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This 5 page paper examines popular culture with particular attention to television. Television is evaluated from both perspectives. A great deal of theoretical information is included as well. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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defined by class whereas feminism seems to look at society as defined by gender. Each has a simplistic view which upon examination becomes complex. Feminism was actually considered to
be imported from France and was then equated with youth, psychology, sex, financial independence, and self ("The feminism," 1998). However, elements of the marginalized nineteenth-century critique of marriage began to
spring forth but this time it was with broader generational appeal; it was more interesting and expressed female sexual desire for the first time (1998). There are three primary
stands in the feminist model which are liberal feminism, socialist feminism, and radical feminism ("Exploration," 1992). Liberal Feminism is a mainstream, reformist, type of ideology (1992). Its members are
predominately white and middle class (1992). They believe that a womans presence in the patriarchal system can effectively humanize it (1992). This group struggles primarily within the system for equal
rights (1992). Liberal feminism then is the middle of the road, classic type of feminism which fights within the system. There is nothing radical about it. In order to understand
what it is not, however, it is important to look at other types. Socialist Feminism looks at societal problems as rooted in material conditions and may be equated with historical
materialism ("Exploration," 1992). They emphasize the economic value of womens labor but are anthropocentric, or human-centered (1992). They see nature as a resource for human needs and advocate political
solutions (1992). They dismiss spiritual and personal struggle as frivolous and ineffective for revolutionary social change (1992). While these feminists do support the rights of women, and are clearly in
favor of equal pay for example, their agenda is purely political. One may equate socialist feminism with Marxism. Yet, it is easy to see that feminism in the broad sense
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