PROJECT 3: FEMINISM AND

EMPOWERMENT
By Sabrina Green

THESIS

Marginalized individuals must come

together as one to overcome the struggles
of othering that society presents to them.

DEFINITIONS

Empowerment: Policies and measures

designed to increase the degree of autonomy
and self-determination in the lives of people
and in communities in order to enable them
to represent their interests in a responsible
and self-determined way, acting on their own
authority.
Privilege: A special right, advantage, or
immunity granted or available only to a
particular person or group of people.

DEFINITIONS CONT.

Misfit: Someone or something that does

not fit in with others in society
Other: View or treat (a person or group
of people) as intrinsically different from
and alien to oneself.

GARLAND-THOMSON:
MISFITTING

the discrepancy between body and world,

that which is expected and that which is,
produces fits and misfits (Garland-Thomson
593).
Who is anyone to say that you do not fit in
with society? Maybe THEY are the ones that
do not fit in.
They call it social norms (the rules of
behavior that are considered acceptable in a
group or society.)

QUOTE

"I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly

what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay."
Madonna
According to society, women are not allowed to
open their mouths about any thing if it does
not have to do with pleasing a man in some
way. Women are referred to as bitches any
time they give an opinion about something.

WENDELL: THEORY OF
DISABILITY

This theory should be feminist, because

more than half of disabled people are
women and approximately 16% of women
are disabled (Wendell 826).

Disabled women (and men) and constantly being

ridiculed and othered because they are unable to
adhere to societys norms
In order to gain empowerment, we must stop putting
these women down and shaming them because they may
not look like you do or they may not be able to do the
same things that you do, regardless if they have a
disability or not

WHAT WE CAN DO

We need to educate both males and females.

I have heard females say that they are not
feminists because they do not know the proper
definition
"The idea of being a feminist: so many women
have come to this idea of it being anti-male and
not able to connect with the opposite sex, but
what feminism is about is equality and human
rights. For me that is just an essential part of my
identity."Lena Dunham

THE END

"Feminism is for everybody Bell

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