Women's Rights: Reflections in Popular Culture (Issues Through Pop Culture)

Covering from 1900 to the present day this book highlights how female artists actors writers and activists were involved in the fight for womens rights with a focus on popular culture that includes film literature music television the news and online media.Womens Rights: Reflections in Popular Culture offers a succinct yet thorough resource for anyone interested in the relationship between feminism womens rights and media. It is ideally suited for students researching popular cultures role in the modern history of womens rights and representation of women womens rights and feminism in popular culture. This insightful book highlights of some of the most important moments of women taking a stand for women throughout popular culture history.Each section focuses on an aspect of popular culture. The television section covers important benchmarks such as Julia The Mary Tyler Moore Show Roseanne Murphy Brown and Ellen. Coverage of films includes Christopher Strong Foxy Brown and Thelma & Louise; the literature section features the work of influential individuals such as Virginia Woolf Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison. The book celebrates early musical ground-breakers like Gertrude Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith as well as contemporary artists Janelle Monáe and Pussy Riot. The work of key women activists―including Margaret Sanger Angela Davis and Winona LaDuke―is recognized along with the unique ways women have used the power of the web in their continued effort to push for womens equality.Provides readers with a unique collection of feminist moments across a variety of mediated formsHighlights female artists writers performers athletes and activists involved in the fight for womens rights over the course of more than a centuryPresents an interesting and succinct guide for some of the most important moments in media history when women asserted themselves in the quest for equal rightsAddresses topics represented in the media including equal pay birth control sexism and racism