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In Liesbet van Zoonen’s article, Feminist Perspectives on the Media, Liesbet talks about different forms of feminism. Liberal feminism strives for equality in things such as equal positions in society and entering male dominated work fields. It works under the idea that women are the same as men but not equal now. In radical feminism the goal is to create their own media because all media now is no good because is was made by men. It works under the idea that women are different than men but not equal now. Social feminism wants to both produce new media and reform the old with class in mind.

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Disclaimer; this is probably going to sound sexist. One thing the article talks about in most of the forms of media is women creating their own media. I’m going to be honest. I don’t know what that means. I found this idea interesting. I guess it means Oprah. That sounds stupid, but it is true. She owns the production company that makes her show as well as Dr. Phil and Rachel Ray’s talk shows.

I think Oprah is a combination of liberal and radical feminism. Her connection to radical feminism is that what she makes is her own. A problem with that is that most of the time it’s connected to OPRAH and not women. She is really more of a liberal feminist because it looks like she only really strives for some sort of equality if anything at all. I wouldn’t say she is a social feminist. Sure, she can be marketed to women from all classes, but with all of her different products it’s almost assumed that the consumer is middle to upper class. I think she celebrates women’s differences in the radical ideology, but the difference she creates ends up looking like a tweaked liberal feminism.