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    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

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    the National Organization for Women). During the second wave of feminism in America, women were fighting for occupations to no longer be gender specific, the right to abortions, and for the destruction of gender roles. From 1967 – 1983, multiple feminist organizations fought for equal rights between males and females through the use of non-violent protests. To gain their rights, women adopted sit-ins, marches, protests, court cases, and speak-outs, although many of their methods were overlooked due

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    Artists during the 1960’s-70’s began to experiment and question the presence of the body in art, resulting in an explosion of body related art movements, such as performance art, feminist art and the fluxus

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    Elizabeth Cady Stanton with the goal to achieve voting rights for women through a congressional amendment to the constitution. This was just the start of feminism, but back then it wasn’t called that. It wasn’t until the 1960’s and 70’s that the official feminist movement began. Their main focus was “dismantling workplace inequality, such as denial of access to

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    the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. Basically, Feminist activism is the struggle for that equality. With Feminism, there are some core beliefs and some of them are the existence of sexism and it being against women, Men and Women should have equal rights and opportunities, Women are intellectual equals and social equals to men, and finally Women should be recognized and treated as equal to men. A feminist analysis is simply taking a topic, a text, and a phrase

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    Roy Dicker Feminism

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    not grasp it the same way feminists did during a time of repression towards women. Most feminists understood the concept and accepted it whole-heartedly, as with the term they believed that it could bring about social change. If this ideal could become widespread, if not only feminists but others as well could recognize that the person is political, then the way people thought about women’s gender roles could change and with that bring equality. Rory Dicker, a feminist and author of “A History of

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    “TITLE” To be a true “feminist”, you must claim the stigmatized label regardless of the repercussions it comes with. The term “feminist”, as defined in the dictionary is a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. However, many people have a false understanding to what this term actually means. Usually there is a misunderstanding with many negative connotations attached to the word feminist. Therefore, people tend to reject the feminist label. Due to wrong conceptions

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    opportunities for women, equal to those of men. The third wave feminist movement arose in the 1990's and focuses less on laws and the political process and more on individual identity. The chosen research methodology for this project was interview. The interview method was conducted with the purpose to find out how much knowledge participants had on the feminism movement and where they are most likely to be exposed to it. How have radical feminist changed our perceptions on feminism? The start of the third

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    The “Third Wave Feminism” began in the 1990’s but one of the main focuses of the new movement is based off of Audre Lorde’s concept of intersectionality (Hardin and Whiteside, 2013). This new wave of intersectionality seeks to recognize the plights of non-white and queer women and change the ideas behind definitions related to women. One example include the reclaiming of the word “bitch”, not in an attempt to stop the control of a woman’s language like New Black Womanhood but in an attempt to take

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    During the late 19th century and early 20th century, new ideas of change arose throughout England and America. The prominent topic of this time, gender equality, caused the emergence of many notable women’s rights activists and female leaders. British suffragist and writer Millicent Garrett Fawcett is the prime example of a woman who stood up for the rights of all females in her country. She was the leader of the nonviolent movement for gender equality in England, mainly focusing on women’s voting

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