The Role of Woman

1. Why did Cato object to repealing the Oppian law? What was the basis of his objections?

Women’s roles have changed greatly throughout history. As the advancement of culture, laws, and ideas altered ways of life, women’s lives also evolved in numerous aspects of society. Women’s roles changed greatly between 1815 and 1860. During this time, family dynamics changed as the mothers that were placed at the center of the household were given greater freedoms. In addition, women had more opportunity to take on jobs in the workplace. Women also fought for reform movements that altered their ways of life in the community. During the reform era of the United States, factors such as religion, education, and reforms greatly changed women’s roles in the family, workplace, and society.

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Women's role in society changed as the circumstances changed.  I believe their role in society was to help provide structure.  They had to figure out ways to get involved in social interactions to help their communities thrive. They had to find ways to adapt and make their society in the new America like the level of comfort they had in Britain.  Women had to do their part to make it a society by finding similar interests and cultural experiences and managing them as the circumstances changed.  By choosing to leave a certain level of comfort in Britain to come to an unfamiliar place, women's role was to help make a cohesive society.

The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros tells the story of Esperanza Cordero growing up in the Puerto Rican community of Chicago in the form of short stories and poetry. Esperanza longs to own a house that she idealizes as happiness. She strives for a better life outside of the stereotypical gender roles that have suppressed the woman she grew up around. Female genders roles is a strong theme in the novel.

During the Victorian era, women were expected to play a specific role in society, which was the perfect mother and wife. They had to take care of their family and house, and in addition, they had to support their husbands no matter what, while no one thought about them and their needs. In this paper, I am going to analyze the role women were expected to play in order not to be criticized or be left out by society through the novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, using Helen as the perfect example of how women were expected to act and what they really wanted to do. Also, by doing so I am going to demonstrate that Helen could perfectly fit in nowadays’ society.

The theme for this week is gender roles in Victorian Britain before and after 1860. The roles of a male and female starting from a child to an adult varied between the two. Men were generally independent while women were dependent, which affected their progression in society. It wasn’t until the end of the nineteenth century were women able to have more of an education and the right to divorce However, during the Victorian period men dominated the workforce and politics. Though the working class, middle class, and upper class experience different levels of accepting norms.

By exploiting strong symbolism to the consciences of her audience, Woolf informs her audience about The Angel in the House. This is a poem written in the 19th century about how women were oppressed and how they sacrifice themselves to impress; this in which is still going on today. The Angel in the House helps symbolizes the oppression and the low standards set for women. For example, in paragraph 3 the ‘Angel’ talks about how women should only show certain traits, such as sympathy and

The poem Coventry Patmore is written from the husband’s point of view; Patmore even praises women throughout the poem. His praise for women only relates to his ability to benefit men. Women are part of the poem but she is not there to be heard. The reader is meant to see her through her husband’s eyes. Patmore considers women inferior to men and stated that their only purpose is to aid their husbands. Yet, Patmore holds his angel-wife up as a model for all women. Their objectification of women was customary for extraordinarily complex age and is a consistent theme in Victorian poetry.

In an act of nonconformism, Victorian era authors have shown their the dis complacency with defined roles of women through their work in an attempt to show society how the roles placed upon women have limited what they can accomplish.

A women's role has changed tremendously and is making its greatest impact in our society today. Many years ago, women's contribution to society was limited and controlled by men. Women are standing tall and are playing a major role in many important areas. Women's role has changed at an accelerating rate and have part in areas such as Politics, Professional Training Jobs, Medicine,Business and Law. Formerly they were not part of any political matter, but they have advanced in many aspects. For example, women have attained power and have been growing in political office.

In nineteenth century England, the lives of men and women were completely different. The women had very few - or no - rights and the man had absolute power over his wife and children. He even had the rights to his wife's income or heritage! The only acceptable way for a woman to lead her life was to be a social character, a supporting wife and loving mother, so to speak an "angel in the house". The term "the angel in the house" refers to Coventry Patmore's poem with the same name. The poem depicts the ideal of a loving, unselfish, (sexually) passive and sensitive woman, who was religious and devoted to please her husband: "Man must be please; but him to please, is woman's

Jane Eyre is a novel written by Charlotte Brontë. It is distinctly a female Bildungsroman, as it follows the progress and growth of Jane’s character on her quest for selfhood and independence in a society that tries its best to impress upon her the roles and expectations of women in the Victorian era (which is neatly packaged in the figure of the ‘Angel-in-the-house’.) This is something with which this essay seeks to engage by looking at female figures which feature prominently in Jane’s life, how those who embrace the figure of ‘Angel-in-the-house’ are treated and viewed, versus those who do not. Furthermore, important male figures will also be looked at in order to understand Jane’s own feelings to the ‘Angel-in-the-house’ figure and how she approaches it, as well as how the Byronic hero might relate – if it even does.

In the words of pop singer and ardent feminist P!nk, “Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.” P!nk’s hit song “Stupid Girls”, released with her 2006 album I’m Not Dead, provides a commentary on society’s perception of a woman’s role and how women respond to that perception. She rejects the foundations of the stereotype that women exist as subordinate to men, while challenging the behavior of women who conform to these societal expectations in order to please men. Although she composed the piece to encourage women to take pride in intelligence, the song has come under critique for “slut-shaming” by stereotyping women who focus on external appearance, labeling them as “stupid”. The piece simultaneously demeans and empowers women, demonstrating just one of the many flaws in the feminist movement that exist today.

The social role which I feel that I occupy and that I am going to focus on in this essay is the one of a women in this society. I believe I have been socialized into this role for numerous reasons. Throughout this paper I will explain how I think I have been socialized into this role.