(Part 2) Best women studies according to redditors
We found 123 Reddit comments discussing the best women studies. We ranked the 60 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Civil Rights in the 60's were bad for black people m'kay?
Feminism: A one stop train to becoming a prostitute and hating families!
Because people killing each other in the Middle East is a GOOD thing.
Only rich white people can write good things.
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The USFG caused the Great depression. More specifically FDR.
Oh right, and capitalism had NOTHING to do with the Depression. At all.
The South WASN'T actually racist. Nope, they had Jesus on their side too. Also, you gave up your vacations in Cuba, you Yankee bastards.
Conservatives are the only real Americans! Everyone else is a dirty communist spy!
If you question the Bible, you question liberty and tolerance and reason.
Roman history is EXACTLY the same as US history. Also, the Middle Ages were the Age of Reason.
The Founding Fathers were conservatives. And totally supported the South in the Civil War, even though they were dead.
Evolution never happened!
And, of course... The US should be a Christian theocracy with slaves.
There's a chapter in the Laura Bates book Everyday Sexism that discusses this phenomenon in relation to discrimination against women. It makes for illuminating reading as the flipside to NachoShield - any axis of privilege becomes another source of ammunition.
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everyday sexism book
fabulous and feminist tee
Just did a quick search for "Fifty shades of..." on Amazon and found these:
Fifty Sheds of GreyEDIT: Did notice that it actually said "a parody" (very subtle) on the coverAll with a similar tonality to their cover, and all fail to mention that they're a parody or similar.
EDIT: All this on the first four pages (of 20)
From the article...
>Couples will often insist that the man is the head of the household even when he doesn’t seem to be checking any of the traditional boxes. When I ask how it’s possible that he should retain the title without any of the attending duties, I almost always get some version of the same answer: If anyone threatened us, he would rescue us. If someone broke into the house, I would call him. If anything happened to the children, if a fire, if a tornado, etc.
This passage reminded me of a book I read recently by a feminist that said that the only way women could ever see themselves as equals to men is if we were raised to fight and defend ourselves and our loved ones in the same fashion that men are. The author was very critical of what she termed "victimization feminism" and said that it made women feel even more weak, passive, powerless, and therefore reliant on men. She also advocated that all women take self-defense classes and compared it to learning how to swim. She even wrote that "you can no more control the actions of rapists than the force of the water." (paraphrased)
I found her book interesting in part because, on the one hand, many of her arguments sound concurrent with what girlwriteswhat says, but she also used "feminist" concepts in other parts of the book that I don't think the latter would like all that much.
The book is written for women in mind, but if anyone here wants to read it, here it is.
> Now Flip The Sexes & See If You Could Even Publish It On Amazon?
Well, you can't flip the sexes exactly, but despite the news that Amazon had apparently removed a number of books by Daryush 'Roosh V' Valizadeh, a very quick Amazon search shows that there is more than enough coming the other way, as it were:
And, surprisingly in a way, given the recent fuss:
You're funny.
You realize that, in one sentence, you deny that you were calling all feminist morons, and the, at the end, you imply that all feminists are anti-man. This is the same sort of ad hominem fallacy you've already made, and you need to back up these universal assertions with sufficient evidence! You've just exchanged one dubious universal claim with another. Quite irrational, to be honest.
You've also oversimplified the issue into a simple "pro vs. anti" dualism that doesn't do justice to the debate at all. Do you think there is only one "brand" of feminism? The past 100 years of feminist thought have been all about discussing just what feminism is and should be. Read a book. Here's one you can start with. Easy read, good summary of the whole feminist discussion up until about 1989.
I can just hear your response, now. "No, I'm not gonna even take a look at any of your 'so-called' feminist shit! Propaganda, propaganda!!!"
You need to learn to take a little criticism, and learn to engage calmly and rationally, without sensationalizing an issue and turning a sarcastic retort (the video you originally posted) into something it really isn't. What, do you think the response to the commercial is some sort of feminist manifesto? It was meant to be humorous, and for me, it succeeded in being so; the looks on those women's faces screamed "you've got to be kidding me," as if they were watching the original commercial. I giggled.
Hi! Former Studies in Women and Gender (SWAG) major here. I absolutely loathed the first class I took and thought it was a bunch of bullshit. Fast forward to present day - I ended up doing SWAG as a double major with sociology, started working in a hospital setting, now work as an RN, and proudly call myself a feminist (as my username suggests). I would highly, highly recommend it to anyone who wants to expand their horizons and critical thinking skills. Although I'm now a nurse working on a graduate degree, I find that I use the skills I gained in that curriculum every day.
To answer your questions more specifically:
-Women's studies can lead to a lot of different career fields (social work, nursing, counseling, academic tracks, etc.) but I think it is probably best to double major and pair it with another, more vocational degree if possible. Ultimately, it can be tough to find a job with ANY liberal arts degree, so you have to take care of yourself while you pursue your interests academically.
If I may recommend a further reading - Feminist Thought by Rosemarie Tong completely changed my worldview and helped me understand feminism and why I identify myself as a feminist. It's available used for $5 on Amazon. :)
https://www.amazon.com/Feminist-Thought-Comprehensive-Introduction-third/dp/B006QNN5UW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1497922840&sr=8-4&keywords=feminist+theory+rosemarie+tong
If you want to support the author
http://www.amazon.com/Stole-Feminism-Christina-Hoff-Sommers/dp/B00135G40Q/
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour (Critique Influence Change)
Women, Race, & Class
Wages Against
Housework
Vandana Shiva has discussed at length the impacts of Monsanto on her native country.
Check out her words in Feminist Politics Activism and Vision for the full article, sources included.
The problem, in essence, is that Monsanto has claimed to have property rights on seeds, which forces farmers to use expensive terminator seeds that must be purchased annually.
This displaces the farming done primarily by women into the hands of large corporate farms, forcing women who have relied on farming for generations further into poverty.
This is my therapist’s book and it has been immensely helpful for me. It has some spiritual references (no religion or any particular ideology), which I found comforting - just a heads up because I know not everyone relates to that. The book has helped me so much.
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Choices-Teachings-Linda-Weber/dp/1591811740/ref=nodl_#aw-udpv3-customer-reviews_feature_div
I think, depending on how you feel you could handle yourself, that asking her questions about it might be really helpful (this is assuming she does want to talk about it). If she's down and you're able to assume a position that's more about listening to her explain her rationale and feelings before, during, and after (and keeping comments down and your facial reactions neutral), it might have a positive effect on helping you feel closer to her and more understanding, even if you still feel like it was a wrong and immoral choice.
If neither of you are in a place where that conversation wouldn't turn into something undesirable, my recommendation would be to turn to someone else to bounce your feelings off of. They can sometimes be hard to get through to, but I can't recommend Exhale Pro-Voice's hotline enough- it's a place you can talk to someone about abortion, regardless of your stance on it, and they can help you to sort of untangle the emotions you're going through.
Barring that, reading stories from other women who have had abortions might help if you can't directly talk to your sister about it. If struggling to understand why she did what she did is the main issue, then gathering up that information can really aid you in processing it. There are so many individual stories and situations and reasons for abortion, but the more you absorb and take in, the more you're able to understand and empathize, even when you ultimately still disagree. It's something I recommend for everybody, pro-choice or pro-life. Some places to start:
r/abortion
1 in 3 Campaign
My Abortion, My Life
Pregnancy Choices Directory
We Testify
The Abortion Diary (really great if you like podcasts or being able to listen to women tell their stories)
The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion
May Cause Love: A Memoir by Kassi Underwood
Also with plant books like these
>While the one-child policy is awful, I think it's important to note that until the preference for sons is addressed, sex-selective abortion will still exist
True! Though I speculate (hopefully) that there will be less pressure to abort without the overall pressure to have fewer children.
Re: the link, CNN has a pretty consistent pro-population control lean, so I'd be wary of their reporting on this subject generally.
That said, even this article isn't particularly positive: if the only reason the "missing girls" aren't missing is because people ignored or dodged the law means that the law - and society - are still very broken. I'm not comfortable with the suggestion that "Everything is OK because the girls are secretly still alive", which is the sense I get from the article.
The book mentioned in the article in the OP (The Abolition of Woman: How Radical Feminism Is Betraying Women) goes into this in more detail.
It's been a while since I read it but there was some interesting information in this book.
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Her conduct has nothing in particular to do with her gender, which is precisely the point. Both men and women are quite capable of dirty politics, but some people hold romantic notions that if women ruled the world, things would be better for example, this book. We should realize that having a woman in high office is no panacea to cure all of the world's ills, and that dirty politics and injustice will persist regardless of the gender of our elected officials.
Como já te disseram, eu também não conheço muita gente que odeia os direitos mulheres, mas conheço muita gente que odeia o feminismo moderno, e são coisas infelizmente completamente diferentes. Recomendo a leitura deste livrinho Who Stole Feminism?, que explica como é que um movimento que inicialmente tinha boas intenções se destruiu a si mesmo. Mais recentemente, o documentários "The Red Pill" também explora o mesmo tema, mas de outra perspectiva.
Tanto online como offline toda a gente que procure sabe onde me situo nestas brincadeiras. Eu admito que ainda haja opressão contra as mulheres em vários campos, sobretudo socialmente, mas também existe contra o sexo masculino, não há exclusividades.
E a verdade é que não há ninguém a lutar pela igualdade. O movimento feminista diz que sim, que estão a lutar por todos, ainda estou para ver uma medida pela que lutem da qual não beneficiem diretamente. E essa conversa do "Sim, tu és homem/mulher/preto/branco, mas eu é que sei o que é melhor para ti" enjoa. E o movimento dos direitos dos homens é basicamente um movimento anti-feminista mas que não faz nada produtivo tirando ser do contra.
Em relação ao pessoal LGBT, para mim é para o lado que durmo melhor. Não me afectam minimamente, façam o que entenderem. Vivam e deixem viver, não me cabe a mim dizer-lhes como viver a vida deles.
Isto é um assunto extremamente tóxico, nota-se pelo teu comentário, e isso para mim representa a carga tóxica que existe dos extremos. Faz falta um terceiro movimento, mais hippie, realmente igualitário e que saiba lutar por si sem estar sempre a insultar este e aquele. Um movimento que não catalogue as pessoas por raça ou gênero ou ideologia mas que parta de um respeito básico dado a todo o ser humano.
Estou feliz que finalmente a comunidade "SJW" e a "anti-SJW" começam a abrir as portas ao diálogo. São as duas igualmente más.
EDIT: Downvotes sem argumentos só provam tudo o que disse. Demonstram incapacidade em ter discussões lógicas.