Controversy Within
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published 19/11/2007
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SummaryIn the last century alone, the United States of America has witnessed dozens of “equal rights” movements. Some of the most significant rights Americans currently enjoy have come out of great struggle and controversy. Whenever a group of citizens protest the way their society views them, whenever they demand change, there is always an external, contradictory force trying to hold them back. Often times, however, there is also controversy within a rights movement; it is not unlikely for ideologies within a “movement” to clash. The feminist movement(s) of the past thirty years has been considered to be both largely successful, and somewhat of a failure; depending on who one asks.
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- Today, the historical connotations of the 'feminist movement' are largely divided into two sub-movements known as '1970's feminism' and 'post-feminism.?
- Today, the historical connotations of the 'feminist movement' are largely divided into two sub-movements known as '1970's feminism' and 'post-feminism.?
- In the past century, motion pictures have become one of the most imbedded forms of media in the United States of America.
- Post-feminism gave birth to films such as Pretty Woman (1990) and Working Girl (1987), which many considered signs of progress.
- While feminist screen theory criticizes women's role as a sexual object for the voyeuristic male-gaze to 'take in,' Charlotte Brunsdon criticizes certain examples of post-feminism for their archetype of women as 'happy consumers.?
- Both 1970's feminism and post-feminism take issue with the way women are seen through the 'male-gaze' of most main-stream films; and to a larger extent, society.
- Despite the vast differences in the 1970's feminism and post-feminism movements, the goal has remained the same; a fair, equal view of women (both on screen and in society)
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