Gloria Steinem

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”(Margaret Mead) There have been many protests, riots, and revolutions all over the world from ancient eras to our modern day. Each one of those has made the world what it is today. One of the most important protests was the feminist movement .Feminism is the advocacy of women 's rights to the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. The feminist…

are not sticking to the status quo and are creating their own revolution for the 2016 presidential election. During the New Hampshire caucus Bernie Sanders won 70 percent of the vote among women under the age of 45, which stunned feminist activist Gloria…

Since the beginning of time, women have worked to contribute to their place in society. Stone Age in the twentieth century, individuals and organized groups are of the opinion that women are considered equal, and they promised to do something about it. Perhaps the peak of this movement was observed in the 1960s and 1970s, when the release of the women 's movement is recognized as an organized attempt to achieve equality for women. Early in ancient times, women from prehistory lower division of…

Harriet Tubman said, Every great dream begins with a great dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, patience, and the stars to change the world.” This quote is explaining that everyone has a dream, but it takes guts, perseverance and time to accomplish any dream. It took many amazing women and 50 years to gain rights for women to vote and to be in office. It takes inner strength to help those who cannot help themselves. If not for Susan B. Anthony, Shirley Chisholm, Elizabeth…

Gloria Steinem once said, “If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she’ll tell you she looks worse (Body Image Quotes).” In today’s society, women are more worried about how their bodies look than they ever have been. Women have to have a “perfect” body because the media tells them that they have to look a certain way in order to get a guy’s attention or fit in. Some will do anything it takes to achieve that “perfect” body,…

It is 2017. In this modern day and age, there are few individuals who believe that women should not be viewed as equals to men. While there is not reams of active men in the feminist movement, Michael Kimmel points out that there is in fact “a growing number of profeminist men around the country,” (Kimmel 568, 2004). Men commonly do not understand feminism, but should those men who do be allowed to call themselves feminists? I agree with Kimmel when he answers no men cannot be feminists due to…

Imagine this: a businessman with a generous salary, his stay at home wife keeps the house clean, the dog fed and their two children, one boy-one girl, cared for. Their one story house is in the best neighborhood with the whitest picket fence on the block. This is America’s ideal family, a perfect family. Now imagine this: a man too concerned with being masculine to bath his children or to help his frantic wife with the housework. The dutiful wife up to her arms in cleaning, lacking any social…

The author and main character of Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin, is a white middle aged newspaper columnist. He and his family live in Mansfield, Texas in 1959. Griffin is deeply concerned about the racial conflict and the treatment of black people in the south. He wants to know what it is like to experience discrimination based on skin color. In order to truly understand the black experience he decides to become a black man himself. He will have to undergo medical treatment to change the…

Throughout history, rock and roll has always been a male dominated genre consistently focusing on the male listener. From the beginning of this enormously popular genre, Women waited patiently to find a way and to be accepted into this “man’s world.” As years past this continued to be an issue for women as they tried to knock down those doors and even today one can argue that women continue to fight for that spot that they rightfully deserve. However, over the course of this time there have…

Lexie Brauer Core 101: Dr. Wolbrink Assignment no. 1 September 8, 2017 America: Land of the Men and Home of the Oppressed The phrase “nasty woman” turned into a mass captivation during the 2016 presidential election. For a term that is not in the dictionary, it is used among a variety of peoples’ daily vocabulary. Despite the widespread use, there is no one way it can be defined. The connotation has become exceedingly controversial among both republican and democratic parties. While the phrase…