Catherine Palacios Reflection # 6

I agree with the author that feminism doesn’t have a fixed meaning. The meaning of feminism it’s constantly evolving while maintaining its original definition or purpose, that is achieve gender equity. To me, feminism is to believe that women and men deserve equal rights and to do actions in order to achieve that. Even though there are many sub categories of feminism, all of them have something in common, which is the fact that they want to improve women’s lives and stop gender-based violence, discrimination towards women, sexism, equal access to education, stop child marriage where typically women are the victims, etc. Goldberg discussed in the article, which actions are categorized as feminism and how historians are in charge of defining past events in history and assigning them meaning. I believe that the author is right when she said that there have been many actions that can be defined as “feminism” by women of other cultures. I don’t remember if it was in this article, or in another class, where it was said that our history is mainly being shaped by white males, and we are seeing it mainly from their perspectives. Therefore, they kind of describe what is feminism to the masses, and many untold stories are excluded. For example, the video we watched this week. I had no idea of who these amazing black women were, I think that just the fact that they, or their mothers and grandma’s got to experience slavery that personally, is impressive. Even though they came from that abusive background, they were never silenced and fought fearlessly for the rights they deserve. These stories deserve to be taught more often since they are extremely inspiring and these women should have more recognition for their achivements

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