1. The document discusses 4 ways to become a better feminist in 2016: speak up in uncomfortable conversations about gender equality; read widely on feminist issues; be wary of celebrity feminism which can oversimplify issues; and embrace intersectional feminism which aims to include all groups of women. 2. It also covers some key concepts in feminism like the importance of challenging traditional gender norms and ideologies, as well as the concept of resistance through collective actions like strikes and protests. 3. Intersectional feminism recognizes that the feminist fight for women's rights aims to help all women regardless of other identities like race, class, sexuality etc.

1. 4 Ways to Become a Better
Feminist in 2016
Critical Approaches

2. Background
4 ways to become a better feminist in 2016
• Today it is hard being a feminist in a world that tries to
make the word “feminist” dirty
• A feminist is a person who believes that men and
women should have equal rights and opportunities

3. Importance of Feminism

4. Pervasiveness of Power
Critical Approaches
• Traditional Approach: is consider power to be a
relatively stable entity that people or group possess.
• Symbological Approach: focus on the views of power as
a product of communicative interactions and
relationships
• Radical-Critical Approach: In this approach the theorist
is concerned with “deep structures” that produce and
reproduce relationships in organizational

5. 1. Speak up/Have Uncomfortable Conversations:
Ideology

6. Ideology
• Ideology refers to more than a set of attitudes or
beliefs, it also focus on how the world structures our
thoughts and controls our interpretations of reality.
• Ideology shapes our understanding about what exists,
what is good, and what is possible.

7. Hegemony

8. Gender Norms

9. Challenging Gender Norms
Ideology
• Challenging the concept of what someone believe in can be
intimidating when your talking to a friend, a romantic partner, a
family member, or figure of authority. When people choose to
speak up they open the doors to criticism and backlash. The
world will always be stuck in traditional way of thinking if more
people don’t speak up about their beliefs.

10. 2. Read, Read Read

11. Resistance
Feminism
• According to Katherine Miller, the concept of
resistance considers how workers can exert counter-
pressure on this exercise of power and control
• Resistance is sometimes seen in collective and
organized processes such as unionization, strikes,
boycotts, and large-scale social move movements
• A great example of a major movement within feminism
is the Slut Walk.

12. The Slut Walk
Feminism

13. 3. Try not to glamorize celebrity feminism
• Some popular celebrity feminists are Beyoncé, Amber
Rose, and Nicki Minaj. Although these women has
brought awareness to the feminism its important to
remember that feminism requires more than a
opinion, and more than emotions

14. A Theory of Concertive Control
Edwards 3 Strategies for exerting control

15. Concertive Control
Feminism

16. 4. Live, Breathe, Eat, and Sleep
Intersectionally
• Intersectional is one of the key components of
feminism.
• Intersectional feminism understands that feminism
means including everyone in the community.
• When women were fighting for equal rights for women
they were fighting for all women.

17. Feminist Approaches

18. Feminist Framework

19. Questions

20. Works Cited
• Flores, J (2015, December 26).Teen Vogue: 4 Ways to Become a
Better Feminist in 2016
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/become-better-feminist-2016
• Harland, B. What is a Gender Norm?
http://peopleof.oureverydaylife.com/gender-norm-11041.html