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'Woman' what does it mean?

    Artist: Elen Winata 'Woman' what does it mean?  When people called me a woman I used to feel extremely uncomfortable; being refered to as a girl,  lady  or female I was fine with, but the idea of a woman always had a foreign feeling in my gut and settled on my shoulders like a heavy scarf of inadequacy and  unfulfilment. Because a woman was certain things which I was not and I was certain did not characterize me; Nurturing Kind  Gentle  Careful  Modest  Humble    These are a few words I thought defined a 'woman'  While growing up, I associated them with 'women' but not with women I knew; they were the depictions written in obituaries and on birthday pamphlets, in biography's and book summaries however, these were not the significant line of reasoning I linked with the 'women' I knew.  This assemblage shaped the pillar of my knowledge of who a woman was, what she  ought to be  like and what sh...
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Welcome to Ajequality

Hello! How are you? Welcome to Ayequality, we hope you’ll stick around and enjoy our various articles centred on feminism and gender. We don’t claim to know all the answers, but we hope we can provide a little insight. The Welcome Note With the recent wave of gender enthusiast, it is easy to suppose the world has grown abreast to the concept of Feminism; but as with every era of change, society is still in a dilemma  when it comes to the feminist's agenda. It is shocking to realize the rate in which most individuals are lacking in relation to accessing the totality of the feminist movement; as well as the extent to which they have disillusioned feminism to encompass a series of angry hypocritical man-haters standing on opposite sides of the notion's initial inception - Equality. Gender based equality. Gender; a unique word absent in literary  terms until the 70's, but it's impact is evident as a social construct determining sex ro...
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Feminism and the war

Image Source: www.stylist.co.uk Feminist not Man-Hater: Feminism  and the War When dealing with feminism one must understand that like every movement, this phenomenon is prone to human interpretation which has caused its representation to vary along the lines of individual differences. Thus leading to the establishment of various theories and principles which have been upheld as the feminist agenda. But nowhere along these lines thorough my research has the notion of men-hatred been the order of the day. Feminism is a war on Patriarchy and misogamy  which paraphrase as the oppression of women by a society doctored  to uphold 'masculinity'. Feminism came into existence to create equality, similar to the notion of egalitarian , but only focusing on sex (not religion or race) as a prerequisite . Artist: Federica Bordoni The feminist movement was set to uplift women from a society which views women as second or inferior to men, proving that the as...
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Feminist not man Hater

Artist: Sara Anderasson  Feminist, not Man-Hater. There is much propaganda when it comes to the term  feminism  as well as the guiding principles governing the feminist movement/agenda; w ith several phrases hovering like metaphoric dark clouds, it is no surprise that it can be very confusing for individuals to identify with the movement. In a BBC article by Dr. Christina Scharff, a senior lecturer in culture, media, and creative industries at King's College London. Scharff discovered that in popular feminist geo- zones  such as the US and Europe, some women did not feel the term 'feminist' resonated with them. This might be as a result of the wrongful depiction and stereotypes attached to the movement. Man-Hater. Angry. Delusional Lesbians. Misplaced priorities; all these and many other fabulous phrases have been coined when it comes to addressing the feminist agenda as well as individuals who battle for equality among the sexes. 'A   lot...
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