Saturday, 3 July 2010

Feminism & Post Feminism

Feminism (1950's-60's)

  • A movement in which women questioned theri position within patriarchal society and the private sphere of home/children/domestic bliss
  • Serves to uncover, challenge and leiminate oppression and domninant gender imagery
  • Women began to debate the narrow range of stereotypes present across all media;
  • Women as virgins, mothers or promiscuous
  • Women as sex objects
  • Women are inferior to men
  • Women as domestic/based in the home

Post-feminism (1980's)

  • A re-appraisa of Feminist values
  • Does not strive for equality as this assumes men are the best-they wish to surpass male achievement
  • Objected to thories which position them as objects of the male gaze
  • Identifies a female gaze- women actively desiring men
  • Women began to assert thier right to dress and be sexally attractive

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