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This webpage, an essay previously published in Ms. Magazine, a feminist magazine explores why some young women fear feminism. It explores why this fear might be present. Interestingly, it explores gender consciousness and how this changes once placed within the feminist lens. Feminism takes the consciousness of womanhood and asks questions and analyzes how this consciousness of womanhood can help and harm woman publicly and privately.

This webpage explores the three waves of feminism. The first is the one that we usually think of when we think about early feminism, Rosie the Riveter, yes we can and suffrage. The second wave coincided with many other civil rights activist groups, we saw the introduction of women of color and lower class women. We saw a focus on family, sexuality and reproductive rights. The third, and current, wave is about defining roles and identities for themselves and not based on patriarchy or misogyny. It's okay to embrace sexuality, sexualized appearances, etc, as long as it's a choice and not forced.

This site discusses the rise of feminism in the 1960s - 1970s. This movement is also known as the Second Wave of Feminism. The first wave occurred during the late 1800s and early 1900s - women banded together for voting rights. The second wave focused on overall discrimination against women and their natural rights. The National Organization for Women (NOW) was formed. Their goals were Women's rights in abortion,Anti-job discrimination, Domestic violence, and same educational opportunities. Overall, the organization strived for women equality among men. During this period many other women rights groups were organized such as Female Liberation, Redstockings, and Bread and Roses just to name a few. The article relates to the image as Donna Gottschalk was a feminist who fought for women's rights and equality.

This Ms. Magazine article takes a look at Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In". A book that suggests that women have internalized negative messages about a woman's role, how a woman should behave in the workplace, where a woman belongs in the work place, etc. For example, women shouldn't be aggressive or ambitious, it's not feminine. She challenges the idea of femininity in the corporate world and encourages women to take more risks. This "Lean In" feminism is challenged by some because not every woman defines her feminism as being "more like men" as desiring to be treated fairly, like men.

American women have struggled historically against certain paradigms of inferiority that all women experience. The female identity is different according to each culture and their customs, but many cultures are based on a patriarchal past where men exercise more power than women. Women worldwide experience subjugation in the form of jobs, education, sexuality and reproductive choice. American women have strived to overcome these stereotypes and have gained a position of near equality in many societal constructs. In the United States today, men and women enjoy almost equal social standing. Women can and do vote, own businesses, hold political office and have a full spectrum of rights. Even though they hold powerful jobs and play valuable roles in a variety of social constructs, the paradigm of the American housewife still exist. With the above mentioned it is important to know that western culture is prevalent worldwide and imposes both the positive feminist ideals and the conflicting negative media messages on third world and developing countries. The impact of Western culture in the specific realm of feminism and female stereotypes globally establish common goals and difficulties for all women. As a dominant culture, the United States must be aware of the media messages it shares with the rest of the world and the examples it promotes as not all are accommodating with other cultures. This site is useful in exploring the image because it paints exactly what the poster of Donna Gottschalk holds, denying women equality, but at the same time practicing America's freedom of speech and expression, forbidden by women in many countries. It's funny that women worldwide continue to experience subjugation in the form of jobs, education, sexuality and reproductive choice. Those countries worldwide that strive to be like us, from a moral point of view should without a doubt accommodate all positives attributes that the America culture places impact, leading to

The author of this blog post beseeches the reader to not just view Parks as a demure, passive woman whose one-off contribution to civil rights was not giving up her seat, but as a deeply committed activist whose memory and contributions put her side by side with other civil rights icons such as Martin Luther King Jr. This article was posted on the Ms. Magazine.com blog site, a blog that highlights women's issues written about, by female writers. I believe it appropriate to discuss the feminist angle regarding Rosa Park's historic action. She stood up for her rights not only during a time of segregation, but also a time of clear gender divisions, a time when all women were still considered second class citizens. I did a search on Google for Rosa Parks and feminism, and this blog post came up. When I did a search of Rosa Park's name in the site's search engine, I found more than a dozen articles/posts detailing Park's story and a few mentions of other black female activists such as Shirley Chisholm, the first black female member of Congress, freedom fighter Harriet Tubman, and Flo Kennedy, one of the founding members of the National Organization for Women.

This entry is specifically for the first section of a long report. This section gives useful background information of what America was encountering during this time period with respect to women's rights, civil rights, and lgbt rights in the 1970's. I appreciated the basic information provided revolving around famous protests that are now often discussed when discussing civil rights and feminism in the 1970's. This source helps provide context to the photograph in that it informs you about the cultural climate of society around the time this photograph was taken.

About.com's page about 1970s feminist activities provides a detailed list of feminist achievement during the '70s. The links provided take us to some of the struggles that the feminist movement took on such as the Equal Rights Amendment, Roe v. Wade, Feminist poetry as well as the Feminist art movement. The links also point to the second wave of Feminism in the 1960s-1970s. Women's liberation was the topic du jour during that time and this site goes into some detail about the actual activities and struggles. The explanations are a bit short, but the links take us to articles about each topic. This is a good starting point to start digging into the subject.

I though it important to clarify the main definitions of change that has taken place, embracing women, leading further to equality. This was prompt by the image of Donna Gottschalk, her viewpoint and voice from a female perspective, being a feminist. Feminist and its history refer to the re-reading of history from a female perspective. It is not the same as the history of feminism, which outlines the origins and evolution of the feminist movement. It also differs from women's history, which focuses on the role of women in historical events. The goal of a feminist and the history is to explore and illuminate the female viewpoint of history through rediscovery of female writers, artists, philosophers, etc., in order to recover and demonstrate the significance of women's voices and choices in the past. Two particular problems which feminist history attempts to address are the exclusion of women from the historical and philosophical tradition, and the negative characterization of women or the feminine therein; however, feminist history is not solely concerned with issues of gender per se, but rather with the reinterpretation of history in a more holistic and balanced manner. "If we take feminism to be that cast of mind that insists that the differences and inequalities between the sexes are the result of historical processes and are not blindly "natural," we can understand why feminist history has always had a dual mission-on the one hand to recover the lives, experiences, and mentalities of women from the condescension and obscurity in which they have been so unnaturally placed, and on the other to reexamine and rewrite the entire historical narrative to reveal the construction and workings of gender." -Susan Pedersen This site is then useful in exploring the image because Donna Gottschalk, has through writing, art and voice of the past address not only the exclusion of women in traditional history, but the negative characteristics placed on the LGBT communi

The importance of particular women in the history of women's liberation. Particularly discussed is the issue of women's rights and acceptance as equal contributors in society.

Its ok melissa, I saw that and do I did not annotate and I found another source, but I couldnt delete the share. No worries.

Okay- I was just confused- couldn't figure out how that happened-

Since this is a picture of a "radicalesbian", attached is an article regarding the group. The Radicalesbians formed in New York in 1970 and disbanded in 1971. They believed in absolute female separatism and refused to associate with men or with women who did not cut their ties to mainstream heterosexual society.

This particular link is to an article on the history of women's education and rights to equal rights in terms of receiving the same education as do their male counterparts.  The website, as a whole, provides great insight into the history of women's rights in many aspects. It also traces the triumphs and successes of women throughout history. 

History.com displays a very informative set of videos, images and articles discussing the meaning behind "Rosie the Riveter", the iconic image associated with gender equality. World War II marked the beginning of changes in gender ideologies as women found themselves carrying out duties that were typically filled by men. Women were also called to the war and the empowerment of a revolution began. 

This powerful entry was written in 1977 during the President's Interagency Council on Women National Plan of Action. It reads like a manifesto -an account of where women have been, where women are now (when the present was 1977) and where women want to be in the future. Reading this, I thought of the class photograph this week and the text that was on the woman's sign of protest, "I am your worst fear I am your best fantasy." This entry is descriptive of the true reality of woman in this decade and I feel reading it was essential in better understanding where many women back in the 1970s were coming from.

Contrary to what I'd known before, lesbian women did not have a history of being openly accepted in the feminist cause, something which is documented in the first section of this report. For this entry I would say focus on the first section "Origins: Responding to Feminist Exclusion," although much of what is contained here touches upon other issues like race, which may be of interest. I felt like this source could give us a glimpse into what sort of reality and challenges Donna Gottschalk might have faced being a lesbian feminist.

This webpage discusses the "madonna-whore" complex. This complex essentially suggests that men categorize women in two ways: the woman he admires, either maternally or romantically, and the other who is more of a sexualized fantasy. I think this complex also touches on the good girl versus bad girl, whereas one is meant to be valued and one is meant to be devalued.

I was shocked to have read this quote, populated by the United Nations, but the truth hurts - "No society treats its women as well as its men." This is the conclusion from the United Nations Development Program, as written in its 1997 Human Development Report [source: UNDP]. Almost 50 years earlier, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly had adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which specified that everyone, regardless of sex, was entitled to the same rights and freedoms. The 1997 Human Development Report, as well as every Human Development Report that followed, has highlighted that each country falls short of achieving that goal. The severity of the shortfall varies by country; Nordic countries such as Sweden, Norway and Iceland, for example, are routinely hailed as having the smallest gender gaps. In the developing world, however, women face unfairness that can be hard to fathom. In this article, 10 examples of gender inequality are examined - 10: Professional Obstacles 9: Limited Mobility 8: Violence 7: Feticide and Infanticide 6. Restricted Land Ownership 5: Feminization of Poverty 4: Access to Health Care 3: Freedom to Marry and Divorce 2: Political Participation 1: Education Attainment This site is useful in exploring this week's image largely because it is breaking free and bringing to surface the lack of basic rights compared to those of the male gender that women has had to fight for. Heidi Beckles