Question

Argue for the idea tha medea is a feminist play using examples from the play to support your points.

Answer 1

Feminist refers to social and political rights of women that are equal to those of men. The media is not just limited to newspaper, literature, Radio,Tv, Social media and internet, but it also refers to how media is used to distribute their ideas.

Some examples from previous era's to show media as a feminist play are :

1. First wave feminism :

It refers to the feminist movement of the 19th and 20th century. They were housewive's who where uneducated and possess no property or economic rights.

The first wave allowed women to have leadership in society.

The feminists messages during first wave feminism was spread through newspaper and other media such as pamplets.

2. Second wave feminism :

Begin in the 1960's til 1980's. All that time women were making gains in social and political views.

This wave awoke feminist discussion to a wide variety of issues such as violence, rape, the workplace,sexuality etc.

with advances in technology in the second wave, feminist used newspapers, tv , radio and published papers to spread their message.

3. Third wave feminism :

In the early 1990s and countries in the present.

This movement grew as response to the failures and criticism of second wave movement.

The goal of the movement were expanding from the second wave to have a look on ideas such as abolishing gender pronology and sex.

Social media such as twitter and facebook are covered in feminist messages and spread to convey feminist ideas.

    This proves that from generations to generations media has exponentially grown as a feminist play.