance of aristocratic French Catholic schoolgirls at the turn of the

For centuries women have been fighting the battle for equal rights and creating an identity for themselves. Feminism is a broad topic to discuss in just one paper considering the vast amount of information that can be spoken about the topic. The women in the new world for some countries have it better off than others, such as the United States. The U.S. was able to grant the equal rights amendment to women back in 1972. What shocks the minds of the 21st century is that there are still countries like those in the Middle East and parts of Africa who are unaware of equal rights for women. Women in the Middle East haven’t had the slightest imagination of what freedom and equal rights are defined as. To think this in the modern generation is completely ridiculous and unfortunately true. Arab feminism does not exist in our new world due to the domineering power of tradition, religion, and society in the Middle East. It’s only when Arab women migrate to places like the U.S. and Canada do they find hope in building a foundation for themselves without burden (Shabaan, 2013).