Essays on Women'S Rights

As I came across a historical portal, I discovered a dress of a young girl no older than 6 years of age. I placed hands on the small and delicate dress that is from approximately 200 years ago, and couldn’t make out its color under…

“Why have there been no great women artist?” is the title of a celebrated 1971 article composed Linda Nochlin. A renown educator of History of Art who studied at Vassar College receiving various mentions of honor amid her vocation. Linda contends to uncover extraordinary overlooked…

From the era of 1800’s, women created a powerful role in the molding of this world and till this day, they have been pushed to the side and made less. They were forced to only watch this country progress while they were being rejected the…

In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, both playwrights have shed light on the struggles women face to establish their place in the patriarchal society. While in A Doll’s House women finally triumph over patriarchy, in A Streetcar Named Desire, they…

For a long time, women have been not be recognized, and this has led to them raising their voices to make their grievances addressed. Women did not have the right to vote and were denied the powers. They used to live in a world dominated…

Introduction Feminism can be traced back to seventeenth century (Minitz, Close and Croci 2018, 77) with a common goal to achieve equality among both the sexes and this movement slowly spread all around the world with many different voices being raised time after time. From…

‘The control of women and babies has been a feature of every repressive regime on the planet.’ This statement by Margaret Atwood in her new introduction to the 2017 version of A Handmaid’s Tale rings true through two key themes, women’s bodies and reproduction, within…

Humans have come a long way from the ‘savages’ we read about in our books. They moved on into a more regulated and ordered society with the arrival of civilization which involved the formation of legal institutions and the monopoly of force by government. It…

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” ― Gloria Steinem Sexism, in a layman’s words, is prejudice or discrimination based on a person’s gender. Unfortunately, it is spread quite vividly amongst today’s generation; whether it is on…

This year, I again watched my phone buzz with headlines that Anukreethy Vas has been crowned the new Femina Miss India 2018 just a year after Manushi Chillar won the ‘prestigious’ crown and then went on to make our country proud by striking gold at…