By changing the main focus of her paper and making over-generalizations about the way that all women feel, Bennetts takes away from the effectiveness of her argument and weakens her overall credibility. Bennetts starts her article by sympathizing with the struggle women go through while transitioning from working-woman to housewife. She blames the “corporate culture” for not being flexible enough to allow mothers to balance their responsibilities at work with their responsibilities at home (Bennetts 419). Bennetts then goes on to explain the resentment women begin to feel for having to give up their careers to be a homemaker. They begin to harbor anger towards their husbands who “still view child care and household chores as women’s work” (Bennetts 419).
i want a wife ? In her essay, “I Want a Wife,” Judy Brady lists the responsibilities of the typical wife in the 1970′s. Brady informs the readers about the treatment of wives and shares her frustrations. She writes in a sarcastic tone, when it comes to discussing a man’s point of view, how easy it would be if she had a wife and how nice it would be. The point she was getting across to the reader was that wives are undervalued.
Steinbeck is addressing the struggle for female existence during this period by leaving Curly's wife as the solitary female of the book, unneeded, and unwanted by the other characters. During this essay I will explore the significance of how Steinbeck presents Curly's wife through the connotations of her name, how she is first shown, her parallels with other characters and finally how she is presented when she has died . 'Curly's wife', just a name yet a symbol of how women were then regarded by their husbands, as a possession, a belonging owned only by men. When Curley's wife married him she became 'his', everything she owned became his, Steinbeck could be emphasising this authority and power by having Curly even take her name, so she no longer has her own name but now everyone associates Curley with her, she is no longer her own person. The use of a possessive apostrophe emphasises the point even further that she belongs to him and he controls her, although she can try to push the boundaries of society's rules and expectations, he will always be there to stop her as she is dominated by him.
Steinbeck represent Curley’s wife as a pessimist, she is a women in the 1930’s and so she would never be treated like an equal. Curley’s wife struggles to come to terms with this, “Think I don’t like to talk to someone ever’” this shows that Steinbeck is using her denial of the facts and the way that society is, to create a character that feels that she is equal to men. This makes the reader feel sympathy for Curley’s wife and creates an effect of understanding towards her situation. Steinbeck uses Curley’s wife as a tool to show the role of women in the great depression because everyone has a dream but women are forced to leave there dreams behind and forget about them. To survive in the 1930’s Curley’s wife would have had to accept this and evolve her life around it.
Gilman shows this when the woman of the story says “I meant to be such a help to John, such a real rest and comfort, and here I am a comparative burden already”. She also shows that woman at this time didn’t really do anything for themselves, “Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able - to dress and entertain, and order things”. The woman in the story is believing in the social norm and what her husband belittles her to be. She feels that she is a burden to her husband because she dislikes the wallpaper and continues to complain about how much it bothers her. He refuses to change it making her blame herself for not being able to cope with the “dull” and “flamboyant” yellow wallpaper.
“I want a wife who will keep my clothes clean, ironed, mended, replaced when need be, and who will see to it that my personal things are kept in their proper place so that I can find what I need the minute I need it.” (para. 4). Most of the essay shows how husbands are demanding when it comes to taking care of the family. The writer is trying to get a point across that wives are expected to a whole lot of things perfectly but are not giving the due appreciation. The writer makes her readers aware that she knows what she is talking about in the early parts of the essay because she has experienced it herself.
Like many feminist writer, Cockerline focuses her emphasis on how social norm discriminate women by inhibit their job opportunities. Throughout the history, social norm restricts women’s power by only allow them to contribute to certain job tasks such as maid, cook, and house keeper. In the beginning of the story, Elizabeth’s father “refuses[s] to pay her school fees” since “his wife had finally birthed a son” directly supports the idea that men are more superior to women. Since education is one of the key elements that lead to better chances of having a job, the narrator eliminates this opportunity to contribute to Elizabeth’s misfortune. Furthermore, the narrator indicates “[i]t can be a hard place for a
The negative impact of not having women educated with men is illuminated when she describes women from a man’s viewpoint. She manipulates the powerful part of society by speaking in a language that they would understand. She shows women as objects and talks about how the problems that men are facing all trace back to women. Wollstonecraft says, “…I have been as much disgusted by the fine lady who took her lap-dog to her bosom instead of her child…for had they sense, they might acquire that domestic
The tone of Brady’s essay reveals that she is fed up with the dominant attitude of men. She describes all the things that she must do as a wife and how pleasurable it would be if she could have a wife to return all of the same quality deeds that she possesses. Brady shows how selfish and ridiculously self-centered a man can be. She must worry about his physical needs, social life, sexual needs, child care and cleanliness of their home establishment. I believe Brady’s tone and writing style seems perfect for this topic.
On average, American women make seventy seven cents to a man's dollar. Since they bother to get an education and work hard at a job, they feel that they should be able to earn just as much as men do. A second thing is that some women want birth control to be more easily accessible. And they also want the right to decide if they want to have an abortion or not. Many states have laws against abortion, and others are shutting down preexisting abortion clinics.