While he suggests how to kindly treat one race of women, he emphasizes on how to womanize another. The culture associated with “How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie”, believes that women will act accordingly, and should be treated based on their own culture and race. In “Girl” by J.Kincaid and “How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl or halfie” by J.Diaz both authors describe how culture influences the outlooks, and stereotypes on women. The expectations of females seen in “Girl” revolves around a strict set of cultural rules for women. Through oral transitions the girl’s mother spreads the beliefs of their culture.
In Nina Power’s text, ‘One- Dimensional Woman’ the author also argues that you don’t need superficial things to feel good about yourself, or to even look like perfectly thin stick figure to be a feminist. Women these days like to have the idea of living the ‘rich and famous’, if not they try to invest in material things. They want the ideal lifestyle or better yet, being more successful than someone else. Today’s society is filled with
She tries to get this point across by stating that "Aging beautifully used to mean wearing one's years with style, confidence, and vitality. Today, it means not appearing to age at all.” In addition to being accepted by the media, feminists perceive cosmetic surgery in a constructive manner as well. Bordo reluctantly admits that the feministic approach to cosmetic procedures is that it allows women to changes themselves for the better, in a way to make them feel more secure and
In Katherine Wilson’s “Dude Looks Like a Lady,” she begins with a powerful introduction saying “this is about hair, breasts, and identity” (Wilson 21), insinuating it is going to be a gender identity piece. Reading more of the first page, you assume the thesis is about the common misconceptions of how a woman is supposed to look and how not looking that way could take away from a woman being a woman. Wilson gives the example of her hair being buzzed and people looking at her differently. Although she tries to argue the hardships of not looking like the normal female, Wilson’s argument fails to meet the rest of her story. She claims her argument is about “hair, breasts, and identity,” she is really just ranting and raving her being disrespected and her own issues of being black.
How do the connections between the two texts enrich the meaning of each text? When considered on their own, texts are constructed to create meaning and impart that meaning on a responder. However when two linked texts a considered together, their meanings are enriched as the responder can compare both texts, and take extra meaning from how the two texts differ and agree with each other, by evaluating which is more effective. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice when read in isolation can be a simple bildungsroman narrative about the maturation of a young woman. However if the responder were to read Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen, the connections between the two would shape and then reshape the responder’s understanding of both texts.
As an example two influential short stories will be discussed in depth in order to shed light into the lives of the two authors and their stories. The short stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) and Angela Carter (1940–1992) both sideway the same idea; the confinement of women in particular roles and positions in both personal and professional lives, posed on them by patriarchal figures. Toril Moi quotes in her examination of feministic criticism, Sexual/Textual Politics (2002), Elaine Showalter’s idea that “women writers should not be studied as a distinct group on the assumption that they write alike, or even display stylistic resemblances distinctively feminine” (Moi, 2002: 49), which comes across when reading the two stories which are stylistically already very different. It might be so that a feminist reader of both times (there’s some 80 years difference between the two stories) did not only want to see her own experiences mirrored in fiction, but strived to identify with strong, impressive female characters (Moi, 2002: 46), and looked for role-models that would instil positive sense of feminine identity by portraying women as self-actualising strong identities who were not dependent on men (Moi, 2002, 46). The two stories bring out two female characters, very different by position and character; the other a new mother, scared and confused of her own role, and the other a young newly-wed girl, still a child, being fouled by a much older man, mainly as a mark of his authority over women in general.
When women see a celebrity on the cover of a magazine they want to look just like the celebrity. Men also, think if they can get girl that looks like a celebrity off a magazine they will be happy. In reality the celebrity does not look like that in real life. There is no reason to be something you are not if the celebrity does not even look like that. Kilbourne shows a good point about this article and that is no women should ever be used to please people for their needs.
Newland Archer, the protagonist in the novel, is describing his fiancé, May Welland, and how innocent and elegant she looks. Archer then goes on to explain how he will change the way May looks at things, and how she will not be one of those ‘simple’ wives. He dreams of being the one to show her the things that she has not seen before. One of the greater purposes of this passage in the novel is that it describes the image of this woman, May, and how she presents and image that is full of purity and innocence. It describes how May has not seen many of the things there are to see, and how Newland, who has seen these things, will show them to her.
From the beginning, wifehood and motherhood have been regarded as a women’s profession. They were not seen as breadwinners or professionals. As history has told us, women were considered the weaker sex, doing jobs such as laundry, milking cows, and taking care of children, leaving the “heavier” labor to the big strong men (wic.org). With technological advancement today, physiological test suggest women have a greater pain tolerance and statistics show that women live longer and are more resistant to many diseases. In the 20th century, women in most nations won the right to vote, this in return increased their educational and job opportunities.
A narrative essays lets you write from your heart and gives you more freedom. Narrative and descriptive essays both contain key elements that makes an appealing essay. The elements are the authors purpose, the intended audience, and the impact the essay had on the audience. In the essay I want a wife by Judy Brady an narrative and Homeless by Anne Quindlen a descriptive. The authors purpose for the essay I want a wife was to point out societies traditional expectations of a wife and how women are still looked at as tools.