Feminism Response Paper

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“It’s not surprising that we haven’t achieved equality; we haven’t even defined it. Nearly thirty years after the onset of the modern feminist movement, we still have no consensus on what nature dictates to men and women and demands of law.” According to polls conducted regarding feminism, most women believe that the movement has altered their lives for the better. The same polls also conclude that women are often hesitant to associate themselves within the movement. This hesitance is mostly due to the harsh stereotyping of feminist and its image. Feminism can be a very touchy movement. Some see feminists as this group of raucous and aggressive women who hate men. For the most part this is not true. Feminism is the advocacy for women’s rights …show more content…
The next section of the article is focused on how women resist the feminist label and why they do so. The next section is about the “purity” of women and how that led to gender roles and discrimination. The following section is about the outcomes of equality and possible reasons why we have not achieved it. The next few sections focus on Gilliganism, feminists vs. anti-feminists, and the so-called destruction of femininity due to feminism. The concluding section describes the “enemy from within” and where the differing views of feminism came to …show more content…
This is why equality has not been achieved. “As Elizabeth Cady Stanton observed more than a hundred years ago, equal-rights feminism challenges women to acknowledge that they are isolated individuals as well”(¶37). “Some women will dispute one underlying implication of Betsy Carter’s(executive editor of Harper’s Bazaar) remarks--that feminism involves assimilation, the merger of male and female spheres of interest”(¶11). A rumor about feminism that it is a movement only for upper-class, privileged women. The author wrote this to educate people on the different types of feminism and the differing views of feminism in general and she does a great job at doing so. The material is presented clearly but it does not flow as well as it could. While reading the article it was difficult for me to connect all of the points and bring it together to a single consensus. Yes, every paragraph in each separately titled section fits together nicely but the sections are not tied together very well. Kaminer barely touches on the fact that a lot of feminists fight for other social issues as well. Feminism is equality for