Sunday, April 30, 2017

Violet Newborn............Fear of Feminism or a Healthy Denial?


Lisa Hogland’s essay argues that young women are far less embracing feminism as older women, therefore having a smaller stake in the system and fewer ties to it. Bringing up the reality  that younger women have the increased tendency to normalize any kind of oppositional politics. I would have to agree only in the sense that the awareness of  gender  demonization is seen as the normal. I would have to agree before this class I to just assumed that I was to accept life as it came along not really thinking I was able to make a change in it. But with the knowledge of women's studies I can fight back if not seeing a change in my lifetime I can create a ripple that will allow my daughter and granddaughters a life closer to equality. Hogland says women’s consciousness  versus feminist consciousness has succeeded  over the past three decades and takes two forms, the self-awareness of women's vulnerability towards men's violence and the celebration of women's differences. Creating a women's culture of useful and valuable formats in self-help books, talk shows, and mass media.

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