The picture we used highlights the bra burning that women
took part in during the Women’s Rights Movement of the 1960s. During this time,
women were working towards gaining their freedom after many years of
discrimination and injustice. Women showed that they were entitled to be
independent in many ways. As depicted in this picture, bra burning was one of
them. The relevance to them burning their bras is that they no longer felt tied
down by the prior beliefs of how women should be in the 1950s. Few women
actually took part in this action, but there were many who supported it.
Feeling natural and free, women would either burn their bras or walk around
without one. The author who published this picture did so in order to show the
joy and exhilaration that women felt after burning their bras. They felt free,
happy, and excited about their protests for equal rights. The audience, 1960s Americans,
was probably moved in some way or another after seeing this picture. It shows
how elated women really were to gain their freedom.
-Breanne Thompson
-Breanne Thompson
The burning bra picture is a very accurate picture to use to describe the Women's Rights Movement of the 1960s. It is all about deviating from social norm and encourages women in a somewhat playful manner to be free. I like how you included this.
ReplyDeleteDo you know if women who were partaking in these acts were younger or older? How may a generation gap influence a person's perceptions of feminism? What role did men play in this time?
ReplyDeleteGreat depiction of the rhetorical situation!
Natasha Virjee