Nabeal Ummi Cultural Studies 23 October 2012 Difference “A Special Third World Women Issue” The article by Trinh T. Minh-Ha is written about women rights in different way. In my opinion, her explanation represents more complication in race, identity and gender issues if we take them in her way, but also bring sense somehow. In the article, she made a puzzle with different issues and without conclusion which are not connected with each other, but at last it represents a construction of new idea. Here, even she is the writer but she doesn’t narrate herself, she takes completely different sides of different debated issues to demonstrate her new idea. In her introduction she starts with the issue of women identification.
She went through life hiding her true self and when she finally told the world that she was a lesbian, she was criticized harshly for it. Ellen proved to the world that being gay shouldn’t be the thing that defines you. Though much has been positively written about Ellen DeGeneres, the negative comments were the ones that made her who she is today. It is the purpose of this paper to fill some of the gap by discussing events in Ellen’s life: her goals, actions, contributions, and why she is considered a catalyst for change. In addition, the methodology used to explore this leader’s life will be explained.
DO MUSLIM WOMEN NEED SAVING? Lia Abu-Lughod Book Review “Writing against culture” The book “Do Muslim Women Need Saving?” by the Lila Abu-Lughod, an academic who has lived many years observing women in the Middle East and the West has a meaning of the most basic conditions of the Muslim women’s lives which are set by political, and economical ethics. She also evaluates the beliefs of the international movement of speeches about ‘the demoralized Muslim women. Her motivation on examining how individual Muslim women experience freedom, rights and restrictions brings a much-needed perception. As an anthropologist who had lived for so long with women in communities where everyone was Muslim, she was forced to reflect on what she could do with the perspective her ethnographic work had given her.
Valenti explains in her book that this is not the case. The purity myth is something that affects every woman at many times throughout their life. The way that people judge and see women, usually lies within their choice of whether or not to have sex. Women aren’t sexy unless they are “pure.” Virginity is not something that is defined in the medical books; it has been defined by the people who choose to use it against
The Myth of the Latin Woman. “Just Met a Girl Named Maria.“ Why are Latin women easily stereotyped? Judith Ortiz Cofer tells stories about her family traditions and customs to help the reader better relate to her experience as a Latin American woman facing cultural stereotyping. She also used experiences to show the reader how myths distort her traditional and cultural values, causing the Latina woman to be misrepresented as being provocative or improper. A person’s view is clouded when beliefs in myths outweighs the recognition of different cultural traditions and customs.
New forms of public life created by women - such as having an education, to fight for their equality of opportunity to get a career, fighting for their rights and changing their role from domesticity to public suffragists- reinforced their place in society. Women had many dramatic changes throughout the years dealing with their view as a woman, politics, labor force and popular culture. In the present, American women continued live in regard to work, family, sexuality, and political changes. A. Sara M. Evans is a distinguished scholar and Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Minnesota where she taught women's history since 1976. She studied women and gender studies as it can be seen by reading her book because of the knowledge she transmits about women’s history and all the stages women went through decades ago.
This lead to foundation of Ms: The New Magazine for Women in 1972. Both of these branches and many other fractions sought to diminish sex discrimination in work, politics and challenge gender roles defined by society stating that women is a fragile, domestic entity who has limited place and say in both public and personal life. They were concerned with welfare rights, violance against women, health and birth
Let Women Vote by Marlene Targ Brill This book is young adult literature is written down to the readers so the understanding of civil right can be more clearly, the book tell some stories of how the women right had been an impact in America society better said the fight for the nineteen amendment. The main focus of this book is to understand the story in how society discriminate women during several eras. The narrator explain the time frame in a different matter, he begin with the story of Carrie Chapman in what she did to fight for the women rights and what she saw, followed the chapters with more important personalities involved in this suffrage. Each chapter covers a different period, but they all share the same organization of describing the social, cultural, political, philosophical and scholarly aspects of the period in respective subsections. This made it easier to later refer to previous chapters and compare different periods in order to learn the comprehensive history of Woman suffrage Amendment into the United States Constitution.
In one case, the Pro Life America group argued that the decision lies with woman to make based on her own feelings. They also stated that free birth control gives a woman personal choice on their own body and places them in charge. They then contradict themselves by further stating that free contraceptive coverage will allow women to assume a higher risk in sexual relationships. Basically, they state that it will reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, but not reduce the number of women becoming sexually active. The Pro Choice group feels that, like Pro Life, the choice should belong to the woman.
If a woman gives herself some time and remembers why she made the decision she did, she may come to see her situation from a different perspective. Abortion how does it relate to my life? Well I decided to choose this topic not because I have a set opinion in this issue. I find teen pregnancy and abortions very interesting because of how much it affects our society. I know of a few women who have gone through this process.