Feminists
Essays

Language is one of the most fundamental components of human communication, encompassing everything from the banal to the philosophical. Used effectively, language has the power to argue theories and manipulate opinion.

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…

This study examines different types of knowledge and how women have affected progress in these domains through a critical review of the relevant literature, including open source media such as Wikipedia, but peer-reviewed and scholarly sources as well concerning H. T. Buckle's discourse from 1858 concerning the contributions of women to the progress of knowledge. A summary of the research and a synthesis of the findings are presented in the study's conclusion concerning the contributions of women to the progress of knowledge in the years since Buckle's original discourse.

The issue of women in literature dates back to the earliest written word, and in "A Room of One's Own," Virginia Woolf presents a multifaceted look at the presence—and, more importantly, the absence—of women in this art form, focusing on women as the subject of the art as well the creator through historical, sociological, and economic lenses. It is important to look at these topics from Woolf's perspective and analyze their relevance then and now.

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…

Aristotle and Women's Position in the World

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,…