The New Woman In the late nineteenth and early 20 th centuries Henry James coined a phrase the New Woman a phrase meant to indicate women of affluence and sensibility who exhibited an independent spirit and acted according to their own wishes in short women who resisted the traditional pat ID: 717774
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Young Adult Dystopia centered on a femaleSlide2
The New Woman
In the late nineteenth and early 20
th centuries, Henry James coined a phrase, the New Woman, a phrase meant to indicate women of affluence and sensibility who exhibited an independent spirit and acted according to their own wishes, in short, women who resisted the traditional patriarchy. Although they tended to resist the societal norms, the did so in what many would deem a more passive or submissive way; while refusing to marry and follow traditional female roles, they did not seek to redefine the roles of women as a whole, rather seeking to focus on their own independence within the spheres they normally inhabited.
Not until the 21
st
century did young women protagonists show a more conscious attempt to explore their
liminality
(being between states, a state of transition).Slide3
The Newer new woman
Reviving Ophelia
As a therapist, Mary
Pipher was becoming frustrated with the growing problems among adolescent girls. Why were so many of them turning to therapy in the first place? Why had these lovely and promising human beings fallen prey to depression, eating disorders, suicide attempts, and crushingly low self-esteem? The answer hit a nerve with
Pipher
, with parents, and with the girls themselves. Crashing and burning in a “developmental Bermuda Triangle,” they were coming of age in a media-saturated culture preoccupied with unrealistic ideals of beauty and images of dehumanized sex, a culture rife with addictions and sexually transmitted diseases. They were losing their resiliency and optimism in a “girl-poisoning” culture that propagated values at odds with those necessary to survive.
Told in the brave, fearless, and honest voices of the girls themselves who are emerging from the chaos of adolescence,
Reviving Ophelia
is a call to arms, offering important tactics, empathy, and strength, and urging a change where young hearts can flourish again, and rediscover and reengage their sense of self.Slide4
Riot
grrrl is an underground feminist hardcore punk movement that originally started in the early 1990s, in Washington
, and the greater Pacific Northwest, noticeably in Olympia, Washington. It is a subcultural movement that combines feminist consciousness and punk style and politics
.
It is often associated with third-wave feminism, which is sometimes seen as its starting point. It has also been described as a musical genre that came out of indie rock, with the punk scene serving as an inspiration for a musical movement in which women could express themselves in the same way men had been doing for the past several years
.
Riot
grrrl
bands often address issues such as rape, domestic abuse, sexuality, racism, patriarchy, and female
empowerment. In
addition to a music scene and genre, riot
grrrl
is a subculture involving a DIY
(do it yourself) ethic
, zines, art, political action, and activism
.
The Riot
grrrl
movement quickly spread well beyond its musical roots to create vibrant “zine” and World Wide Web-based movement, complete with local meetings and grassroots organizing to end ageism, homophobia, racism, sexism and, especially, physical and emotional violence against women and girls
.
Riot
grrrls
are known to hold meetings, start chapters, and support and organize women in music.Slide5
Dystopian Characteristics
Propaganda is used to control the citizens of society.
• Information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted.
• A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society. • Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance.
• Citizens live in a dehumanized state.
• Citizens conform to uniform expectations.
Individuality/dissent
are bad.
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What they left out:
D
ystopias feel familiar to us but also offer a sense of hope.
An ordinary person, the protagonist is the one to provide the hope.
Dystopias are preceded by an apocalyptic event.
There is an oppressive government.Slide6
The Dystopian Protagonist
often feels trapped and is struggling to escape.
• questions the existing social and political systems. • believes or feels that something is terribly wrong with the society in which he or she lives.
• helps the audience recognizes the negative aspects of the dystopian world through his or her perspective
.
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Conflicts young women in dystopia face
As young people stand up and rebel, they learn their own limitations; it is questionable to them and to others whether they have the power and strength to lead a larger rebellion.
They struggle between the larger concerns facing them and their sexual feelings. Adult femininity no longer means the awakening of the sexual self.
The risks and the rewards are not clear. Patriarchal rules no longer apply. The protagonists must make up their own.They are simultaneously faced with the development of identity and an identity thrust upon them by the demands of the dystopia. But they also must
sacrifice their own needs with the needs of others.
In a situation in which there seems to be little or no hope, they are looked to to provide the hope for those closest to them and for the society.Slide8
Blood Red Road
Discuss and answer these questions in groups:
What do we know about the story so far? Characters?
Relationships between them?
Setting?
Time period?
Events?
Conflicts?
What should we know in order to understand the beginning of the story?Slide9
Tyson’s Questions?
In the same groups:
How can we answer the three questions that Tyson has posed (lavender sheet), according to what we have read in the novel so far? If you have read ahead, please do not reveal any further information. Discuss these questions only insofar as they relate to pages 1 – 39. Find evidence from the text to support your answers. Make sure you highlight or mark the text the quotes you have found that support your answers.Slide10
Homework
Read Dustlands
: Blood Red Road, to page 148
1st short paper due