Women's Role in the World Usa

Women's Role in the World

There once was a time in history when women had very little rights in the US, however years of repression have slowly faded away. Feminism can be dated back as far as the American Revolution. In some states women didn't have the rights to vote, own property, and various other rights that men had. There is no question that feminist movements have taken place throughout US history, but most movements took place in the 1960s during the civil rights movements. There have been many great feminists writers in the past, but Mary Wollstonecraft and Germaine Greer have stood above most, and went beyond the call of duty. Although Wollstonecraft fought for feminist ideals, Greer, with a crude humor, embraces gender differences, women's liberation, and radical feminism in today's society.

Germaine Greer used shock writing to portray her message, and draw in new and old people, to support her feminist cause. Greer wrote many books, but the one that really made her famous was The Female Eunuch. In this book she really wrote a tell all. "Germaine Greer wrote this in her book The Female Eunuch. Maybe I couldn't make it. Maybe I don't have a pretty smile, good teeth, nice tits, long legs, a cheeky arse, a sexy voice. Maybe I don't know how to handle men and increase my market value, so that the rewards due to the feminine will accrue to me". It was remarks like this that really set her apart from other feminists.

Even though Mary Wollstonecraft helped focus on feminism, her ideas are somewhat outdated for the 21st century unlike Germaine Greer. Just like time feminism changes, and so doe's society. We live in a time where people have the need to be shocked, and whoa. "Susan Johnson wrote on Saturday 08 April 1995. In every way she has proved herself a thinker true to herself, resisting definitive labels. She is unorthodox, cantankerous, maddeningly forthright: everything a woman is not encouraged to be". Greer has taken and pushed the envelope, she has said, and done things that other feminist has done. When she writes or tells a story she doesn't hold anything back. She has taken nude pictures of herself for propaganda photo shoots. She has referred to male and female private parts to help reader's invasion her ideas.

Germaine Greer used humor, and ridiculous statements to prove her point to her audience. In Greer's book the Female Eunuch she really sets herself apart from most feminists. She says that that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. Greer talks about how Men, and Women, are just too biologically different. She also wrote how Women are different socially as well. "Red Apple Education Ltd page 1 wrote that Greer believed that women had somehow been separated from their 'libido'. Alienated from their own sexuality, women are cut off from their capacity for action and self-empowerment. Greer applied many of the ideas of the political philosophy of anarchy (in which she was involved in her Sydney University days) to her analysis of women's repression in society".

Germaine Greer was educated at the Star of the Sea Convent, Gardenvale, and the universities of Melbourne, Cambridge and Sydney. She lectured in English at the University of Warwick 1967-72. Greer has been creating controversy even to this day. She has been known in Australia as a write for years. She didn't become popular in the US until the 1960s. When she first started out she would write articles for magazines with catchy feminist cartoons. She even went so far as to have a picture taken of her virginal area. This photo made one of the boldest statements in the history of all the past feminists. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia wrote page 1 Greer has defined her goal as "women's liberation" as distinct from "equality with men", She asserts that women's liberation meant embracing gender differences in a positive fashion, a struggle for the freedom for women to define their own values, order their own priorities and determine their own fates. In contrast, Greer sees equality as mere assimilation and "settling" to live the lives of "unfree men".

Germaine Greer knew that people needed a new wake up call, using a more direct approach. In the past such great feminists like Wollstonecraft took more of a direct approach to feminism. The past writers were on the same track as Greer although, they wrote in more of a calm, smooth, and free flow way. Greer on the other hand used foul language in most of her writings. Greer also commented on how women destroy their body's to appease the male gender. "Susan Johnson wrote page 1 Saturday 08 April 1995. Yet this should hardly have come as a surprise: Miss Greer has always been a maverick, a law unto herself, a woman who has never known the meaning of political correctness. She has frequently scorned the American-created term of address MS, for example, and insists on being called Miss Greer. Her recent revelation about being raped (how insignificant the actual penis was) is typical Miss Greer, as are her ideas of "outing" rapists via the Internet". With times the technology also changes. Greer is able to reach millions of people via internet. The feminists of the past were only able to reach a small amount of people.

Germaine Greer has lived in the new era, and knows more about discrimination in the 21th century. In the 21st century things have changed, people have changed. We now have laws that prevent discrimination race, gender, and ethnic backgrounds. In today's society women are doing things that were not allowed in our Nation's