Assignment on Gender Domination PDF
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Assignment on Gender Domination PDF
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Running head: GENDER DOMINATIONGENDER DOMINATIONName of the student:Name of University:Author Note:
GENDER DOMINATION1Article 1.In the article ‘Kate Millett's Sexual Politics: 40 years on’ the author Sheila Jeffreyshas referred to the feminist viewpoint of Kate Millett. Kate’s book ‘Sexual Politics’ waspublished in the USA (Jeffreys, 2011). This book has explained the concept of sexual politicswhich gave birth of the social theory of feminism as well as the effect of male domination inthe society. The author of this article Sheila Jeffreys regards that this book which once taughtthe society to perceive the incidents from a feminist perspective is essential to reveal theactual facet of the male dominated progressive society. Kate’s work was so very powerfulthat The Time magazine termed her to be the Mao Tse Tung of the liberation of women.However, this changed era has buried Kate’s work and predominately because she revealedthe practice of sexual dominance in subordinating of women that she developed as pro-sexfeminist politics in her work. The author of this article has referred to the importance of Kate Millett’s work as thisfocused on the sexual practice erected out of the patriarchal power relations. It both reflectedas well as served to uphold the male domination in the progressive society. The book by KateMillett was writer before the invention of video pornography. She had written in the era whenthe women sexuality was used as an object of trade in various magazines but in 21th centurythe position of women has been much degrades as their sexuality is being presented as amerchandise. Millett’s work raised the voice of women to attain sexual freedom which wasoriginated from the concept of women suppression and masculine biases in the sections ofanthropology, history, sociology even in literature produced by the prominent male writer ofthat time. In the works of these male authors there were several instances that Kate found andcriticised scatological language used against women. This article has referred to the novels
GENDER DOMINATION2and other works of the contemporary authors of Kate and exemplified the concern of KateMillett. On the other hand, Jeffreys has perceived and harmonized misogynist concept withthe contemporary pornography industry. The time when ‘Sexual Politics’ was written, this pornography industry was ininfancy and frequented by a smaller group of men with putrid psychology. Jeffreys hasdemonstrated the extent to which this has been introduced into the mainstream sections of thesociety. The dominance of sexuality and pornography have been entering into the day to daybusiness of the major corporations including the fashion industries, entertainment and musicindustries. Article 2:This article ‘The sex industry and business practice: An obstacle to women's equality’by Sheila Jeffreys clearly points to the deep connection between the sex industry and businesssuccess (Jeffreys, 2010). After the world wars, the society has been transformed greatly butthe situation of women is in the same darkness. This article focuses on the concept ofrewarding the successful employees with entertainments like visit to the brothel and stripclubs. The author has contrasted the effort of normalisation of the prostitution industry withthe struggle for equal opportunities of women in the contemporary society. With the growthof industrialisation and globalisation, the prostitution industry has been accepted as one of themost significant place for personal and business growth. The author has denoted the prostitution industry to have some aspects that areimmensely powerful to shift the focus from the issues like equal opportunity of the women intheir workplaces to growth of opportunism in business. The brothels and strip clubs havebecome a place for business conference and conventions where the women are beingemployed to entertain the male executives. These women working as prostitutes, are hired to
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