Summary Of New York Day Women By Charles Baxter

In the quote, Woolf is discussing the confidence of women. Since the job of a woman is basically to be inferior to men, women are losing confidence. Women are constantly struggling to do what they want as they require, “gigantic courage and strength”. Wolf believes that men have purposefully made women inferior in order to reinforce their own confidence. Thus, this lack of confidence not only led to lack of quality life for women but also led to a lack of writing. However, even with this lack confidence women continue to persist and do everything they can to write. Woolf believes that if women did have more money and confidence, then they would not have to be so inferior and get married to men so early on. Woolf believes she could have done what she wanted as she would have been financially stable and not be reliant on others. Thus, Woolf could have been the boss of herself with freedom and time. With this freedom and time, Woolf and other women could have had the opportunities to produce the works they wanted to and get it published.

During the scene when Mrs. Dietrich keeps a closed tongue when Nola becomes snippy. She works very hard to not say things out of anger. The author reports that, “...But she sits stiff, turning her wineglass between her fingers. Mrs. Dietrich is afraid her daughter will leave the restaurant, simply walk away; that has happened before and if it happens today she doesn’t know what she will do.” Mothers work hard, physically and mentally.

A fresh, personal, bottom-up approach to the women’s labor movement in the early 20th century

     The plays, The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun, deal with the love, honor, and respect of family. In The Glass Menagerie, Amanda, the caring but overbearing and over protective mother, wants to be taken care of, but in A Raisin in the Sun, Mama, as she is known, is the overseer of the family. The prospective of the plays identify that we have family members, like Amanda, as overprotective, or like Mama, as overseers. I am going to give a contrast of the mothers in the plays.

First of all, the mother’s love in Reichl story becomes complex when the guest come over to the house and she cooks them moldy food, Ruth Reichl becomes the guest guardian who protects them from being killed. The mother shows her lover through cooking, she can whip up anything from her week old leftovers. Her mother is not a shame of what she cooks

Domesticity has been portrayed throughout the story; it shows the effects of marginalization towards female characters who do not adhere to the typical socials norms and roles. Mrs. Fullerton, is an individual who does not fit in with her new, younger neighbors. Jane had explained to Mary, “‘I asked her to babysit for me once and she practically spit in my face. She is not exactly a charming old lady, you know’” (Munro 72). Mrs. Fullerton is viewed differently by her neighbors as she is not the typical stereotype. They based her role to her age, therefore, they thought she would be the typically loving, and caring grandma figure for the community that would babysit their kids. They realized that she does not carry herself in that manner, this triggered the community to flip on her and put her in a unimportant perspective by ostracizing as she is useless to them. In general, the suburban women of the community are the ones who organize events, parties, compete with each other based on looks, and gossip (68). Munro illustrates their domesticity when she describes: “most birthday parties were attended by mothers as well as children. Women who saw each other every day met now in earrings, nylons and skirts, with their hair fixed and faces applied” (69). It is seen as meaningless compared to a male’s work/day and, therefore, socially acceptable for a woman. Edith was put in a powerless position compared to her husband, because as “she was surrounded in her kitchen by the ruins of the birthday party — cake and molded jellies and cookies with animal faces” (68). He would be outside “working around their houses” (67). This shows that Edith’s position compared to her husband is unimportant, as she can only work from inside the household, while he works outside maintaining their home. Therefore, being marginalized by her spouse as she is alienated from the hardships of the

Through Women’s Eyes by Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil addresses American History from 1865 until present day. The third edition of this textbook includes visual and primary sources over several centuries. I used this textbook in a history course, “Women in the United States, 1890 – Present;” I found the textbook to be engaging, helpful, and useful throughout the course. The way in which in the information was presented allowed me to learn, assess, and analyze the difficulties women faced.

In the short story “What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything?”, the author, Avi, uses the protagonist’s (William “Willie” Markham) mother, Mrs. Markham, to explore the theme of happiness. Her sorrow in the tale affects Willie as well in a negative manner. Although she is able to supply William’s basic list of everyday needs (food, clothing, etc.), she unable to give him the encouragement and emotional protection a young child needs. Her lack of patience, her deficiency to quench Willie’s curiosity, and her disregard for the boy’s feelings highlight Mrs. Markham’s rotting mothering skills.

The character of the mother executes the tell-tale signs of counterfeit happiness when she tells the murderous story of the narrator’s father’s brother. “‘Oh honey,’ she said, ‘there’s a lot that you don’t know. But you are going to find out’” (36).

The article, The Cult of Womanhood: 1820 - 1860 written by Barbara Welter discusses the philosophy towards women in America during the mid 19th century. A set of demands and expectations based upon four principles: piety, purity, submission and domesticity were placed on women as well as certain behavioral expectations left 19th century women feeling guilty. It also left women feeling this way during the industrialization period as well as having a huge presence of incompatibility with society. Welter shares her viewpoint that the Cult of Womanhood was an attempt to preserve pre modern values in the industrial age. Men held a dominant place in society and continued to prevent new opportunities for women to explore. Narrow minded

Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl allows Harriet Jacobs, speaking through the narrator, Linda Brent, to reveal her reasons for making public her personal story of enslavement, degradation, and sexual exploitation. Although originally ignored by critics, who often dismissed Jacobs ' story as a fictional account of slavery, today it is reported as the first novel narrative by an ex-slave that reveals the unique brutalities inflicted on enslaved women. Gabby Reyes

At the beginning of this same line, the girl tells what she does not like, "It seemed to me that work in the house was endless, dreary and peculiarly depressing."  She sees her mother's life and the work that she does and simply does not want to be a part of it.  She also outright says, "I hated the hot dark kitchen in summer; the green blinds and the flypapers, the same old oil table and wavy mirror and bumpy linoleum" (113).  The girl is showing her opposition to her assigned gender role.  She does not like working in the house or preparing comparing and contrasting of the father's world versus the mother's world.  The father's world is composed of outdoor work, fox farming, has no emotion, expresses freedom and identified by light.  The father's world is all about the death of animals.  So, there is no time for emotions.  This lack of emotions is also carried into the relationship between the girl and her father.  The girl says, My father did not talk to me unless it was about the job we were doing.  Whatever thoughts and stories my father had were private, and I was shy of him and would never ask him questions" (112).  The girl accepted this and considered it part of the attitude you have to have for this job.  The girl prefers her father's type of emotion rather than her mother's.  The girl describes her mother's emotions:

Rosler’s gesture becomes more and more aggressive, but she retains her deadpan demeanor. The women of the cooking shows are cheerful, meticulous, and welcoming; Rosler’s woman is bored, careless, and violent.

In "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin, the protagonist, Mrs. Sommers, finds herself in a dilemma when she is given the responsibility of fifteen dollars and loses her responsibility as a mother as she spends the the money on herself which showcases the need for self-reliance. Being her own antagonist, Mrs. Sommers is torn between the two roles she has in her life, being her own person and being a mother. In the beginning of the story we see Mrs. Sommers as a responsible mother that puts the needs of her children before herself that she forgets to eat lunch. "Between getting the children fed and the place righted, and preparing herself for the shopping bout, she had actually forgotten to eat any luncheon at all!" (pg.31) Mrs. Sommers

After Esther Greenwood receives an internship at a magazine in New York City she begins to open her eyes to the reality many American live in, specifically relative to gender roles. For many women, the expression of love or passion is obsolete, and many are expected to remain pure until marriage rather than peruse a lifestyle of their choice. As well, they are expected to satisfy their fathers or husbands needs by stereotypically “getting up at seven, cooking them eggs and bacon and toast and coffee [and making the bed, and then when] he came home after a lively, fascinating day [they’d] expect a big dinner, and [woman would] spend the evening washing up even more dirty plates until [they] fell into bed, utterly exhausted. ”(Plath 60) On the other hand, it's considered natural for men to have sexual desires and