Personal Narrative: Housewifes Of Hawaii

When I started writing this, I had no clue what it would be about. I was told “It has to be perfect.” “It has to explain you without you explaining yourself.” “You have to give it meaning without being asked for anything.” “If it isn’t good enough, admission officers won't give your application a second glance.” So, I put off writing it, pondering it over and over in my mind. I’m so glad I put it off, because until recently, I didn’t know what it was keeping me in Hawai’i. My mom lives in Oregon now, and I had the option to move with her because she still has custody. Something kept me here, though, and I wasn’t sure what. Through reminiscing and building more memories, I realized what it was. It was how much I love being Hawaiian. The food,

Through the efforts of influential women activists through history, women could achieve gender equality and eliminate the inferiority complex that was labeled on them.

Women have come a long way. They started off unable to vote or even have equal rights to now it is hope that a woman may potentially be president. People of different races and people with different sexualities faced many many struggles with discrimination and being looked down upon to now being elected for several levels of government.unable

For many years, women have not experienced the same freedoms as men. Being a woman, I am extremely grateful to those women who, many years ago, fought against social standards that were so constricting to women. Today, women can vote, own property instead of being property, live anywhere and have any career which she may choose.

We have progressed a lot as a society. No longer are women stuck at home cooking and taking care of children. Now, more than ever, women have the same opportunities to achieve just as much men. There are no jobs that men do that women can’t. Women can vote, play

Daddy’s princess. Big brother’s responsibility. Daddy’s little girl. Some people view these as a sweet pet names for young ladies, but these verbal cues inexplicitly condition women to view themselves as the property of men starting at a young age. These learned notions may take hold as women begin to develop. As young girls mature, they find themselves striving to please their fathers and other male figures as one of their main aspirations in life due to this conditioning from society. (Rholetter p. 1) The submissive nature of young girls is a common theme in literature, but looking through the Feminist Lens offers readers a better understanding of the struggle surrounding remaining submissive or demanding power occurs.

Women in the modern day have proved that they are equal and deserve as much rights as a man. Did you know women are most likely to get breast cancer more than men? Breast cancer consists of fatty and fibrous connective tissues.Women have to go through months of radiation

Throughout time women have had to fight for better and or equal treatment. Women had to fight to become citizens, property owners, voters, and military service members. Before 1920 women were not allowed to graduate from a university. Women rights have made strides concerning equality in the workforce and in educational opportunities.

Women have been treated and portrayed similarly throughout history-- Made to be housewives and handmaidens to men of all ages and expected to be the “perfect woman”, a standard image created by--shocker--men. In fifth-century Greece, the “perfect” woman was expected to obey her husbands at all times. The “perfect” English Renaissance women was meant to be seen, not heard. The “perfect” woman of the eighteen hundreds was given novels to read. Novels that held lighter topics than the newspapers of the day, such as intemperance, nothing too heavy because “once a woman starts reading, she starts getting ideas” (indirect quote from Beauty and the Beast). The tables began to turn in 1848, when the first women’s suffrage movement convention was held in Seneca Falls, when women began to realize what Emma Goldman voiced years later in 1915. The “perfect woman” image began to crumble. Skirts became shorter, topics became heavier, women started thinking, forming ideas, becoming more outspoken, creating their own image, without the aid of men. Slowly, they climbed their way up, proving to be more independent and more than what men thought them to be. How women were viewed as by a society, and their evolution of independence, has bled through in literature, especially through female deities in ancient mythologies. Over time, goddesses of different mythologies have grown bolder and more powerful as the world finally noticed that women were actually people, not pretty trophies. Greek,

As of lately, princesses have been under heat for teaching young girls to rely on men for everything, which I don’t see the connection. The examples that are used the most are Snow White, Cinderella and Aurora/sleeping beauty; they were made in the 50’s. Yes, they all waited for a man to save them but the moral of the story was that if you dream and you are kind to everyone, your dreams will come true; I think that lesson shines through to kids the most.

Women began to understand that they are seen as less than man and were determined to make a difference. This is very important

In the Grimm’s Fairy Tales, women are seen as submissive and weak, unparalleled to men, which would be fairly common in the early 20th century, but modern Disney films seem to be portraying that same message nearly a century later. This kind of mainstream media message tells young, impressionable girls that their role in life is one of servitude and care-keeping, because that is what they see in Disney movies and hear from Grimm’s Fairy Tale bedtime stories. In stories such as Snow White, Cinderella, and Rapunzel, women are in a position of caring for other members of the household in which they reside. All three main female characters are in a “damsel-in-distress” situation in which they can only be saved so long as a handsome man finds it

In everyday life, people are given roles to play; doctors are to heal the wounded, officers are to maintain order in society and teachers are to guide the youth onto the right path. In the past, each gender had to behave a certain way, the men were the strong worker of the home, whom provided the income for the family, while as the women were the gentle angels at home, whom took care of the children and housework. If the women were to defy these roles, they would be look down upon and be treated worse. However, time has change, these roles are no longer black and white; there is no longer a certain way a woman is supposed to act, modern women are depicted differently from the way they were in the past, this is due to the new norms in society that has been molded throughout time. This can be proven with the old fairy tale “Cinderella” by Charles Perrault and the 1990s movie Pretty Woman directed by Garry Marshall.

When I was a little girl I read fairy tales about princesses being saved by men. I read bible stories about men being in charge and hunting for their families. I watched tv shows about adventurous girls and parents who took care of their children. All of this taught me that men take care of their families and the women nurture their children. It taught me that girls are supposed to become women and nurture others. Men are supposed to be the strong one who is protective of his family. Back then the stories were all the same. Young girls were portrayed as princesses and the young boys were portrayed as muscular brave men. It was always the same but now they are putting twists on the stories. Movies now have boys who want to become girls and girls

women are now able to vote, receive a standard of fairness in the workplace, hold