What Is A Feminist Definition Essay

Matthew Honey

Mrs. Coghill

AP Literature

29 December 2014

Feminism Definition Essay When I wrote my fist definition of feminism I was rather unsure of what the concept of feminism really was. This uncertainty is more obvious in what was not written in my definition than in what was. I wrote “ The belief that men and women should be given equal opportunity in society”. I managed to take up close to half a page writing this because of all the times I crossed out words and phrases. My uncertainty manifested itself in lines of crossed out text because I did not know what feminism meant. I did not know if my ideas were correct because I was not educated about feminism. Through novels and newspaper articles I now understand that feminism is the belief that men and women should be given equal opportunities in society. This unit of

An article titled “ Who Is a Feminist Now?” elaborates on the idea that many prominent actresses and musicians are rejecting the feminist label because they do not understand what it means. The article contains a quotation where an actress, Shailene Woodley, says she is not a feminist because “… I think the idea of ‘raise women to power, take men away from power’ is never going to work…” (Meltzer; para. 2). This article was a pivotal part of clarifying the true meaning of the term to me because I felt that I did not fully understand what feminism was. Reading the quotes that sound plausible to someone who is uneducated on the subject and then learning how and why they are inaccurate helped me gain a better understanding of feminism. Dispelling the fallacious information