Documents 1 and 4 are written legal documents that express the protection or lack thereof for women. The Declaration of Human Rights, written in 1948, expresses gender equality in Article 2, but then contradicts itself when regarding Article 1. Article 1 is a contradiction as it expresses equality for all humans, but then refers to brotherhood, which, by the prefix, does not include women. The Declaration of Human Rights was written in a time of war, where women weren't very important unless you considered their work at home, and the authors of this document were surely male and higher up on the social ladder, thus disregarding woman's rights, who, a majority of, are below them in stature. Nearly 20 years later, as shown in Document 4, there is a substantial amount of equality for women – under employment, that is.
The matter of whether race and gender identities negate each other among Black women has not garnered much research in the social sciences. To some degree, this issue has primarily been addressed outside of academia, in the realm of practical politics. Black civil rights organizations, such as the Black Panther Party, and their predominantly male leadership have historically been less than receptive to gender issues of concern to Black women. Underlying this reluctance has been an assumption that gender identification among Black women is at best ‘irrelevant” and subversive. Hostility toward feminism has been further encouraged by the myth of the emasculating “black matriarch” hampering the progress of Black men.
Herland is the extreme where the society is so wonderful because no male has lived there for the past 2000 years. With knowing the background of Gilman and how some believe that this is a feminist novel, it definitely explains why the women are depicted as they are. With Gilman wanting women to have equal rights, she takes away the stereotypes that women have to be the object of sex appeal. While in If He Hollers Let Him Go, Himes depict every women character as . I wondered if this was because Himes was a male trying to write women roles but just was not sure as to how to relate to that.
Any money that women had was technically not their own money. The husband had total control over what the money was used for. The most important fact that women felt was the fact that women could not vote. One person that really helped the declaration get noticed and looked at carefully was Fredrick Douglass. A man that stuck up for womens rights.
Sojourner Truth’s Speech The audience that listened to Sojourner Truth’s Speech were both men and women. Women were treated with no rights and they didn’t feel appreciated. Men thought that they were the best in everything. In their opinion they were great at what they did ,but women had no rights in whatever they did. Sojourners Truths main point was to explain that no matter what color skin you were or if you were a female or male you were always human and a person with a heart and soul.
ETST 310 Black women’s studies Black women’s studies emerged in part because of the failure of women studies and black studies to address accurate and dependable information about the experiences of black women in America and everywhere else in the world. Black women felt ignored by both the black man and the white women during their radical liberation movements towards liberty and equality. In history women’s studies have exclusively focused mainly that is to say entirely on the lives and history of the white women. Because of things like that when “black” was used in context of a conversation or publication it was equated with the black male, while women was to the white female. These issues are what inevitably formed
All that she owned became her husband’s property and all that she gained during her marriage automatically became her husband’s property. Women of the time did not understand this, because it was ludicrous and unfair. Antebellum women saw no hope of escaping this common law. Women’s caliber of oppression was not as acute as slaves, and they were only allowed a certain amount of bravery, if they wanted to be socially acceptable. Good women of the ear were afraid of the world and of being alone.21 A social convention of the time period was dependent and fearful women made for an appropriate
There are currently two laws that protect against wage discrimination, The Equal Pay Act of 1963, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits wage discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion or national origin. Pay equity is a benefit for everyone. Most women and people of color are still segregated into a small number of jobs like service workers, nurses, and teachers. These jobs have been undervalued and continue to be under paid because of the gender and race of the people who hold them. The law itself was considered to be weak because it only mandated that women doing work equal not comparable to men be paid the same as men.
Rotation 3 10 October 2011 “Islamic Women versus Christian Women in the Middle Ages” Women have not always had the rights and positions that they do in today’s society. In the middle ages, Islamic and Christian women had very few rights, and held little religious or political status. Downsides for women in both religious factions were that they were subordinate to the males of their region, could not own property, and were lucky if they received higher education. Women had little to no religious status, but most could pray. Political status for women was possible, but only for those who were in the upper class and were important to society.
When it comes to literature she says “All too often, the excuse given is that the literatures of women of color can only be taught by colored women, or that they are too difficult to understand, or that classes cannot “get into” them because they come out of experiences that are “too different.” I have heard this argument presented by white women of otherwise quite clear intelligence… Surely there must be some other explanation” (856). She also believes that “white women to believe the dangerous fantasy… And true, unless one lives and loves in the trenches it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless” (857). She sees why white women sometimes think the way they do. She presents these thought to show how misunderstood some people