Feminist Movement Sociology

I came into this class not knowing much about feminism, and was eager to learn more. With feminism being so profound in today’s world, I was curious what it was all about. Reading “Feminism is For Everybody”, it opened my eyes to all the different views on feminism. Being a guy, I resonated most with the type of feminism that states that “men are not the enemy.” Hooks, B. (2015). Feminism is for everybody: passionate politics. New York, NY: Routledge. “Liberal feminism is part of this liberal tradition and explains the oppression of women in terms of unequal access to political, economic, and social institutions. Kirk, G., & Okazawa-Rey, M. (2013). Womens lives: multicultural perspectives. New York: McGraw-Hill. Like most types of feminism,

History 304 Casey Bryant Section 4 Module 11 The women’s liberation movement (or feminism as it is now known) of the 1960s and 1970s touched every home, business, and school (WA, 705). The movement even touched the sports and entertainment industries, in fact, “There are few areas of contemporary life untouched by feminism” (WA, 717). The word feminism in the early 1960’s wasn’t often used and when it was it was used with condescension or hatred. However, in the late sixties that changed thanks to a new group of women. This new diverse group of women included the: young, old, heterosexual, lesbians, working class, and even the privileged. This diverse group came together and collectively created the second wave of feminism.

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.

Media, one of the most influential reflections of culture, under represents women and displays them in stereotypical positions. Paula Lobo and Rosa Cabecinhas, Professors of Communication at University of Minho, highlight sex-discrimination within the media in

1960s & 1970s Lingering inequalities and other social trends from previous decades brought forth the modern feminist movement in the 1960s. These feminists campaigned for gender equality with causes such as equal pay for equal work, abortion rights, and social parity. In 1963, author Betty Friedan published The Feminine

Mapping a Movement: Essay #1 Isabel Ingram WMST 9.8.15 Lydia Mason is 57 years old and lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She took a Women’s Studies class in 1979 at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. At the time, Women’s Studies was the most interesting class out there. It was very popular amongst young people. “Everybody took it,” she said “girls and boys. Everyone wanted to know more about it.” This positive attitude towards the history of women’s suffrage continued until around fifteen years later. Then, the term feminist started to become something with which people did not want to associate themselves. “In the late eighties I would start to hear people say ‘You know, I’m not a feminist, but…’ and then follow it up with something that I personally believed to be a feminist thought. And I still hear that today.”

Pinterest boards and YouTube videos that deliver makeup tutorials flood social media. Television shows that chronicle cupcake shops and DIY home improvement flourish. As these feminized forms of media thrive in the pop culture of our early twenty-first century, contemporary gender scholars take up the task of analyzing the social, economic, and cultural meaning they create.

Feminism is more than a word, more than an individual, and more than an identity. In the words of Tavi Gevinson, editor-in-chief of Rookie Mag, an online feminist magazine for teen girls, feminism is a discussion, a conversation, and a process. It’s not a set of rules and restrictions, and it’s certainly not an attack targeted on men, but it is a fight, and it’s a long one. Over time, various connotations surrounding the word “feminist” have developed to form an image of angry, misandrist, bra-burning women who shouldn’t be taken seriously as thinkers and agents of social change. A dismissal of feminism that I hear often seems to be that feminists are just looking for things to be angry about, seeking out reasons to complain so we feel

The feminist movement had an impact on American society because it provided a change in how both genders saw one another and themselves. Deep culturing changes were altering the role of women in American society such as sharing of responsibility for childbearing and housework, more equitable pay with men; equal pay for equal work, greater access to higher education, and the right of women to make individual decisions; regarding reproductive rights. Society over time reconsidered the importance of equality because of how gender-segregated society was and how restricted individuals were to the law.

This article, written by Melanic R. Salome , is about the women’s misrepresentation of in media . Salome considers media as an important tool that affects American women in a negative way. Media has become of paramount interest in our lives, despite the fact that its negative influences

The Feminist Movement & The Civil Rights Movement Lauren Greene SYG2000 Tuesday/Thursday 5:00 pm December 9, 2012 Social Movements Impact Western Culture For centuries, large groups of individuals have come together to oppose prevailing ideas, challenge conformity and promote great change in beliefs, government policy and overall social reform. Whether it is an instinctual component of human existence or a way of survival as learned from previous generations, social reform is an integral part of Western culture’s growth and development into modern society. When discussing this topic, two very great movements come to mind. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s and the Feminist Movement of the 1960s and

The goal of this blog post is to assess the need for proper representation in the media. This will be done through the examination of the lack of diversity and the under-representation of marginalized individuals primarily focusing the Dove campaign and the historical relevance of the legacy of colonialism and

A Feminist Report of the Modern Society “I need feminism because we need more sexy blond female CEOs but not more female miners and other jobs in those kinds of fields. They are not glamorous enough. Women should not have to get on their knees and work hard unless they want

Furthermore, Penni Mitchell explains that today’s feminist media “is not simply to get information out there, but to distil, condense, and synthesize it in well-written articles” (Mitchell 58). The article relates to the feminist outlet I have chosen, which is Bitch Media. This feminist outlet serves as a communication ground as well where issues surrounding women are being addressed seriously, for example, Transgendered women being seen as women in the society. Not only that but the media has evolved in a way, that women can also share their stories and experiences.

In colleges all across the United States students are having a difficult time identifying with the feminist movement because of the negative stereotypes. Groups of teenagers gather to laugh and joke about the extreme examples pushed by feminism’s opposition portraying feminists as man-hating, bossy and unattractive. Feminism has many different forms, a couple being first and second wave feminism; first wave feminism had goals focusing on legal issues and voting while second wave feminism dealt with more social issues and various rights. With third wave feminism, a form of feminism with broad goals focusing on stamping out gender roles, on the rise it is important to know which of these stereotypes are truthful and which are complete misrepresentations. In order to form a good opinion on third wave feminism it is necessary to look past the stereotyping in the media and the bias. Additionally, it is important to focus attention to the topics deemed feminist issues and the changes they are making in some of the places most affected by third wave feminism, college campuses.