Women's rights
Session 7: poems, speeches, news reports, visual art
Introduction
I. Women in society
A. Woman's appareance according to Maya Angelou
B. Societal advances
II. The quest for justice
A. Highlighting injustice
B. Feminist movements: Guerilla Girls
Conclusion
Introduction
I. Women in society
A/ Woman's appareance according to Maya Angelou
Subject
Born
Marguerite Annie Johnson
April 4, 1928
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died
May 28, 2014 (aged 86)
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation
Writerpoetcivil rights activist
Period
1951–2014
Memoirpoetry
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I’m telling lies.
I say,
It’s in the reach of my arms,
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can’t touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them,
They say they still can’t see.
I say,
It’s in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Or have to talk real loud. When you see me passing,
It ought to make you proud.I say,
It’s in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand,
The need for my care.
’Cause I’m a woman Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
Phenomenal Woman
“I'm a woman phenomenally. Phenomenal woman. That's me.”
B/ societal advances
BORN
January 29, 1954, Kosciusko (Mississippi)
OCCUPATION
TV host Actress
producer
media executive
author
II. The quest for Justice
A/ Highlinghting injustices
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
Born 13th october 1989
Origin Spanish
American Congresswoman of the Democratic Socialists Party
Ted yoho
member of republican party
Called her disgusting, crazy and dangerous
Assert that he is rude => No remorse
=
Denouncing verbal abuse
"cultural thing"
B/ Feminists movements: Guerilla Girls
Name Guerilla Girls
Creation 1985
Place New York
Symbole of masculine virility
Domination
La Grande Odalisque by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1814)+ Gorilla Head
conclusion
Women's rights are human rights. Every year, thousands of women take action to continue the work begun by the suffragettes over a century ago and improve the status of women around the world.
Cara Delevingne, Emma Watson et Miley Cyrus
Barbara Kruger
Michelle Obama
Catharine MacKinnon
Thank you
