The anime and manga I will be discussing is Revolutionary Girl Utena. Revolutionary Girl Utena created in 1997 by group called B-Papas with director Ikuhara Kunihiko who was also responsible for Sailor Moon. “Utena features shimmering pastel graphics, zany humor, and appealing Shojo characters, but its content is far more adult” (Napier 172). Revolutionary Girl Utena is a metaphysical surreal allegorical series. A quick background of the story is Revolutionary Girl Utena revolves around the progantist Utena, a tomboyish girl who dresses as prince and has a prince-like personality. Which she decide from her childhood when she was an impressed by a kind prince leading to the decision to dress and express herself in that manner. She, Utena, attends
Ohtori Academy a European styled school. Here she meet Anthy Himemiya a girl who is in an abusive relationship with a student. Utena fights to protect Anthy who is also known as the “Rose Bride” leading to duels with the Student Council members to protect Anthy. It stated that whoever wins the duel will possess the Rose Bride and will receive power to revolutionize the world. Anthy Himemiya past and current personality are both tragic and sinister. Her personality switches between selfless love, cruelty, passive-aggressiveness, and learned helplessness. Akio Ohtori is Anthy older brother, who is the acting chairman of the academy and the antagonist of the anime and manga. He has an incestuous relationship with Anthy and is very power-driven, we learn in the series that he is highly abusive which is the essential part of why she has these types of behavior.
The first primary source I chose was written by Margaret Sanger. Margaret was a white woman that came from a working class family. She also had a very strong background in being an advocate for women's rights to birth control. Sanger even lander herself in jail for giving contraceptives to women. Margaret’s background with birth control might have influenced her writings because she had a first hand experience with the subject. This source is informative and the intended audience is for all women. Knowing that the audience is directed toward woman helps me know what perspective to look at her writing. The document is about woman’s freedom over her body. The document talks about how women
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence. By Carol Berkin (New York: Vintage Books, 2006). 194 pp. Reviewed by Melissa Velazquez, October 12, 2015.
In countless circumstances, especially in the work force, there are oppressors and there are those who are oppressed against. If one chooses to permit the act of being demoted upon then they will continue to be underestimated and continue to be mistreated. For those who are petrified of speaking out regarding unjust situations they endure, there are people that are willing to promote and try to stop the unjust ways people face when working. Generally in the society we live in today, men do not think women are in any way superior or could make a difference; whether that be in politics or the type of profession that women chooses to practice. Certain people cannot comprehend or step out of this negative critical view point they have towards women because of what they believe is correct and because they picture women as useless objects that should not be taken seriously. You do not hear about many women activists, but there is an abundant amount that actually stepped fourth to alter their community for the ones they care about. Yet Dolores Huerta is a Hispanic female who strived for improving the rules in regards to the way people treat their employers. There was an abundant amount of Mexican-Americans that were being mistreated and were expected to work long periods of hours in the heat, which were farm laborers; all that pain and struggle to receive barely enough to support your family off of. She knew it would take various extents of struggle and sacrifice to reach the goal of altering the union workforce regulations. Dolores Huerta, alongside Cesar Chavez pursued this goal non-violently in order to better the employers because she knew it not only affected them but their families as well. While Dolores Huerta is known as a Hispa...
In the novel Life of a Sensuous Woman, Ihara Saikaku depicts the journey of a woman who, due to voraciously indulging in the ever-seeking pleasure of the Ukiyo lifestyle, finds herself in an inexorable decline in social status and life fulfillment. Saikaku, utilizing characters, plot, and water imagery, transforms Life of a Sensuous Woman into a satirically critical commentary of the Ukiyo lifestyle: proposing that it creates a superficial, unequal, and hypocritical society.
Ihara Saikaku’s Life of a Sensuous Woman written in the 17th century and Mary Woolstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman written in the 18th century are powerful literary works that advocated feminism during the time when women were oppressed members of our societies. These two works have a century old age difference and the authors of both works have made a distinctive attempt to shed a light towards the issues that nobody considered significant during that time. Despite these differences between the two texts, they both skillfully manage to present revolutionary ways women can liberate themselves from oppression laden upon them by the society since the beginning of humanity.
During the American Revolution, not only did men have to face the struggles of war time atmosphere, but women had to as well. The country during the war was divided into three different groups of people; the loyalists, the patriots and the remaining people who did not care. Catherine Van Cortlandt, a loyalist had to endure different struggles then the patriot women Eliza Pinckney and Abigail Adams. However, parts of their stories are similar when it came to their family struggles.
Genres are one of the first things readers look at to help determine whether or not a book should be read. Although there are many similarities between the genres shounen (manga intended for males) and shoujo (manga intended for females) that make a manga seem like it could be either genre, there are differences that are meant to distinguish between their respective audiences. As a more specific example, the shared themes of fighting, love, and superhuman powers as well as the character in Black Cat and Sailor Moon suggest a similar genre and audience; however, upon closer inspection, subtle differences between the use of these themes and characters in each manga reveal that the intended audiences are the opposite.
Mrs. Jackson was ordered north in the fall of 1863. All of her possessions and
In the 1600s, Sor Juana Inez Cruz, a nun in the Convent of the Order of St Jerome, wrote a critique of a sermon that was delivered some forty years earlier. Her paper was critical of a preachers’ message regarding Christ and His love for mankind. Cruz’s critique was subsequently published by the Bishop of Puebla without her consent or knowledge. Additionally, the bishop wrote his own letter to Sor Juana using the fabricated name of Filotea de la Cruz. In his letter, the bishop describes a conversation between two nuns, one insisting that the other spend her time and abilities attending to religious matters alone, while forsaking intellectual pursuits (Norton 247). As a response to the bishop’s actions, Sor Juana wrote, “The Poets Answer to the Most Illustrious Sor Filotea de la Cruz”, a humble, intelligent, and tactful response, where she responded, “I have attempted to entomb my intellect together with my name and to sacrifice it to the One who gave it to me; and that no other motive brought me to the life of religion…” (Ines De Le Cruz, Sor Juana 252). Her response to the Bishop of Puebla grew from her distaste of his stance against a woman’s right to a secular education. In Cruz’s time, and as a rule, women were not allowed to pursue an education outside of the religious confines of the nunnery. As a result, the overseers of the convent did all they could to put Cruz to silence (Paz 263).?? Also, Cruz’s “Philosophical Satire”, which describes the unacceptable behavior of the men when it comes to a woman’s right to be treated fairly, reads, “....if, with eagerness unequaled, you plead against women’s disdain, why require them to do well when you inspire them to f...
Known predominantly for their eloquence hand-drawn techniques and austere beauty storytelling, Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films continue to prevail highly acclaimed and admired throughout Japan and all parts of the world. With a career that supervises Japan’s most prominent animation film studio, Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki has occupied on the role of producer, screenwriter, animator, film director, and manga artist. Though, beyond the innovative and artistic value of Miyazaki’s greatest films are the consistent, and often concealed, feminist motifs that render female characters as protagonists; which other animated films may contempt to unfold due to social circumstances, lack of budget, and other conditions. Of Miyazaki’s thirteen archetype animated
Winge, Theresa (2006) “Costuming the Imagination: Origins of Anime and Manga Cosplay.” Mechademia (1): 65-76.
When she was young her maid, Mehri, fell in love with a neighbor but because she was not in his social class, the love was “impossible” as Marji’s father put it (37). This causes Marji to realize the despair social classes bring which leads Marji to her first demonstration and major act of rebellion (34-39). Marjane describes her desire to be like Marie Curie, an independent, women scientist who went against what was sociably acceptable at her time. This idolization shows Marji’s want to be educated and independent even at the risk of cancer (73). Marji realizes that even though Curie died as a result of her work, at least she was not afraid to be different, and at least she did not stop just because she was a woman. Marji watches her neighbors turn from modern, “miniskirt” wearing women to completely conforming and wearing a “chador” (75). Marji sees how religious laws have changed the people she once considered friends and is determined not to let them change her individuality. Marji is constantly trying to display her individuality, but after she is stopped by the two women from the guardians of the revolution and called a “whore” for wearing a jean jacket, pin, tennis shoes and jeans, Marji’s desire to become more western increases. The Guardians, instead of making her straighten up only give Marji more of an incentive to be rebellious and westernize (134).
Beginning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century women began to vocalize their opinions and desires for the right to vote. The Women’s Suffrage movement paved the way to the nineteenth Amendment in the United States Constitution that allowed women that right. The Women’s Suffrage movement started a movement for equal rights for women that has continued to propel equal opportunities for women throughout the country. The Women’s Liberation Movement has sparked better opportunities, demanded respect and pioneered the path for women entering in the workforce that was started by the right to vote and given momentum in the late 1950s.
dream, of how the angels told her what she had to do with her life. It
The novel contains shocking themes set in a dystopian society where women are essentially slaves to the patriarchy, however, I felt that many of the ideas in the novel have a disturbingly contemporary feel. Drawing on this inspiration, my idea was to mix conservative features with more risqué features, for example heavy, draped trousers are shown alongside an almost transparent dress. The entire collection is red due to the connotations I feel this colour holds; anger, passion, sexuality, menstruation and pain. I really wanted to portray this idea of restriction and freedom at the same time so I chose to use restrictive shapes in non-restrictive, stretchy materials. As a whole, the collection aims to highlight issues of feminism whilst remaining wearable and empowering to the