¶ … grrrl -- here me roar! We've come a long way since the bra-burning days of yore. Feminists in the 1960s and 1970s helped break down significant barriers for grrrls, and helped us to reclaim that fun-filled word. However, that "second wave" of feminism is long gone. We're back to struttin' our stuff, high heels, lipstick, and all. Now 20-somethings don't have to demand to be called a "woman" to assert feminine strength; grrrl is just fine. In fact, the term reeks of fun and frolic, of grrrl power. As Angela McRobbie states in her book Postmodernism and Popular Culture, "far from having to relinquish their femininity to achieve 'equality, these girls...
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She is the daughter of Alice Walker, who wrote the Color Purple. She took her mother's maiden name at the age of 18. Rebecca graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1993, and moved on to co-found the Third Wave Foundation. She is considered to be one of the founding leaders of third-wave feminism. In addition to her contributing editorship for Ms. Magazine, Walker's work has also been published
Flaws in ArgumentEhrenreich (2000) makes several fallacies in her argumentative essay, �Maid to Order� published in Harper�s Magazine. Her main argument is that no self-respecting, independent woman would or should submit to doing domestic housework �the old-fashioned way� (p. 1). The fallacies Ehrenreich commits start with personal incredulity, followed by bandwagon fallacy and appeal to authority fallacy. This paper will discuss each of these three fallacies in turn and how
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Gabrielle Jamela Hosein6(2002), on the other hand, holds that this is mainly a question of perspective. 5. In Community Activism and Feminist Politics edited by Nancy a Naples. Routledge. 6. What Does Feminism Mean to Young Women? CAFRA. http://www.cafra.org/article353.html For some young women, according to this author, feminism means survival and a fundamental recognition of themselves as women with rights that are equal to those of men. This group of young women
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Garden Eden The sound of the waves crashing on the shore woke Catherine from a dream, and she let out a gasp. She could see in the predawn periwinkle that the pile of sheet beside her did not contain David, and she felt his absence and reached between her legs for solace. Aroused, Catherine quickly got out of bed, wearing nothing, and went into the bathroom. She then heard the door
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