2. What is Feminism?
Feminism: noun.
1. A doctrine or movement that advocates equal
rights for women.
• Three waves of feminism.
• Countless branches.
3. Feminism Through the Years
• The First Wave
-1840’s to 1920’s
-Civil Rights
- “I fear you think the ‘new woman’ is going to wipe you off the
planet, but be not afraid. All who have mothers, sisters, wives or
sweethearts will be very well looked after.” – Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
4. • Individual Focus
• Aftermath of WWII
• “A woman needs a
man like a fish
needs a bicycle.”
The Second Wave
6. Ideals of the New Wave
Hyper Feminism
• Abandon motherhood
and domesticity
• “Full potential”
Pop Feminism
• Girl Power
• Individualism
• Powerpuff Girls, Body
Peace Treaty
• Empowerment
7. Paradoxes of the New Wave
1. Rejecting the past, then promptly reclaiming it.
2. Sobering up about our smallness and maintaining
faith in our greatness.
3. Aiming to succeed wildly and being fulfilled by
failing really well.
- Two levels:
1. Pursue lofty goals and change.
2. . Operate on a day-to-day basis
8. Capitalism & Feminism
• An economic system in which investment and
ownership of means of production, distribution
and exchange of wealth is made and maintained
chiefly by private individuals or corporations,
especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-
owned means of wealth.
• Focus on economics, not culture
• Statistics vs. Interest
9. The Traditional Family
• Influx of single mothers
• Domestic qualities diminished
“The reality of feminism is a lot of frenzied and
overworked women dropping kids off at daycare
centers.” – Kay Ebeling
10. Children: A Casualty of the Third Wave?
• Over 50% of children raised in single-parent
households
• Broken homes and relationships
• Early development hindered
11. What is Feminism?
“My issue with the new
feminist movement
stems from the
emphasis it places on
equality – gender or
otherwise – because
I’m of the mentality
that once everyone is
equal, no one is.”
-- Derek Sheffield
12. “I myself have never been able to find
out precisely what feminism is: I only
know that people call me a feminist
whenever I express sentiments that
differentiate me from a doormat.”
-- Rebecca West
13. Works Cited
Ebeling, Kay. “Feminists Are Not Funny.”
The Human Life Review. Spring 1991.
Fraser, Nancy. "How Feminism Became
Capitalism's Handmaiden." The Guardian.
Guardian News and Media, 14 Oct. 2013.
Web. 25 May 2014
See, Patti. "Not Your Mother's
Feminism." University of Wisconsin Eau Claire.
Web.
14. Works Cited for Pictures
1. http://www.clker.com/clipart-pink-female-
symbol.html
2. http://www.freepptbackgrounds.net/flowers/dr
eam-flowers-garden-backgrounds
3. http://www.freepptbackgrounds.net/border-
frames/charming-frames-figure
4. http://www.senecafallsfilm.org/about_stills.htm
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5. http://mediamythalert.wordpress.com/2011/09
/06/recalling-the-1960s-bra-burning-days-of-
womens-lib/
Editor's Notes
- Emphasis on the word equal, without any sort of special treatment or consideration.
- Free will
- Hyper-feminism, Pop-feminism, as well as ecofeminists
The first wave of the feminism movement
- Protest the Miss America Pageant
- Fundamental and intimate changes in everyday life
“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”
Reproductive rights, individual focus.
Starts focus on beauty, sexuality, freedom to choose
Branching into different groups based on opinion
Lily Allen, satirical music video
Jenna Marbles tells us what it means to be a girl
Jennifer Lawrence criticizes Miley
How do you accurately portray a woman in the public eye?
Rebecca Walker, Amy Richards
