Feminism In Pop Culture

In her essay “hip hop’s betrayal of black women,” Jennifer McLune implies that “(h)ip-hop owes its success to the ideology of women-hating” (193). She does not agree with Kevin Powell’s article that hip-hop does not mean to “offend” black women, but instead artists are only letting out their temper throughout their music. McLune feels infuriated that many artists in hip hop (including black men) rap about their community and downgrade their own women. In the hip-hop genre, sexism is mainly used, not only by black men but also by many other race hip-hop artists. Artists assume that women-hating in their rap songs will be accepted by women, but do not realize that it is affecting all women.

Throughout multiple albums, since her debut in 2008, she has “rebelled” against the standard expectations of women. Specifically, her songs ‘Donatella’, ‘X Dreams’ and ‘Born This Way’, discuss seemingly taboo subjects for women to be addressing, mimicking the way many female musicians in the 50s and 60s began to explore such unmentionable subjects. It was expected

Although heated with the increase in women 's employment households, they became more and more feel the unequal status of men and women, wishing to change their static diligent housework labor low role, demanding equal rights and chances with men. Famous women leader Betty was representative of the contemporary American women 's movement. She wrote a Book of servility secret, revealing the traditional American culture on women 's role imprisonment and definition and called on that the majority of families and women should break the family bound to seek self-value of life. This thought had awakened many American traditional family women, and they began to be not satisfied with the family to bring the sense of accomplishment, began to find their own identity and the right social role. In particular, a lot of knowledged women, due to a good education, had a stable income base.

President Hoover had once said ““You have demonstrated not only your dauntless courage, but also the capacity of women to match the skill of men in carry through the most difficult feats of high adventures.”” (Pelt, p.131) This quotes, that had large impact on other people, show that she did change many important peoples opinions. Many people had multiple perspectives about women's equal rights, who were mostly men, but even some women who had doubted themselves. People against the thought of women and “had believed that marriage was the ideal vocation for women. Amelia did not agree.”

Medea and the women of Corinth both share, to a different extent, the experience of being unfairly categorized as the caretaker of the family, which aids Medea in persuasion because she can be trusted as a woman to speak on the patriarchal society. She continues as ‘’of all creatures that have life and reason we women are the sorriest lot’’ (229-230) of all the living things Medea describes women as the ‘’sorriest’’ which suggests that women are pitied and helps Medea to allure the Chorus to be on her side. Medea suggests to the Chorus that Females ‘’must at a great expenditure of money buy a husband and even take on a master over our body: this evil is more galling than the first. ’’(231-233) Medea is arguing that women must sacrifice a ‘’great’’ amount of money to ‘’buy’’ their partners. This conveys the patriarchal community in Corinth.

Unhappy Ending During the late 1800’s in the Progressive era, American women were constantly engaged in many women’s right protests in order to abolish unfair rights that the male-dominated society had force upon them. The issue were the right to vote, accessibility to birth control, and political equality. As a result of their works, most of women had gained the right to vote in some states and the right to own property, and divorce. Their actions had challenged the traditional role of women in the eyes of their society.

During the Progressive Era, many women displayed a deceitful facade when interacting amongst society. They remain respectful and dutiful to their husbands in public, as vowed through their commitment in marriage. Deep down, however, ideas of revenge towards their husbands dominated this facade. Authors Kate Chopin and Susan Glaspell produce several works throughout this era that justifyingly portray the strain between women and their male counterparts in relation to marriage and divorce. Both authors express the way gender roles were set during the Progressive Era, specifically by writing “Story of an Hour” and “Jury of Her Peers” to illustrate the freedom women wanted to achieve apart from their husbands, which reflects these individual’s morals, psychological and social awareness of self identity.

Throughout history, women have been second fiddle to men. Females have been degraded, disrespected, and undermined; they’ve been ignored, silenced, and gone unheard. This gender inequality is present even in The Odyssey, though it includes many important female figures. Penelope, Calypso, Circe, and more are all crucial to the plot, and some even responsible for the happy ending, yet when inspected closely female stereotypes emerge. The majority of the women are presented as seductresses, the others as mothers, and almost all as fragile and dependent on men.

Gender Inequality in sports is an issue as old as sport itself. I choose this topic because we as a society seem to sweep it under the rug time after time. Women in sports however, try to address the issue only to have it go on deaf ears, leaving them to continue in the sport hoping something will change. Over the last few decades, strides have been made, but he sport remains an institution dominated by men. These women, whether they are in sport or in the business world, want a fair chance to be on the same level as their male counterparts.

It is clear that To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee demonstrates Feminist Theory by displaying the characteristics of females in submissive roles, females being “undervalued”, and differing standards of behavior for females. One way that To Kill a Mockingbird can be viewed through the lens of feminist theory is through examining females in submissive roles. 1 One example that shows females in submissive roles is when Scout wanted to go play with Jem outside but Jem was being unfair and rude. Scout recalls, “When I joined them, as usual I was told to go away “(Lee 22). Females in submissive roles is shown in this quote

She describes her mission as wanting to open minds and break stereotypes in music, sex, and everything and that 's just what she does through the lyrics and the powerful message she sends. Pink captures the heart of the neglected, anger, lonely, outcast, those experiencing family dissolution, confused teens and youth of today 's culture. Pink sings from her heart and doesn’t sugar coat anything like other girlie pop stars such as Britney Spears and so many others. The worldview that is portrayed through her music is a postmodern worldview. Pink’s song and the way she sings prompts the individual as having the final authority based on how one might feel at a specific time.

Joshua show us that the flapper was more or less a victim of circumstance. With all the new advances in technology and the reforms of the world, it was only a matter of time before women decided that they needed some independence as well. Immigrants coming in the country left and right, people of color fighting for their human rights, and men fighting for their country. They began to smoke, drink and have sex because it was their life, they wanted to vote, own property and obtain any job they wanted because it was their right, they did not want to dress in their mother’s attire and not all of them wanted to have children because it was their body. The 1920’s were revolutionary for the woman and Mr. Zeitz puts it all into perspective with his

In the 1800’s and even the 1900’s women were not considered as equal as they are today, and misogyny was expected. Even still women are constantly fighting for equal rights, so the idea of men always having power or superiority over women hasn’t gone away. Considering that the two texts The Yellow Wallpaper and The Story of an Hour were both written in the early 1880’s, they have a very different approach to the men and women’s relationships that are present in the texts. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, Yellow Wallpaper and Kate Chopin’s, The Story of an Hour both authors explore how the women in the stories have to hide their true identity, due to the influence of the men in their lives. The two writers each use similes/metaphors, a similar mood throughout the story and a great deal of imagery to outline

In conclusion, being a female member of society leaves me with a completely different life experience than my male counterparts. My gender has heavily influenced everything from my identity, role in the family, opportunities, and views on religion. This belief is universal to women throughout the world, today’s women face a different struggle than the women of the 1960’s suffrage movement; access to education on social issues such as gender roles, identity, and stereotypes. Today’s women are choosing to defy the stereotypes surrounding appearance and body image. The body positivity movement is something that has impacted millions of women in an overwhelmingly positive way; allowing women to love themselves as they are instead of letting their insecurities tear them apart.

The counterculture rejected the war on two fronts. First, the hippies supported the idea of peace and harmony throughout mankind. Second, since many hippies were young adults, the males rejected the idea of registering for the draft and being sent to war (Richards). Another big revolution was the woman’s movement. Women from all over the country was going against the discrimination of women and how they were being treated in a man’s world.