The Good Mother By Ellen Cronan Rose

In the book, Mama Might Be Better off Dead, there were two main characters that were crucial to the plot of the story, Jackie Banes and Mrs. Jackson. Throughout the book, I found Mrs. Jackson to have the best connection with public health. Mrs. Jackson was an elderly and disabled women with a variety of health care odds stacked against her. She had numerous health concerns; such as, diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, and an amputated limb (Abraham, 1993). Mrs. Jackson suffered these health issues because she was a poverty stricken women and experienced economically depressed living conditions. Due to her low socio-economic status, Mrs. Jackson did not qualify for full coverage Medicaid because she was not considered in a low enough income bracket unless she put more than half of her monthly social security towards health benefits (Abraham, 1993). As a woman with limited resources, Mrs. Jackson was unable to afford the cost of benefits much less her own survival expenses. The duration that Mrs. Jackson experienced insufficient resources led her to all of her unfortunate outcomes regarding her health. One of the reasons Mrs. Jackson needed an amputation on her leg was due to an untreated wound that resulted from her diabetes. Her diabetes had also gone untreated because she was unable to afford treatment and transportation costs to help her infection heal (Abraham, 1993). In the book, no one cared about Mrs. Jackson and it was because she was a poor

First, I thought this was a great read. I believe the authors main idea is "Society continues to push the idea that women can do anything that a man can do; yet, there are still so many examples of the sexist ways we hold women back from pursuing all of their personal and professional goals." What makes this article so meaningful to him is that he is now a father to a little girl. I agree with his claims and I understand his want to change our society. I also have a daughter, she is 4 years old. I often imagine who outside of our home she may look up to. Maybe a woman like Marie Curie, because science rules! Or maybe an athlete like Ronda Rousey, one of the toughest female athletes out there. Now, she is a prime example of sexism being alive

The happiness did not last long for Eunice and Dean, They started to fight over having different ideas. They both wanted different ways to raise the children. Eunice thought since they are twins, they will helpful to each other, should be educated and to be taught the same thing. However, Dean thought since they are twins, they should be taught different things to be helpful because they can help each other when they needed them. The struggle over the children soon ended, when they decided to let the children to choose their own when they grow a little bit older.

Since the beginning of time, men have always adjudged theirself as a superior to women in both power and status. In a way, this situation is rather prevalent in Pearl S. Buck’s historical fiction The Good Earth. Throughout the novel, Wang Lung overcomes an impoverished life and becomes a wealthy landowner, with the support and help of O-Lan. Despite being the wife of Wang Lung, O-lan was treated as if a slave and at one point was looked down upon for her unattractive features. Many of Wang Lung’s actions depict traditional Chinese beliefs that women are inferior beings, where they are under constant oppression by men.

It is okay for women to be stay-at-home moms. These women can be just as powerful as women in high professional fields. Mothers teach their sons and daughters to be strong and to push for their goals and dreams. A strong mother forms a strong man, just as a strong mother forms a strong woman. The film could have focused a small portion on the strength of a mother.

All feminist must oppose this, and thus all feminist must oppose the domination of nature. Warren explains the value of first person narratives in giving voices to sensitivities and attitudes that Western society often overlooks, and the argumentative significance that results from sensical conclusions. Ecofeminism provides a shift from a typical Western “arrogant perception” that only extends moral consideration to beings that resemble oneself, to a new “loving perception” that tries to understand what it means for humans to care about the nonhuman world. Warren outlines the “boundary conditions” of a feminist

Liyah has been living with her mother a very long time. She and her mother had been living in the country inside a trailer. They had been struggling buying food, paying the bills, and buying things for the house. Liyah wants to get a job and help her mother out.

Maggie a Girl of the Street is a classic novella written by Stephen Crane in 1893. It is a story filled with irony, hypocrisy, and most importantly feminism. While the title of Crane’s novel implies that the story is going to focus on Maggie, it actually deals more directly with the Bowery, and how that environment shapes those who reside there. The setting of the story plays a very important role in this novella, not only is it responsible for shaping the characters in the story, it is also what creates the aspects of ecofeminism that a frequently over looked within this story. Ecofeminism has been defined as a movement that sees a connection between the exploitation and degradation of the natural world and the subordination and oppression of women.

In 1941 a series of comic books, entitled Wonder Woman were released. The main protagonist, was the first superhero to be female. Little did the author know, that his children’s comic would inspire little girls that they could be brave, and powerful, and that they didn’t need a man to tell them what to do. “Wonder Woman is the most popular female superhero of all time.” (Lepore 2014) William Moulton Marston, the author of the book and a pioneer feminist had hoped for those exact results. He wrote, “Wonder Woman is a psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who, I believe, should rule the world.” (Lepore 2014) And many people believed that

First of all, to say simply that women have the power to change the way they inculturate children, and thus the culture at large, is to deny the reality that women are not one group thinking with one mind about changes that should be made. And, of course, it is very difficult to change your own inculturation and recreate yourself, much more difficult to change the way in which you relate to the larger society. My own beliefs of the "power" of women had much more to do with some sort of potential that seems to lie untapped, that might be used to change the culture if only women could be unified in their views and efforts in regards to our violent patriarchal culture. The problem I now see in this sort of viewpoint is that it tends to lay the blame for the culture at the feet of women. It provides another source of guilt for the mother, for either not trying to raise her children in a different way, or, as Rich explores, for raising her children to be potential outcasts.

I wrote this for you when I was two months away from seventeen years old, and I hope this letter reaches you when you’re about the same.

Eco-Feminism is a conceptual idea in a direct response due to Androcentrism a concept that places man as the centric structure and leaves women and the environment under forms of oppression. Androcentrism originated in the 16th century when mass colonization and European exploration occurred in which not only exploited Atlantic cultures, but also environments spanning across the Atlantic. Furthermore, women and environment were placed below man and therefore were placed out of the centric structure and into the peripheral.

“‘Night Mother”, by Marsha Norman, is a play that dives into the struggles of a mother and daughter. First performed in 1983, the play became a major success both in Broadway, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, and was first performed as a play. (Spencer, pg. 1) Jessie is a middle aged woman, who is divorced, moved back in with her mother, and struggles with, what she believes, is a failed life. Thelma, Jessie’s mother, realizes that Jessie wants to commit suicide due to comments that Jessie makes. Thelma tries desperately to convince her daughter out of committing suicide; however, she is unable to convince Jessie. Jessie believes that has not reached the potential that her family wanted her to be; therefore, making her a failure in

In a realistic society today, women are seen as different things. People, specifically women, can be determined who they are based on their careers, hobbies, relationships, and characteristics. In the book Brave New World, roles of both men and women are not the same as they are in society today because there is no concept of family. However, men are looked at as more important because they are leaders in almost everything that happens in Brave New World. Women in Brave New World are not seen as how people realistically see women in society today. Instead, they are see as sex objects that the men can have fun with. Realistically, women can be mothers who are looked at as very important to a child and a family. However, with babies be made in

Gloria Steinem, an American journalist once said, “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” This quote explains that any person who believes in feminism, believes in the idea that men and women should be treated equally. Feminism is the emphasis that women and men should not have divided opportunities. Feminism in literature is when authors use feminist beliefs in their characters. They use characters in their literature to show how the men and women are being treated equally, or how they are being treated unequally. Although it is difficult to see that feminism is showed in The Good Earth, Pearl Buck finds ways to show feminism differently throughout the female characters.