Letty Cottin Pogrebin's Women At Point Zero

This also suggests her thesis of women being treated unfairly. Women were also treated unfairly when they were

What I find amazing is that women did not even question their place. They just accepted things for the way they were and didn't question why things were like that. It was like they didn't even contemplate the idea that they could have a say in anything at all. Ma is a prime example of this. She has stood in the shadows and discreetly controlled the goings on for her whole life. An example of this is when Casy is being invited to join them on their move. "And then he stood, embarrassed by his own speech. Ma looked to Tom to speak, because he was a man, but Tom did not speak. She let him have the chance that was his right, and then she said 'Why, we'd be proud to have you.' " (Pg. 127) The degradation of women in this quote is clearly evident, and ridiculous. Tom is Ma's son, and yet she has to look to him to wait for him to speak before she is allowed to voice her opinion because of her gender. Neither age nor the fact that she gave birth to him can give her the right to speak her mind. On the flip side, Ma let him have his "right." She let him; as in allowed it to

Women believed that they had the same rights as men, as they tried fit into society by starting women’s rights movements that spread throughout the

Paragraph about “Beasts” and “their Eyes” focused on the characteristics of the protagonist.The protagonist of “Beast of the southern wild” is a little girl that's named hushpuppy who lives with her father and that’s very independent, adventurous and doesn't have a mother.The protagonist of “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is a women that is very connected to nature and that was abandoned by her mom when she was little and she didn’t had motherly love so she tried having relationships with men which some didn’t work.She had to deal with hate and rumors around her hometown.Both Janie and Hush Puppy went through bad events in their life but those events caused them to be stronger than ever.

“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” -Ellen Degeneres. Like Ellen, Nick see’s into the eyes of other characters to understand how they are feeling. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald shows that the eyes are the most imperative part of the body, they show emotion of characters and how Nick sees them.

She begins with the metaphor “new eyes” (Allison 115) to describe her fear that her lover might think of her differently after meeting the family, “I was afraid that she might see me through new eyes…” (115). Allison reemphasizes this by using the same metaphor in the following paragraph to describe the confirmation of her fears, “My lover did indeed see me with new eyes.” (115). The feeling of freedom she describes in her

This lack of recognition, or rather misrecognition and denial of political rights shaped how women viewed themselves for a good part of history- and it shaped how others viewed women as

This shows that in the 1500’s, daughters must obey their families demands. All things considered, “True, and therefore women, being the weak vessels , are ever thrust to the wall” (1.1.16-17). This shows how men think of women, weak and unable to do anything masculine in any way. In these days, women were just supposed to keep their husbands happy. Not to tell the men to stop talking about them that way or anything negative towards the men.

They were wonderfully pretty eyes; and, indeed, Winterbourne had not seen for a long time anything prettier than his fair countrywoman's various features‹her complexion, her nose, her ears, her teeth. He had a great relish for feminine beauty; he was addicted to observing and analysing it; and as regards this young lady's face he made several observations. (7)

It is showing the power of two over one, which is unfair. When Cordelia looks over Grace for approval implying that Cordelia and Grace aren't independent, and they needs two in order to be strong. The author used many methods to construct the central idea like body language, setting, mood, metaphor not only to show the readers its meaning but also to gets the readers connected to the story. The title of the story metaphor the theme of the story is that by pushing the girl to her bad moment in a fom of two girls, Cordelia and Grade implying the title Cat's Eye showing the same power that cats have, in daylight they are cute, and enjoyable to be with, but at night, some cats turned scary, and with glowing eyes going around chasing smaller animal, like how Cordelia and Grace bullying the

(Goldfield, 338) Since the cult of domesticity was making women inferior to men, women decided to do as the slaves did and fight for their own freedom. The women’s rights movement began in the mid-1800s. Female and male abolitionist found it necessary that women should be able to have the same rights as men. Just because biologically they are different, it does not mean they do not deserve the same rights. Women were denied the right to vote, property and a right to an education or job. (Goldfield, 338) At first the women’s movement was slow. Many women were afraid to speak out in fear of being shunned by their community. This was a brand new scary task that Women for the first time were going to deal with. A women speaking out against the norms of society was seen as a terrible thing to do. When you have many women speaking out for the same thing a change must be done. When the first national convention for women’s rights was called in Seneca Falls, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were able to successfully use the Declaration of Independence as a model for their own Declaration of Sentiments. (Goldfield, 339) In their Declaration they branded that “male patriarchy as the source of women’s oppression” (Goldfield, 339) Stanton and Mott called for full women’s rights and to become independent citizens. Although the fight for women’s rights was always an important issue, most abolitionists deemed it less important

Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero, once said, “Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can 't be liberated under the patriarchal… system...which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.” This quote addresses a certain idea that is prevalent in the novel: men have immense power over women in Egypt. Firdaus, a woman placed on death row for murdering her pimp, recounts her life’s tale of sexual abuse and inequality of gender to El Saadawi to help her understand her past. Constantly mentioning money, pleasure, and other key focuses, Firdaus describes her life in great detail to make it seem more real and relatable. Based on a true story, El Saadawi articulates Firdaus’

Women were always seen as being inferior or “weak” to men; that they couldn’t do the same things men did because they lacked the physical strength to do so. Because women were physically inferior, it became easy to oppress them due to this difference in power.

Firdaus’ father is an illiterate, ignorant and lazy father who does not understand what is happening around him. He still holds to the old traditional practices of looking down upon women. It is from this point of view that all the women that are around him face oppression. For example, Firdaus’ father constantly batters his wife. Women characters in Woman at Point Zero are oppressed by males in the text. The homodiegetic narrator being one of the Characters, retells the ordeal that they go through in the hands of men. The homodiegetic narrator gives out a detailed account of what happened to her right from her childhood up to adulthood. She endures and experiences the brutality in the hands of different men in the society hence exposing the theme of oppression. Firdaus confession further reveals the brutality of her biological father. She confesses what happens in her father’s house. She