modern feminism?

Question

im writing any essay on modern feminism and i could use some help so if you could give me some hints id help.

Answer 1

I bought all my college essays off the internet. Don't tell yer teacher tho they are aholes about it

Answer 2

I read "Female chauvinist pigs" by Ariel Levy.

It was very interesting because it talked about raunch culture in the USA. She also talked about what is feminism now, and basically, people don't really know. For example, women who dress in a slutty way sometimes say that they are feminist because they now can wear what they want...

She also talked about former feminists, really extreme ones (like the ones the person before me quoted), who are... well... a bit extreme.

Anyway, it's an interesting essay, so if you want to have a look at it...

Answer 3

Wow. All the suggestions you've received thus far have been useless, non-academic, non-peer-reviewed trash, but arguing about feminism makes me tired and so I'll give you a list of authors to check out instead.

- Simone de Beauvoir
- Judith Butler
- Michel Foucault (_The History of Sexuality_)
- Susan Faludi
- Nancy Tuana
- Susan Bordo
- Betty Friedan

Answer 4

First, here's an excellent essay that covers the benefits of feminism:

http://www.angryharry.com/nobenefitsoffeminism.htm

Also, here's a well-written blog that covers a lot of the activities of modern feminism:

http://www.glennsacks.com/

That should help you write a paper with clearer eyes. Good luck!

Answer 5

Modern feminism is all about forgetting about men and raising kids and marrying lesbians. At least that is my opinion on the subject. You should google the subject.

Answer 6

In a nutshell...

If you were told that your role in life had no value and that the only valuable things in life are the things the opposite sex reserved for themselves as an attempt to keep you valueless and dependent upon them, you'd be pretty bitter too. Fortunately for those who are interested in something called reality, the above is not the case...but it IS what feminism would have you believe. That's why we have women running all over the place attempting to do what they traditionally have done IN ADDITION TO what men have traditionally done. They believe they have no life unless they can do it all!

The truth is that women have the greatest value in being women, just as men have the greatest value in being men. Their roles are designed around their gender-based strengths...if you try and cross roles, you'll end up with frustration and....A LESS VALUABLE RESULT!!! The reason women are bitter is because they've been lied to...they've been told that their happiness is based upon doing it all themselves. They've been convinced they need to run a race they can't possibley win.

Men don't have more chances than women...they just have different chances. If one is focussed on what they don't have instead of what they do have, they certainly will become unhappy very quickly. The problem is that feminism has convinced women that what they do have is of no value. Smart men know otherwise, which is why they look for women who know what they have is valuable. This is different from a woman who only values what men have and tries to be strong in those areas instead of being strong in the areas she has natural strength in. Equal rights does not mean men and women are equal...it's very simple for all to see that they are not equal. But women can have equal rights and be equally valuable without being completely equal...unless she choses to ignore her own values and seek what is valuable in men. Then, she is not so valuable because she has cast away her true strengths.

In addition to this, modern feminism (as you put it) has a marked dislike of men...who now represent their competition instead of partners in life. A few quotes by feminists of our time:

"All men are rapists and that's all they are."
Marilyn French, Author; (later, advisor to Al Gore's Presidential Campaign.)

"All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman."
Catherine MacKinnon

"Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience."
Catherine Comin, Vassar College. Assistant Dean of Students.

"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness...can be trained to do most things."
Jilly Cooper, SCUM (Society For Cutting Up Men.)

"I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig."
Andrea Dworkin; from her book Ice and Fire .

"I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."
Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor.

"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire."
Robin Morgan

"In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent."
Catharine MacKinnon, quoted in Professing Feminism:
Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies.

"When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression..."
Sheila Jeffrys

"We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage."
Robin Morgan

"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry…"
Gloria Steinem

Answer 7

heya.. my sister could probably help.. she got degrees in women studies... if u want her email ... just ask