No, I mean it,” she added for emphasis.

“Emma Watson and What Disney Pays Its Modern Princesses.” The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2019. Is Emma Watson the Right Woman For the Job? She has taught and researched at institutions including the University of California-Santa Barbara, Pomona College, and University of York. If not now, when?". Watson has spoken at length of her two decades being subsumed by the mania of celebrity and the anxiety and vertigo-inducing disconnect that money, fame and adulation have given her.

In 2014, Watson was named a U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador by the United Nations, a program that actively involves prominent personalities in the fields of arts and sports to promote U.N. programs. However, the HeForShe movement asks for the activation of action by the people who hold power. She has worked to promote fair trade and organic clothing and served as an ambassador for Camfed International, a movement to educate girls in rural Africa. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign, she said. On Sep. 20, 2014, British actor and Goodwill Ambassador for U.N. Women Emma Watson gave a smart, important, and moving speech about gender inequality and how to fight it. – feel sane and feel normal,” she said. British actor Emma Watson was appointed UN Women Goodwill Ambassador in July 2014. The will to eradicate gender inequality depends on the will of the males, which is not a traditional feminist principle. These women have been both celebrated and criticized for the positions they have taken; the term "celebrity feminist" is sometimes used to denigrate their credentials or question their authenticity, but there is no doubt that their championships of different causes have shed public light into myriad issues.

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Maria Jose Gámez Fuentes and colleagues argue that the HeForShe movement as expressed in Watson's speech is an innovative attempt to connect with the experiences of many women, without focusing on the trauma.

Full Transcript of Emma Watson's 2016 U.N.

But while Watson has tried to make her case for remaining normal in an abnormal environment, the odds still go against her. There are some signs that feminists of all stripes and across the world are feeling rejuvenated by the open criticism and in many cases the fall of very powerful men because they abused that power. By apparently looking to reinvent an identity hitherto explained by the drably last-century concept of being, say, “happily single”, Watson said that “self-partnering” was a state that she had reached on the precipice of turning 30. Today we are launching a campaign called “HeForShe.” I am reaching out to you because I need your help. Other press reports have been less positive. However, all of this negative reaction predates the #MeToo movement, and the election of Donald Trump, as of course did Watson's speech.

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Below is the full transcript of her 13-minute speech; after that is a discussion of the speech's reception. Emma Watson's 2014 Speech on Gender Equality. “It’s so bizarre and otherworldly, what happened to me,” she told Vogue, reflecting on her post-Potter fame.

Her co-star Emma Watson, the precocious daughter of two divorced lawyers, was nine when she was famously picked from a line-up in her school gym to audition for the role of Hermione Granger.

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