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EEKLY ESSAY #6 - Diversity & Women in the Media

BACKGROUND
In Chapter 8, Rosen shows that not all women experienced feminism and the women's movement in the same way. Groups based on race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, class etc. often had somewhat different experiences, goals, views, and priorities. Chapter 9 examines how women were depicted in the media and whether those depictions were beneficial or detrimental to women's rights. Since how women are represented in the media is an ongoing topic of debate today, it should be instructive to analyze an earlier period with a similar dilemma.
QUESTIONS
(A) (Rosen, Chap. 8): How did different groups of women (race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, class) experience and change feminism and the women's movement?
(B) (Rosen, Chap. 9): How did the media portray feminists in magazines, television, advertising, etc.?
(C) (Rosen, Chap. 9): Do you think "first women stories" were a useful way to view the women's rights movement or do you think the stories detracted from the big picture of women's rights?
ESSAY REQUIRED READING
Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open, Chapters 8 and 9

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