Lola Bara Analysis

She emphasizes that the life of a slave woman is incomparable to the life of a slave man, in the sense that a woman’s sufferings are not only physical but also extremely mental and emotional. Whether or not a slave woman is beaten, starved to death, or made to work in unbearable circumstances on the fields, she suffers from and endures horrible mental torments. Unlike slave men, these women have to deal with sexual harassment from white men, most often their slave owners, as well as the loss of their children in some cases. Men often dwell on their sufferings of bodily pain and physical endurance as slaves, where as women not only deal with that but also the mental and emotional aspect of it. Men claim that their manhood and masculinity are stripped from them, but women deal with their loss of dignity and morality. Females deal with the emotional agony as mothers who lose their children or have to watch them get beaten, as well as being sexually victimized by white men who may or may not be the father of their children. For these women, their experiences seem unimaginable and are just as difficult as any physical punishment, if not more so.

Female police officers have been saddled with a stigma ever since they were finally allowed to join their fellow male officers on the force in the 1970’s. It is said that when a female officer is being harsh, she is often called anything other than firm. However, when a male officer is harsh, he is considered firm and just being a man. Female police officers are dubbed incapable of being able to perform their duties equivalent or superior to a male officer simply because she is

“But policewoman’s presence was still not wholly welcome, they were there because chiefs succumbed to pressure from outside reform groups, not because male administrators or officers saw any need for them. Policewomen’s allies remained other male and female social workers, progressives, clubwomen, and other reformers.” (Miller, 1999)

One of the first nurses to see battle injuries was Ms. Fannie Beers who described the arrival of the first 200 soldiers at a makeshift hospital “they came with some form of disease whether on foot or stretcher, barefoot or on swollen feet”. (12) The battlefront hospitals were only that of open area sites with conditions anything but sanitary, with blood, human waste and amputated limbs covering the ground. The first battle women encountered was with their selves. Only their strong religious faith steeled them against sickening sights of disease and infection. These nurses learned to rein in their feelings and believed patients redemption hallowed their work.

Searing pain shot through Deborah Sampson, who dropped to the ground in agony, holding her thigh where she’d just been shot. Her fellow soldiers rushed over to help get Sampson to safety, but instead she resisted and started to scream at them to let her die in fear of the patriots finding out her true gender. Women weren’t supposed to be up on the battlefront like men, although some, like Sampson, cross-dressed as a man. Deborah Sampson became a respected soldier in the Revolutionary War who tried her best to not let her true gender be discovered.

She sewed a man's coat, waistcoat, and breeches, and bought a pair of mens shoes and a hat to wear to war to hide her true identity (“Deborah Sampson: Woman”).One example is, she was enlisting in 1782 to go to war, the others enlisting when Sampson was, had many suspicions about how she was holding her quill (Zeinert pg 6). Deborah Sampson was known as Robert Shurtlieff as she went through the Revolutionary War (Herstory Woman pg 73). At one of Sampson’s battles she had gotten shot in the leg (Bois). Sampson refused to get any medical attention. She wanted to take care of it herself by trying to cut it out, she never actually got it out. As the war went on, Deborah Sampson caught Yellow Fever, a deadly disease at that time (Herstory Woman pg 74). While in the clinic the doctors and nurses found out her true gender, making her become unenlisted October 25th, 1783 (Bois). Deborah Sampson was a true leader by showing that everyone takes risks for what they believe in, no matter the

I wasn’t instantly assaulted but was first harassed multiple times and so I reported the incident. The officer stated that women like me are a disgrace, ‘Joining the military to disgrace a Few Good Men’, is what he called it. I was told to woman up or ask for a transfer if I refused to look past the actions of a man just being a man. (Mercier 1)

One of multiple of the perspective of the Civil War was how people view women during the heat of the battles. Consider the following, in the newspaper article by Martha J. Nixon, "Report of the Ladies' Aid Society of Chambersburg." on October 28, 1863. States "Acknowledges our boxes in the following terms; We received your well-filled boxes and thank your society on behalf of those

Women have been sexually harassed and assaulted in the work force for years, and for many years, the US Army has been dealing with this enormous and overwhelming issue, through the help of their agency known as the Equal Opportunity Program (EOP). In the US Army regulation 600-20, Army Chief of Staff, General Raymond T Odierno, States the purpose, “This regulation prescribes the policies and responsibilities of command, which include the Well-being of the force, military discipline, and conduct, the Army Equal Opportunity (EO) Program, and the Army Sexual Assault Victim Program.“ For a long time, the Army’s EOP Equal Opportunity

Gloria Anzaldua is among the many feminist theorists that has moved into the realm of addressing post-modern identities. In Gloria Anzaldua’s articulation of the new mestiza consciousness, she makes the argument of identities as multiple, hybrid, and more specifically created as a result of the Borderlands. However, according to Anzaldua, and despite the difficulties engendered by her very existence, the mestiza is also a figure of enormous potential, as her multiplicity allows a new kind of consciousness to emerge. This mestiza consciousness moves beyond the binary relationships and dichotomies that characterize traditional modes of thought, and seeks to build bridges between all minority communities to achieve social and political change.

The subordinates are harmed both physically and emotionally in the story “Mama Come Home.” The giant women overpower the smaller men. They beat the men and rape them. The giant women use the men as sex slaves. They see the men as inferior and only good for sex. The men are physically harmed because they are bruised and beaten by the Capellans. “The standing one had my neck in a vise at arm’s length, and when I worked the standard finger-bend she laughed like a deep bell and casually twisted up my arm until things broke.” (Tiptree 69) They are emotionally damaged because they are taken advantage of. Anyone that is raped becomes torn up inside.

Eva was born an illegitimate, poor child. Her father died, leaving her and her siblings to be raised by their mother, his mistress. He left no assets, only an allowance to use his last name. Eva ran away from home at 15 to go to Buenos Aires. Here she managed to rise to the top by carefully selecting her company, working hard, and believing in herself. This rise from poverty was the goal of all of the working class, so they admired Eva’s

Throughout The Things They Carried, society’s antagonizing treatment towards the soldiers and veterans is symbolized through O’Brien’s characterization of women as selfish, insensitive, and ignorant.

Women, regardless of the opposition, were determined to support their armies and their beliefs even on the battlefield. The North and South armies of the country were fighting without proper organization from their respective governments, leading women to volunteer to help their men in whatever manner they could. Contributing to the war effort, women were “responsible for much of the clothing, feeding, and nursing of the soldiers.”18 Women would cook and do the laundry for the soldiers, working in camps away from the battlefield. Other women would provide comfort for the dying soldiers, nurturing the wounded and staying with the men who were dying until their last moments. Their efforts were to offset the fact that the wounded men were separated from their loved ones and “represented domestic tranquility in the midst of armed conflict.”19 Women were not prohibited from nursing injured soldiers because it was “not yet a profession requiring special training…care of the sick and injured was traditionally a female skill”20. Nursing was not the only important contribution that women provided during the war. They also worked within their communities to make up for the men who had left to fight in the war, managing homes and plantations,

Japanese military leaders formulated the concept of comfort women in order to stop soldiers from committing sexual violence towards women they might encounter. Japanese Lieutenant-General Okamura Yasuji proposed that comfort women should be shipped to Shanghai to solve the problem of 223 rapes reportedly committed by troops there (Kim). One former comfort woman reported that in some places, soldiers were so desperate for some kind of outlet for their sexual desires that they had intercourse with dogs (Kim in Schellstede 32). It is estimated that over 125 million forced sexual acts took place between Japanese soldiers and comfort women in the span of only five years (Kim). The Japanese military made soldiers pay to have sex with comfort women. The prices were as follows: 1.50 yen for privates, 2 yen for non-commissioned officers, 2.50 yen for junior officers, and 3 yen for senior officers (Hicks 19). Concerned for the health of their soldiers, Japanese military leaders provided condoms to thwart the spread of any sexually transmitted diseases; however, these condoms were often