Linda Scott's Reading the Popular Image and Kathryn Kish Sklar's Hull House in the 1890’s

According to the author, clothing design was her star that raised her above other women. It would be better if other women would emulate her character and moral beliefs that should attract other women. Another issue that the writer seemed to have swept below the carpet is the morality of women. First, women seemed to have been despised until they started excelling in mass advertising. Also, the author seems to peg the success of the modern woman to clothing and design.

Friedan, Hanisch and Steinem all wrote to convey that the only way to overcome the injustices of inequality for women was to unite as a community- as a whole. Each source invokes a similar image of encouragement and struggle. Reading through the writings and the hardships the Women’s Movement faced has allured an overall message of goals and clear-cut ways to achieve them. The events that took place during the 1960s Women movement has allowed for women to achieve political, social and economic rights. The implicit idea was to improve the quality of life for women.

Furthermore, Peril is demonstrating an evolution of femininity, and constant and intense impact of its norms and rules on women lives. Peril is interpreting the popularity of Pink Think since early 40's, all the way through 60's. She explains and simplifies it through various examples based on how women have to behave and look girly from an early age in order to create and secure an acceptable status and the position in the society. She is using various examples in order to c...

Previous expectations of women in the workforce, the ease of change, cultural acceptance and cultural resistance, the presence of women in today’s college systems, the topic of children and childcare, roles of governments and corporations in this trend, as well as issues with speeding up such a radical movement: these matters both captivate and concern the followers of this front. In order to track these changes, women must motivate and educate themselves to embrace these happenings and better their cause.

Since we had patterned and focused much of our life... ... middle of paper ... ...uld now happily chose to enter into at her discretion. With education about about birth control, women began to experience a completely new level of control in their lives. With this control, women found themselves being better mothers, happier lovers, and better people overall. Our Bodies, Ourselves showed women that having control over their bodies and sexuality was central in achieving social equality. The book mobilized women in a big way with calls to rediscover themselves and support one another through education.

Ellis felt domestic duties were not the only duties women should be focusing on and thus wrote a book entitled “The Women of England.” The primary document of Sarah Stickney Ellis’s “The Women of England” examines how a change in attitude is greatly needed for the way women were perceived during the nineteenth century. Today women have the freedom to have an education, and make their own career choice. She discusses a range of topics to help her female readers to cultivate their “highest attributes” as pillars of family life#. While looking at Sarah Stickney Ellis as a writer and by also looking at women of the nineteenth century, we will be able to understand the duties of women throughout this century. Throughout this paper I will discuss the duties which Ellis refers to and why she wanted a great change.

Thanks largely to the gains made by feminist movements throughout the 20th century, contemporary media images provide a new reimagining of femininity and feminism. This new interpretation of femininity offers a narrative where choice aspects of the previous feminine ideal, such as beauty, are retained while the negative characteristics of gender roles, such as weakness, are eschewed. In other words, this “girl power” discourse suggests that girls can be as powerful as men, but they can do it all while wearing a skirt. In Feminism Inc., Emilie Zaslow examines the influence the media’s promotion of girl power discourse has on the processes through which teenage girls construct their gender identities. Zaslow introduces the voices of a diverse group of teenage girls from New York City.

These issues keep the reader tied to the article while raising the important concern of what kind of messages these are for the quickly maturing girls of our time. As our youth are becoming more mature at an ea... ... middle of paper ... ...g that these are the images that all women have chosen; they are instead saying that this is the image the media has chosen for them. So why, after so many years of bra-burning and protesting, have women lagged behind on their upkeep of a positive image in society? Judith Timson's article is a prime argument for the media's influence on the image of women. Her argument that women are stuck in a stereotypical limbo of who and what to be in our world today is credible and intelligent, while funny and intriguing.

Feminist literature is a broad term politically describing the role of women, and how they came to be activists in their pursuit of liberal freedom. The term feminism has been around for years, correlating with the movement of women’s aptitude to find a way in life and basically as in “The Awakening” such as Edna did, a voice. “Feminism is a belief that women should fight for their equal rights, powers and opportunities as men do,” (Cambridge Dictionary). The antagonistic nature of the women in the Victorian period was to bring many changes in their lifestyle, and not follow the norm of the traditions and values in that time. This burning desire, to become free, emancipated, liberal, and to be able to speak freely of their thoughts was unsettling to many, and this resulted in several feminist movements, one being the Seneca Falls Convention which was the revolution of Women’s Conferences which then lead to female independence.

Therefore, such situations have necessitated prompt initiatives that aim to change the situation for this group of people in the United States. According to Lindenmeyer, these initiatives have developed themselves into a large spectrum of activities that could be as well described as an institution that is based on certain goals (42). In this regard, the women of color initiatives have their major aims in empowering their colleagues to move them up the ladder of self-advancement in the society. They also help... ... middle of paper ... ... every society member. However, with critical analysis, we are able to note that the activities carried out by women of color initiative groups can be classified under the larger unit of feminism.