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Thesis: In the short story “Woman Hollering Creek,” Sandra Cisneros emphasizes the importance of having a female figure to look up to in order to overcome the oppression women are subjected to in a patriarchal society.

hese women from the book “ Women Hollering Creek”, were abused and taken advantage of their own men. Sandra Cisneros explores the stories “Never marry a mexican”, Woman Hollering Creek”, and “One holy night”. The women in this stories made a mistake by being with the wrong men in their life. They became careless when they met their own men. These girls have lost their respect for themselves. They have destroyed their own self, for the guy who never really loves them. No one stood up for their rights as a woman. Love and hate made these women vulnerable.

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Tabitha Gilman Tenney’s Female Quixotism is set in an unnamed town in Pennsylvania, United States during the nineteenth century. The plot focuses on a woman named Dorcas Sheldon, who renames herself as Dorcasina, and her quest for love. As the title suggests, Dorcasina’s character is much like Miguel de Cervantes’ character, Don Quixote. She has convinced herself that the dramatic stories that she reads in romance novels reflect how courtship and love should be in real life, and refuses to accept anything less than the floral language and obsession that the characters have for their lovers in her novels. Because of this, Dorcasina becomes the target of untrustworthy men who exploit her delusion in an attempt to marry her and thusly gain control of her fortune. Female Quioxtism is a satirical commentary on the social norms of nineteenth century North America, and emphasizes many views that people of that time held. An example of this is the character of O’Connor, the first man who embodies Dorcasina’s romantic ideal. Tenney uses derogatory stereotypes about Irish people to portray O’Connor as a manipulative and deceitful lover, preying on Dorcasina’s delusions for his personal gain.

Jennifer Government – Jennifer is thought to have a fit, attractive body with short hair. It is clear that she has green eyes and a barcode tattoo under her left eye. Jennifer Government is portrayed as a confident, determined, focused and powerful woman, who knows exactly what she wants. Through out the novel Jennifer goes through remarkable lengths in attempt to catch John Nike.

Chapter 55 is named "Women behind the Labels: Worker Testimonies from Central America" and includes an interview conducted by Marion Traub-Werner with a former maquile worker, Marie Meja (Hobbs and Rice 552). A maquile is a person who works in a maquila which is a factory that "assembles goods for export" (551). This chapter retells Marie's experiences working as a child labourer, teenage domestic worker, and a maquile worker (553). Marie discusses her experiences being a domestic servant in four houses where she received a range of treatment, pay, and both verbal and physical assault. Following her fourth house, after being sent to jail out of the spite of her señora Marie chose to transition into working as a food vendor and eventually as a maquile where she was exposed to further verbal abuse, unjust pay and work hours, and eventually parasites

In addition to the border patrol increasing in fear of invasion of illegal immigrants, invasion also came with reproduction as discussed briefly earlier. As discussed in Governing Immigration Through Crime (2004), “women were featured on the covers of magazines which suggested invasion as well but not invasion as described with male migrant worker but invasion that is more insidious, the one that includes the capacity of the invaders to reproduce themselves. These women are carrying futures of “illegal immigrants” into U.S. territory” (Dowling & Inda, 2013). However, the men and women in The Devil’s Highway were asked to stop reproducing because the food was harder to come by and certain necessities in order to survive were becoming expensive.

In this generation, some people do not take relationships seriously. Sandra Cisneros explores the message of women falling in love easily with the wrong men in the stories “One Holy Night,” “Woman hollering Creek” and “Bien Pretty.” These stories show us how women loved men who did not love them back, left and hurt them. The women from these three stories shared what love did to them and what love can do to them anyone. When women actually committed on something or someone, they will love them endlessly. Although these women did not get the love that they deserve, at least they experienced something that will teach them lessons. Perhaps the next time they will love someone, they will make sure that they will be love back.

Márquez created the character of Victoria Guzmán to display the power of women, even when they appear to be at the hands of rich and wealthy men. Victoria Guzmán works for the Nasar family as their cook. After Santiago treated Victoria’s daughter, Divina Flor, poorly, Victoria “showed him the bloody knife. “Let go of her, white man,” she ordered” (Márquez 9). Despite the fact that Victoria works for Santiago, she still has the power to order him around, and does not get in trouble for doing so. While Santiago is displayed as a rich, white man who has others cook and clean for him, it is Victoria Guzmán who has the upper hand in their relationship. She even goes as far as to speak to Santiago in a derogatory way, and sees no repercussions for

I really enjoyed reading Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason, which was a great short story that signified feminist criticism. Feminist criticism is known to be portrayed as criticism formed and based of a feminist theory, in other words it's the way society sees gender roles. In this case, in the short story Shiloh, they mention many points and examples throughout the story on how one of the main characters Norma Jean, has to face many issues and overcome obstacles based on her gender, being a woman. They basically imply the way society sees woman playing only certain roles but at the same time challenging the idea of it.

In Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam and Laila were brought together due to circumstances they could not control. Although they were both oppressed wives of a cruel and violent husband, Rasheed, they were eventually able to regain power over their own lives. The two women supported and learned from each other, finding strength in their relationship. Their relationship was an alliance of sorts and was essential to their ability to regain power over their lives. Once Mariam and Laila befriended each other, they each started to gain courage and hope and began to take more control over their lives in separate, small acts of courage and rebellion that eventually led to significant events which cemented their newly regained power. The developing of power did not come without obstacles, but Mariam and Laila were able to persevere and continue to stand up for themselves against both Rasheed and their societal constraints. Finding strength and motivation from each other and from other loved ones essential to their efforts, Mariam and Laila were able to take power over their own lives by standing up to and retaliating against oppressors in a series of events which led to the pivotal moment when Mariam kills Rasheed, finally setting both women free and giving them both complete power over

Feminist theory began in the late 18th century, the main goal was to diminish sexism in society and create equality for men and women. Throughout the years, women have succeeded in gaining equal rights. Unfortunately, there are still issues today. For instance, women are paid 78% of what men are paid. One novel that portrays the argument of Feminism is House of Spirits by Isabel Allende. To begin with, Men are characterized as violent and destructive beings while women are forgiving and possess magic. All the women in the book have names that mean light. Finally, the men in the book have all the power while women remain submissive.

In today’s vast, democracy-fueled world, the concept of feminism has gradually taken on a significant role when it comes to modernity. The advocacy for equality of all women proves effective and boasts an undying faithfulness from women everywhere. Within the boundaries of the United States of America, feminism has grown since the establishment of the nation and continues to grow today, an issue that has especially risen in light of the recent election. However, beyond this great nation’s borders, feminism does not die in even the slightest way. Women all over the world are fighting for their equality and right to complete and total fairness. Despite the worldwide movement, it’s often overshadowed by other issues going on. Iran, the focus of Jasmin Darznik’s The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life, played (and continues to play) host to perhaps one of the greatest flawed societies when it comes to feminism. Through her powerful, poignant memoir, Darznik brings us into the midst of a particular lifestyle and the reality behind treatment of women in Iranian society.

For the poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich, I choose the feminist approach for several reasons. The first reason is that the poem shows how many women were prevented of achieving more than just a “good wife” (which is not bad if the woman wants so). For example, the speaker says, “The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band/ Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand” (7-8). This show how she is restrained in this marriage which is a load in her life. The next reason is the marriage is not how it appears to be on many circumstance. For instance, the speaker notes, “When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie” (9). The idea of beautiful hands is a sign that a man or woman does need to work under extreme conditions, and thus, that person has a good life; however, the lie is that that person does not have that good life that others might perceive. The last reason is that the tigers in the poem play an important role because they are a symbolism of how women should be. In the line 3 and 12, the raconteur states “They do not fear the men beneath the tree” and “Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid”. It shows the idea that women should not be fear of men and they are also as capable as men to do whatever they propose to do. The question I hope to answer is why the author wrote the poem, and what was her purpose in doing so (what she wanted to change).