Feminism and evidence.

Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing and defending equal rights and opportunities for women. Feminism is mainly focused on women's issues, but because feminism is about equal right and opportunities for women and men, some feminists can argue that men's liberation is a main part of feminism and that men are also harmed by sexism and gender roles.

When we watch programmes or a film or see anything in a magazine or a newspaper we must see some sort of advert in them or something in the moving image/images that we think can be sexist or stereotype women or men in either a good way or a bad way. There are many different feminists who believe different things depending on the religion they are or the culture in which they live in. Therefore, women's roles might vary depending on what religion they are.

For example, women living in Britain in the 1940's were supposed to stay at home and look after the children and keep them fed so this consisted of being a house wife as well as having to work to keep their children fed. However, before the 1940's (pre-war times), women were expected to live in the house and look after the house whilst the husband or the man of the house went out to work. Although, post-war time all this changed and feminists all over the world believed that women should have equal opportunities. This meant women being able to have a job as that it what all the women had to do to keep everyone fed in the household. Below is an image showing the women of pre-war times and post-war times.

This is an example of a house wife. This would have been before the war when the husband would be at work, the children would be at school and the house jobs would rely on the house wife finishing them off.

This is an example of a working wife. This would have been after the war because at this time women have finally realised that they do not have equal rights or opportunities and therefore the high percentage of jobs were being occupied by women.

In our lesson on the 28th of June, we talked about feminism and how the pictures that we had in front of us to write connotations on showed feminism in either a positive way or in a negative way. This helped my understanding of feminism become much better and therefore, I shall use it more often when discussing interesting topics with the class.