It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.
Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.
Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.