Feminists
Essays

While the idea that we live in a black-and-white universe may be comforting for some, reality continues to disrupt this assertion. Even the categories of "male" and "female" - a dichotomy that very few ever feel the…

In this article, author Jonah Goldberg argues that a "war against boys" has resulted in disturbing changes in the schoolyard. Competition has been eliminated, in favor of encouraging everyone's participation and…

The central rationale and raison d' tre of feminism has been an interrogation and attack on the women at home involved in domestic activities as a virtual slave in a male dominated and paternalistic society.

"Through The Looking Class Darkly" by Uma Narayan describes the challenges of creating a truly multicultural conception of feminist without objectifying members of non-white cultures as 'other.' Narayan uses the term…

Speaking truth to power in a different voice: Hip-hop and Black lesbianism

¶ … Jordan has not been honored by naming any street or postal holidays. She was respected and recognized by her own milestones; as she designed modern Harlem with R. Buckminster Fuller, had coffee with Malcolm X,…

Susan Faludi's 1990s feminist classic Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women chronicles the widespread cultural resistance that arose to the gains women had made during the feminist liberation movement of…

The paper critically analyzes the book Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl Wudunn. Kristoff and Wudunn, the paper argues, make a valuable contribution to the literature on global gender relations but offer weak analysis and argumentation. The major weakness of their book is their failure to incorporate feminist scholarship into their work.

The Roman Catholic and the Southern American Baptist Convention

Abortion is a social issue and problem that has elicited a great amount of controversy and debate in countries and societies throughout the world. The central general concern which this debate revolves around is the…