Gender Studies Essays

In China, it was a common practice to bind women’s feet and turn them into a “three inch golden lotuses” or ‘San Cun Jin Lian’…

Ntozake Shange’s masterly  poem is the most illuminating and poignant story I have ever read about black women in America. The writer puts forth her…

Ethnocentrism is defined as the practice of holding of one’s judgment of another culture based on one’s standards which are based on one’s culture. In…

The debate on gender and technology has been long, and it seems not to be ending soon. The field of technology has mainly been depicted…

How migrant women workers are vulnerable to gendered and sexualized forms of violence and exploitation Women are treated as biological reproducers of a nation. However,…

Introduction For a long time, the society has been confined to believe that the desire for transitioning from one gender to another can only be…

A masterpiece created by Jamaican-American writer Michelle Cliff, published in 1996 reflects the encapsulation as to how Michelle Cliff conceptualizes her identity across gender, history,…

Introduction The ideologies of race, class, as well as gender, are some of the issues that this analysis seeks to examine in regards to the…

The position and image of women in “Things Fall Apart” is an important topic. We could even say that women actually had great power and…

Introduction and motivation The gender pay gap refers to the systemic differences that exist between the remuneration of men’s and women’s earning. The wage imbalance…

In the 1940s, the United States of America experienced the height of social injustices. It was an era in which most of the black Americans…

Introduction Back in the days and era of communism in Europe, women were degraded and treated with contempt as they were regarded as inferior beings….

Equality is one sensitive issue that spurns across all aspects of the living society. Such is to say that there is a kind of inequality…

Introduction With time, there has been rampant and dramatic cultural change most of which is gendered change. Women have always been portrayed as a weaker…

The role of women in military has changed significantly over the past century. Traditional military setups were opposed to the inclusion of women in their…

Bell hooks is one of the notable essayist, feminist, and social activist. Her real name was Gloria Jean Watkins. However, she decided to use the…

Disintegration of the joint family system has led to smaller or nucleus families.  A family today would mean a married couple with their children and…

Summary Social beliefs and attitude construct the idea of ‘gender’. The essay firstly reflects upon the concept of “gender-a social construct”. It is evident that…

Question One Hegemony comes in when there is the assumption that a dominant group has a limited thinking responsible for the limitations placed on oppressed…

Introduction Despite the desolate representation painted in the media, concerning Arab women conditions there is credible evidence that suggests significant progress has been made over…