The Magical-Sophistical Delusion:Third-Wave-Feminism and Its Philosophical Roots

The content of current third-wave feminism differs significantly from that of previous feminist movements,which sought equal human and civil rights for women.In third-wave feminism,gender is primarily understood as a social category that is linguistically constructed.The now classic work Gender Trouble(1990)by philosopher Judith Butler is decisive for this“linguistic turn”in the social sciences.However,Butler’s work is systematically based on two philosophical traditions that are already highly controversial in themselves:sophism and existentialism,linked to a pre-modern magical worldview.The following essay is a critique of these lines of tradition,followed by the question of the extent to which they can serve citizens of an enlightened society in naming and constructively addressing actual social grievances.

The Dilemma of Women’s Voices in the Post-Epidemic Era:Misconceptions of Feminism on Digital Media Platforms-The Example of Sina Weibo

Weibo,one of China’s largest digital media platforms,has become a major platform for women’s voices to fight for equality.However,misconceptions of feminism on Weibo have become obstacles to women’s voices,for which the platforms did not post women’s views prominently.From the perspective of women themselves,this paper adopted a questionnaire to study the misunderstanding of feminism and its impact on women’s expression on Weibo.

Feminism Demystified-history and Beyond

The study explores Feminism by focusing broadly on its history and further examining using Marxism and critical discourses by other feminists.Feminism refers to the idea that women and men ought to have equal rights.In 1734,the Swedish Civil Code gave women more rights,most notably prohibiting husbands from selling their wives’possessions without their approval.In her 1790 essay“On the equality of the sexes,”American women’s rights campaigner Judith Sargent Murray claimed that women are just as bright as men.British author Mary Wollstonecraft responded to philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau and other 18th-century Enlightenment intellectuals who did not extend their concepts of freedom to women in her 1792 book A Vindication of the Rights of Women.She challenges the idea that women are less logical than males and opposes the injustice.“Who made man the exclusive judge?”she demands.However,Frenchman Charles Fourier coined the term“feminisme”in 1837,marking the beginning of the concept of feminism.The Victorian Social Convention exalted and imposed the domestic roles of wife and mother on most married middle-class women in 19th-century Britain.Career aspirations were restricted because they were not allowed to receive an education on par with that of males.In The Communist Manifesto,German philosophers and revolutionary political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels contend that a bourgeois man regards his wife as nothing more than an apparatus of production.According to Engles,the family is at the core of the violence and oppression that women experience.Marxist feminists saw capitalism and patriarchy as the two fundamental systems that supported the subjugation of women.The British writer and social theorist Harriet Taylor Mill underlined that a lady who could support the family financially and had a good education would be respected by her husband and treated as a partner.However,men utilize rape as a means of controlling women,as seen by the social inequities that still affect women today.It’s shocking to learn that rape was a taboo topic until 1975 when Susan Brownmiller authored Against Our Will:Men,Women,and Rape.There was a notion that said women’s sexuality encourages rape,hence the guilt was frequently placed on the female victims.Nonetheless,postcolonial feminists such as Chandra Talpade Mohanty contend that regardless of their status as powerful or marginal,wealthy or not,women residing in non-Western nations are presumed to be impoverished,uninformed,uneducated,sexually restricted,tradition-bound,and victims.FGM(female genital cutting)has been a custom for at least 2,500 years,still practiced in thirty countries,mostly in Africa,Indonesia,and the Middle East.It is not connected to chastity and purity,guaranteeing that women remain virgins until marriage and remain faithful afterward.In this essay,Finally,I have looked at how women have faced discrimination in a variety of settings,including the home and the workplace,for millennia due to their gender.

Display of Third Wave Feminism in Chungking Express: A Chinese Film Review

Chungking Express is a Hong Kong film directed by Wong Kar-Wai in 1994.The film consists of two unrelated story lines,with vibrant scenes and unforgettable music.Chungking Express can be discussed from different angles,however,it is the perhaps unintentional and sometimes subdued portrayal of third wave feminism,which is the focal point of this review.This review compares the depiction of female characters in Chungking and other Chinese female led classics.Finally,this review juxtaposes the male and female characters to actual social gender norms.

Exploring Feminism in The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare is the most well-known playwright in the world.The Merchant of Venice is one of the four great comedies by William Shakespeare.It is set during the Elizabethan period with rapid economic development and wide spread Renaissance humanism.Kindness and love are the main themes of the play.Against the backdrop of the spirit of humanism,the female characters in the play have preliminary feminist spirit and subject consciousness though there are some limitations.This article analyzes the feminist spirit in the play and women’s progress on their road of liberation.It suggests that while reflecting the initial emancipation of women in the West in the 16th century,the play also reveals the reality of the enormous social barriers on the road of women’s emancipation.The emancipation of women is an enduring topic in the development of society and a goal that people all over the world are still striving for.

Feminism in Jane Eyre and Rickshaw Boy

Jane Eyre and females in Rickshaw Boy have the similar spirit.They all have the characteristics of the females nowadays.The feminism of Jane Eyre are the rebellious spirit to fight against the unfair destiny,the spirit of equality to pursue the pure love and the spirit of the persistence to pursue the happiness;In the Rickshaw Boy,female characters can challenge the status of men and some females are intelligent and have the consciousness of revolution.Besides,there are similarities and differences between Jane Eyre and Rickshaw Boy.Females in two books have the progressive spirit but the feminism in two books conveys the different information.Moreover,the feminism of two books has a great influence on females nowadays and women gain the spiritual power from two books.It is meaningful to connect Jane Eyre and Rickshaw Boy to explore the feminism because the western feminism and the eastern feminism can provide different angles.Women are awakened to protect themselves and fight against the unfair destiny from the upper class to the underclass.The feminism in two books is the most important resource for women to understand the active women consciousness and encourages women to pursue the happiness and rights.

FEMINISM的释义追问

Feminism一词来自西方,但对它释义的模糊性引起了众多的争议。追溯Feminism在西方的发展历程,Feminism包括的内涵越来越丰富,涉猎的内容越来越广博,因此,对Feminism的释义不应该是静止的、凝固的,而应是开放的、动态的。

An Analysis of Feminism——A Case Study of Desert Flower

With the development of globalization,people have paid more and more attention to feminism.But under the influence of traditional androcentric society for thousands of years,it' s hard for women to strive for equal rights with men and to completely change women' s humble and androcentric image in society overnight.Tracing back to the emergence and the development of feminism,this thesis intends to reveal feminism in the movie Desert Flower by exposing African women' s suffering of a cruel torture—circumcision.

Analysis on Feminism in Cat in the Rain

Ernest Hemingway is always regarded as masculinity by the critics.His early stories won wide critical praise for their stoic,understanding"masculine"study and their graphic depiction of male pursuits and attitudes.However,in addition to his male depiction in his novels,Hemingway,in fact,is also a writer who cares and shows sympathy and concern towards women.Then Cat in the Rain is one of his typical work which focuses on the aspirations of women.With analysis on the characters,plot and description of settings etc.in the story,Hemingway’s real attitude toward female is explicated.

An Hour's Freedom, Timeless Feminism: On Irony and Imagery in Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour

By the brief introduction of Kate Chopin and her achievement, this paper elaborates the awakening of consciousness of the feminism of the protagonist in Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour. In the short story, the author uses many literary elements to describe the characters, especially the irony and imagery. This thesis uses those rhetorical devices to vividly describe the characters and to criticize the inequality between men and women in the late 19th century.[1]

Feminism与女性解放

Feminism作为一种世界性的思想文化潮流,在20世纪的中国后半叶获得了长足的发展,并具有积极的现实意义。论文对马克思主义女性主义作了相应的分析,并实事求是地指出了中国Feminism运动所存在的缺失。

翻译与文化:feminism在中国的翻译及其演变

Feminism本身在西方原初语境中就经历了以政治内涵为主到以文化内涵为主的演变过程。"五四"新文化运动中,最早出现在法国的feminism一词经由英美、日本传播到中国,始被译作"女权主义"。20世纪80年代以来,随着中国社会和文化环境的变迁,随着女性对自身越来越强的关注,"女权主义"这个带有强烈政治色彩的译法开始受到广泛的批评,越来越多的人倾向于将feminism翻译成"女性主义",以体现其中所包含的文化维度。Feminism两种译法的演变,表明翻译决不是一种纯语言的行为,而是扎根于语言所处的文化之中,不仅反映着不同文化之间的碰撞和交流,而且浓缩着文化和人们社会心理的变迁。

Feminism·马克思主义·女性解放

Feminism作为一种世界性的思想文化潮流,在20世纪的中国后半叶获得了长足的发展,并具有积极的现实意义。该文对马克思主义女性主义作了相应的分析,并实事求是地指出了中国Feminism运动所存在的缺失。

A counterpart in feminism between western and Chinese film

The theme of this investigation focuses primarily on feminism as expressed by Chinese directors of the Fifth Generation. Comparing and contrasting Chinese films to western counterparts shows what such frameworks are able to uncover about the films.

Interpretation of The Woman Warrior from the Perspective of Feminism

As a female Chinese American writer,Maxine Hong Kingston was influenced by the development of the new feminism.In The Woman Warrior,she expressed her deep sympathy for the tragedy of the No Name Woman,rewrote Hua Mulan as a new woman warrior,and endowed Brave Orchid with courage,strength and wisdom to give her own response to the new feminism.

Austen's Feminism Reflected in Emma

Emma is a novel by Jane Austen,first published anonymously in December,1815. Emma Woodhouse,handsome,clever,and rich,with a comfortable home and happy disposition; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.Such a perfect young lady who seems like that devotes herself to making matches for the people around her,for she appeals to the equal rights betw een men and women,and advocates love marriage; This thesis,by making an analysis of the heroine,Emma,is aimed at finding Austen's feminist concerns reflected in the novel.

Feminism, Patriarchy and Culture Dominance ——A review to "The Woman Warrior

The Woman Warrior" is an influential book in the 20th century making a thunder of voice in the world to accuse the stereotype of patriarchy and racism, which also shows the Chinese Americans’ difficulty of being edged to the cultural cliff. This article analyses the content and the style of the novel to see inside what the writer wants to express and to figure out the real reason of the inequality between sexes and reveal the truth of the western culture dominance. Feminism, Patriarchy and culture are the main factors considered in the article.

The Reflection of Pluralism—Comment on Smuggling Sex Through the Gates:Race,Sexuality,and the Politics of Space in Second Wave Feminism

American studies succeeded in becoming a discipline only after 1920s after overcoming a series of barriers.Not until in the late 1960s did the so-called subcultures,the cultures of the formerly ignored groups or the culture of the minority get the chance to step on the stage of American studies.This article- Smuggling Sex Through the Gates:Race,Sexuality,and the Politics of Space in Second Wave Feminism is a good illustration,or a reflection of the transferring of the subjects for American studies from one-centered to many-faceted.

The Dream of Freedom—An Interpretation of The Story of an Hour from the Perspective of Feminism

Kate Chopin,one of the most outstanding women writers in the late nineteenth century in America,focused on women’s social position,marriage and family,love and freedom to fight against patriarchalism.She wrote two novels and about a hundred short stories in the 1890s.And over a long period of time,critics have considered The Story of an Hour as a work of feminism which offers a strikingly feminist perspective on an American housewife of that time.This thesis analyzes the inner experience of the heroine within an hour and shows us that freedom is so essential to her while her marriage is a yoke to her.

George Eliot's Feminism in The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot(1819-1880)is an outstanding female writer in Victorian Age.Virginia Woolf,a feminist pioneer,once praised her as"the pride and paragon of the female".However,her feminism is ambivalent.On the one hand,she dares to challenge the male-dominated society and supports women’s rights to receive education and freedom of love and marriage.On the other hand,she emphasizes that women should make self-sacrifice to help men achieve their goals.Based on The Mill on the Floss and studies of previous scholars,this thesis tries to analyze George Eliot’s ambivalent feminism.Thus it is beneficial for readers to observe and think about women’s future.