The text Mariah Burton Nelson, “I Won, I’m Sorry” is centered on the culture of women athletics during their athletic career, how they must always create the atmosphere of femininity to accept being a winner. Most professional women athlete today in 2012 feel a degree of femininity is essential to having a successful career. A good point is how women athletes have crossed over to more feminine competition as beauty queens, swimsuit models for “Sport’s Illustrated” to escape connotations such as; the female athlete being associated with being a lesbian. The author of the text notes how the media plays a great role in determining how the public perceives female athlete roles. The addressing of the media having a role in projection of a female athlete role interjects the media may not always send the best message concerning a female athlete, which is a message of femininity concerning the athlete.
Women have been fighting for generations for gender equality in society. They have fought for numerous rights such as voting, education, political status, career choices, positions in military, and sport opportunities. A few forms of media I will discuss are my favorite channel/radio stations, which are ESPN and other major sports networks. Gender bias in American sports has always been a heated topic. This is an extremely sensitive subject for the current female athletes and female sport fans.
Due to the limited amount of resources and the restrictions laid upon women for practicing rhetoric, it is astonishing how many women were still able to make a significant impact on the field of rhetoric which I feel has paved the way for women’s liberations rights today. Christine de Pizan portrayed the art of rhetoric through language and letter writing as she challenged the boundaries of women’s input at the time. She sought to save the reputation of women, who at the time were being slandered and shine a new spotlight for women’s advancement. It is imperative that more time and space be dedicated to Christine De Pizan in Herricks textbook of rhetoric and many more to follow. Christine De Pizan is a brave woman who stood up to the verbal assaults on women in the 14th century.
Furthermore, it is important to recognize that hair is with out a doubt the most complex signifier African American women and girls use to display their identities in order to take on situated social meanings, and to understand how and why hair comes to matter so much in a Black women’s construction of their identity. Just as mentioned in Chris Rock’s, Good Hair, in Jacobs-Hueys’ book it is also evident that Black women feel the need to conform their natural state to a more common, typical look. It is through the hair salons, and educational seminars that teach individuals when hair is hair, and alternatively when hair is not just hair. These two seemingly contradictory stances hint at just
Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” (Lopez A5) It is evident that over the course of history, the plight of women has caused women of different circumstances and problems to be empowered and exert their full efforts to bring about necessary reforms and many times have they succeeded. With that said, women empowerment should be about more than just breaking the bounds of repression, but more than that, being truly free to be women who remain true to the authentic set of morals and standards they have set for themselves. It is important that women develop a sense of purpose within them and make use of their personal potential, not only for the benefit of themselves, but more importantly, for the betterment of society. That spark of purpose has to emerge and start with the self until it burns brighter to enlighten those around them; the potential of a woman has the power to be truly
The mission of the NAWSA was to fight for women’s rights and to also gain respect for all women in the United States. Alice Paul along with her friend Lucy Burns began to think of many ideas to help the suffrage movement but the NAWSA thought that their ideas were to extreme and would only cause problems for women in America. So Alice Paul and Lucy Burns started their own organization called the National Women’s Party or NWP. Which held the same concepts that the NAWSA but with a more radical or extreme approach. The NAWSA started criticizing the NWP for their methods and for protesting a president during the war.
In spite of the international awareness about this problem and the declared willingness of the states to fight gender-violence, young girls and women continue to serve as the target of violence. Authors Kim Gandy, Leonard Pitts, and Erica Goode go beyond the surface of the problems and explore the shocking reality behind violence against women, utilizing statics and real life accounts to submerge the reader into the uncomfortable reality of the society women live in today. Overall, the most effective articles of the whole unit utilize pathos and logos, presenting daunting statics and facts as well as real examples to create an effective and convincing argument for the reader. Some arguments rely solely on the appeal to the emotion, they and tend to use very selective sources of examples that society considers unacceptable, to raise anger and frustration to gain the support of the reader. Applying facts and statistics, objective articles used logos to
These pictures reveal women engaged in dangerous bull-leaping sports. The tablets actually describe the legal rights of women. They illustrate the rights women are entitled to, including the right to purchase and inherit property, choice to marry and right to divorce. The roles women played included priestesses, as seen in many frescoes and reliefs, athletes, functionaries, administrators, mothers and wives. All this suggests that there was a degree of gender equality.
School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture MAC 101 Discuss (with reference to critical reading) the importance of any TWO of the following concepts for an analysis of media texts, and demonstrate through analysis of an excerpt from a media text how you would apply these concepts in your own discussion Stephen Wright This essay will set out to investigate how women are represented in action movies. The films I will mainly study in order to gain an understanding of this subject will be Casino Royale and Sin City. Both of these films have a tendency to depict women in a derogatory way. To do this the term representation will be investigated to understand its full meaning. This essay will focus mainly on the feminist attitudes towards the gender representations.
It is specifically directed to a young female audience, with the purpose of creating consciousness and awareness to these girls and showing them that no matter their age or their gender, there is always a way to fight for rights and equality. Before writing this text I investigated about Malala and discovered important facts and quotes, which helped me a lot to the creation of the speech. It was a really interesting exercise because I had the chance of combining what I felt with Malala’s point of view. Through this speech I learned about different atrocious cases that had a great impact on me; this impact is reflected in this text and expresses my emotions and certainly my opinion about the problematic. The speech is written in first person through a formal tone, however there are some informal expressions, which are essential to show the sincerity of the content.