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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