The Guerrilla Girls Rebellion

Along with the multiple violent strikes that has been occurring the recent years, many women tried to join in the fight for equal rights. Their primary goal was to obtain better working conditions, get equal pay checks, and abolish child labor. One of the biggest participants was Mary Jones, as she supported the Great Strike back in 1877. She was even motivated to start her own union called the United Mine Workers of America. Despite threats and arrest, she continued to advocate women’s rights. However, events will then take a dark turn, causing major changes finally. In 1911, a whole bunch of women was working in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory where a fire suddenly sparked. Everyone tried to get out, but they were unable to as the only exit

“Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer” is a documentary about three women who are involved in a feminist group. The documentary is located in Moscow, Russia. Based on the location, one can a conclude that feminists views are very different than the United States. In order to express how the feminist group feels, they create many protest disturbances around the area. The three women try to fight for their rights throughout the whole documentary. They want to stand up for all the women in the Russia area, and also around the world. The feminist group wants women to feel powerful and useful to the world. The movie involves many techniques including conflict theory, rebellion, police discretion, and criminal justice system.

Formed in 1985, Guerrilla Girls is an activist group of feminist and also, female artists dedicated to fight sexism and racism in the art world. They would wear gorilla masks and post poster and campaigns of the issue of sexism and bring awareness. In one of their campaigns, they stated that ar galleries only showed roughly 10% of women artist, which today is still only around 20%. Also, around 1985, New York museums, such as The Met, Guggenheim, and Whitney, never gave women artist a solo exhibition show, but then, in 2014, each museum gave a women artist one solo show, which still is not great. In 1989, Guerrilla Girls Created a posted saying “Less than 4% of the artists in the Modern Art Sections are women, but 76% of the nudes are female” which is awful. They also created The Report Card. Created in 1986, the Guerrilla Girls created a “report card” for different art galleries and calculated of two year (1985-6 and 1986-7) and in the columns, the number of women have been seen in the galleries, and there is nothing about 4 women. This drew attention to realize that little to no women showed up to art

“Women were not passive observers, but rather partners with their husbands, brothers, fathers and sons.” Carol Berkin stated the gender roles portrayed throughout the revolutionary war were overly romanticized and usually watered down. While in reality women shared the same roles as the adult males. Revolutionary mothers focus on the roles women played throughout the war. Whether it was different social divisions or different ethnicities, each woman portrayed a real role throughout the war.

The American Revolution was the war that formed America. Many years ago, Brittan controlled America. They were tyrannical people that didn’t give fair rights to the colonizers in America. The common people formed a militia to fight against England. It started out with small riots and things like the Boston Tea Party. The fist battles of the war were in the towns of Lexington and Concord. The English army fought and won many of the battles in America. Eventually England was defeated and America gained their independence. They made General George Washington their president, and he led them to become a strong nation. Eventually they made the Constitution which made laws that protected the people’s rights, so they wouldn’t become tyrannical

The Guerrilla Girls are a group of women formed in 1984 after an art exhibition hosted by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City where it became clear to them that the art industry was gender bias with women artists not being acknowledged. Since then they have been devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world, their mission to bring gender and racial inequality within the arts into focus. They have done this by producing factual and humorous posters that comment on these issues and that challenges and confronts society to realise the injustice.

As our discussion post provided this week, the colonists responded with rebellion because of the new acts that were imposed upon them by the British (Schultz, K., 2013). Their attempt to reform the American colonies contributed to the growth of the Revolutionary movement because the British tried to enforce stricter policies and laws (Schultz, K. M., 2013). The British wanted to tighten the policies over the colonial officials so that it would reduce the corruption, the British wanted control over the area of land that the settlers occupied, and they wanted to raise revenue by taxing goods. Although the British were adamant about their purpose, the colonist believed that rebelling against them would help in receiving their independence.

Masha Gessen, in her book “Words will break cement: the passion of Pussy Riot,” follows the women of the band, Pussy Riot during their prison sentence. Their crime? Protesting the disapproval of LGBT exposure, freedom of speech and feminist culture through the punk-rock voice. Their backlash depicted the inevitable protest of the Russian oppressive rule and brought forth the divide between artistic expression and the Putin administration.

It is considered a form of dissent and is implemented by public employees who are dissatisfied with the organization, programs, or people; in efforts to bring about change within an organization. Guerrilla’s work towards change strategically and secretly (O’Leary, 2014, pg. ).

After the American Revolution, the people of the new United States of America were faced with an unfamiliar path, with no precedent to guide them. However, while several changes were implemented under the new government, numerous aspects were also kept intact. As a result of the American Revolution new developments were made, such as the political development of a bicameral legislature, the economical establishment of a national bank, and the social growth of support for female education in domestic arts and politics. However, while these changes took effect, the aspects of slavery and the subordinate position of women remained.

The Women’s Liberation Movement greatly impacted Australia and the United States throughout the 60’s and 70’s carrying on to the 90’s. Without the Women’s Liberation Movement women wouldn’t have received changes in laws primarily regarding employment impacting on them moving forward in terms of equal opportunities. However there is still a there is still process to be made concerning employment and social roles for women to have equal rights as men. The Women’s Liberation Movement started in the 60’s during the second wave of feminism. Even though the 70’s were a time of change, both Australia and the United States saw women remaining in low status roles and staying primarily in the domestic sphere. The 90’s however saw a dramatic change in the amount of women employed and working more so in the domestic sphere.

The talk of rebellion evolve and eventually members of the beta rebellion started to commit vulgar acts in real life. Contrary to what Fox news, and other fringe far-right, far-left news sources would have you believe, this has nothing to do with politics (Zed). There is no underlying misogyny, political zeal, religious or atheist drive. There is no grand, overarching theme or logical goal. This is pure, unadulterated chaos, for entertainment purposes and simply just to rebel. As sad as it may sound, the lives of many members were so empty that then would join any group, fad, or movement if it meant they got to be a part of

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.

Throughout history, Canada’s identity has changed in many ways and there have been many historical events that have greatly shaped and impacted Canada’s history and identity. The Women’s Movement and women’s contribution in the past and throughout history has had the greatest impact on shaping Canada into what it is today. Among many identifying qualities like being multicultural, bilingual, and world leaders, Canada is also country that has changed immensely in the way of becoming a country that has learned to accept women, move towards providing them with equal opportunities and treating them equally. Through economic, social and political movements and actions, the contribution from women and the women’s movement have increased, changed and improved women’s rights and equality greatly. Women worked to create independence and equality economically through their contributions to war on the homefront in WWI resulting in greater workplace equality, socially through the actions of the Flappers in the 1920’s giving women currently, the confidence and strength that they need to speak up, and politically, through the work of the Suffragists including the Famous 5 to allow women to have the same political rights as men.

Betty Friedan wrote that "the only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own." The message here is that women need more than just a husband, children, and a home to feel fulfilled; women need independence and creative outlets, unrestrained by the pressures of society. Throughout much of history, women have struggled with the limited roles society imposed on them. The belief that women were intellectually inferior, physically weaker, and overemotional has reinforced stereotypes throughout history. In the 1960s, however, women challenged their roles as "the happy little homemakers." Their story is the story of the Women's Liberation