Feminine rise in Pop Culture.

 

 The rise of feminine in pop culture reflects a gradual shift in society towards greater equity and representation. Over the years, women have transitioned in pop culture by taking on greater representation, more prominent voices and a wider range of roles and sometimes do without masculine figures. From one of the first ever surviving movies ‘The Roundhay Garden Scene,’ a short firm of 2.11 seconds long made in 1888 by a French inventor Louis La Prince to the 1895 movie; ‘Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station’ a short film made in 1895 by the Lumiere Brothers to ‘In Old California’; the first firm made in Hollywood and released in 1910 to one of the most recent movies made in Hollywood; ‘One of Them Days released January 17, 2025; feminine casts have not been absent in participation. 

  

  

Since the first all-female cast movie: ‘The Women’ of 1939 to ‘Girls in uniform’; another all-female cast movie of 1951, women have been important actresses with great entertaining power for centuries despite negative representation and sometimes disrespectful media depictions of them in society. Historically, media narratives have constrained women to traditional roles, depicting them as caring figures or hostile antagonist. This shift occurred in the early 2000s when the women interested in the male lead were tomboys or boyish, not the stereotype image of femininity (Rodriguez & Lopez-Figueroa, 2024).

 Feminine delineation in pop culture is an indication that they are accepted despite conceptions contrasting these assertions and that women are equal beings as their male counterparts, and they can be powerful in areas of performance. This is evident in their performance in Music, Television, Films and other media. Their unwavering efforts to walk their way up these stereotypes is reminiscent of their determination to do what a man can do. It is in this spirit of resilience and tenacity that the world has produced women leaders in almost every area. Our world has produced women presidents, queens, preachers, scientist, musicians, engineers, athletes and etc. and most of them got there through rigorous relentless struggles when they were told the opposite. 

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The word “feminism” has worn the hat of many titles and tones, from heavy to light, from positive to negative, cliched and slightly misunderstood. Before people even truly understood what the word meant, which today rightfully stands for equitable human rights for all people; the lack of knowledge within American pop culture has influenced people’s real-life perceptions of feminism (Tutuny, 2018).

Many people may not be aware that during the 1920’s, most films were written, directed and filmed by women (Tutuny, 2018). Their resilience has not totally removed all the obstacles but if they continue, they will ‘break the glass ceiling’ in pop culture.  The progression of feminism in pop culture nowadays remains an ongoing process largely driven by social media where there is an increase presence of prominent female actresses using the platform to promote and advocate feminist issues.