Feminists＇ Culture and Ethics at Work-- A Critical Analysis

The male writers＇ intuitive gift and superb insight describe feminine characters, feminine nature, femaleness, and femininity. In the 19th century, the study of the character logical portrait and cultural traits associated with femininity enunciated feminists＇ discourse to justify vindication of rights as regards women＇s cultural anxiety, political identification, and aesthetic experimentation. Similarly, the women writers＇ imaginative powers characterize women＇s emotions either reflecting shrinking subjectivity or elaborating notion of voluntary subjectivity as regards their experiences and existence, their passions and sensations, and their self and life. The 20th century women＇s writings raised inquiry against presentation of gendered self, performance of gender, gender discontent as regards with their sex and gender, which are assigned at birth as well as also for the alignment of biological sex, sexuality, gender identity, and gender roles. In this paper, the study of the four selected novels such as The Scarlet Letter, Tess of the D ＇Urbervilles, Emma, Surfacing, and Inner Line shows how circumstances, strata of time, and externalities of others objectify woman and her domestic space; how a woman perceives her deprivation as regards her own image which seems nobody to herself due to the sense of low perception; in what way sexual difference and gender-specific practices and ideology enforce woman to chide herself in the given environment and surroundings of legal codifications, moral prescriptions, and medical prognostications. The analyses of the novels draw how woman＇s experience as living subject in the vital dimension of human existence and utopian image of human fellowship is potentially undone by way of sexual exploitation, dismemberment, and embodiment. What kind of vulnerable moments force woman to withdraw from her body and fi＇om her essence is the center of concern in this paper？ While discussing the feminists＇ culture and ethics in their works, the focus is on the essentialized notion of gender-specific discrimination as well as on the frustrating double-consciousness that characterizes the cultural position of the other.

When Conscious Consumerism Backfires:A Critical Study on Social Exclusion,Partnerships,and White Saviorism

Purpose:What factors influence conscious consumerism,especially related to race and gender identities?This scholarship explores three white women-led social responsibility organizations’(SROs)aspirations to encourage conscious consumerism as well as factors that influence conscious consumerism.Design/methodology/approach:Using the Black feminist thought and sustainability development theory,the data were analyzed using a thematic analysis to explore the activation of the white savior industrial complex(WSIC)in SROs.Interviews provided in-depth knowledge of the SRO culture including,but not limited to,insight on social exclusion and partnerships.Findings:Noonday Collection,Sseko Designs,and Trades of Hope,all SROs,aspire to be dedicated to people,planet,and profit and encourage conscious consumerism as a means for their customer base and sales consultants to“do their part”,and yet,an unintended consequence of the SROs’work is social exclusion and white saviorism.Originality:This scholarship investigates what can be done to dismantle the overreliance of conscious consumerism in an effort to finally strip white saviorism,and its role in the white savior industrial complex(WSIC),of its power.

A Feminist Reading of Hemingway’s Works-“Cat in the Rain”as an Example

As a famous American writer,there have been many different opinions on whether Hemingway is a typical masculinist writer.Through a brief analysis of the feminist consciousness in Hemingway’s works and a detailed feminist interpretation of“Cat in the Rain”,this paper holds that it is unfair and biased to stereotype Hemingway as a typical masculinist writer since there is a very strong feminist consciousness in his early works.

An Auto-ethnographic Observation:Hashtag Activism in Chinese Post-Feminist Age

This paper provides an auto-ethnographic observation of hashtag feminist activism on Weibo, setting in a context of post-feminism age in China. Two subjects, the Hot Search List and its Public Discussion Forum, were chose to examine the complexity of the current situation of this hashtag activism. An auto-ethnographic methodology was used to interrogate the states quo of Chinese online feminist movement, revealing gender-centric discussions reinforcing stereotypes under the guise of equality. Misogynistic narratives, algorithmic constraints, censorship, and official opposition pose significant barriers to feminist discourse. Nonetheless, the study identifies a potential for hashtag activism within Weibo’s discourse, offering a space for resistance. By acknowledging these challenges, this paper seeks to empower Chinese feminists to challenge dominant narratives and advocate for their rights.

Gender in translation and feminist translation strategies

Translation has been regarded as the subordination and complementation of the original discourse in the long history of human society, and the loyalty of the wife to the husband has been the metaphor of the relationship between translated version and the original discourse. By using supplementing, prefacing, and hijacking, the feminist translation rewrites the original discourse creatively in order to overwhelming the authority of the original discourse even the male-governed society.

The Growth of Scarlett's Consciousness of Feminism in Gone with the Wind

Most feminist analyses of Scarlett in Gone with the Wind are concerned with how feminism is reflected in Scarlett's personality,while this research pays attention to how her feminist consciousness grow through three stages.

What Killed Louise Mallard: On the Heroine's Psychological Changes in the Story of an Hour

Kate Chopin is known for addressing feminist issues many years before the feminist movement began in America. The Story of an Hour, published in 1894, is one of Kate Chopin's most famous stories, which reflects Chopin's view of the vital role that freedom played in women's lives through the depiction of the protagonist's, Louise Mallard's, psychological changes in an hour after the news of her husband's death. In the end, Louise Mallard's death intensifies the drama of the hour and, at the same time, highlights the theme of the story.

The Feminist Consciousness of Dorothy Hewett

Born in Perth, Western Australia, Dorothy Coade Hewett (21 May 1923-25 August 2002) was a well-known poet, novelist and dramatist. The feminist movement in Australia began at the end of the 19 th century. But in Dorothy's time, Australian society was still a male-dominated society. Women were defined as daughters, sisters, lovers, wives, mothers, grandmothers, domestic treasure, except as themselves. They were not given many chances and were treated differently from men. However, Dorothy hated all those roles given by the society to women and was determined to pursue her dream as an actress and a writer. She advocated sexual freedom, demanded equal pay for women workers, and as one of the founder members of the Union of Australian women, she also started the first left-wing Australian women's journal. In all her life, Dorothy had been struggling for the realization of her self-value and fighting against the male-dominated society.

Struggling between Two Selves

The House of Mirth is the masterpiece of Edith Wharton,the prominent American woman novelist.One salient feature of the characterization of the protagonist,Lily Barter,is the constant conflict between her two selves:the inborn good self and the mercenary self inculcated by social forces.Drawing on the metaphor of cave in Plato's Republic,this thesis analyzes the dual aspects of Lily's character in the light of feminist perspective.Lily's good self is compared with Plato's ideal world of forms while her mercenary self with Plato's world of shadows where people are shackled.Due to the overwhelming social forces in a male-dominated capitalistic world,Lily is destined to have no way out.

The Transitivity Analysis of A Woman on a Roof

From the perspective of the transitivity theory,this dissertation aims to analyze feminist ideas in Doris Lessing' s novel A Woman on a Roof.The analysis triumphantly proves that the transitivity system in SFG is an effective method in understand ing author' s feminist ideas.It is strongly hoped that this attempt will provide some valuable experience for better appreciating of other English novels.

George Eliot's Humanistic View and Feminist View

George Eliot is a great authoress in the Victorian age. She has made great contribution in many fields such as: philoso phy, literature and humanism. However she is a controversial novelist as well not only because her life experience which revolts against the traditional way of life at that time but also her unique humanistic and feminist view. The purpose of the study is to get the panoramic view of George Eliot.

The Feminist Tendency in Hotel du Lac

It is true that some important feminist literary theories apply to Hotel du Lac,which illustrates clearly Brookner’s deep concern over modern women’s predicament in favor of their interests,and thus proves her strong tendency to feminism.And then it is pointed out that the reason for Brookner’s perverse attitude toward feminism mainly lies in her unwillingness to confine herself to the category of feminism and actually Brookner has transcended the more stereotypical feminism.

Adaptation of The Joy Luck Club: From a Feminist Text to a Cultural Film

What I am going to write about The Joy Luck Club is the adaptation from the text to a film. We know that Amy Tan is a woman, what she has written about in Joy Luck Club reflects more about feminism. And it is a female novel to some extent. The author writes many things from a woman's perspective. But when it was adapted to a film, the director Wayne Wang deemphasized this part, and attached more importance to the Chinese immigrants as a whole group. As a Chinese American male director, he presents the novel mainly in a man's perspective. In this process, the main theme changed greatly. The adaptation of The Joy Luck Club is actually an adaptation from a feminist text to a cultural film.

A Feminist Critique on the Alternative Ending of A Doll's House

A Doll's House is a famous play written by Henrik Ibsen. In the original ending of this play, Nora abandons her children and family. However, we know that Ibsen was also forced to write another ending. In this alternative ending, Nora submits to his husband and returns to her family. This must be disdained by feminists. From the perspective of feminist criticism, this thesis holds that as a woman of liberated spirit, Nora certainly will leave her family as in the original ending writes. This thesis tends to reevaluate this alternative ending and also through analyzing the characteristic of the main character Nora, it concludes that the alternative ending is an insult to its readers.

Analysis of the Story of an Hour——From the Perspective of Feminism

The Story of an Hour is a short story written by Kate Chopin on April 19,1894,and originally published in Vogue on December 6,1894.By describing series of emotions that Louise Mallard endures after hearing of the death of her husband,it reveals the heroine——Mallard’s pursuit of freedom and enlightenment of feminist thought.The Story of an Hour successfully created a female image of desiring for freedom,longing for a new life even at the expense of life in a patriarchal society.

Canadian nurse practitioner's quest for identity:A philosophical perspective

The role of nurse practitioners in primary healthcare has been validated over the years and is now being considered as a key solution in various primary healthcare settings to the provision of comprehensive care.The context in which the role has been established positions nurse practitioners'practice within medical and nursing paradigms.As the healthcare system evolves,nurse practitioners must define their identity to advocate for roles that reflect their professional values.A historical overview highlighting the context in which the NP role expanded will guide a philosophical discussion regarding role identity.After exposing tensions between the nursing and medicine disciplines,Abbots'theory of profession will be utilized to understand the foundations leading to initial research on nurse practitioner integration within the healthcare system.Feminist philosopher bell hooks'discourse on marginality will serve as a platform to reflect on the nurse practitioner identity within the current social context.Foucault's notions of governmentality,parrhesia and care of the self will then guide reflections regarding ways for nurse practitioners to locate themselves as a profession.

On Sister Carrie from Feminist Perspective and its Influence on Chinese Modern Women

Sister Carrie is a famous naturalistic novelist-Theodore Dreiser's first novel in the first 20th century.It tells a story of a young rural woman Carrie how to become the red Broadway actress from the bottom of society,and the story vividly depicts the survival state and psychological and ideological process of Carrie.When it was published,it attracted attentions of critics from domestic and abroad at large,and they researched it from different perspectives.But most of their researches discussed from the materialism angle to concern with the expression of Determinism and Darwinism.So far,few people made the research from the topic of Carrie's pursuit of self-achievement and perspective of feminist.Actually,not only did Carrie restrict on the material pursuit,but also boldly in pursuit of the self-achievement of new women.This paper aims at Carrie how to pursue the selfachievement of new women,and the influence of feminist to Chinese modern women.

Katherine Mansfield: A Special Feminist-By a Close Reading of A Dill Pickle

Although Katherine Mansfield never claimed that she was a radical feminist, she showed her concerns and pondered on females through her life of pursuing freedom and independence, her creative writing skills and her short stories. She had her own feminism consciousness and viewpoints. She believed that man and woman were different and living in a different world, and it's very hard to understand and communicate with the other sex. Man dominated the society in the economical and political areas in tradition that they had the speech right and ranked above woman. However, Mansfield saw the hope of the awakening of the feminism awareness.

Feminist Motifs in William Faulkner

As we all know, William Faulkner shows really concern for the Southern people, especially the Southern women who suffer the most. In Faulkner's works women characters play an important role, which is confirmed. After the theories of feminist literary come to understand Faulkner criticism, critics to Faulkner's novels drafting an encouraging response detect the author himself either as a pro-feminist or a misogynist. On analyzing the woman characters through Addie and Lena Grove—the women images in As I Lay Dying and Light in August, we found out that Faulkner is neither simple a pro-feminist nor a misogynist in the patriarchal society.