Many individuals in this day and age believe the ideals of feminism are no longer necessary. The fact that society has made vast strides to the equality of many different individuals makes it seem that injustice is a thing of the past, and that any kind of change in our attitudes of one another is highly unneeded. Given the rise in misrepresentation of perfection through media, verbal and physically mistreatment of women, and the uprising of the rape and continued acts of violence all around the world, there is an ever pressing need for the ideology and principle of feminism. The principles of feminism are ones of equality for all women and men, socially, politically, and economically, and taking a stand against oppression and the violent
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This century would also see the very first women's right convention led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Seneca, New York circa 1848. The Seneca Declaration of Sentiments which was similar to the Declaration of Independence, "demanded that women 'have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belonged to them as citizens of the United States,' particularly the 'inalienable right to the elective franchise'"(Roark 359). By this time in history women had been neglected by the law severely for hundreds of years. Women had been unable to own property, were subjected to their husbands authority, and most important of all, they were unable to vote. Women's suffrage was at the forefront of the women's rights agenda in the 1800's. Eventually the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 would grant women the right they had fought long and hard for, but women would find that the fight for equality had just …show more content…
Often movies are focused through a "male protagonist" and "Hollywood tends to incorporate heteronoramative themes. . . through genres like gangster films, action films and western films. . . that celebrate heterosexual masculine power"(Shaw 458). Movies also tend to portray stereotypes that society assumes and accepts as truth. For example black women are often shown to be overly aggressive, sassy, pushy, and loud, whereas Asian women are often portrayed as excessively foreign, quiet, submissive and unable to drive. Regardless of race women are almost always shown to be materialistic, desperate to find a man, crazy, and weak. Not only are these stereotypes enforced on the general public, but on children as well. Disney, the movie production and merchandise company behemoth, has characters that "reflect white middle-class, heteropatriarchal norms," (Shaw 460) like that of young obedient women waiting to be saved by a man on a white horse to save them through marriage, like in Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. Only in recent years has this improved through movies like Brave and Frozen, but yet many of these movies still rely heavily on traditional norms (Shaw
This century would also see the very first women's right convention led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Seneca, New York circa 1848. The Seneca Declaration of Sentiments which was similar to the Declaration of Independence, "demanded that women 'have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belonged to them as citizens of the United States,' particularly the 'inalienable right to the elective franchise'"(Roark 359). By this time in history women had been neglected by the law severely for hundreds of years. Women had been unable to own property, were subjected to their husbands authority, and most important of all, they were unable to vote. Women's suffrage was at the forefront of the women's rights agenda in the 1800's. Eventually the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 would grant women the right they had fought long and hard for, but women would find that the fight for equality had just …show more content…
Often movies are focused through a "male protagonist" and "Hollywood tends to incorporate heteronoramative themes. . . through genres like gangster films, action films and western films. . . that celebrate heterosexual masculine power"(Shaw 458). Movies also tend to portray stereotypes that society assumes and accepts as truth. For example black women are often shown to be overly aggressive, sassy, pushy, and loud, whereas Asian women are often portrayed as excessively foreign, quiet, submissive and unable to drive. Regardless of race women are almost always shown to be materialistic, desperate to find a man, crazy, and weak. Not only are these stereotypes enforced on the general public, but on children as well. Disney, the movie production and merchandise company behemoth, has characters that "reflect white middle-class, heteropatriarchal norms," (Shaw 460) like that of young obedient women waiting to be saved by a man on a white horse to save them through marriage, like in Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. Only in recent years has this improved through movies like Brave and Frozen, but yet many of these movies still rely heavily on traditional norms (Shaw