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Feminists: What where they thinking: Review and reflection

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Netflix Documentary Cynthia Adams, a photographer had captured pictures of women during second-wave feminism (1970s) and published a book named 'emergence'. 40 years later, this documentary explores what were they thinking back then and what do they think now . Source: Screenshots You can't help but notice how free, bold, confident they all look. Poised and elegant with their own identity. The rational thinker in us would say, But, aren't all poses for any magazine the same? Just a pose? Aren't you over reading? Well, these pictures could as well be another act, expressing how freedom might be rather than how it was for them. But, that is the thing, I wonder what would my magazine picture pose be? how do I think freedom looks like on me? source: google You'd see that most women opted to be nude in their emergence shot. But, they have consciously chosen it. And No, they weren't in the entertainment industry and were not pornstars. T