I wanted to know more about women’s inequality, how artists were fighting for justice through their art, the message behind their artworks, what stands for, and how it affects the movements. In this project, I would explore more into detail from different websites and sources. To be successful, I will put more effort and do more research as possible and understand more about the topic.

Show that you have learned: Choose three posts/reading responses that you have done that were most important or impactful to you. What about them or the week’s topic was most important to your understanding of feminism, or the world more generally? Has your definition of feminism changed? If so, how?

Blog posts that were important to me were blog post 13, blog post 12, and blog post 9. Those were important to me because I have a chance to read Toni Morrison’s book and making critical analysis from class reading. This helps me explore and learn more about feminism and the history involving racism, discrimination, and injustice. Understand and realize what women have been through back in the day was incredible to me. It was sad to see how’s women were being treated differently because of their gender. This course has open-minded me more about feminism history, how it has changed over time and teaches me to respect what we have accomplished now and appreciated women even more.

Book Report—tell us about the Morrison book you read. Give us plot details and major characters, but also a spoiler alert if necessary. Draw connections between Morrison’s essay Playing in the Dark and the book you read.

`In the book, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, the story starts with two nine-year-old Claudia, and ten-year-old Frieda MacTeer lives in Ohio. The story’s setting is at the end of the depression, where their parents were more concerned about money than buying everything that their children want. Her dad was also an alcoholic, and her women didn’t care about them. Pecola was admired at Shirley Temple, she believes that if she has white skin and blue eyes, then everyone would love her, and she considers herself as ugly. The plot of The Bluest Eye is focusing on the problems with racism that happen to people of color.
The connections between The Bluest Eye and Playing in the Dark is that both described their character horrific memories and experience, and how discrimination and past experience affect them throughout their life.

What is material feminism and what does it offer that we haven’t yet seen? (use the texts and your annotation from hypothesis as an example)

Material feminism means putting an expectation of a certain gender should act and talk everyday life in a society. For example from the text, the author discuss about how society stereotype women to be working at home, perceive them as less than man. Material feminism is to understand women oppression, fight for their justice to be free like everyone.

During this semester, I’ve learned a lot about feminism. I gained a lot of insight on what feminism actually is, instead of what society makes it out to be. I also read a lot of material that I enjoyed, and bought books that were recommended, to read in the future. The three posts/reading reviews that I have done that impacted me the most are blog posts 8, 11, and 13. Blog post 8 because it changed my outlook on feminism. The media always showed feminism as white women, whose agendas are for solely themselves. But this post showed me that there are people that want white feminists to be held accountable for their racism. Blog Post 11 impacted me because it enlightened me on the fact that gender is a performance. Everything we do, for the most part, is formed from societal practice and standards. Blog Post 13 introduced me to a book that changed my whole outlook in life. It showed me that people have it way worse than I do, and I should be grateful. It also emphasized the fact that people need help, especially children. Overall, these readings and others, have significantly impacted my life for the better.