Conception Of Women

Jay Williams’s short story, entitled Petronella, is a quick read that, if one was to delve a little deeper, conveys many underlying problems in society. Everyday, people misjudge the value of a woman for no reason other than the fact that she is a woman. In the short story, Petronella, the author shows how women must go to greater lengths if they wish to achieve the same goals as men through usage of characterization, irony, and plot.

The role that women play in society has changed and evolved numerous times throughout our nation’s history. Women have been viewed as both pious and ungodly, chaste and immoral, and both precious and worthless. However, what has continued to remain constant in the lives of women is the unchanging feeling of inequality and insufficiency compared to their male counterparts. Those feelings endured by women are decidedly timeless, no matter what other circumstances exist within their lives. There are indeed similarities between the lives of the women in Lepore’s biography Book of Ages and Wilson’s autobiographical novel Our Nig. Both Frado and Jane Franklin Mecom were born at a disadvantage because of the sole fact that they were female. They each

Anna Barbauld’s “The Rights of Women” (1792), is an intricate poem that was written with a distinct perspective that many female poets would have taken during the Romantics era. The poem begins with a very passive aggressive yet persuasive invitation to take action on the way women are perceived. Barbauld’s feministic voice is heard throughout the entirety of the poem as she is trying to empower women with her passionate words, yet by reading the last two stanzas we realizes she contradicts her concept on her own feministic beliefs and thoughts. Reexamining the poem reveals a sarcastic tone other than the devotee-like tone that we had assumed was being interpreted as. One can conclude that Anna Barbauld's poem is not about feminism but is

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was widely believed that “women were not suited for the public world” (p.493). It is no secret that women were treated less than a man, and that belief proves it. Women took a stand for themselves by creating groups for women with similar beliefs to come together and show the world that they are equal to men. The groups they established aided the community in several different ways. Some supported local public places and others passed laws that improved women 's and children’s quality of life. Through the hard work of these groups, many different career paths opened up to women that were originally labeled a man’s job. If it wasn’t for the women who asserted their authority back then, I may not have been granted the rights I have today to even be in this class.

What is a woman’s role in society? Do they serve any significance apart from a man? Are women simply here to marry, create families, and then blend into the background? Kenneth Koch’s poem, Permanently, is a comedic story created by making characters out of the parts of speech. Through this poem he has created a world along with a love story weaved throughout the lines. If taken at surface level, the most obvious theme in this poem is love. Upon taking a closer look, by using the parts of speech as characters in this poem, we are given a message of one’s belief as to what a woman’s role truly is. While this poem is written in a comedic fashion which makes it seem as if the speaker is poking fun at this idea, there is the running love story which makes this poem seem almost lyrical. These two themes of love and a woman’s significance are both very strong throughout the poem.

Amy Tan, Julia Ward Howe, and Judith Sargent Murray are some of the noble women whom have helped shape the lives of their fellow gender with the talents of their writing. Much of their writing became increasingly influential years after it was written. Their literature allows today’s modern readers to reflect on the humanity and the treatment of women, understand history’s past, and use it as an example to continue spreading the vision of the equality of women today. Tan was known for her willingness to stand up for herself against her mother, in pursuits to find her own dreams versus those of what her mother had laid out for her (Showalter, Ch. “Amy Tan”). Howe was a poet, and founder of the nation’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, she was known for her activism of women’s rights, abolition, and world peace (Showalter, Ch. “Julia Ward Howe”). Lastly, Murray was known as the first woman of American letters, speaking for women’s rights after the American Revolutionary War (Showalter, Ch. “Judith Sargent Murray”). Tan, Howe, and Murray have proved to be influential not only in America’s historic past, but inspiration leading to today and the future as well. These women are excellent examples to learn from in taking ownership of their women’s rights and the equalities we shall have, in our still unequal world.

Throughout history women have been looked down upon by men. For example, in American history they were not allowed to go to school nor vote as they were viewed as inferior to men. In this poem the speaker presents women as an essential part of society, the building blocks on which greatness stands. Women perform daily household tasks represented in the poem as washing powder,

Alice Walker wrote the poem “Women” in honor of her mother, which is why I chose it as my subject. Walker writes about the strength of her mother and all women in her generation in the face of hardship and unfairness. The poem focuses on women who face adversity and danger for school segregation to end in the south. Walker uses imagery and paradox to help emphasize the importance of the poem.

In the developing environment, digital technologies advance people in different aspects. Game is one of the products under technology, while gaming is also sometime contextualized by shared cultural discussion (Carr, D. & Burn, A., 2006), such as gender. As De Castell and Bryson argued, there are four conceptions of gender, which are positivism, constructivism, critical, and postmodernism. (De Castell, S. & Bryson, M., 1998) To understand gender through technology, critical analysis standing out of these four concepts as it echoes with the structure and users’ views.

Historically, females have been relegated to the private sphere of daily life. They have served roles as homemakers, domestic servants and other positions in which one is eternally bound in social immobility. Women had maintained this status, at times uncomfortably, for the vast part of recorded history, and prior to the twentieth century this role seemed rather static. Beginning in 1945, and continuing through the decades to culminate with the popular image of Princess Diana, the role of the female adapted swiftly from the shadow of domesticity to the beacon of empowerment that women represent in the modern world. Women fought through adversity in the 40’s and 50’s, found solace in feminist movement and women’s revolutions in the 60’s, and finally gained political power in the 80’s between the officiation of Princess Diana, and the ministry of Margaret Thatcher. These distinct moments in time trace the explicit evolution of how the role of the woman grew and prospered in the British social climate.

She pointed out how the literature teaches women to sacrifice themselves, many of the most famous poems wonders about loving women who are perishing under unbearable conditions. She did not deny that women might perish in love; it was idealization of women's sufferings, the romanticism of the unhappy loves she so sharply disclaimed. She showed how women suffer injustice in all areas of life, without being able even to fight. Society's view of women had created a self-loathing in women who prevented them from fighting for their rights. Mrs. Collett wrote “Women's role in history has been to be a driving force for social justice.” But they have not even got any benefit from it.

However when looking at the ‘Grasmere and Alfoxden journals’ and Wordsworth’s daffodils side by side through the eyes of a feminist critical thinker and reader, it is difficult to comprehend the unjustness that women in the nineteenth century faced due to its reigning patriarchal society. The idea that no one would’ve bat an eyelid has Dorothy claimed the part she played in Wordsworth’s poem because she was a mere woman both astounds and angers me.

Up until the 19th century, women and men were assigned to domestic spheres. Men belonged to the public sphere, where they had the freedom to speak publicly, engage in government activities, and be the financial breadwinners to support their families. The private sphere belonged to the woman. They were limited to solely tending to their home, husbands, and raising their children. This imbalance of roles was deemed unfair and over time individuals spoke out about issues of women’s rights and gender equality. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leading figure of the Women’s Rights Movement communicated her ideals in “The Solitude of Self”. Stanton establishes a dark tone by strategically using metaphors, repetition, and analogies to convey to her audience of just how deserving a woman is of her own independence.

“There was a time when papers and volumes on women’s history told the story of none other than nuns and widows” (Edwards and Ziegler 1). Women throughout history have faced the difficulties of being compared to other women or even in some cases, men. Woman all over the world have faced the challenges of taking care of their family, working, and most importantly taking care of themselves. In the fourteenth century, medieval times, women did the man’s job, they got paid less than men did while working and trading, and had different, but similar situations than women today in the twenty first century.

A clear establishment of theme is critical to any piece of literature. The theme of women’s equality was, in the past, and still is, a quite controversial topic. The three text, “Our Deportment of the Manners, Conduct, and Dress of Refined Society,” “Address to Congress on Women’s Suffrage,” and “HeForShe: Gender Equality is Your Issue, Too” all establish the theme of women’s rights in different, yet effective ways.