She is most popular with her book, The Vagina Monologues. In 1998, she was inspired to create V-Day, which is a movement to stop violence against women and girls. She has written numerous articles for numerous magazines and has received many awards for her work. The Vagina Monologues was written in 1996. The book consists of monologues by a various number of women.
Violent Partners: A Breakthrough plan for ending the Cycle of abuse is the name given to this book. Linda G. Mills wrote and copyright the book in the year 2008. This non fictional book based its research and findings on the disturbing topic of violent partners. The voices of abusers and their experiences are vivid in the book as their stories are been told. Statistics and other references are been used to give illustration and reliable information on the topic discussed in the book.
Margaret founded many leagues and was the president of them.One of the leagues was the planned parenthood federation of America. The principal of this league was We hold that children should be concieved in love, born of mothers concous desire and only begotten under conditions which render possible the heritage of health. Margaret invested a lot of her time communicating to the general public to educate them about preventing unwanted pregnancies and planning a family.She wrote several books which had a nationwide impact in promoting birth control.Some of the books include Woman and the new age and The pivot of civilisation. Margaret search for the magic pill that can be taken like asprin came to an end when a sponsor Katrien McCornick made the research possible and the first oral contraceptive Enoid was
The Price for Beauty Woman throughout history have set standards on how beauty is a large significance in their daily lives. From reading the article by Robin Marantz Henig, “The Price of Perfection”, I’ve learned a lot about the choices and risks woman have taken throughout history to measure up to the idea of perfection. However, perfection is labeled differently through the eyes of the beholder. People tend to make changes from who they really are to become what the media, tradition and cultural practices shows what’s specifically visual perfection. As stated in the article by Robin Henig, “Over the centuries, women have mauled and manipulated just about every body part – lips, eyes, ears, waists, skulls, foreheads, feet… (55).
Dr. Caroline Bowden is the general editor for the research project titled ‘Who were the Nuns? A Prosopographical Study of the Exiled English Convents 1600 – 1800’ and has been the lead influence to its funding. The background information for this project as Bowden stated in a podcast with interviewer, Dr. Andrew Foster, is that ‘the concept had come out of her PhD research which looked at girls education, the comparison between catholic and protestant girls when she realized how nuns had a separate world from this topic and because they were difficult to find information on then the world should know more about them’
Brandi Graves Ms. Stubbs English 1301 15 October 2013 Woman in Advertising Jean Kilbourne an award winning author and educator who is known for her lectures on the effects of how women are objectified through the media. In her article “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt.” Advertising and Violence; Kilbourne paints a picture of how women are abused, and objectified. In the article she uses pictures to show how advertisements portray women and girls. A closer look at this article is necessary to show how important it is to know what women go through just to please other people and to be labeled as a sex icon. Kilbourne uses brand names such as Calvin Klein and DRAKAR a men’s cologne.
Organizations such as MDA (Mom’s Demand Action) have been attacking the NRA ILA with the powerful tool of social media. These organizations have recruited mothers who feel that gun ownership causes mass shootings and that the NRA subjugates women by making them viewed as victims. Gun owners and NRA members of America are objectified as simpleminded gun nuts or country bumpkins. This postmodern view of females is insulting to female and male members of the NRA. The NRA has countered these attacks recently by creating “Women of the NRA”, and movement where women’s rights to own guns are empowered and celebrated.
Women in Psychology PSY 310 November 15, 2010 Neva Wilson Women in Psychology There have been many influential women throughout history some have been philosophers, scientist, doctors, and queens. Jane Addams who was the first women to be honored with a Nobel Peace Prize, or Margaret Sanger who was an advocate for family planning and birth control. Women have ruled over countries, some quite successfully, Cleopatra for example or Queen Victoria. There have been adventurous women whom sparked debate over many subjects like Amelia Earhart, or Marilyn Monroe. All of these mentioned women and more have influenced changes in such fields as philosophy, politics, science, and psychology.
Domestic Violence Shelters Rebecca Urquidi Park University Ms. Claudia Padilla SO 210 BL Abstract In this paper I will attempt to explain the Federal Domestic Violence Shelter funding resources received the development of services targeted to the necessary population it serves, as well the delivery of services. I will also attempt to explain the dynamics of domestic violence and abuse that happen to victims of domestic violence the types of abuse. Domestic Violence Shelters Domestic violence has existed since the early days of recorded history, and was even authorized in English common law as late as the early twentieth century. The women's liberation movement in the 1970s brought to light the social dilemma of women and advocated
In her speech “Online Harassment and Cyber Mobs” from 2012, she addresses this situation and starts a discussion about how especially online gaming portrays the female part of our world. Sarkeeshian begins her speech by telling the audience a little bit about herself and explains that she has now run a video web series on YouTube, for four years, about the representations of women in the media. Sarkeeshian is an open feminist, who does not try to hide her opinion or cover anything up. In her speech, her main focus is the video gaming industry, and how is holds, as she says: “… some of the most sexually objectified, stereotyped and downright oppressive portrayals of women in any medium” (page 1, line 13-14). It is because of this that she launched a fundraising campaign on a website, where people could donate money to the project and support the fight for an improved representation of women in the online gaming