Emily Dickinson’s “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun” may be read as a reflection of a certain paradox which shapes the female gender role in a patriarchal society. Namely, on the one hand, as is made explicit in Dickinson’s key imagery of this poem of the “loaded gun”,...

The themes in the articles about and by Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell and Sojourner Truth present a complicated image of the early stages of debate and activism regarding the rights of black women in America. Some surprising threads and themes are the discriminatory attitudes that are displayed regarding...

Rush Limbaugh is the master of the logical fallacy. It is unfortunate that his entire radio broadcasts cannot be interleaved with warnings for the various logical fallacies that he uses each day. In the current excerpt, the first fallacy is that, “Feminism was established so that unattractive women could have...

It is of course possible for women to read literature and not adopt a militant feminist perspective. There are countless millions women who read all sorts of literature in school and in their spare time who do not recognize or notice the reasons why they should be adopting a feminist...

The Feminist Movement is a movement that began in the 19th century, women tired of not having the same rights as men and being treated as inferior to their male counterparts. The first stage of the Feminist Movement focused mainly on helping women get the right to vote, known as...