1. A series of revolutionary events and federal legislations that were passed on women’s rights issues approaches to women’s lives and demands helped to shift the center of feminist energy and authority away from men and the white middle-class women.
Women frustrated by the light response to their demands created NOW (National Organization for Women) that played an important role in the emergence of women’s liberation because it focused on bringing women’s equality through legal and political means. During the late sixties African American Women focused on cultivating black leadership and mass empowerment instead of racial integration and concentration as a result every community created their own organization for example Mexican Americans formed the Chicano nationalism; Native Americans formed the All-Indian Nation, and Asian American established the Pan Asian movement. However, the more impacting group was the black power that had a complex influence in women’s liberation. Black power focuses were on self determination rather than integration and on the group rather than individual. Furthermore, in 1965 the war in Vietnam provided women the tools to empower their political participation. The women’s anti-war demonstration was the first political movement at which women participated nationally.
2. The famous protest of the Miss America pageant known for the “bra-burning”, women objected that the Pageant was racist and degrade notion of womanhood because they were advertised as a sexual object or as a maid. The protest took place in Atlanta City, New Jersey in which women formulated a list of demands. The highlight of the Miss America pageant protest was to end with the stereotypes of women that media portrait as how to dress, how to behave, how competitive you are; women’s appearance vs. men’s actions. The famous “trash can bra” was an objection of how women was seen in society and oppressed by men furthermore the protest also wanted to end with the low-status roles assigned to women and to inculcate false values in young girls.
3. I think that American women have stepped out of the box and made a giant impact in society. Even though, women have succeeded in obtaining big changes in economic, politic and cultural status to favor women we still have a long way to go. Women still stereotyped as the weak gender and still have some limitations at work. For instance, women of this country should secure themselves and their sacred right to elective franchise. Women is man’s equal therefore I believe is women’s duties to maintain and strength women’s position in society a hard labor, legacy that woman from the past has in heritage us.
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4. Orenstein compared Sex in the City with an old show called Mary Tyler Moore Show in which the main character is a single journalist women looking for the men of her life. The feminist show initiated in 1970, in which the journalist performed a job as a television producer, tackled important issues as freedom of the press and sexism in the work place. In contrast, the female protagonists of Sex and the City are superficial, materialistic, and frantic. The show have no real causes and focuses more in the girls dating all the time with no real cause just because. Unfortunately, for the last generations feminism has been taken for granted and the media manipulate and present it as a libertarian instead of liberation. The woman of the new generation on this show has no moral values at all and no family causes for what to live or fight. The show in Catherine Orenstein’s words “had failed to leverage youth and beauty into something more substantial.”
5. Definitely Rebecca Walker and Catherine Orenstein agree in the same ideology of women power. Walker’s essay focus in what women can do to be more powerful and educated. Even though, women have been liberated from marriage and procreation as the main roles women still have to work in moral codes, no confuse sex with sexuality, explore sex responsibly and encourage other women to respect and honor their own sexuality and no showing the burden side of sexuality in which women is denigrated and make invalid what women in the past fought for.
6. I agree with Walker and Orenstein I think TV shows should focus more and what women can do to empower themselves instead of focusing only on dating as they were on high school. Women still have to show that the place she has in society nowadays has a reason to maintain it and no let the cause to be diffused or twisted on self-defeating behaviors. I believe that women constitute a revolutionary soul force that can and will change the world for a better place to live. Feminist it was not a random movement, it was a revolutionary movement in which women acquired the power to speak freely and loud, it was the beginning of the new era's women that recognized women's value economic, politic, and cultural where it was only in the past a men's world.
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Blog # 12
Part A
1. During the World War II the gender stereotype was challenged for women because of the need of labor force during this epoch. World War II forced women to step out of the house and start working in industrial workplaces in jobs that before were only performed by men. During this period women competed with men during their absence however women demonstrated that they were capable and had the skills to perform jobs out of the house. Women join military organizations as the Women’s Air Force Service Pilots, Women’s Army Corps, Women’s Naval Reserve, among others but women were told that they can only retain their jobs until men come back from war. Women achieved their goal as men recognized that women were able to execute men’s jobs in their absence. World War II helped women to be introduced in the workplaces and the impact that made in women’s life has until now sequels.
2. The most long-lasting results for women and their families during World War II was that women realized that they were able to support their families in men’s absence as consequence families became dependable in women wages. Women also noticed that they have the strength and abilities required for manufacturers to perform same jobs as men and were not only assigned to perform domestic roles, motherhood, and household shores. During this period World War II provide women of independence wage and a better standard of living. WW II opened a window for women who secured a place in the workplace and to a higher education.
Part B
1. Definitely the article mentioned that work opportunities were limited to women because of old stereotypes until the World War II. Women were under men’s oppression therefore they were confined to domestic roles and child care. World War II opened a new chapter for determined and talented females that wanted to become financially independent.
2. The audience was both genders female and male but the message was specially directed to men. Women wanted to be noticed and recognized for their effort, hard work, and participation in the World War II. It was important also, for women let men know that their job will be returned to them when they come back from war.
3. Women’s attitude was always positive even though they were overloaded of work; added to this their responsibility as a mother and domestic roles. Women were always willing to learn fast to take over men’s jobs. Women were not intimidated by men to perform those types of jobs moreover women became more skilled at work as a result men were forced to work harder and faster to match women’s production quantity.
4. Women that were working on the line of assembly were not required to use physical work to perform their job therefore men considered that their feminism was retained. Women that was required to use physical work were compared to men and considered them less feminine, also men felt that women were challenging their abilities by performing jobs that before exclusively reserved for men. Tommy Joseph was an example of the effect of the World War II , she was drilling bulkhead webs for Army airplanes, this was only one example of thousands that were unlikely during this period but they were true.
5. A high percentage of women returned to home while the rest of the women decided to stay in the factories and fight for their rights. Some of the women were not happy working in the factories because of the poor condition of the work places however many women decided to change those conditions by forming organizations and other groups to protest against wages and work conditions that later will reform the constitution by granting rights and better works and wages for women. The most significant change was that women liked and enjoyed working for herself and having her own money. Women also realized that they were capable to perform the same jobs as men and were not only relegated to domestic roles. Women took advantage of the opportunity that World War II opened to them to become more autonomy and financially independent.
1. During the World War II the gender stereotype was challenged for women because of the need of labor force during this epoch. World War II forced women to step out of the house and start working in industrial workplaces in jobs that before were only performed by men. During this period women competed with men during their absence however women demonstrated that they were capable and had the skills to perform jobs out of the house. Women join military organizations as the Women’s Air Force Service Pilots, Women’s Army Corps, Women’s Naval Reserve, among others but women were told that they can only retain their jobs until men come back from war. Women achieved their goal as men recognized that women were able to execute men’s jobs in their absence. World War II helped women to be introduced in the workplaces and the impact that made in women’s life has until now sequels.
2. The most long-lasting results for women and their families during World War II was that women realized that they were able to support their families in men’s absence as consequence families became dependable in women wages. Women also noticed that they have the strength and abilities required for manufacturers to perform same jobs as men and were not only assigned to perform domestic roles, motherhood, and household shores. During this period World War II provide women of independence wage and a better standard of living. WW II opened a window for women who secured a place in the workplace and to a higher education.
Part B
1. Definitely the article mentioned that work opportunities were limited to women because of old stereotypes until the World War II. Women were under men’s oppression therefore they were confined to domestic roles and child care. World War II opened a new chapter for determined and talented females that wanted to become financially independent.
2. The audience was both genders female and male but the message was specially directed to men. Women wanted to be noticed and recognized for their effort, hard work, and participation in the World War II. It was important also, for women let men know that their job will be returned to them when they come back from war.
3. Women’s attitude was always positive even though they were overloaded of work; added to this their responsibility as a mother and domestic roles. Women were always willing to learn fast to take over men’s jobs. Women were not intimidated by men to perform those types of jobs moreover women became more skilled at work as a result men were forced to work harder and faster to match women’s production quantity.
4. Women that were working on the line of assembly were not required to use physical work to perform their job therefore men considered that their feminism was retained. Women that was required to use physical work were compared to men and considered them less feminine, also men felt that women were challenging their abilities by performing jobs that before exclusively reserved for men. Tommy Joseph was an example of the effect of the World War II , she was drilling bulkhead webs for Army airplanes, this was only one example of thousands that were unlikely during this period but they were true.
5. A high percentage of women returned to home while the rest of the women decided to stay in the factories and fight for their rights. Some of the women were not happy working in the factories because of the poor condition of the work places however many women decided to change those conditions by forming organizations and other groups to protest against wages and work conditions that later will reform the constitution by granting rights and better works and wages for women. The most significant change was that women liked and enjoyed working for herself and having her own money. Women also realized that they were capable to perform the same jobs as men and were not only relegated to domestic roles. Women took advantage of the opportunity that World War II opened to them to become more autonomy and financially independent.
Monday, May 5, 2008
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