Recently we have been talking, reading, watching different forms of feminist text and how the theory is shaped in different areas of the world. This has been a more contemporary setting, but during my Classical Mythology course we got into a Greek tragedy that had elements of feminism, and even today is considered a feminist text. The story is called Medea by Euripides that tells the tale of betrayal and revenge. In my Classical Mythology course we had a discussion about  how the character of Medea displayed feminist traits as well as how this is probably the only story that puts a woman in a strong dominant role and how she tries and accomplished the breaking of the patriarchal society.

I found this really interesting that even in really early forms there hints at feminist ideas. It’s also interesting to see how much variety there is in feminism. Or even things that we wouldn’t think of has a feminist texts can be viewed that way by different audiences. I think it would be interesting to talk about some different types of Cinema, books, plays, etc that hint or talk about feminism that aren’t contemporary. It would be a nice way to compare the past with the present and even the future. If you’re interested in the Medea story here’s the wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea.