The Color Purple

The title of my book is The Color Purple and it is written by Alice Walker. The book was originally published in 1982, the publisher is Harcourt, And there are 288 pages in the book. There was an adapted version also printed in 1985.

Throughout history, women have been viewed differently from men. In the 1880’s and before, women were in charge of making a happy home, her job above all was to make sure her husband was happy. Around, the 1910’s women began fighting for their right to vote and to be viewed as an equal to the janitor that works for them. Still, to this day, women and girls are fighting to be viewed as an equal and respected as men and boys are in our society.

For centuries women have always strived to be as equal and superior as men. From shifting themselves as the careful house wife attending to the children, to helping out in factories and serving in war during the early 1900’s. Then eventually women received the right to vote. Women then began to receive and further their education, becoming professionals like men were. The past century has been a century where women have been catching up to men proving to be just as superior as men.

The feminist movement is usually defined in three ‘waves’. The first wave of feminism took place in the nineteenth century. During this time, women were dominated by white middle and upper class Anglo-American women, women of color were excluded. The second wave began in the 1960s, this wave focused on addressing social groups among women based on their race. Feminist attempted to make the issue between women and race aware but resulted in a fragmentation of feminism. The main focus was to pass the Equal Rights Amendment to the

Throughout history, women have been constantly challenged with unfair treatment compared to their male counterparts. Women have always been forced to deal with the burden of societal expectations, and ideas of inferiority men never faced. Also, women were unable to have their own voice or be independent for several years in the past. Gender equality is a huge issue, and an ongoing battle. Today, women continue to argue for their rights as people and are making a meaningful impact on society.

Throughout history, women have struggled to show their value juxtaposed to men. Women are often downgraded economically, politically and socially just because they are female’s. The struggle between women in the 1800s is similar to the struggle women have now. Equal rights for women are still being campaigned now as much as it was during the 1800s (Richard Chused). The connotation of feminism has been created to be a negative word .Just like people believe women should be equal to men, many others believe otherwise.

The movement for gender equality is called feminism, which is defined by the advocacy for women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men, which began in the mid 1800’s when it was just called the Movement for Women's Rights.

And beyond this number, there are many women who do not come forward and share what they have been going through or have gone through in the past. There are many reasons as to why women don’t come forward sooner including feelings of shame, denial, low-self esteem, hopelessness, helplessness, or a fear of the consequences (Engel). The stereotypes of women being weak, fragile, sensitive, and emotional contribute to the question of why females are more prone to domestic violence and abuse. With men feeling like they have power over women, especially in the 1930s rural community, they will find anything against women to feel satisfied with their power. This power that they hold as a result of gender roles can lead to unnecessary physical harm. Celie openly shares her scary experiences and unjust interactions she has with Albert, “He beat me today cause he say I winked at a boy in church. I may have got somethin in my eye but I didn’t wink. I don’t even look at mens. That’s the truth. I look at women, tho, cause I’m not scared of them” (Walker 5). Very early in the novel, Celie expresses how she has been abused by the men in her

To begin with I would like to talk about some of the issues relating to feminism. For thousands of years there have always been issues with genders being unequal as it has always been believed that different genders have always had gender roles, these issues have always been dismissed up until now. Before the 1960’s women were expected to follow traditional roles such as having to do the cleaning, the cooking, taking care of the children and being feminine or ‘lady-like’, they were seen as the caretakers of the home and family. After completing basic education women were expected to stay at home rather than going out to pursue a career. Women were treated like objects by men and the men were sometimes in charge of the family and perhaps even seen to be above women. Men and women were also payed differently, even if they had the exact same job and job responsibilities, women were payed less than men. In 1963 the Equal Pay Act came to action and it was forbidden for women to be payed less

The fight for equality among the sexes have been going on for a long time and is still happening. from 1848 to the 1920s women fought for the right to vote, this was later called the first wave of feminism. the second wave of feminism was shorter it lasted 20 years, from the 1960s to the 1980s, during this time women fought

Feminism has a rich history dating back as long as the written word. Even before what is classically known as the ‘first wave’ of feminism, works on gender equality were being published (although

Feminism has gone back to the 1792, the Vindication of Women’s Rights, was one of the first feminist movement. The true question is what is feminism? Feminism is the want of women’s rights and equality of sexes. Feminist want the equality for both genders, no gender is superior to the other. Women go through many things everyday, for instance women everyday are being sexually harassed. “The women’s accounts portray James Toback as a man who, for decades, sexually harassed women he hired, women looking for work and women he just saw on the street” (Whipp, Glenn Los Angeles Times). Most men believe women can’t do the same jobs or same things basically, like some men simply believe women can’t do the same as they can. Women should only stick with household duties, like taking care of the children or cleaning the

Women: courageous, strong, powerful, and beautiful. All things every little girl dreams of being called. During the early-mid 19th century however, women were not considered any of these things. Women were treated as property and were forced to live lives that had already been determined by others. Women could not choose who they were to marry, what they wanted wear, or even whether or not they wanted to have children. Women were the property of the men in their lives. Alice Walker does an excellent job of portraying this reality in her novel, The Color Purple. The novel is about a girl named Celie who is forced to do things throughout most of her life that she does not want to do. She is forced into marriage, forced to sleep with her father,

The worldwide battle for gender equality is an ongoing problem women throughout the ages and in present-day modern society continue to fight for. Today, feminism, the active belief for total equality of the sexes, is more openly accepted and plays a crucial part in the maturation of humanity. Nevertheless, feminism was not always so freely welcomed in the past. Men believed it to be inappropriate to have a woman share the same equal rights and responsibilities as they had. These contrasting beliefs between men and women created controversy and resistance to term feminism.

The idea of women being equal to men has been debated for a very long time. Even when civilizations were just starting, most women were treated very differently from men. When women started fighting against this oppression they were called feminists. Feminism can be separated into three waves. The first wave of feminism was from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s. The second wave was from the 1960s to the 1980s. The third wave of feminism started in the 1990s, but its end is unclear. Some people believe it has ended and the fourth wave of feminism has started, but others believe it continues today. The different waves have been very different in some aspects, but very similar in others. The main differences between the first and third wave of feminism are what they fought for, how they protested, and society’s reaction to their cause.