feminisme

The Joy Luck Club is a movie that is based on Amy Tan's best-selling novel on 1989. This movie is a 1993 American film that tells the story of four older women who were born in China but then, they eventually moved to America for some reasons. These four women, moving in to America, and live in San Francisco. Four of them regularly meet each other to do activities like playing mahjong, eating together and tell stories. Since each of them has an adult Chinese-American daughter, they love to share their own family stories and compare it between them. All of them have the same experience of their journey and the same reason on why they moved to the San Francisco, the place where they met each other. However, in sharing stories of their families among them, there are some stories that is not revealed. The reason why they (mothers) moved to San Francisco is because they want to fight for their daughters, they want to have a better life, and want to raise their daughters perfectly, in...

Rokeya Shekhawat Hossain, a Muslim feminist writer was born in 1880 in Bangladesh during the time of British colonial rule. She has to wear purdah, the strict rule practiced by the women those days believed that women need to be secluded from society. Other than known as a writer, she is also a social reformer, dedicated her life to education and the empowerment of women. Thus, she did not believe in the idea of seclusion of women in society. Going against the norm in society, lots of criticism that she had to go through but the support from her brothers and husband gave her strength to stay in her path and that inspire her to write more.             Sultana’s dream is one of her famous work of feminism, was originally published in The Indian Ladies’ Magazine, Madras, in 1905, in English. The short story is about a feminist utopia, where women are the supreme and men are banished. The story is set in a ‘man-less’ world, the wor...

Rupi Kaur: Biography: Rupi Kaur is a writer and artist based in Toronto Canada. At the age of 5 she began to draw and paint- a hobby picked up from her mother. Being an immigrant from India she was unable to speak in English with the other children at school. This naturally meant a lot more time alone. But once she picked up the language books became her best friends. She drew until the age of 17 when she began to sway more toward her passion for writing and performing instead. The year was 2009. And her first performance was in the basement of ‘Punjabi community health center’ in Milton. For years it went like this. Writing pages and pages of poetry on end. Performing pages and pages of poetry across Canada for the years to come. And then in November 2014 she self-published her first collection titled ‘milk and honey’. Her passion is expression. She just uses different mediums at different times to do so. And poetry is just one of those mediums. Along with it she dabbles...

If ‘ Plain Jane’ is ever sprang from the character of Miss Eyre, I might need my entire life span to fathom how it may so.             It is remarkably astonishing how this masterpiece was written 143 years ago yet there is nothing in the book, as a lady, is not relatable. Charlotte beautifully created a world of Jane where people, like myself, lives in it and finds no door to retreat. I am unable to recall any dull moments in the book. Each complex sentences are filled with sensual images and overflowed emotions. The tensions are all beautiful tensions. One you willingly offers yourself to go through because apparently she is Jane, and I am absolutely in love with her.             I find that the story leaves irremovable mark in my heart not only because of Charlotte’s writing fashion, but after all, the value and how Jane speaks to me and what she taught me. Jane’s chi...