Gender Criticism In The United States

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is a fine example of sexism toward men. While defending women?s rights and making a stand against sexism toward women in her piece Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Stanton demonstrates (many times) examples of sexism toward men: ?The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries?on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her? (165). By blaming men for every repression women have suffered over the years, Stanton is completely contradicting her argument by being sexist toward men.

I really enjoyed reading Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason, which was a great short story that signified feminist criticism. Feminist criticism is known to be portrayed as criticism formed and based of a feminist theory, in other words it's the way society sees gender roles. In this case, in the short story Shiloh, they mention many points and examples throughout the story on how one of the main characters Norma Jean, has to face many issues and overcome obstacles based on her gender, being a woman. They basically imply the way society sees woman playing only certain roles but at the same time challenging the idea of it.

Throughout the history of this country especially beginning in the 1800s with the women's suffrage movement, women have fought for equality. It is no secret that the role of men versus women have change immensely over the last century however some things have not changed. As a result of the unchanging or slowly evolution of equality feminism has arise.

Peoples’ differing views on feminism is cause for constant debate, as shown by Scott Russell Sanders, in his essay The Men We Carry in Our Minds. He brings a rather different, but accurate view point to the feminism debate. His perspective is not one that is overheard; instead it brings a new fresh idea and argument to the debate. He describes a man’s point of view, but not just any man’s view, one that witnessed and was around men that had jobs at steel mills, or a coal mines. The men that had the jobs that no one wanted, but were forced to work because they needed to make money so they could support their family.

There are countless factors throughout the book that help to create a critical gendered lens. However, I have found that the four most helpful have been the discussions of intersectionality, gender performance, gendered/sexed language, and the three prominent theories of gender/sex. Learning the term intersectionality and what it means in terms of gender and communication really helped shape the way that I looked at all of the content of this course. The idea that a person’s identity is multiplicative rather than additive gives clearly explains intersectionality. The idea that all of the components of a person’s identity work together to make up who they are and how they view the world and are viewed by others is critical to the study of gender

Over the years the United States has grown to love each other as the way people are, especially women. Women have proven to be even stronger than what people expected them to be. You can see the strength, the courage, and the confidence they have gained. It has been discussed many years that women shouldn’t be allowed in combat for not being “strong enough”. Men have shown that they can be “manly” enough to do women or girl things, so why can’t women do “manly” things? If women feel like they can handle being on the frontline then we should respect their decision and allow them to go.

From the beginning of time women were raised to reproduce and none of them had an opportunity to work outside they’re house. They played the role of the stay at home mother who cooked, cleaned and cared for the children while the father worked to sustain the family’s needs. Up until the late 1800s, women had no other option but to live this stereotypical lifestyle. Back in this time period, feminism happened to be a major issue. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary feminism is “the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.” The Progressive Era (1890s-1920s) began the sweep of the Women’s Rights movement in the United States. Then on August 18th, 1920 women received equality by the passing of the 19th

Women, normally viewed as the weaker gender, deserve equal rights for all of the hard work that they do to support their own families. While men were out doing their jobs and getting paid for them, the women were forced to stay at home to complete more difficult jobs that they were not gaining pay for. The women were responsible for the well-being of the children and for the well-being of the house. Staying at home to do all of the cooking and cleaning took a lot more effort out of the women than sitting behind a desk all day did for the men.

This point is relevant because “ Before the civil war women were expected to stay home and take care of domestic duties”. But during the nineteenth century this idea couldn't be pursued due to the inability to afford staying at home”. So it became a necessity that women also worked. “ Public education for women had a slow development but as it came along private institutions taught women”. Women taught themselves how to read and write because they usually had to stay at home and cook.Women attended clubs and that’s where they learned how to read. women tried to apply for jobs to support their families, But many of them were turned down because they did not have the education needed for the job. One job that became popular for women was teaching, Due to this demand women needed to be well educated so that they could be able to teach the future generation’s. “Throughout the many efforts towards achieving equal rights with men, Women had trouble being taken seriously since they have always been viewed as weaker and less intelligent to men”. Based on scientific research studies have shown “ Once women started demanding equal rights, Their IQ scores which had lagged slightly behind men’s for decades not only caught up with men’s, They surpassed them”. One point is that “ In society at large, The women’s rights movement has brought about measurable changes, Too. In 1972, 62% of men and women said they would not vote for a woman for president”. In this year's election there were a lot of debates on voting for Hillary Clinton just because she’s a women. Also many women were triggered by the horrific message when Donald Trump stated his opinion against women. Most feminist felt that they were being discriminated against because Hillary Clinton lost the debate. In conclusion a lot of things drastically changed such as

Females deserve equal rights just like men had. Feminist started realizing this and even made an Organization, to protest for equal rights.The group, National Organization, protested at the Miss America contest in Atlantic City, saying and arguing that the pageant was sexist (Walsh). Soon after this group protested, they started to see what the basic goals of these sixties feminists were. Americans saw these feminists wanted equal pay for equal work, an end to domestic violence, to reduce severe limits on women in managerial jobs, an end to sexual harassment, and sharing for responsibility for housework and taking care of the children (Walsh). Unmarried and even married women in this era could not have a credit card. The bank would not allow to issue a credit card, her husband was required to co-sign, or have rights over the credit card (McLaughlin). After a while you could see changes occurring. The feminist trends of the 60’s took hold. You could tell it changed the relationships between the genders (Walsh). The jobs women could get were getting more and more of a bigger selection. Most young women at least in the middle class, expected to have access to the same careers and to receive the same respect as men

For many years and still today women have been fighting for equality. There are some people out there who believe that a woman’s role is to stay home and take care of the house and kids, and that the man is the one that goes out and does all the important stuff. Others who are fighting for equality believe that men and women should be equal, and that a woman shouldn’t be stopped from doing something just because it’s considered to be part of a man’s role.

For example, a very good professor I had at SUNY Cortland was fond of gender criticism. It was the lens he saw literature through, and he would always share a gender–often homosexual–interpretation of the text. By having most of the action happen on a boat, for example, the author was able to explore male relationships without the reader wondering why no one had a wife. This isn’t even sexual, but a look at how males interact with each other without women about. He never pushed it, but made us think about the author’s intent and what, as T.S. Eliot notes, we, as critics, bring to the text. I benefited from it greatly, even as I thought some critics pushed things a bit

Many times in life men do not think that women can do the same things that they can; whether it’s picking up boxes or being president. There will always be that “macho man” thought of the man being stronger than the woman. In many jobs women might do the exact same thing that men do except men are getting paid more than women even if it is an insignificant amount, it happens in many places and even though many people disapprove of it there are still jobs like that out there. And there are still employers who think that a woman should not be in the work force if so home. Many feminist have been working to solve this problem and there are still people who are working to solve and change many more of these problems, and even though in some places it doesn’t seem like it, feminism and feminists

They have their rights equally distributed after marriage. A woman stays at home, give birth, do houseworks or field works, or sometimes supervise the houseworks. But looking back, men actually look higher than women. Men also do fieldworks, fight enemies and lead a group. Now, rights of women are being fought upon every place in the world. Feminists say that there should be equal rights for men and women because everything a man can do, can also be done by a woman. Before, the women were more of a houseperson but now, we can see that a lot of women became anything a man can be. There are many women who work on a job that was just for men before. Soon enough, there will be a war on feminists and

In the 1960’s women in America were expected to marry in their early 20’s and start a family. Back then not many women worked, most stayed at home and took care of the children. Now, in the year 2017, women have equal rights to men and are now a very important part of the workforce. Although the Feminist movement is giving women equal treatment to men there are also feminists who believe that women should be indistinguishable to men, this form of radical feminism is harmful for it gives feminists a bad name.