Hi everyone, 

I have enjoyed the reading and learned a lot about Feminism: it is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. I have done some research based on the reading and I came across the song “You Don’t Own Me” by Lesley Gore. 

The song is very powerful and If you guys would like to listen to the song, here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWCMhL5qxlE

You don’t own me

I’m not just one of your many toys

You don’t own me

Don’t say I can’t go with other boys

And don’t tell me what to do

Don’t tell me what to say

And please, when I go out with you

Don’t put me on display ’cause

You don’t own me

Don’t try to change me in any way

You don’t own me

Don’t tie me down ’cause I’d never stay

I don’t tell you what to say

I don’t tell you what to do

So just let me be myself

That’s all I ask of you

I’m young and I love to be young

I’m free and I love to be free

To live my life the way I want

To say and do whatever I please

And don’t tell me what to do

Oh, don’t tell me what to say

And please, when I go out with you

Don’t put me on display

I don’t tell you what to say

Oh, don’t tell you what to do

So just let me be myself

That’s all I ask of you

I’m young and I love to be young

I’m free and I love to be free

You Don’t Own Me, A Feminist Anthem With Civil Rights Roots, Is All About Empathy Ever since a 17-year-old Lesley Gore sang it in 1963, the coolly mutinous song has moved women to reject passive femininity. Its writers, though, say there are layers of resistance in its words.