Research

Final Major Project Level 2 Technical Theatre
The Caged-Birds Research of Feminism:

Feminism started with the idea that human rights should be given to women.
There is lots of types of feminism within the word and here are a few of them:

Equality feminism

Equality feminism’s focus on the similarities between the sexes is on the basis that men and women’s abilities are the same. This type of feminism encourages the broadening of horizons, encouraging women to look beyond the home. Its ultimate goal is for the sexes to be completely equal.

Evangelical feminism

Evangelical feminism or ‘Christian feminism’ was developed from religious movements they work to protect and spiritually reform those who need it, such as women and children from outside the church. These feminists believe that everyone is equal under one God and want to bring that equality to the church and their individual lives.

Radical feminism

Radical feminism developed from the civil rights. Radical feminists were fed up with the male-domination and formed the Women’s Liberation Movement. This movement was formed in order to create woman-centered politics and to escape from male-oriented politics. They believed this could only be done in a safe women-only space, and this led to the policy of separatism for which radical feminism is best known for.

anti-feminism

feminism often promotes misandry (hatred of men) and the elevation of women’s interests above men’s, and criticize radical feminist positions as harmful to both men and women. The term “anti-feminist” is used to silence  debate about defects of feminism like lack of  separatism.

Cultural movements.

Lipstick feminism is a cultural feminist movement that attempts to respond to the backlash of second-wave radical feminism of the 1960s and 1970s by claiming  symbols of “feminine” identity such as make-up, suggestive clothing and being provocative and have empowering personal choices.

The suffrage movement:

The Suffragettes wanted the right for women to vote, The move for women to have the vote had really started in 1897 when Millicent Fawcett founded the National Union of Women’s Suffrage. “Suffrage” means the right to vote and that is what women wanted. Millicent Fawcett believed in peaceful protest, She felt that any violence or trouble would persuade men that women could not be trusted to have the right to vote. Her game plan was patience and logical arguments.

Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters, They wanted women to have the right to vote and they were not prepared to wait. The Union became better known as the Suffragettes. Members of the Suffragettes were prepared to use violence to get what they wanted.

Suffragettes were quite happy to go to prison. Here they refused to eat and went on a hunger strike. The government was very concerned that they might die in prison thus giving the movement martyrs. Prison governors were ordered to force feed Suffragettes but this caused a public outcry as forced feeding was traditionally used to feed lunatics as opposed to what were mostly educated women.

What feminism stands for: the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, or opportunities.

Equality recognises that historically certain groups of people with protected characteristics such as race, disability, sex and sexual orientation have experienced discrimination.

Recent feminist movements:

The 1968 Miss America pageant was the backdrop for one of the most iconic events of modern feminism in the United States. Members from the New York Radical Women organization demonstrated along the Atlantic City boardwalk against the pageant’s perceived misogyny. Protesters threw household items that they believed fostered the collective image of submissive females into a large trashcan. In went pots, pans, Playboy magazines and bras. They planned to set the contents ablaze, but the police weren’t keen on that idea. Nevertheless, the next day’s news stories heralded participants’ bra burnings.

Women’s Liberation Movement:

After World War II, a growing number of women pursued higher education and entered the workforce, but they weren’t scampering to the tops of career ladders or bursting through glass ceilings. The Women’s Liberation Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s therefore emerged from women’s desires to revolutionize the fundamental aspects of female life at that time: domesticity, employment, education and sexuality. In 1966, Betty Friedan and other prominent feminists formed the National Organization for Women , NOW became the umbrella organization for many feminist causes, uniting older, college-educated, predominantly white women.

Black Feminism:

The Women’s Liberation Movement was criticized by some feminists — both black and white — for its exclusion of nonwhite, working class women. Although the omission wasn’t intentional, this fracture spurred the rise of black feminism. Since Women’s Lib platforms focused solely on gender without the context of race and class, they weren’t entirely relevant to all black women.

The Feminist Sex Wars:

Anti-porn feminism arose in the late 1970s, pioneered by Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin. At that time, pornography had become more readily accessible, and to some feminists, the overtly sexual portrayal of women violated their civil rights and promoted sexual violence. Anti-porn feminist Robin Morgan put it bluntly: “Pornography is the theory, rape is the practice”.That notion didn’t sit too well with other feminists who believed that a woman’s total liberation included sexual freedom, Consequently, sex-positive feminism.

Riot Grrls:

Punk rockers in Olympia, Wash., and Washington, D.C., blended together music, art and consciousness-raising into a reformulated brand of feminism in the early 1990s.
Riot Grrrls responded to male-dominated music scenes by forming their own bands and making homemade magazines called ‘zines that communicated their do-it-yourself, punk rock values and feminist ideas.

Toxic masculinity is one of the ways in which Patriarchy is harmful to men. It refers to the socially-constructed attitudes that describe the masculine gender role as violent, unemotional, sexually aggressive. The pervasive idea of male-female interactions as competition, not cooperation.
The pervasive idea that men cannot truly understand women, and vice versa–and following, that no true companionship can be had between different sexes.
The expectation that Real Men are strong, and that showing emotion is incompatible with being strong. Anger is either framed as the exception to the rule, or as not an emotion.
Relatedly, the idea that a Real Man cannot be a victim of abuse, or that talking about it is shameful.

below is the images of the above feminist movement:

feminism images doc

Theatre in the round setup:

Theatre in the Round offers the audience a closer intimacy with the stage than proscenium theatre, and it also puts the audience in direct view of each other. A 360 degree sight line means that large scenery is out of the question unless it is suspended above the actors’ heads and out of the audiences’ view. Theatre in the Round tends to be a format chosen for intimate productions, although some large scale operas and theatre productions have also used the format.

Theatre in the Round became increasingly popular in the late 1960s in the UK and Europe, with initially the format proving popular in smaller venues and studio spaces

 

 

 

 

 

The stage is always in the centre with the audience arranged on all sides, and is most commonly rectangular, circular, diamond, or triangular. Actors may enter and exit through the audience from different directions or from below the stage. The stage is usually on an even level with or below the audience in a “pit” or “arena” formation.