Feminist Feminism

When one closes their eyes and hears the word feminist, one can imagine seeing a mob full of women marching down the street burning their brassieres while chanting anti-male chants, while holding signs that sheds light on the unfair treatment women were exposed to for several decades. On the other hand, if one closes their eyes, and hears the word feminine, one can imagine seeing either a dainty female looking sweet and innocent, something like a princess, or a lady with “tasteful” sex appeal. These images along with other images associated with femininity and feminist comes from how the media, new papers, and stories portray them. Looking on the surface, they seem quite the opposite in nature. In Claire Miye Stanford’s essay “You’ve Got the Wrong Song: Nashville and Country Music Feminism” Stanford poses a question, “Can a show that is so ostensibly interested in the ‘feminine’…also be feminist?” (Stanford 277). At first glance, one would disagree, but more TV shows are portraying their leading women as a feminine feminist. Shows like Nashville, Insecure, and Orange is the New Black are breaking the boundaries and changing the views on what the new feminine feminist looks like.

Early feminism was typically focused only on white women, likely because racism was still extremely prominent at the time feminism began emerging. It was not until Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced the term “intersectionality” in 1989 that feminism started to look at oppressed group’s needs (Nash, 2008, 2). Intersectionality is a way of thinking that acknowledges that when a person has identities that belong to more than one oppressed group, it impacts their quality of life more negatively. In this paper, I will argue that intersectionality is important in the discussion of feminist theories and activism because it ensures that feminism is for all women, not just a select group of them. Intersectionality has changed the way the feminist movement handles the overlapping of different identities, which has helped feminist theorists understand the experiences of women of colour much more clearly. While intersectionality has a very important role in the conversation and practice of feminism, there are certainly critiques of the concept that should be brought up. These critiques, however, can offer a way to improve the study of intersectionality.

Significance: In regards to the significance of these claims, the examination of how women are objectified spans a wide spectrum from appearance to persona. To hone in on this, the reading “No More Miss America” provides clear evidence as to why beauty pageants are a negative influence

Each titleholder has a platform. A platform is a non-profit organization the young women can relate to or feel passionate about to make a difference. The title holders make appearances and hold events throughout their year of service. In addition to her personal platform, Miss America remains as a goodwill ambassador for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. This national platform provides the Miss America Organization the opportunity to not only raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, but to also raise extra money for the Miss America’s Outstanding Teen Scholarship Foundation. It increases exposure and awareness in both organizations. The driven women want to serve their community and be that role model to the younger generation. Young girls think Miss America is a real princess and watch her every move. The crown might look pretty and shiny, but it does so much more—it makes a

After reading our assigned transcripts, I have drawn a similarity in topics such as Barbie, Miss America pageant, and Marilyn Monroe. The underlying message which I found common in all readings were the importance of a women’s self-image. From the very beginning, Miss America pageants in the 1920’s based their winner primarily on their personal appearance. As the years went on, gender stereotyping became more frequent. In television ads that were running during the 1950’s had shown women as the “perfect “package.

From as young as the age of two, girls who participate in child beauty pageants are being affected by America’s addiction to beauty. These little girls are expected to wear tight and revealing dresses that are meant to flaunt curves that they have not yet developed. Spray tans, hair extensions, fake nails, fake eyelashes, “sexy” outfits and bathing suits, these are only a few of the things these children are expected to wear. Furthermore, girls in child beauty pageants are often made to wear fake teeth called flippers, because what used to be “innocent and adorable” about the gaps in a child’s teeth from losing them is no longer pretty enough in the eyes of the judge. Unfortunately, as a result, many girls grow up to believe that beauty is

Pageants offer many opportunities for young adults and any females that enter. Title holders especially reap the benefits of not just a tiara. Miss America is the most prime example of a pageantry organization that wants girls to feel they can achieve their beauty dreams, whilst not having to give up education and job opportunities. Miss America contestants go through extensive interviewing not seen on TV, and they are to stand behind a cause of their choice that they wish to promote. Miss America contestants are given opportunities for college scholarships at not only the nation level, but state titleholders as well. The Miss America company organizes their contestants to help raise money for the Children's Miracle Network, where they help children and women in need.

It 's not a mystery that society 's ideals of beauty have a drastic and frightening effect on women. Popular culture frequently tells society, what is supposed to recognize and accept as beauty, and even though beauty is a concept that differs on all cultures and modifies over time, society continues to set great importance on what beautiful means and the significance of achieving it; consequently, most women aspire to achieve beauty, occasionally without measuring the consequences on their emotional or physical being. Unrealistic beauty standards are causing tremendous damage to society, a growing crisis where popular culture conveys the message that external beauty is the most significant characteristic women can have. The approval of prototypes where women are presented as a beautiful object or the winner of a beauty contest by evaluating mostly their physical attractiveness creates a faulty society, causing numerous negative effects; however, some of the most apparent consequences young and adult women encounter by beauty standards, can manifest as body dissatisfaction, eating disorders that put women’s life in danger, professional disadvantage, and economic difficulty.

A certain image is expected from women in today’s society. This look has had a great influence on many young girls in America today. Child beauty pageants have just recently become prominent in the American society, stirring up a great deal of controversy. Young girls are dressed in provocative outfits and paraded around on a stage. Copious amounts of makeup are worn on stage, making them look almost doll like and much older than they are.

In this 21st century, it is not odd to see beauty pageant competitions all around the world. Atlantic City was the first to introduce beauty pageant in the 1920s. The world of pageantry was introduced when the business owner need a source of attraction for tourists after Labor Day. This business started with swimming suit competition and later added as the years passed by. In the 1950s, pageantry became famous when it was aired on television. However, in the 1970s, this competition received negative press due to the Feminist Act. The age limit for beauty pageant range from 0 to 18 and this has been going on for over 50 years (Williams, 2010).

Beauty pageants can be organized to advance some good causes. The contests are also a form of entertainment similarly to movies and music. For many models, the shows offer an opportunity for exposure and possible endorsements of brands or scholarships for winners of the pageants (Wolf, 2013).For years, women have been subjected to contests that seek to identify the most beautiful amongst them. Like cattle being taken to a slaughterhouse, women are paraded and subjected to a rigorous exercise of identifying the fairest of them all. The losers sometimes leave the contests feeling disgruntled and unappreciated with their self-esteem in tatters (Wolf, 2013).In addition to the psychological torture, they experience women in beauty pageants also expose themselves to dangerous beauty products and

FEMINISM Introduction to Sociology  Feminism Belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. The movement organized around this belief. Feminism Feminist Theory is an outgrowth of the general movement to empower women worldwide.

Feminism is the approach to equality and equity through sex, gender, and gender expressions. It should include everybody which means LGBTQ community and all different types of women. We should also include are allies who can be men because ultimately feminism helps them by getting rid of toxic masculinity. This feminism is described in a Washington Post article “ is shaped less by a shared struggle against oppression than by a collective embrace of individual freedoms.” Feminism in today’s world is more about inclusiveness and identity while still being about equal opportunity and woman rights. The problem is that people have stereotypes about feminist women and the idea of this “radical” feminism. That we are about being in a higher position than men. Really, it’s about putting men in the position that women have been at forever but all we want is to be in the same position along with men. Or in some cases to destroy they exploitative system that causes this in the first place.

Although written in 1913, O Pioneers! contained many feminist ideas for that time period. In the novel, Alexandra symbolised feminism. “O Pioneers! was her literary breakthrough: in it she returned to the Nebraska cornfields of her childhood and invented a character new to American fiction, a strong, creative woman who is not rebuked for her independent-mindedness.” (O’Brien 1) She was a model for other women in the early 1900s, and she proved that a woman does not need men to become successful. Alexandra was not married for the majority of her life, she ran a farm completely on her own, and she made independent decisions. These characteristics made her a strong and independent woman.

Considering the context of the Miss America Pageant reflection by John Oliver in his satirical “news” program, his goal is to select a particular topic to deconstruct and discuss the inadequacies with a humoristic flair. The social climate from the early 20th Century introduction of the Miss America Pageant to current day is vastly different, and while the pageant evolved over the last 90 plus years, the basic tenets remain. Today’s woman is considered to be independent, strong, intelligent and the physical appearance is but a side note. However, the pageant maintains the focus on physical appearance, which to many is