Feminists
Essays

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…

¶ … Sports are an enormous part of pop culture in America and the most popular sport in the country is football -- dominated by men, as players and viewers. So, why do TV networks put attractive women on the sidelines?

¶ … Spheres: Men and women and the 'battle of the sexes' before and after the film

¶ … Feminism 19th and Early 20th Century America

Biological sex is the physical characteristics that define a human being's body, including physical attributes and chromosomes. While the majority of people have XX or XY chromosomes, the concepts of 'male' and 'female'…

This paper is on the differences between the queer theory and lesbian-feminism. There are huge differences that exist between the two theories which make them not blend with each other. The lesbian-feminists and the queer theorists have failed to find a middle ground to play from and thus they all try to promote their theories as the best one to explain lesbianism. However, none of the theories has managed to completely explain this.

¶ … Naked in the Promised Land by Lillian Faderman [...]'s relationship to men, straight and gay, along with men's influence in her life. Faderman's life has been highly influenced by the men in her life, from her…