Feminism Defined

Article Review # 101641

Feminism Defined

The paper examines the articles, "Third wave Feminism: Antiracists, Transnationalists and Young Feminists Speak Out" by Angela Miles, Goli Rezai-Rashti and Lisa Byrn Rundle and the article "Women's Political Citizenship: Different and Equal" by Ruth Liste

1,397 words () | 2 sources | MLA | 2008 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper looks at two articles with the goal of finding a workable definition of feminism. The paper examines "Third wave Feminism: Antiracists, Transnationalists and Young Feminists Speak Out" by Miles, Rezai-Rashti and Rundle and "Women's Political Citizenship: Different and Equal" by Lister. The writer concludes with a definition of a feminist.

From the Paper:

"At first sight, the two articles, "Third wave Feminism: Antiracists, Transnationalists, and Young Feminists Speak Out" by Miles, Rezai-Rashti, and Rundle, and Lister's article "Women's Political Citizenship: Different and Equal," seem to be very different. However, I found that in the course of reading the two articles I was able to make considerable progress towards answering a key question that is of acute importance to me, i.e. "What is feminism?" This might seem like a facile question, but in fact it is not. For it goes to the very heart of why one would choose to be a feminist at all. Unless the term "feminist" has some real meaning in today's world, there would be no point in being a feminist. I am frequently confronted with this question, when friends ask me why I am a feminist."

Sample of Sources Used:

Lister, Ruth. "Women's Political Citizenship: Different and Equal." Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives. New York: New York University Press, 1997.
Miles, Angela, Rezai-Rashti, Goli, and Rundle, Lisa Bryn. "Third wave Feminism: Antiracists, Transnationalists, and Young Feminists Speak Out." Feminist issues: Race, Class, and Sexuality. Ed. Nancy Mandell, 1-21. Toronto, ON: Pearson Education Canada, 2001.