Feminism

What is a Feminist?

Before taking this class I had never really put much thought towards the subject of feminism. I had a general idea of the term, but no real sense of what it truly entailed. After realizing that, I felt that I needed to gain an understanding of feminism and what it meant to be a feminist. Following just the short amount of time spent reading material and listening to lectures I have come to a much clearer view of what the term means to me. As a result I have come to find that feminism is a movement for the equality of women who are fighting against the historically accepted ideals of gender.
To understand feminism we must first look at part of its cause, the social construction of gender. Gender is all around us. From the first day of our lives we find ourselves being labeled by it. For example when a baby is born the first thing the mother wants to know is what sex her child is, and the resulting answer will determine what color, blue or pink, the new...