Assignment 1 Legal rights and privileges of women in Blackstone’s day with those of American women in the mid-twentieth century bear no resemblance. Over the years women have fought long and hard to be able to obtain and maintain legal rights and privileges that the male gender is born into. Females were molded and primed to play the part as an obedient wife and mother with instruction that your thoughts and opinions are kept to yourself. The perseverance of brave women helped today’s generation of women such as myself have the same equal rights as that of men. During the Blackstone era women lost the limited amount of rights they did possess when they got married for example; “that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended
Radical feminists such as Dobash and Dobash also disagree with Willmott and Young’s theory that the family is symmetrical. They believe there are inequalities in the power relations between men and women so they see family
Darius was the only Persian king marrying the women of the previous king to establish legitimacy and authority over Persia. Herodotus gives us a great deal of information about Atossa , the daughter of Cyrus and wife of Cambyses and Gaumata before marrying Darius, she was also the mother of Xerxes. Supported by other source Darius gained power through his marriages to all the female descendants of Cyrus, probably so that they could not marry anyone else who might challenge his leadership. This portrays the role of royal women, although women did not have political influence they instead helped to protect their family. Unlike royal women non-royal women were mentioned in the treasury tablets from Persepolis as weavers or stone workers.
Curly's wife is powerless in a masculine world, Steinbeck doesn't even give her a name; she is simply Curley's property. Check out this quote where she uses her femininity for attention "Oh!" She put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward. "You’re the new fellas that just come, ain’t ya?" (chapter 2, pg 145) Note: my page numbers probably don't match your but the chapter will Point: Steinbeck’s use of the character of Curley’s Wife is the only female character in the novella.
He points out that early on social ideology made the husband supreme over the woman in the household, his only obligation was to respect her, hers, to serve and obey him1. According to Shorter, the independence of woman led to her disregarding control on her personal freedom. He states that evidence can be found in existing literature hinting that crucial changes in the status of women were under way after 1750, linking the shifts in some way to economic modernization . Shorter suggest that
Martha Ballard is able to go beyond what I would have expected a woman from the late 18th century, could do. She is as a free spirit yet still completes her obligations as a wife. She is not made to stay at home and care for her children and husband, and although she does that job with great pride, Martha can be described as a woman with many professions, “…a midwife, nurse, physician, mortician, pharmacist and attentive wife [and mother]…” (Pg. 40). But how typical was this in her era?
This is also a great example because women were supposed to manage the household and have children. She did not do either of the two so that is an example of her rebelling. Another great example of Antigone rebelling and standing up for what she believes in is when she says, “I dared. / It was not God’s proclamation. That final Justice/ That rules the world below makes no such laws” (2.65-67).
She is uninterested in learning English and feels she is not obligated to, she instead expects her grandchildren to learn Anishinabe. This demonstrates stubbornness within people when they do not invite change into their lives. Stubbornness can hurt
Regina’s message was not ethical when she told Karen not to invite Gretchen. Karen felt she had no choice but to be annoyed with Gretchen to receive approval from Regina. 2. What model of communication are the two people exemplifying? Gretchen is exemplifying communication as action.
Her personalitly is not one that is liked by many. She does not want anything to do with the familt that oppressed her. Eventually, at the end of the story Dee learns that she will not always get her