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    The Problem With Feminism, The Media, and You “Women accounted for only twenty-nine percent of the speaking roles and all too often, they were primarily there to look decorative - roughly a third involved wearing sexually revealing clothes or being partially naked” (Lenard). The reason this statistic is crucial to this paper is because in this digital age children are mostly influenced by the media, what they see on television, or films, what they hear in the music they listened to, and what they

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    simply asking for fair pay and equal rights to jobs to wanting their lifestyle changed. The impact of the second and third wave of feminists held a positive sphere around the fact that women had a bigger voice in politics and economics, but socially feminism was almost purely negative. Feminist groups, mostly in the late second wave and the entirety of the third wave, consisted almost entirely of misandrists. The feminist movements of the second half of the twentieth century made great leaps for women

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    Second Wave Feminism’s Relation to Art 1. Second Wave Feminism has a direct relation to art, as the movement and its creations were directly connected to the social problems of the times. As with most modern art, artists usually turn to creating works to express their problems with society, and this is what feminists did. As the suffragist movements with First Wave Feminism were a great success, and women did have the same legal rights as men, they still interpreted society has seeing them as the

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    and men in society concerning their equal rights. Feminism is advocacy for females to have the same rights as men, and this should be a positive movement and development across the world. Knowing what the real definition of being a feminist is I asked Kenzie if she felt there was a stigma around this word and the movement. Kenzie expressed that there was absolutely a negative stigma around the word feminist. She stated that many people view feminism as a cult of opinionated man-hating lesbians that

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    a global culture, sexism is still alive today. It affects men, women, people who don’t fit our gender binary system, how we view ourselves and how we view each other. A powerful force in combating the gender inequalities we face today is feminism. Feminism is a social movement for gender and sex equality, and a personal commitment to understanding and achieving gender equality in everyday life. As children grow up, gender roles try to put girls in their place from the beginning. Right off

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    At its very core, the feminist movement aims to create gender equality. However on the individual level, feminism becomes a lot more nuanced, as feminists come from many different backgrounds, have many different experiences, and identify themselves in many different ways. Feminism is a movement for everyone, not just women, as it also addresses many other issues as a result of intersecting identities. Although gender equality seems like a logical enough goal, many people are afraid to identify specifically

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    Research Project Feminism is a sociological theory that analyzes the roles that women and men play in society. Feminism can be defined as the belief of unequal rights between men and women. Women are not always treated equally and this sparks many concerns in our society. There are 2 different theories that will be focused on in this paper, gender-inequality theory and gender oppression. The differences between these two still lead up to the way women are treated in a community or the way men

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    of the inequality among white men and white women feminism was created. The main concern for white feminist was to receive more rights and achieve equality. As a matter of fact, white feminist did not include or focus on the needs of women of color. We can not forget that race has always play an important role in society. As a result of the unfairness or the lack of interest to help and fight for the rights of women of color the multiracial feminism was created. Race and gender are important determinants

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    The concept of intersectional feminism was coined by feminist scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw. It essentially provides the groundwork for analyzing many contemporary issues in gender studies and politics where there is an intersection between two or more identities that shape the experiences one may have of a certain issue. Many contemporary feminist scholars analyze issues through an intersectional lens as a collective attempt to dismantle the mainstream analysis of issue from a white, privileged perspective

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    Kerilyn Musnuff Much like everyone else, Judy, the new girl, was impacted by the 3rd wave of feminism. When she started working at her job, she found the way the company ran to be very unfair, as it was, she does not like the boss, and has even had visions while she was high of the entire office going after Mr. Hart in a riot. Judy, Violet, and DoraLee impact the 3rd wave of feminism, because in attempt for things to be more fair, they tied up their boss, Mr. Hart and started changing things under

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