Anthea Evaluation- Feminism

First of all the topic chosen by her was really controversial and something that happened at the beginning of the year, which means very topical. One should need to raise awareness about this subject and do believe that Anthea ached that.

The magazine that she did was attractive to the audience out there. Creating a magazine like this made it super efficient as well. It is very easy to be accessed online and the language used is easy for everyone to understand. In its most generalized form, neutrality may be defined as the absence of any bias in relation to either disputing party, and the mediator’s utilization of his position to appropriately balance the distribution of power between the parties (Cobb & Rifkin: 1991: 41-42). Personally, Anthea was neutral in her project apart from just one page. On one particular page, she included some statistics and data. She did her research well, but personally, I would have left that out. I liked the fact as well that she went to the vigil herself. In fact, she included some photos of the people that talked and mentioned them by their names in the magazine. I in fact would have included some of the photos that she took herself and include them in the magazine.

The photos that she included were monochrome. Monochrome can allow background images to appear less prominent than the centralized subject of the photo. "Women who lead, read," said Laura Bates, the feminist writer and the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an online resource inviting women to share the sexist encounters they've experienced. Bates' words speak to a powerful truth about not just feminism, but about activism more broadly: to be an activist leader, first you'll need to get educated. I do believe that she tackled the subject well. The first three pages of the magazine well super effective on the audience. Making an introduction like that I believe is essential, especially when there is someone out there that does not follow the news and does not know who Paulin was. The colors used were mainly dark red, white, and black. The color black represents power. The color white represents the color that represents purity and dark red is associated with anger.

The page that attracted me personally was the autopsy page. it's something I wouldn't mind. Plus it’s something original and it makes sense that the victim died. She also mentioned the aggressor by name and surname. Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity — it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. — John Keats. I like the fact that she included a poem at the beginning of the second page. Poetry fosters emotional expression and healing through self-expression and exploration of one's feelings. With this magazine, she created more awareness. Public awareness is important to increase enthusiasm and support, stimulate self-mobilization and action, and mobilize local knowledge and resources.

Ethics of care is a feminist approach to ethics. It challenges traditional moral theories as male-centric and problematic to the extent they omit or downplay values and virtues usually culturally associated with women or with roles that are often cast as ‘feminine’. Feminist Ethics aims “to understand, criticize, and correct” how gender operates within our moral beliefs and practices (Lindemann 2005, 11) and our methodological approaches to ethical theory. Some have assumed or upheld the gender binary (Wollstonecraft 1792; Firestone 1970). In the project, Anthea managed to balance the ethics and the topic of feminism. Feminist claims are primarily political claims for change in specific settings; they erupt frequently in times of political unrest. ... The history of feminism as political history necessarily embraces women's ongoing quests for educational equity, economic opportunity, civil rights, and political inclusion

I would like to say that I liked this magazine so much and I do believe that Anthea aced every page of the magazine. The message is really strong and if she would publish it out there people would surely like it.