After reading this week’s readings, I’d like to be honest and say that I was completely ignorant about the whole women’s rights movement. I remember in high school I was only told about Mary Wollstonecraft, who thought she was the originator of the entire women’s rights movement. Which in part is so, but Wollstonecraft was not the only one who was in that process but also people like Jeremy Bentham, Marquis de Condorcet, and Olympe de Gouges. Who also contributed their thoughts regarding the movement for women’s rights. As well as the fact that women in her time did not have the power to vote either. Which was something very unfair for the simple fact that they did not have a voice to choose or say what they wanted in their time. Also, I was very surprised by the fact that women’s rights were created by specific areas/states of the country instead of having been given to everyone at the same time. This week’s readings were seriously very informative in explaining to us what actually happened, and what everyone is going through even now. I was very surprised, the fact of what cultural hegemony is and how it is more like symbolic violence, that it is created by the same domination of society, a diverse culture, or even by some ruling class. The truth is that I did not know anything about this term, and it was very interesting to be able to know and read about it, since as I see it now it is something that all people should know so as not to submit to this mistake (to make it).now so as not to submit to this mistake (to make it).
Food Zheng – Reflection 6
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