Gloria Steinem

• Both activist represent a liberated, conservative, and a balanced of both, of women in the society. Gloria Steinem typify of a liberated woman. She supported liberation of women in the pivotal era, and she fought equal rights for women. First, she enforced that men and women should share in supporting the family. In doing so, women are not trying to abandon the responsibility of a mother, but to be of service to the family as well. Also, she believes that men also should have equal…

Hypatia’s philosophies and accomplishments were seen as a threat by the Catholic Church in her time. As a result, she was brutally killed by an angry mob of Catholic’s. Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes appear together in a famous photo where they were holding up their fists in solidarity. There is also a picture of Steinem when she was much younger holding a We Shall Overcome sign. Both of these women were major players in the feminist movement. Additionally, they were both…

Steinem thought that the reason women didn’t have equal laws was due to same sex-based myths. She says that “The truth is that all our problems stem from the same sex-based myths” (Steinem, 142). She believes that the laws are based upon men thinking women weren’t as capable at doing physical and mental work that men alone could accomplish. Steinem goes on to explain one of the examples reflected in the law and that is, “That women are biologically inferior to men” (Steinem, 142). Steinem argues…

is Gloria Steinem, a prominent leading political and Civil Right's Activist. She was a woman of great honor. Steinem was a very courageous woman who fought for equal rights for ALL women. She supported the proposed amendment that stated, "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex" (333). She simply believed that everyone should be treated equal and believed that men should not be treated superior over women. Steinem…

celebrity fallacy by using a picture of Kendall Jenner implying the idea that Kendall Jenner uses this foundation so you should too. The author uses this fallacy in order to convince women to buy certain products. According to the findings of Gloria Steinem in her book “Sex Lies and advertisements,” she proves that mostly all the Cotentin women magazine is some kind of advertisements. The same applies to the magazine of Cosmopolitan, by examining the magazine most of the content discusses…

Women’s Rights Women’s rights are rights that promote a position of legal and social equality of women with men. Some of the main people involved in the women’s rights movement were Betty Friedman, Gloria Steinem, and the judges in the Supreme Court in 1973. Betty Friedan published the book Feminine Mystique that attacked the popular notion that women during this time could only find fulfillment through childbearing and homemaking. The book described the problems of middle-class American women…

Taking an introspective look into the criminal mind, justice system, and the treatment of those entangled in its web is a daunting task, but in the three articles “A Death in the Box” by Mary Pfeiffer, “Supremacy Crimes” by Gloria Steinem, and “Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex” by Angela Davis, the reality is exposed and reveals a flawed system designed and utilized by the wealthy upper class to punish and theoretically enslave the mentally ill and minority groups. In…

According to Steinem, Clinton and other qualified female candidates could not use the same style as Obama or Bill Clinton. If they did, they would be considered too emotional. There is no ”right way” for a woman to be in a powerful public role without being considered a “bitch.” Steinem declares her support for Clinton over Obama because Clinton has “no masculinity to prove.” She writes about her concern…

The function of women in America has been ever-changing and progressive since the established institution of republican motherhood of the colonial period. Throughout history, many women have attempted to oppose the meek, and maternal cutout that was made for them by patriarchal societies. The fight for women’s rights has been long and strenuous with many victories along the way, leading up to the ultimate campaign for gender equality during the 1960s lead by influential, empowering women. One…

we know, people are born into three different categories: male, female, or intersex. This is biological. However, our definitions as a society of what it means to be male or female are not. The three pieces we read: If Men Could Menstruate by Gloria Steinem, Fixing Sex by Katrina Karkazi, and Interpreting Gender and Sexuality by Alma Gottlieb all illustrate this idea. Other themes that exist within the three pieces include: straight male domination (patriarchy), the distribution of power in…