It's A Womans World By Eavan Boland

In Danielle Allen’s essay, Our Declaration, she argues that all people should understand and recognize that the Declaration gives all people in the United States the undeniable freedom to self-govern. One person has the power to change the government; although this is not specifically stated, the freedom to self-govern implies every voice matters. She guides the reader to this idea by using simple and easy to follow examples to show the reader that they have the power to invoke a change the government. Allen also uses credible sources in order to give her reasoning credibility as well as using arguments that elicit an emotional connection.

It is something you notice everyday, in many forms of media. Commercials, ads, magazines, and the internet all depict this occurrence with female athletes. She is short haired, square framed, dressed in a large loose fitting clothing. She rides along on her skateboard at an empty skate park. She appears to be sweaty and dusty from a day of riding and falling. As she rides along, ahead of her is a ledge. Red faced and tired, she attempts to land a trick over the ledge and succeeds. Her name is Lacey Baker, and is said to be one of the best female skaters in the world. Sound familiar? No, she is not someone the general public would be exposed to day by day. She does not fit into the female athlete stereotype of "The Femininity Game". "The Femininity Game" as told to us by Mariah Burton Nelson, an author, expert speaker, and former professional athlete in her "I Won, I 'm Sorry" piece demonstrates how as female athletes will feel they must follow special role. She noted, "Like men, you 'll have to be smart and industrious, but in addition you 'll have to be like women" (575). Women are to be just as competitive as men but not to the extent to threaten their masculinity. Act lady-like and motherly with no hesitation. Many Female athletes have shown off their hard work though photographs posing in awkward positions or even nude. Caroline Wozniacki the No. 5 female tennis player in the world, and MMA champion Ronda Rouse who posed for the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated are

Bathhouse, a public place which Shirin Neshat depicted in her film Women without Men, as well as a fantasy of imagination of orientalism, is the name of the exhibition which Veronica Bechtold, Rebecca Gross, Tia Harestad, Lisa O’Connor, Selena Skalisky have curated as their dream feminist exhibition. Inside the space of the Bathhouse, the works of seven artists from all over of the world are chosen as part of the exhibition. All of the art prieces articulate the multiplicity of identity through visual representation across medium, utilizing an array of subjects that ranges from pubic hair to female genitalia, which opens up a conversation on how each artist represent differences by visually engaging the audience.

What society thinks about yourself becomes important when you feel that people treat you in a different way. It is not about what you do, it is about how society judge you. In the article, “Beast of Burden” by Sunaura Taylor we have a story of a disable person who narrates how was her life since her childhood until now. On the other hand, there is another article, “The Arab Woman And I” by Mona Fayad which tells us about a lady who had to experience the opinions of others, society suppose her to be someone even when she does not want. The authors include examples, personal experience and rhetorical strategies to give us a better understanding. This text provides information of how is that society is the one who had been involved with the fears of people as time goes by.

Therefore, through the use of symbolism of matches, Jiles represents how women are used for work and then once aged are left useless. In the poem, the reader can infer that men are superior to women through the presentation of the aunt and her actions of washing the “...dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses…” Through this depiction, Jiles conveys how women are given the “dirty work” around the household, while the men get play and relax. In relation to the symbolic representation, Jiles states, “One by one we were taken out and struck,” to

Many consider America to be the melting pot, and they’re not wrong. It houses members of many nations ranging from Mexico to Russia. Surrounded by foreign influences and numerous other cultures, they struggle to determine which traditions from their heritages they should hold onto and which foreign customs they should embrace. A Chinese-American, Maxine Hong Kingston is familiar with this dilemma. In her piece “No Name Woman”, Kingston explores this struggle by sharing the tragic story of her aunt’s pregnancy. Within her piece, she journalistically reports her aunt’s story in her mother’s words and fictionally narrates some of her aunt’s possible behaviors because of its lack of detail. She also explains several Chinese customs and

This morning I finished reading How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran. As I was nearing the end of the book, I found myself dreading that it would soon be over. I did not want it to end! I love it when I find a book that makes me feel this way. I am so entertained and delighted by the world of the book that I just don't want it to stop. When I do finish it, it feels like saying goodbye to a good friend. This book was so funny I laughed out loud every time I read a passage from it and decided I just HAVE to give copies away as gifts to all my girlfriends this Christmas.

“Women are crazy” is a conclusion most people come to when they are experiencing problems in their lives, but as we see in this story, it can delve much deeper than that. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” there is a woman who is diagnosed with nervous depression and sent up into a room given directions to rest as much as possible and refrain from any mental stimulation, with barred windows, and naturally, yellow wallpaper. As she is mentally enveloped in the design of this wallpaper, she begins to see a woman trapped behind it and tears down the paper to “free her”, while also seeing other women wander about the mansion they stayed at. The story ends with her husband walking in on her crawling the edges of the room saying “I’ve got out at last” (Gilman 319). After looking into the authors’ background I saw that I may have felt exactly as Gillman had intended for her audience: I made the story out to be a strong feminist piece. After the initial shock of her “craziness” I felt deep connections between her and these women she had imagined, which became more obvious when she declared herself as one of them.

In Eavan Boland’s poem “It’s a Woman’s World,” Metaphors and syntax revels the speaker’s conception of a “woman’s world.” Woman like to gossip; they like to be in other people’s business and hunger for it. This is shown by when the speaker says, “Or getting the recipe for a good soup to appetize our gossip.” Another metaphor used is in the seventh stanza, “for all time that as far as history goes we were never on the scene of the crime.” The speaker means that women, in history, were never the first responders, the police officers or EMS.

The period between the 1890s through the 1920s feminists strived to change society’s conservative and primarily Christian perspective on pregnancy, motherhood, female anatomy, and women in the workforce. In Drs. Monfort Allen and Amelia McGregor’s book, The Woman Beautiful, they described how the transformation from “biblical to biological thinking” (Hamlin 99) altered society’s perspectives of the assumed biological purpose of female anatomy. Similar to Allen and McGregor’s book, an abundant amount of other feminists published books containing advice to those women who struggled with conveying how motherhood and pregnancy doesn’t define a woman’s existence. For example, Eliza Bisbee Duffey published What Women Should Know: A Woman’s Book about

Just like what I answered in the previous questions, we, women, tend to change ourselves to the person that our partner wants us to be because we think that is what we should do for love. We do our best just to be enough for him. This is why think this message was sent and why it should be shared. Love isn’t about being someone you’re not just for him to appreciate you.

The society as a whole leads to the suffering of women. The poem fails to convey that view by being highly one-sided.

Nawal El Saadawi’s eye opening novel “Woman at Point Zero” exposes the gender inequality, male violence and domination over females occurring in Egypt. Through the character Firdaus, we learn that humans feel obligated to pursue personal desires, but all humans are social primates who feel the need to integrate within a society and eventually conform to society’s expectations. In Egypt it is common for men to possess control over women and they conform to the expectations of society because they fear the outcome if they were to oppose. Through characterization and the brilliant incorporation of symbols, Saadawi demonstrates that Firdaus initially chooses to conform to societal expectations with fear being a prime factor but ultimately submerges her fear allowing her courage to emerge. The courage to stand up for herself and the females as a whole against the men but her choice leads to her imprisonment and being placed on death row. Shockingly, she does not fear death as “[she] prefers to die for crime [she] has committed” and this is her final rejection of conforming to the never ending expectations of society.

A clear indication of Eavan Boland's feminist poetry is her revision of history and myth. In her book Critical Survey of Poetry: Irish Poets, Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman says that ''Hearth and history provide a context for the poetry of Eavan Boland. She is inspired by both the domestic and the cultural'' (Reisman, 35).

In the poem “It’s a Woman’s World by Eavan Boland, the speaker pours out her unattainable emotions towards the way women are looked upon. Women are “what will never be”(Boland 21) in history.Their “way of life/ has hardly changed”(Boland ½).