Final Blog

Coming to the end of the book, chapter 24, I continued to learn more about feminist and how they were very influential. The book states that the ideology of liberation was more powerful than money; people traversed the planet and goods.  The globalization of liberation: comparing feminist movements, was said to “no expression of the global culture of liberation held a more profound potential for change than feminism, for it represented a rethinking of the most fundamental and personal of all human relationships-that between women and men” (Strayer, 735).  I was amazed that the liberation of feminism was so influential.  The movement of feminism was said to begin in the West during the nineteenth century.  The primary focus was to address the concerns of women, which spread globally.  Though feminism took place in many cultural and political settings they focused on different strategies, experienced a range of outcomes, and challenged different issues.

Continuing along the road of feminism, I found interesting that many feminist were against the Miss America contest in 1968.  They even went to great lengths to distroy the contest.  Doing such things as “tossing stink bombs in the hall, crowning a live sheep as their Miss America, and disposing of girdles, bras, high-heeled shoes, tweezers and other instruments of oppression” (Strayer, 736).  Though I think that is a little to extreme and I don’t think that is a good way of getting their voice heard, they should have approached this subject differently.  The things that they did to the Miss America contest were childish, and that is not the way to get your voice to be heard.  But what I did like during around the time they did bring up concerns of different topics, such as lesbianism, celibacy, sexuality and free love.

I also found it interesting and never really took the time to put it in to consideration how during this time and even today, just because we are women and share the same sex, we are all-different and have our own point of views what we consider to be important.   For example white middle-class women issues were not really relevant to their oppression.  Black women have always worked outside of the home, so they did not have a need to be liberated from homemaking as like the white women did.  So stuff like that just shows, that every culture of women are different.  Not all of them had to same issues as their fellow feminist.  What also caught my eye was with many feminist rising, who was the one to be in charge, or who would be the one to speak.   They had different delegates in different countries, but I can see how it could be hard to all have the same interest. But I think them having different issues that they all addressed were very important because that was important to them during this time.

I really enjoyed reading about the feminist and learning different things about them.  This subject continues to catch my attention.