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Feminist point of view By BETTY SMITHPress special writer Rudick and Turner are seniors; the rest are graduate students.
“I really wanted to introduce them to the history of the women’s movement, which began with suffrage,” Sanford said. Students studied writings from the second wave of feminism, which began in the 1960s with the publication of “The Feminine Mystique,” by Betty Friedan, and the emergence of such leaders as Gloria Steinem. Class material focused on readings, movies and TV shows. “Most of them chose pop culture, TV artifacts,” Sanford said. Stanberry selected perhaps the most classic topic, “Little Women, which she first read when she was about 10 years old. “I had always loved the story,” she said. “Nobody had ever explained its feminism to me.” She reread the book, but focused her paper on the 1994 film adaptation starring Susan Sarandon and Winona Rider. Many readers of “Little Women” identify most closely with Jo, considered Alcott’s alter ego in the book. “I think I more identified with Beth [the sister who died], but I liked Jo,” Stanberry said. “I really wish girls were taught how much feminism is in the book. When Alcott wrote it, she was a very liberal feminist, very radical. We were never taught in middle school that this book was her statement about the oppression of women.” Stanberry thinks today’s feminism is “a little tired. “I think a lot of people believe everything in feminism is over, that we got what we wanted,” she said. However, women still have not achieved equality in wages. “I think it needs a new wave, a new spark,” she said. “This class really brought it to light. We learned things in there that we had never been taught, very basic things we should always have been taught.” Cowan chose for her campaign the Dove advertisements, which featured a variety of women clad in simple white underwear. The women were different ages, sizes, races – far from the lanky size 2 models featured in almost all advertising we see. Some people criticized the ads precisely because of that. 
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