We are encouraged to look like supermodels that weigh a significant percentage less than the average woman does. And she wears a size 36B bra. Yet we seek to look like Kate Moss and Tyra Banks. We will starve ourselves, overexert ourselves or pump ourselves up with pills to lose weight. This preoccupation with body image is detrimental to women, but no matter how many reports are printed that warn us against the dangers of excessive dieting, we want to look like the models.
Feminism is more than rejecting traditional expectations of womanhood.
A housewife can be a feminist just like the radical bra burner. True feminism embraces the differences in all women and works to attain equality for all. There is much division amongst feminists along racial, economical and social lines. Upper class white women don't want to fight for lower class women of color. Lower class black women don't want to fight for lower class Asian women.