Gloria Steinem

Date: September 20, 1957 Dear Diary, After a long class discussion on the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, I have realized three things about myself as a junior at Smith College. The first is that I, as a female, am truly lucky to be here. I am privileged enough to receive a quality education, that will aid in the pursuance of my dream of becoming a lawyer. Secondly, I have also gathered that I live in a time in which the dreams of someone like me are not always socially supported. As I think…

Gloria Steinem once opined, “[a] feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” Steinem renovated American journalism through being influential on expressing the improving the treatment of women in workplaces through her involvement in the feminist movements of the late 1960’s and 1970’s. Her domineering emotional strength as an independent female character connects similarity to even other beings. In the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, Pwyll encounters a…

growth process of any worthwhile collaboration. Dolores was mainly busy breaking down one gender barriers. she was professedly unaware of the astounding impact she was having on farm working woman and young women everywhere. Dolores first met Gloria Steinem when she was directing the first national boycott of california table grapes out of new york. they realized they had much in common and dolores started to found support from other feminist and began to…

schools,” he said. “Sally’s life showed us that there are no limits to what we can achieve.”"(The New York Times) Ride was respected by many women and little girls. Sally Ride was even respected by many little girls and other women. "The next day, Gloria Steinem, editor of Ms. magazine at the time, said, “Millions of little girls are going to sit by their television sets and see they can be astronauts, heroes, explorers and scientists.” " (The New York Times) Sally Ride was respected by many…

Be a Man: The Corruption Associated Battle, power, beat and ultimate: these are just a few words used to describe boys’ toys. Love, magic, friendship, and fun are used more commonly for girl toys (Smith). Contradicting each other greatly in their sense of meaning. From a young age boys are taught to be “manly”, and these words justify this. Learning young to just “buck up” or “don’t cry” can greatly affect a young boys childhood and even affect how he acts once he reaches manhood. Questioning…

Over the past centuries, women and men have faced pressure through Western beauty ideals. From the sweater girls of the 1940 to the thin and curvy women of the 1990’s, Western ideals of women beauty vary, but there have been three constant factors in women beauty. First, the ideal body shapes never represent the majority of women. Only a small percentage of women can achieve an ideal body. The second factor is women invest immense amount of emotions, energy, and time in order to conform to the…

Before I give you the mind-exploding facts about gender roles, let’s back up and ask how we even accumulated the expectation of society? Also how these expectations influence our gender sense? As stated in my introduction, gender can be defined as society’s understanding of how to organize sexual differences among the genders. How does society emphasize the gender’s differences? Despite the fact that there are obvious biological differences between the sexes, society categorizes the genders into…

put in prison to learn from their mistakes in order to become a well adjusted citizen. This is not the outcome that is taking place at this moment; most people who are in prison are a worst state going out then they were going in. A quote by Gloria Steinem that sums up this idea of the prison system today; he states “ A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space”. Prisons in the United States is not longer helping our society it hurt the overall population. The topics of…

. Like the words from a good book or the taste of an ambrosial meal, the ideology used to justify imperialism still lingers. It’s haunting, because imperialism was not a good book nor a tasty meal, but the process of eradicating cultural identity and forcing African and Middle Eastern countries to conform to Western standards. The West, the US in particular, argued that it’s a white man’s duty to save the less civilized man from himself (Roosevelt). Close-minded thinking like that comes from…

Feminism is the theory that genders should be politically, economically, and socially equal to one another. Over the course of a couple decades the term Feminism has become the new “f-word” (introduction to Feminism: Opposing Viewpoints). Many are offended by the word and will not associate with it, even if that person is in support of gender equality. This is due to the overwhelming amount of stereotypes surrounding feminism. Feminists are categorized as man-hating lesbians with a desire to…