Ana is a young woman who is at the beginning of experiencing life. She has strong family values, wants a good future… and is a little overweight. Her mom Carmen, throughout the movie, tells her to lose weight because if she did, she would look good. Ana does not listen to her mom, she loves the way she is, and this is a myth she proved wrong. Her mom continues to remind her how overweight she is and says things like “Look at you!
Beneatha has tried to make her mom and brother proud for the things she is going to do with her life. She strives for perfection when all she needs to do is be herself and that is what Asagai is trying to throughout the whole play. Calpurnia longs for perfection from her husband. She knows that something is up and when she tries to warn Caesar he just ignores her. While she strives for perfection many other people try to warn Caesar but he is just too strong-minded to believe anyone including Calpurnia.
We also find out in chapter one that she wants her daughter to be a “beautiful little fool” cause according to her that’s the only thing a female can actually be, just look beautiful and be a ‘little fool’ not be smart on an intellectual level. Her face was described as sad yet “full of bright little things” which leads me to my next point which is her relationship with her husband, the only reason why she married Tom was because he’s a bourgeoisie and he is well known and as she said “rich girls can’t marry poor boys” this quote emphasises her materialistic
Rubin maintains that in order to change the mentality of such a society, its character must be modified. Thus, the sex of women is not the issue; it is the social construction of gender that is responsible for a woman becoming "a domestic, a wife, a chattel, a Playboy bunny, a prostitute, or human dictaphone in certain relations” (533). The traffic of Janie begins when Nanny hurries to marry her off to an acceptable suitor when it becomes apparent that Janie is feeling the urges of womanhood. Nanny fears that Janie will be taken advantage of by an undesirable man, so she marries her off to Logan Brooks. By doing this, Nanny hopes to prevent men from exercising their advantage that she thinks they possess in society.
It is going to depend on the viewer’s thought and individual values on the subject at hand. This can cause conflict with cultural values. In the television series of Sister Wives, Kody is seen as the leader and is the one who needs to balance his time out with each wife and family. They also have an episode where they interview each of the kids to see if they would want to be polygamy. Some of the kids said they won’t mind continuing to do polygamy if they found the right people and were in love.
It dealt with the struggles women faced with their strict role in society. The book is credited for starting the second wave of feminism. The second wave of feminism was responsible for many of the events mentioned above. In addition to kick starting this second wave, Betty Friedan helped found the previously mentioned National Organization for Women (NOW). Along with other feminists, Betty Friedan sought to end sexual discrimination.
Let Women Vote by Marlene Targ Brill This book is young adult literature is written down to the readers so the understanding of civil right can be more clearly, the book tell some stories of how the women right had been an impact in America society better said the fight for the nineteen amendment. The main focus of this book is to understand the story in how society discriminate women during several eras. The narrator explain the time frame in a different matter, he begin with the story of Carrie Chapman in what she did to fight for the women rights and what she saw, followed the chapters with more important personalities involved in this suffrage. Each chapter covers a different period, but they all share the same organization of describing the social, cultural, political, philosophical and scholarly aspects of the period in respective subsections. This made it easier to later refer to previous chapters and compare different periods in order to learn the comprehensive history of Woman suffrage Amendment into the United States Constitution.
Petry glorifies the tendency for human independence by developing a plot in which she has to provide for her and her son all by her self, she is put threw racism, sexism, and hardship. Sexism is a big problem for Lutie as you can see in this quote “They didn’t know she had a big handsome husband of her own; that she didn’t want any of their thin, unhappy husbands.” (Petry 41). This quote is showing how all the men and woman looked at her because she was a colored woman. She stands up for herself and shows more self worth This theme if further expressed threw characteristics in the story. One characteristic in this story is responsibility.
Jules’s parents want their daughter to be pretty, feminine, and to eventually marry, whilst, Jess’s parents want their daughter to have fashy jobs, stick to tradition and marry too. Jess’s mother’s first appearance clearly shows how disapproving and negative she is towards soccer during an interview. Here, a close-up view of her face is taken where she furiously says, “Not at all!” This clearly shows that ‘Bend it Like Beckham’ is not just an entertaining film but also a film about cultural expectations. Another point in favor is this movie not being just an entertaining movie is that one of its morals is to follow your dreams. This suggests that no matter how much the odds are against you, if you keep on trying eventually you will own it.
17 May 2014 Sexist America The pressure to be perfect lives upon every girl as she grows old and develops into a woman. The shape of her body, the pressure to marry, the beauty that is expected from her by men has lived long enough. Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the book that became the bible of First Wavefeminism, Women and Economics (1898), described girls’ fate when she said: “Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain. . .