Feminism- Stereotyping

Feminists have made great progress in attempting to get rid of those traditional stereotypes.
However, some may argue that they have been replaced by equally disempowering stereotypes...

FIRST WAVE FEMINISM

Around mid 19th - early 20th century women fought for social and political equality. One of their biggest fights was the struggle for women's suffrage, which is the right to vote.
In 1918 women won this fight which granted women over the age of 30 the right to vote.
However, they kept fighting as they were still not equal with men, due to this, ten years later in 1928 women received the right to vote on equal terms as men.

Women were concerned with their rights of education, employment and marriage laws.
Because of their successes with being able to vote, they then proceeded to gain the right of higher education, married women property rights and the widening of access to professions such as medicine.

SECOND WAVE FEMINISM

• The liberation movement of 1960's 1970's:
• This was because of the massive struggles for equal pay as men, equal rights at work and better representation in public bodies such as parliament.
• They also wanted access to contraception: 

Increasing use of contraception and the growth of women's power in decisions about have children.

• Highly publicised activism.
• Stereotypes of humourless, dowdy, man-hating feminist.

LAURA MULVEY (1975) 

• Visual pleasure and narrative cinema.
• Known for her film 'Male Gaze' 

Much of our media today assumes that the spectator is male or constructs reality from a male POV. In order for a woman to experience pleasure from the film, she has to position herself in a similar role to the male viewer enjoying the spectacle.