Social Movement Feminism

Even though women took a stand for women’s rights in the past, the is still more to come in the near future. In the article “Women In Movement” the author expresses, “furthermore, the fact that women have developed alternative financial strategies, if the donor funding should for some reason stop is a good sign for the future” (Madsen, 1). This expresses how women have organized a group and raised money to help benefit something they believe in and care for. Then, in the article “The Hidden Women’s Movement”, it states, “In the past 30 years since the failure of the ERA, we see women 's movement mobilization resulting in several very important successes, including passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009 and the approval of over-the-counter emergency contraception” (Banaszak,1). Therefore, women have been able to gain new grounds on things with the help of the women’s right movement.

The culture of society has generally reflected the wishes and demands of those in power, which has, for ages, leaned towards corruption and self-preservation. Yet, every once in awhile, society is able to rise above those who have control and determine its own fate. This is an uncommon occurrence as these ideas, especially the ones that have enough force to generate a following, are suppressed by those in power and are disregarded by those still under an illusion of contentment. One idea that has been continually brought to the forefront of these conversations is the idea of total equality, a concept that is especially dangerous to society’s puppet masters and seen as a boy crying wolf by the general populace.

Societal change occurs when one person or a group of people decide it's time to stand up against a norm, to engage in deviant behavior in order to change the pace of time. These deviances become known as social movements. Some of the biggest social movements include The Civil Rights Movement, The Women's Rights Movement, and The Environmental Movement. All of these have had a significant impact on society as a whole, after all, neither black persons nor females would have near the rights they do now had these movements not taken place. But, how and why do social movements become so big?

Music has long had the power to convey powerful and meaningful messages that were directed towards a specific audience throughout history. Its ability to do the aforementioned was exemplified during the beginning and early stages of the Feminist Movement, particularly with Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” (1967) and Helen Reddy’s “I am Woman” (1972). These two songs sought to empower the women of their era by encouraging gender autonomy. Though released five years apart, there were many similarities between the two songs in terms of their musical and lyrical composition, as well as their message and intended audience. However, due to the surrounding social issues of their time period, two very different underlying secondary messages were incorporated

As mentioned before, many feel as though women still face discrimination in the workforce. However, it is no question that attitudes towards the feminist movement have become less critical overtime. In fact, 51% of men and 69% of women currently identify as feminists, according to the 2015 poll by YouGov. Many celebrities have pushed for women’s rights, which has contributed to its recent acceptance. Overall, there were several components to the rise of the women’s rights movement in the period 1940-1975.

Feminism: Viewing feminism from all aspects From the following classic definition of a “feminist” by believing the idea of equality, there is an added responsibility of delivering the idea, convincing people, and helping people realize the occurrence of feminism. Being a feminist by any means is not an easy task. As the idea of feminism is rapidly developing across the globe, it refers to various questions, misconceptions, and sometimes extreme detestation directed towards the feminists. Society still doesn’t understand the essence of feminism, and the true meaning of it. Some believe that a feminist fight for women's equality, while others believe that women should be able to fulfill their highest potential.

Looking in from the outside, the journey of Women’s rights was a lengthy one, and it has come a significant way from what it began as. It was a long road to freedom that started with just a few women protesting together for change in the mid 1800’s to the large movement it is today. What started only as an effort to put women on equal footing with men in the voting realm blossomed into a full on fight against gender norms and independence through protesting, speeches, and gatherings. Gender norms or ‘roles’ are (as defined by Webster’s dictionary) “a set of societal norms dictating what types of behaviors are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for a person based on their actual or perceived sex” and they are one thing that modern feminist have set their sights on to change for the better. Traditional gender roles have continued to exist for hundreds of years through perpetrators such as religion, government and society, and its effects have been felt by every woman, whether they realize it or not.

Social movements, such as the Women’s Rights Movement and the Civil Rights Movement, are what helped to shape victimology into what it is today. Individual people took a stand for what was wrongfully done to them and demanded a change no matter what the cost entailed. Would you be willing to fight against injustice being done to you? The Women’s Rights Movement began as fight for the “right to vote, [to put an end to] domestic violence, sexual assault, and [to promote] temperance,” however, their goal in the fight extended for “victims of rape and domestic violence while still pushing for equal treatment with men in all areas,” after women achieved their initial goals (Victim Services Network, 2010).

The first wave of feminism has been a revolutionary social movement in terms of that it could lead to an overcoming of the previous social order (Newman, 2012 p. 487) through its social agents and create, through this, a new social ordering of time and space. Moreover, through reaching their previously described aims, the first wave of feminism has been able to literally “overthrow the entire system itself, (…) in order to replace it with another one.” (Skocpol, 1979, as cited in Newman 2012, p. 487). Thereby, one can even state that a new ordering of time and space by which routines and routinised behaviour has been challenged as well as changed took place. The interactions influenced the way how societies work today.

It has been seen that over time many grievances have been generated across societies due to different reasons in many parts of the world. However, not all grievances turned into successful social movements. For a generic movement to appear and become successful it needs to have the fundamental structural prerequisites, like the presence of political opportunities, mobilization structure and mobilization framework. Along with shared grievances these fundamental structural prerequisites, and factors like the emergence of strong leaders and use of technology, are required for a movement to appear and be successful. Not all grievances are able to fulfill these prerequisites and therefore we see far fewer movements being generated.

Feminism is seen as man-hating and feminists’ actions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men, and, unattractive. Emma needs men to have a more active role in women’s rights. Gender equality can only be achieved if men and boys take full responsibility, working side by side with women and girls, to readdress the dynamics that delay progress. “Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.”

Introduction Hook: Since the beginning of time, the existence of women and men has been undeniably considered as one of the integral factors that forms our society as it is today. Despite their parallel existence and contribution to the growth of the society, it was considered that women were not treated equal to men both in domestic and working circumstances, leading to a wave of movements demanding equal rights for women, known as feminism. Despite its success in claiming benefits for mistreated women in the past, recent feminism actions and point of views have gone above their original purpose, and created negative impacts and false mindset as its consequences, 2. Credibility I have done some in-depth research about this matter to prepare for the speech, and I myself do not stand for contemporary feminist. 3.

The working definition I will use for this paper is, “language that avoids the use of certain expressions or words that might be considered to exclude particular groups of people, especially gender-specific words, such as "man", "mankind", and masculine pronouns, the use of which might be considered to exclude women”.

One of the major goals of the feminism sub group on Reddit is to bring to light issues that are occurring today and things that may happen in the future. The subscribers post various articles from newsreels or personal stories to discuss the problem of women being treated unfairly. And although this just seems to be an online forum for discussion to an outsider, one might be surprised to know that the members of this sub-group is so large that if there is a big enough following in a certain area members meetup to propose ideas to bring light upon the fact that even though we are in the year of 2014 that sexism and gender discrimination is a very real issue that needs to be handled. The friendliness of this online community has made it easier for women and even sometimes men who support women’s rights to speak freely to each other. While interviewing members of this online community I promised to only name their username to protect their anonymity.

These studies have implications today since social movements are happening all around the world from USA to Egypt, to Ukraine. Television and social media are constantly showing new boycotts, riots and protests. Movements come in waves, meaning there are moments where there is more social turmoil and times when there is more peace. In recent history this can be seen in the 1960 's with the peace movement that spread through the world, the 1980 's pro-democracy movements (Oliver & Myers, 1998) and even today 's wave of anti-capitalism movements, set out to take down unjust and corrupt world leaders. Meyer and Whittier (1994) analyzed “movement spillover”, where one movement indirectly influences a different social movement.