Audience | * ABC Radio National audience (educated, socially aware/interested) * One way medium. No opportunity for her to gauge the audience’s response | Arguments | * Progress the rights of women in post ww II society. * Substantive and motivation reasons used (ability of women as witnessed throughout war period, happiness of women, need to support responsibilities of women, right to choose, potential contributions of women to society, need to improve conditions for all in post war period, financial quality for both sexes * Explicit values: feminism * Implicit values: power withheld from females by males, democracy can’t exist if women aren’t equal in society * Power held by men * For Australia but universal message
The transformation of women in Latin America through the conquest Throughout the 15th century the Spanish conquest of the Americas changed the way of life for the indigenous people already living here. When the Spanish arrived in the Americas they witnessed something they probably thought was really strange, gender parallelism. The natives in Mesoamerica had way of life that saw women and men as different, but equal in their own manners. Women and men had different roles in life but neither was seen as dominant over the other (16, 17). As for the Spanish, they had a very patriarchy type society; men dominated the legal system, religion, and house.
These women were predominantly indigenous and had migrated there with husbands or looking for work themselves. These enterprising women took advantage of a favorable situation as they were exempt from tribute payment and the alcabala sales tax. That’s not to say these women did not face any obstacles in their attempt to make a life for themselves and their children. Now it is important to note that not all women of the time were able to do many of the things described and one must remember that much of what is given is are definitely exceptional. Mangan’s most important argument is that the traditional picture of Potosi does not tell the full story.
Women's role in society was questioned and many official restrictions on women's choices were lifted. The changing role of women in Australia has come about largely through waves of feminism. The women's movement made huge changes to Australian society. Throughout the 1970s, 1980s and to a lesser extent the 1990s many initiatives were put in place in the areas of health, work, law, education and welfare that attempted to redress the imbalance between men's and women's power and opportunity. Arguments continue about how much life really has changed for Australian women.
In the indigenous society of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century Aboriginal women were seen as just as capable of supporting themselves as men, they were independent and self-sufficient. Rather than relying entirely on their men to support them and protect their livelihood women shared the role of breadwinner within the family with their male counterparts. According to Bendt ‘as long as they were physically active and healthy women were the most consistent supporters of their
Role of Women in Flatland Society Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott depicts a fictional two-dimensional world that “A Square” lives in. This two-dimensional world is used to satirize Victorian society and the strict social hierarchy. The role of women in Flatland’s society appears to be especially reflective of Victorian society at the time. As typical of Victorian patriarchal society, women have very few rights and are considered to be at the bottom of society. However, based on the breadth of women and other shapes in Flatland, it appears that certain shapes in Flatland have the same appearance as women from a distance making it an interesting contrast of women’s traditional role in society.
Unlike their Athenian counterparts, Spartan women certainly were not marginalised. Everyone in Spartan society was expected to support the military ethos on which the society was based. Women were forbidden to spin or weave as such tasks were seen as tasks fit only for slaves. They were also excluded from holding public office and did not have the right to vote. Though they did not participate in government, the women did enjoy considerable freedom, could accumulate property and exercise considerable power.
Many of the artefacts left behind by ancient Egyptians depict very little about the roles women played in society and everyday life. In the artworks discovered, women are predominantly depicted in supporting roles to men, and also show women as having a role as housekeeper, mother and wife, without giving sufficient written information on how these roles were viewed in society; were they greatly respected for their contributions, or were they simply
In fact, the social perspective towards women was based on submission and passivity. As time progresses, Victorian scenario of men’s empowerment over women has changed and equity between sexes as a human right has gained significance. However, remaining sexist attitudes within contemporary societies could be taken as a reflection of sexism towards womanhood existent in Victorian Era. First of all, both the psychological phenomenon of the double standards and a high level of sexual repression in our societies catch the attention. Indeed, those concepts of sexual behavior have different views according to the historical context.
Some Problems with Summers’ Approach She adapts various modern theories of social control and transposes these onto the convict women of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Summers accepts that the sexist stereotypes laid down in the convict period were somehow transmitted from generation to generation of Australians. Most critically, she shifts the blame away from the women themselves for being prostitutes to the male-dominated society whereas Clark, Shaw, and Robson had blamed the women themselves. However, she uncritically accepts that the women were prostitutes. MIRIAM DIXON’S INTERPRETATION OF THE CHARACTER OF THE FEMALE CONVICTS Dixon’s work, The Real Matilda: Women and Identity in Australia 1788 to 1975, was published in the same year as Summers’.