African American Feminist Counterculture

In this day and age, it is still a stigma that the men must bring home the bacon. It is normal for a woman to stay home and take care of the house, the children, yet found odd when she works a full-time job. It is pertinent that we show the world that this is not just “a man’s world”, it is our world. It is sad that we are still trying to obtain equal rights in the 21st century when our nation has an African-American President. The Feminist counterculture is emerging because many people still don’t know how to react when a woman says “I am a feminist”. They get backlash when the definition of a feminist “is the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social and economic equality to men”(Oxford Dictionary). By being a feminist,
Their mothers and grandmothers had fought for women’s suffrage their daughters were using their education to find a suitable husband whom she could then base her life off of because it was considered feminine. Women all around America were living in the haze of conformity that hindered their ability to be individuals. The women, however, began to “[realize] they all shared the same problem, the problem that has no name”; the problem was that they wanted “something more than [their] husband and [their] children and [their] home” (274-278). It took a while to finally see that they were settling instead of searching for their own individuality. They wanted to find themselves when not in relation to their family. Women needed to see that they themselves could be successful individuals and still be