Assignment 16

TOPIC 16: Modern feminist issues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwUYQ2jEqWg

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Class video:

1. What are important topics for feminists, currently?

Steinem: women’s march speech

Gloria Steinem at Women's March on Washington - Full Speech

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2. What are two ideas from this video?

Gloria Steinem on Feminism, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFIZ9vWg6EE

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3.How does she explain important parts of feminism?

4. What were her thoughts about Hillary Clinton’s nomination and how women's leadership is viewed in US society?

Feminists on Abortion Rights

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/04/its-a-hell-of-a-scary-time-leading-us-feminists-on-the-threat-to-roe-v-wade

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5 What are various opinions from these feminists on the overturn of Roe?

Susan Brownmiller, 2015 interview,

Susan Brownmiller facing Hugh Hefner at The Dick Cavett Show, 1970

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6. What is Brownmiller known for?

7. How does she reflect on feminism of the last 50 years?

8. What does she state about rape on college campuses in terms of women’s sexuality?

9.What is your opinion on this video?

part b

Write a brief summary and brief opinion of each of the following sources, individually (4-5 sentences)

1. Opinion _ If Americans Love Moms, Why Do We Let Them Die_ - The New York Times.pdf

2. Download Opinion _

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(For more information, see also https://www.propublica.org/series/lost-mothers

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2. Domestic Violence in the US http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/domestic-violence-nearly-three-u-s-women-killed-every-day-n745166(Links to an external site.)

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3. Numbers Hint at Why #MeToo Took Off_ The Sheer Number Who Can Say Me Too - The New York Times.pdf

4. NeverAgain and MeToo movements linked. 2018-1.pdf

Download NeverAgain and MeToo movements linked. 2018-1.pdf

5. Day Care for All: The progressive to-do list is missing a very important idea Opinion daycare for all.pdf

Download Opinion daycare for all.pdf

6 . COVID-19 has driven millions of women out of the workforce. _ Fortune.pdf

Download COVID-19 has driven millions of women out of the workforce. _ Fortune.pdf

(Feb 2021)

7. What We Mean When We Say, "Toxic Masculinity." https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/what-we-mean-when-we-say-toxic-masculinity

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8 A Pandemic within a Pandemic — Intimate Partner Violence during Covid-19

9. "The Pro-Life Generation: Young Women fight Against Abortion Rights"

Download "The Pro-Life Generation: Young Women fight Against Abortion Rights"

July 2022

10. Confusion post-Roe spurs delay, denials for some lifesaving pregnancy care,

Download Confusion post-Roe spurs delay, denials for some lifesaving pregnancy care,

July 2022

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