Feminists
Essays

Abortion may be in the news more today than in times past, but it is certainly not a new issue. Abortion may well be as old as pregnancy itself, as there is some evidence of abortion-like behavior among animals in the…

¶ … distinguishes between the factors of gender that cannot be controlled, i.e. The physical differences between men and women, and socially imposed assumptions about gender roles. The second respect is that the article…

The original 1975 film the Stepford Wives enjoyed a renaissance of interest, a surging river of media analysis during the promotional build-up to - and resulting from the critiques and reviews of - the 2004 version of…

Michel Foucault, French philosopher, articulated The History of Sexuality (1976-1984) in three volumes: The Will to Knowledge, The Use of Pleasure and the Care of the Self. Purportedly, much of Foucault's focus was with power structures and how they related to each other. The following will examine the strengths and weaknesses of Foucault's work in understanding the current discourse on the subject.

There is much division among women and feminists alike concerning the issue of pornography. However, if one believes in the freedom of women, then one would have to agree, if only in principle, that posing for Playboy…

Marriage is seen as a sacred institution which lays down specific responsibilities on the man and the woman concerned. It puts man under the responsibility of providing bread to the family and the woman to take care of…

¶ … Michael Kimmel's "Transforming a Rape Culture," Kimmel cites Brannon's four rules of masculinity. Define at least three of these rules and explain how this construction of masculinity contributes to rape culture.

¶ … Youth and the Media: The Harmful Relationship

¶ … politics, at least according to most college course catalogues, are separate disciplines. 'Women's Studies' also forms its own separate category, apart from these two disciplines.

A person largely differs from an object in the greatest sense. Individuals, as thinking beings, are treated thusly into a degree of personage. Once an individual ceases to be treated as a "person," only then does the…