There Is No Unmarked Woman Summary

The thesis statement above attempts to examine the role that Elizabeth Bennet plays in the novel as she goes against the women’s idealistic views. This article will help justify my thesis statement in how Greenfield expresses the oppression that women go through and how they lack to see the discrimination they are faced with daily.

In Tannen’s essay, the problem seen in society is that of marking, more importantly the marking of women. When referring to the

Tannen further explains, “There is no women’s hairstyle that can be called standard… if a women’s clothing is tight or revealing, it sends a message… women can’t even fill out a form without telling stories about themselves,” which further stresses her adamancy that women are inevitably susceptible to judgment without an opportunity to justify their intelligence, morality, or character. She even goes to the extent of explaining that judgment of a woman can be passed even before a physical impression is made! The seemingly unimportant yet evidently not so characteristic of the titles “Mrs.” “Ms.” “Miss” can hold their own inclinations of what the female that carries it is like. In “Just Walk” by Staples, his statements, “I grew accustomed, to but never comfortable with people who crossed to the other side of the street rather than pass me… If I happened to be entering a building behind some people who appear

Friedan paints the feminine woman of this time as having feelings of emptiness, non-existence and nothingness. She illustrates these problems that women face by telling the reader that the experts blame their feelings on the higher education they have received before becoming a housewife. All women are searching for is a human identity, a place where they belong without feeling empty. But the women before this generation fought for all the rights they have in the present, but they are not using them. But how can one change this dehumanizing aspect of the culture?

In this piece, Tannen is “sad” and disappointed that women are still treated differently than men are. According to Tannen, there is nothing a woman can resort to if she does not want to be judged. That is, no woman is “unmarked”. For example, she states that “There is no woman's hair style that can be called standard, that says nothing about her. The range of women's hair styles is staggering, but a woman whose hair has no particular style is perceived as not caring about how she looks…” (390). If a woman were to opt for a plain hairstyle, it would still give a message. In writing about this, Tannen comes to a startling conclusion. She finds that, even today, women have less

“Mixed cultural signals have perpetuated certain stereotypes…”(Page 372, paragraph 2, line 1). The Myth of the Latian Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria, by Judith Ortiz Cofer is about how Judith Ortiz Cofer was discriminated because she is a Latina Woman. She describes about several people treating her differently than others, through song, through looks, and through sexual thoughts and actions towards her. Even after all the discriminating actions persisted upon her, she still pursues on to help others learn that Latinas are not always like the movies say they are or should be like. Judith Ortiz Cofer does this by writing poetry and novels. “My personal goal in my public life is try to replace the old pervasive stereotypes and myths about

To begin, Tannen’s article shows a primarily positive tone. She maintains a casual tone as she compares the dissimilarities between men and women’s communicative interactions. To further exemplify, Tannen first gives an example of either a male or a female encounter and then contrasts it with comparative words such as “but” or “while.” She uses language to divide but not exalt one language preference in greater esteem than the other. In her passage regarding apologizing,

Empty Hands is the memoir of Sister Abegail Ntleko, and it is a great story of how hard work and determination can help anyone make their dreams come true no matter the difficulty.

The primary document, “The Feminine Mystique” by Betty Friedan is a literary text, an excerpt from a novel. Friedan criticizes “health professionals, scholars, advertisers, and public officials for assuming that biological differences dictated different roles for men and women.” (Roark 730) It was published in New York: Norton in 1963, during the postwar anxieties. “The Problem That Has No Name” is one of her chapters in the novel and the apparent intended audience would be to all women, old women, young girls and more specific middle class women. This chapter in particular had a significant impact on the population of women.

She also gives a synopsis of the gendered double standard between men and women. “I presume that rational men will excuse me for endeavouring to persuade them to become more masculine and respectable” (par 6). She makes her opinion known by using sarcasm, and it is an effective way to get her message to her

She suggests that gender is disregarded when it comes to crime analyses. People automatically assume that males are commenting crimes and that females are not because to are too fragile to engage in such behavior. As I mentioned previously, men are expected to commit crimes simply because they are men. Not because they have proven that they are more likely to commit crimes or not because statistics show that men are more likely to commit crimes, but because as a man its expected and accepted. This results in Criminologist spending majority of their time studying men because for some reason they believe it makes their argument strong.

Bell Hooks the author of Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism, is an African American activist, educator and a empowering writer. Bell Hooks was born Gloria Jean Watkins on September 25th, 1952 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, a small segregated town. Hooks explained how her community turned all their brutal hardships that were created due to racism into strength. The strength to overcome all the negativity, the strength to build a backbone to withstand all the negative words that were constantly thrown at them. Bell Hooks also explained how the situation she was in provided her with the resistance to racism and all the positive and negative criticism shaped her voice into a strong independent woman, all of this which shaped her feminism. On

Betty Friedan singles out women to be the invisible minority in America. The invisible women in the American society

Claire Messud’s “The Woman Upstairs” reflects on the life of Nora Eldrige, a 42 year old elementary school teacher from Cambridge, Massachusetts who holds a deep and profound rage and everything she talks about turns into a rant. She meets the Shahid family with whom she shared a relationship with every member and knowing that Sirena, the mother of the family was also an artist just like Nora she had a more meaningful and complex relation to her. Soon enough, after a betrayal she decided to take all her rage and turn it into energy which would make her live the rest of her life. Anger is not necessarily a bad thing and with time and effort it could be turned into success and achievement by Nora and make better decisions in life. First off, Nora has been through a lot in her life and has had bad choices that affected her way of living in general but its theses choices that made her who she is.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "We Should All Be Feminists" portrays how society views the difference between men and women. She speaks about why she is a feminist and why it is important to treat women with the same rights as men. Through history, women were always seen as inferior to men. Unfortunately, some aspects of this are still being see today. Adichie gives us an example in her speech saying how she experienced sexism when tipping her door man for helping her and her husband carry out their supplies. She tipped the man but instead of being grateful and thanking her, he thanks her husband instead. In the novel, Mr. Tansley had said “women can’t paint, women can’t write...” (Woolf 48). Comparing to Adichie’s speech, the setting in the story shows the man’s view towards women as lesser than them.