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FINIAL ARTICLE:

While cultural feminism seems to have been around for some time now, within that time, there have been many criticisms of cultural feminism from other women or other feminists. In her article entitled, "Feminism-by-Design: Emerging Capitalisms, Cultural Feminism, and Women's Nongovernmental Organizations in Postsocialist Eastern Europe," Kristen Ghodsee talks about criticisms of cultural feminism coming form women of color and women of developing countries. She sates that they believe that, "the idea of a global sisterhood erases important differences in power and access to resources among women of varying races, ethnicities, and nationalities" (2004,pg.727). Therefore, we begin to see why some women have issues with cultural feminism. Women of color and women of developing countries in particular have an issue with cultural feminism because they believe that cultural feminism only includes white, upper class women, instead of taking into account women of different color and status.

Along the same idea, other women and feminists have issues with cultural feminism because they believe that, "cultural feminists have not challenged the defining of woman but only the definition given by men"(Blumenthal,1997,pg.11). This means that other women and feminists believe cultural feminists strive for equality for women by going against the definition given by man. However, they also believe that cultural feminists have not defined what it means to be a woman because they continue to only compare their similarities to men, instead of defining and celebrating womanhood.

Overall, it can be seen that women and feminists alike have an issue with cultural feminism, and the idea of cultural feminists not embracing womanhood is seen again in Alice Echols article entitled, "Cultural Feminism: Feminist Capitalism and the Anti-Pornography Movement."In the article Echols talks about male and female sexuality, stating that cultural feminists believe that in order to be respected by men, women should have less sex and they propose," an establishment of a female standard fo sexuality"(1983,pg.52). Ultimately, this leads other women to have an issue because they believe that cultural feminists are so committed to being seen as equal to men, that they oppress women from embracing their sexuality and hold them to a standard as to how much sex they can have.

(Finial Thoughts/My Contributions to the Article)

All in all, this was an interesting assignment. It was interesting to learn about what cultural feminism is. At first when we discussed the assignment, I was going to do a section about cultural feminist and their view on male and female sexuality. However, once I did my first draft, I realized it just did not go well and I could not find enough sources on the topic. Then at the same time, I realized that one of the sources that I had used, had already been used in the original article, so I was stuck. However, after thinking about it, I finally was able to find sources on the criticisms of cultural feminism, and that is what I contributed to this article. I created a new section in the article attributed to the issues/criticisms that cultural feminism has faced. My other group members still have not posted in the actual article, but from our discussions I know that they were going to add more information about the theory and definition of cultural feminism and how it came to be, while I discussed the backlash that cultural feminism has received.

PEER REVIEWS 10/28

For this assignment I will be reviewing the article National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. And the draft I will be looking at is entitled Canada's Gun Laws pre-ecole massacre.

1. This draft does not draw conclusions to try to convince the reader to accept one particular point of view.

2. In this draft, there are not words or phrases that do not feel neutral.

3. The draft does not make claims on behalf of unnamed groups or people

4. This draft does not focus too much on positive or negative information.

5. In this draft, there are no unsourced statements in the article, nor were there statements that were stated in the sources. I looked up the sources and they all checked out.

FIRST DRAFT 10/22

For this first draft, I decided to add a section about Cultural Feminism and its belief on Male and Female Sexuality, since I the ideas to be interesting as I was reading my sources:

When it comes to differences in male and female masculinity, cultural feminists have many ideas. in In her article,Cultural Feminism: Feminist Capitalism and the Anti-Pornography Movement, Alice Echols states that, "Cultural Feminists define male and female sexuality as though they were polar opposites. Male sexuality is driven, irresponsibly, genitally oriented, and potentially lethal. Female sexuality is muted, diffused, and interpersonally oriented" (1983,47). When it comes to male and female sexuality, cultural feminists have also created many writings that are identified by "their denigration of masculinity rather than male roles or practices, by their valorization of female traits, and by their commitment to preserve rather than diminish gender differences" (Alcoff, 1988,411). Therefore, cultural feminists believe that that instead of criticizing male roles and practices, they denote the idea of masculinity and try to empower women and praise femininity.

ADDING TO YOUR ARTICLE 10/07

Cultural Feminism: Ideas on Male and Female Sexuality

In her article,Cultural Feminism: Feminist Capitalism and the Anti-Pornography Movement, Alice Echols states that, "Cultural Feminists define male and female sexuality as though they were polar opposites. Male sexuality is driven, irresponsibly, genitally oriented, and potentially lethal. Female sexuality is muted, diffuse, and interpersonally oriented" (47).

Journal citation: Echols, A. (1983). Cultural Feminism: Feminist Capitalism and the Anti-Pornography Movement. Social Text, (7), 34. doi:10.2307/466453

EVALUATE YOUR ARTICLE: 09/30

Written neutrally .The sources are reliable, but some ideas seem to be underdeveloped. I think the actual theory itself could be developed more in the article, and explain more about how it came to be about and what kind of rights, if any were gained from cultural feminism. I also believe a section about what issues other feminists have with cultural feminism, and what they believe can be improved, could be added to the article.

Source chosen: Cultural Feminism: Feminist Capitalism and the Anti-Pornography Movement; Alice Echols

ARTICLE EVALUATION: (Gender roles in Islam) 09/23

Evaluating Content . Everything in the article is relevant to the article topic . Some of the references listed at the bottom of the article are from ten years ago, so some of the information could now be out of date .I believe that some of the words could be changed to be understood a little more

Evaluating Tone . The article seemed very neutral and did not seem to be heavily biased towards a particular group .I think the interpretations of the Quran/ Modern Viewpoints is overly represented and I do not believe that it need to be talked about as much

Evaluating Sources . Just checking a couple of the links/sources, they did not work. Either that, or it said the page was deleted or no longer available. . Most of the unbiased/reliable information comes from other wikipedia articles that actually had other recourses/ links that worked.

Checking the Talk Page .The conversations mainly deal with what could be added to the article or about ideas that it is missing .This article is rated start class and it is apart of WikiProjects .I feel like Wikipedia goes more into depth with information than we would in class. I believe that it just has a lot more resources, some of which are reliable, others that are not.