Essay about Modern Family and feminism PDF

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Josefine Nørremark 2G Feminist assignment 02-09-2021

Modern Family comparison to the 1900-century family In the 1900-century a wave hit the society. The feminist topic became a problem worldwide. Feminism encompasses a wide range of concepts. In Anthony Giddens investigations he looked into how to define a family and the structures that humans find themselves in. Giddens theory about partnerships had three aspects to it. Modern family pursue to measure up to his studies and the nuclear family started to play a bigger role.

Anthony Giddens was a Late-Modernist, who acknowledged that when people had more choices in their daily lives such as their relationships and family arrangements, they would still not be as free as the postmodernists implied. There are still underlying markings, and results of our living in a ‘late-modern’ society - not just the result of families being diverse and random

Giddens claims that increased choice and a more equal connection between men and women have revolutionized the family and marriage in recent decades. According to Giddens, today's partnerships have three distinct characteristics He believes that one of them is how the foundation of marriage and family has shifted to one in which the couple is free to define their relationship rather than just acting out duties set in stone by law or custom. Couples today, for example, can choose to cohabit rather than marry. Then there is the ‘pure relationship' and this is the most common type of relationship. It exists purely to suit the demands of the partners and will only remain as long as it succeeds. Instead of tradition, a sense of responsibility, or for the sake of the children, couples stay together because of love, happiness, and sexual desire. The last of the characteristics is when relationships become a component of the process of self-discovery or self-identity when we experiment with different types of relationships as part of our selfdiscovery

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Most TV shows in these days are about sex, sexuality, alcohol, drugs, and dramas that happen because of them. "Modern Family" is no exception, but instead it is a drama who pays more attention to the family life. On the surface, it is like TV shows that are full of sex and drugs in today’s media, 1 https://revisesociology.com/2014/02/10/late-modern-perspectives-family/

Josefine Nørremark 2G Feminist assignment 02-09-2021 but underneath this surface, each episode has a moral worth learning, and the show generally represents America’s “typical” family. The difference in Modern Family is mainly due to the diversity of characters.

Modern family pays more attention to female stereotypes to improve the statement of a family ideology dominated by men. In the show Modern Family, the minders are Gloria, Claire, and Cameron. They are all full-time “mothers” who are responsible for cleaning the house and occupied themselves with small events such as fundraising activities and baking sales. However, in the episode "Mother's Day", Mitchell is the person who plays the role of mother instead of Cam, which contradicts the family ideology used in the show 2. What makes it more modern is the more contrasting relationship types in the show.

Throughout history, women have had less rights and a lower social status than men. Women, for example, did not have the legal right to divorce or to own property. The conventional role of a married woman was that she would become a housewife, and therefore the majority of women’s life revolved around their homes. The second wave of feminism was largely defined and led by educated middle-class white women who centered the movement on their own issues. This resulted in a tense, if not hostile, relationship with women from other social classes and races. The fight against wage and job discrimination was essential in bridging the gap between the movement and white labor union women. Feminism's relationship with African American women, on the other hand, has always been more difficult. White feminists identified gender as the primary reason for Black women's exclusion from full participation in American life: Black women were forced to confront the interplay of racism and sexism and figure out how to get Black men to think about gender issues while white women thought about racial issues.3

2 https://www.netflix.com/watch/70241916? trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C0%2C6dd019d1f78c12b71ff84b0a35cf6a9f5c16597a %3A47baee27fb175db7643de3e2061d8d5ff9a1e9fe%2C6dd019d1f78c12b71ff84b0a35cf6a9f5c16597a %3A47baee27fb175db7643de3e2061d8d5ff9a1e9fe%2Cunknown%2C 3 https://www.britannica.com/topic/feminism/The-second-wave-of-feminism

Josefine Nørremark 2G Feminist assignment 02-09-2021 During the first half of the 20th century, the term "nuclear family" became widely used. A nuclear family is “a couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic social unit”4. There was a greater emphasis on the nuclear family in a more mobile, post-industrial revolution society. Smaller family units may be able to relocate more quickly to pursue economic possibilities elsewhere. More people could afford to buy and own homes in the United States' highly developed and spread cities. As a result, rather of living in bigger houses, many nuclear families choose to reside in their own homes. In many societies, houses have traditionally consisted of groups of extended family members.

Feminists research gender roles, labor division, and societal expectations of women. Even as new technologies reduced the time required for housework, many women in the 20th century were discouraged from working outside the home. The shift from agricultural to contemporary industrial jobs necessitated the departure of one wage earner, generally a man, from the home for work in a different place. Because of the emphasis on the nuclear family model, each woman in each household was generally urged to stay at home and raise children. Feminists are interested about why family and household arrangements that differ from the nuclear family model are seen as less than ideal or even aberrant5.

This concludes that gender roles and sexuality still follow us to this day. Modern Family is yet another show that returns us to stereotypes and gender roles. Gender roles have evolved significantly over time, but they continue to be a contentious issue. Humans have evolved significantly since the turn of the century. As society has become more individualistic, the term nuclear family has fallen out of favor. Giddens' theory about the three characteristics has proven to be reliable and widely accepted in modern society.

4 https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/ 5 https://www.thoughtco.com/feminism-and-the-nuclear-family-3528975...