...Assignment: A movement that is changing the world Shadrach Diamond Kaplan University SS 310-06 April 25, 2012 The 1960s was a decade filled with changes that had an effect on the nation and the world like none other. During this period, Civil Rights movements took place, the country was at war, a U.S. president was assassinated, and humans walked on the moon. Music and television were creating a completely different culture. For the first time a presidential election was broadcast on TV giving millions of Americans the ability see this event, and the Beatles were influencing the youth with their magical music and lyrics. The events that occurred in this decade not only touched this planet as a whole, but it also made an impression on my personal life. The city I live in saw a big change during the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. New Orleans, Louisiana, has a large black population who shared the same dream that Martin Luther King spoke about at the Capital. “On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people from across the nation came together in Washington, D.C. to peacefully demonstrate their support for the passage of a meaningful civil rights bill, an end to racial segregation in schools and the creation of jobs for the unemployed” (Hansan, n.d.). Martin Luther King Jr. was a pioneer for the Civil Rights movement who encouraged other people to follow him and help change the country’s laws. Because of the advancements in the Civil Rights movement for...
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...These unrealistic expectations of women set by society have had a profound effect on women. The feminist movement urges women to dismiss these expectations and for women to just be themselves. Feminism is needed in order to get rid of the ridiculous expectations of women in society such as “effortless perfection” in order for women to be truly successful in society. Every movement has opposition and feminism definitely has its opponents. One of the biggest arguments against feminism is that women already have equal rights so feminism is no longer needed. One of the reasons women actually do not have equal rights still today is because the Equal Rights Amendment has still yet to be passed. This amendment would make it illegal to discriminate in the work force on the basis of sex (King). Another argument against feminism is that feminists are deemed angry and aggressive. Yes, feminists do get angry sometimes, but it is because many of the inequalities that women go through are rough and painful. It is also a common misconception that men cannot be feminists. This is untrue because the ideals of feminism are not only for women but also for men. Once again feminism is not about women being better than men;...
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...The Feminist Movement Starting the decade of the 1960s, American women still enjoyed far less opportunities than men in every economic and social aspect; moreover, such disparity was being protected by state, and even federal, laws (Bodenner). Gender inequality brought a great social unrest that culminated on the feminist movement’s efforts to ratify an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex" (“Equal Rights Amendment (1972)”). That was the most descriptive sentence on what the ERA proposed to ratify in the U.S. Constitution in order to really achieve gender equality. Females had minimal political representation, almost no educational access, very low earnings, and were deprived of their own corporal liberties (Bodenner). These injustices were mostly based on the fact that women were seen as irrational, irresponsible and dependent of men in many aspects such as the economic one (Bodenner). These prejudices and old-fashioned ways of thinking not only interfered with the recognition of women’s basic and human rights, but also undermined the nation’s commitment to human dignity, freedom and democracy (“Executive Order Establishing the President's Commission on the Status of Women (1961)”). It is thus fair and humane to affirm that the Equal Rights Amendment had to be added to the Constitution. The ERA’s ratification was the correct way to proceed for America as a righteous...
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...So-called diverse casts always include one or two African American actors or actresses while white actors dominate the cast. So-called diverse movies never include any queer characters. So-called diverse movies, whose directors or studios are so into LGBT rights and everything, never do any real thing about LGBTIQ(…) people. Well, you know what? You don’t have to settle for this! Recently I’ve read about Marvel boycotting something because they were anti-LGBT. Well, good for them. But where are our LGBT characters in main Marvel movies or comicbooks? Yeah, staying loyal to the original source and all… You don’t do that when it comes to other things but when something that is controversial in terms of race or sexual orientation, you just keep silent? Are you so afraid that you’re gonna make a few bucks less if you make it more black or more LGBT-friendly? (As shown by the shockingly low success of Empire outside of the United States, it is sadly a fact that Europeans and people of other continents are not really into African American led movies I guess? That’s ridiculous, that’s for sure.) That’s just hypocrisy, you know. Disney says the world is not ready for an openly gay movie. They also keep releasing whitewashed movies. When will the world be ready for LGBT characters if we don’t do anything and just keep waiting for the world to get itself ready? Ugh, I’m so mad at about this. I just needed to pour it out. I’m so mad at Hollywood and celebrities for...
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...Everyone wants to be treated and viewed the same in this world and a movement that is making a huge impact is the Feminists movement. Society has viewed females lower than males since if not the begging of extsincistance. Females have done so much in this world to even be considered in this status. Every female has finally came to a conclusion and will not tolerate any of this no more and finally earn respect from every male in this world. Impactful moments like these usually have a famous iconic figure or sometimes even celebrities. For example, the feminist movement has various of these figures, but one the one that stands out the most is Beyonce. Beyonce’s music encorages women to be independ and sexy. A majority of her sone promote equality...
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...did the feminist art movement influence expressionism? Gender equality is an issue that has gradually become a day to day affair in our society; it’s near impossible to avoid seeing it or hearing about it. However, gender equality as an issue is often associated with politics, not art, but as a result of it, feminists began to illustrate the issue through expressionist art forms. Feminist art was used to shock, educate and mock, as well as be used as an outlet for women to tell their story, which, through traditional values, was almost impossible. As a result, the expressionist art form evolved more than anyone could have ever imagined. The amount of new mediums and outlets that were explored and created as a result of feminist art was phenomenal. However, like with any other significant change, there were many critics that wished it hadn’t. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Traditionally, men were the dominant gender; the boss, and women were mere selfish pleasures used to sexually gratify a man. She must also cook for him, clean for him, bear his children and just simply act as the man’s object. These values carried over into the art world, where, female artists were virtually unheard of, they were only art works; objects of the male gaze. When women appeared in art, the majority were only half dressed or nude, as well as being placed in a vulnerable position; waiting for the man do dominate her. It was as the snowball effect started of feminist movements and feminist...
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...what extent was the Second Wave Feminism Movement inspired by the Civil Rights Movement and serve as a continuation of its ideals? The Civil Rights of the 1950s and the feminism of the 1960s will be explored to show how the two bled together and were not entirely separate. The first source to be evaluated is The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. There is value in this source because it provides a comparison point for the rest of the investigation. Since many historians look to Friedan’s book as the beginning of the feminist movement in the 1960s, it provides helpful insight into the initial goals for the movement. As a journalist, she was...
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...mong the various struggles for equal rights that have characterized US history, the Feminist Movement has had a profound impact on American culture and politics (Hooks 2-3, 15). Perhaps the most compelling element of the Feminist Movement is the emergence of Black Feminism, which aimed to reshape the structure and direction of the movement (Burrell 9-10). Although the Black Feminist Movement reached its peak in the 1960’s and 70’s (Burrell 10), many attempts had been made previously by African American women to highlight the persistent oppression faced by their counterparts (Simien 2). Most notorious are the words of activists Sojourner Truth during the Civil War; as she repeated “Ain’t I a woman”, she sought to emphasize the racism, as well...
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...Feminism had always been a primarily white women movement until the 19080’s. This came with one exception, Sojourner Truth. Sojourner Truth was a former slave who advocated strongly for abolition and women’s suffrage. Her most famous work was a poem she wrote titled Ain’t I a Women in which she explained the struggles of being a woman who is not actually seen as a woman for being a person of color. This did not have that great of an impact during the time unfortunately but, it was good for the 1989’s feminist movement. This is also known as third wave feminism which was the wave that dealt with the issues of women of color and non-heterosexual women. This was in response to the lack of diversity within the 1960’s women’s rights movement which...
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...During the mid 20th century, the Civil Rights and the Feminist Movement had a comparable objective at the prime of the priority list: To produce open doors for their minority bunches that were as equivalent as what others were able to have. These particular movements needed to manage the matter of how someone approaches seeking after such open doors successfully. In this essay, my essential objective is to look at, represent, and evaluate the viability of the strategies utilized as a part of both the Civil Rights and the Feminist Movement. To approach this, this essay will initially consider every evolution and their strategies independently, and subsequently do some prompt correlation. The Civil Rights Movement was the time in the United State...
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...Chustz 1 Sara Chustz Mrs. Cirigliano Literature and Composition III 3 April, 2015 Ms. Magazine and the Feminist Movement in America In 1920, a remarkable thing happened where women fought for their rights and were given the right to vote. The fight for this was a huge struggle and took many years before it was approved. Women had already started the feminist movement in America when they started fighting for any and all equality between men and women. Feminism is not just about women, many people think that since it’s called feminism it must be only having to do with women, but the truth is men can be feminists as well. Feminism is usually defined as being a belief or idea that men and women should be equal, in all ways. At this time, women...
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...Paper Bryce Barbee ART/125 March 14, 2016 Jamie Welch Art and Culture Paper This paper will contain information about the Feminist Art Movement and how their art work help then towards the goal of women have equal rights as to men. This will also include the ethnic minorities and how their influence affected the art works. There will be a Section of this paper that will take about the influence of art and how it affected the culture of 20th century. Then this paper will so contain information about how the culture of 20th century influences the arts of the 20th century. Feminist Art Movement Well the Feminist Art Movement started in 1969 because there was a group of women artists in revolution (WAR). This group decided to split off from the Art Workers’ Coalition (AWC) the reason the split from the AWC because it was Male-dominated. This group would not help the women artists. Then in 1971 the women artists had started to strike out of the Corcoran Biennial in Washington D.C. because they had excluded the women artists. The women artists started to protest against gallery owners because they would not show off their work here. Judy Chicago is the first woman that acted on and to help the Feminist Art movement. Her role was the most prominent and the earliest activists in the movement because she had established the feminist art program for women to paint freely without having the rejections from the outside world. The place of the program at is called Cal...
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...Log My Personal Interest Project topic was chosen with my micro world in mind, due to my interest in art as well as being a Visual Art student. Through studying gender roles during my Visual Art course and exploring social exclusion in Society and Culture, it compelled me to want to learn more about the representation of women within the art world. As a socially aware individual with an interest in art, I felt the need to explore these inequalities to see if they still exist and how this may impact on other young artists. The research methods that I chose were interview, statistical analysis and content analysis, which would provide me qualitative results, as well as quantitative by being able to collect data and statistics. Originally, I planned on conducting a focus group discussion, however as my project progressed, I decided on content analysis as it allowed me to observe a variety of sources and immerse myself in the art world. By choosing an interview I was able to gain insightful knowledge from four females who were either art curators or historians and one male who is an art historian. This gave me qualitative results as I was able to receive in-depth answers from numerous people and allowed and exploration of my cross-cultural by interviewing both genders and gaining their perspectives on this. However, there were some limitations such as by completing my interviews through e-mail, I was not able to ask any follow up questions for answers to be further elaborated...
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...1960s, the feminist art movement emerged following the women’s suffrage movement. The art during this era included works that obviously dealt with the female body even if the artists did not fully establish themselves as feminists. On the other hand, there were artists, like Paul Gauguin, who represented women in a different way. He spent some time in Tahiti to change his inspiration for art and discovered different subjects that included young Tahitian women. His pieces were so different from the pieces during the feminist art movement because his art typically did not give a precise purpose or meaning. Feminist art was representing something so powerful that it almost always needed a strict meaning. Another piece of art that almost contradicts the feminist art movement is Olympia by Edouard Manet. Consisting of a nude woman, this painting could suggest the views of women by the artist and even their role in society. Looking at these three different types of art really helps understanding the difference of representation of women over the course of the years. The feminist art movement started in the 1960’s shortly after women gained the right to vote due to the women’s suffrage movement (Feminist art movement). These artists’ purposes did not just have to be representing women in a positive way. In my opinion, this movement represented the power of women and how the suffrage movement gave them that power. One of the most-known pieces of art, during this movement, is The Dinner...
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...The Difference between the Feminist Movement of 1960 and that of Today In the book “Female Chauvinist Pigs” Levy tries examine and make sense of the radical cultural, social and economic difference in the definition of feminism by two generation. Levy struggles to make sense the two generation mutually exclusive definition of feminism, what it means and what it should stand for. The feminist's movement of the 1960s and 1970s drew inspiration from the civil rights movement. It was made up mainly of members of the middle class, and thus partook of the spirit of rebellion that affected large segments of middle-class youth in the 1960s.Thee feminist movement of the 1960 fought for women liberation, they had series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, voting rights, sexual harassment, and sexual violence. The movement of this period fought to achieve women's civil liberty rights, eradication of gender discrimination at workplace and in education centers, eliminating discrimination in wages, sexual revolution, reproductive rights and subsequently, amending the laws pertaining to cater for women’s need. According to the book the 1960 feminist movement was a major advocate in pushing congress to pass the Equal Pay Act in 1963, which made it illegal to pay a man more money than a woman for doing the same job and the civil rights Act in 1964 that banned discrimination on basis of race, sex and religion. The act...
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