Women in Early Westerns

Western movies depict images of dirt, dust, guns, horses, cowboys and heroes: strong, strong will, independent, witty, witty person. The modern Westerners (Louise L'Amour, Zane Gray, and many movies starring John Wayne, Roy Rodgers, Gene Autry) seem to focus on this ideal hero, but this type actually Powerful, autonomous, active role for women In fact, many of the texts in the typical modern Western were dominated by women. However, the role of the protagonist is different from the role of the hero; this role does not harm women, but gives them deep personalities.

The history of contemporary western feminist movement is divided into three "waves". Each wave contains different aspects of the same feminist problem. The first wave of female elections from the 19th century to the early 20th century promoted women's voting rights. The second wave was related to the thought and action of the women's liberation movement that began in the 1960s. The second wave is to promote the legal and social equality of women. The third wave is continuation and reaction to the second wave of feminist perception failure that began in the 1990s.

The so-called "first wave" of feminism is closely related to women's suffrage movements emerging in the 1840s and 1850s. In the early 20th century, the vast majority of Western countries acquired women's suffrage. This meant that the status of law and the civil rights movement was low and deprived women's movements from a unified focus. The "second wave" of feminism began in the 1960s, in addition to established concerns about equal rights, also expressed a more radical and revolutionary demand for the liberation movement of growing women. Since the early 1970 's, feminism has undergone a process of de radicalization and fragmentation. The former leads to the emergence of what is sometimes called post-feminism. In the feminist tendency of the "third wave", people are increasingly dispersed, emphasizing differences between males and females, not equality, and differences between women.

The second wave of feminism was the period of feminist activity and thinking that started in the United States in the early 1960s and lasted for about 20 years. It will soon spread to Western European countries and aim to increase women's equality by acquiring more voting rights. Problems related to the campaign included rights on domestic issues such as clothing regulations and employment. In the 1960s (indeed for the most part of the early twentieth century), women did not want to seek employment due to their housework and domestic labor, which were considered their main responsibilities, but alienation , Political, economic and legal developments.