What is Feminism--to real people?

Title: What is Feminism--to real people?
Category: Literature / English | Words: 1140 | Pages: 4.9 (approximately 235 words/page)

What is Feminism--to real people?

(1)What is Feminism---to us? Addressing contemporary feminism in this woman’s studies course may become a challenge. In class I noticed two things right out of the gate, that give me reason to worry about this. First, many of the students don’t seem to clearly know what feminism is. Secondly, the people that represent feminism to most of my peers are either entertainers or other well-known, successful women, who may or may not …showed first 75 words of 1140 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1140 total…give coverage to women America likes before women who challenge the status quo. Until that changes, Feminism, and the women who directly represent the movement, will always be misconstrued by the public and forgotten by the majority, which means that Oprah Winfrey, in the eyes of Jane Doe, will essentially be America’s premier feminist for a long, long time, not an entirely unwelcome stigma, given Oprah’s popularity, but surely a grossly inaccurate one.

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