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.
