Feminist views of the family revolve around and understanding of the term patriarchy, which means make domination. Feminists agree that men tend to have a superior position in society and that women suffer oppression because of this. Many feminists argue that the family is a corner stone of this oppression and as such needs careful analysis. Liberal feminists believe that the fanily is gradually becoming less oppressive for women, they cite the move of many families towards more symmetrical roles where men take more part in the domestic roles so that women are no longer burdened by the mundane, repetitive, low status work of cleaning, laundry and childcare work which makes their position in society less powerful than mens. However, radical feminists disagree.
In the Greek period, women were not aloud to have any of their own properties; such as land or houses. If a woman wanted to have something of her own during that period she was cast out and more then likely stoned to death. In todays society however, a woman who owns her own house or car is respected for being independent and being able to support herself. Today, women are looked up on as the “brats” that always get their way. Some people even go as far to try to prove that women get better treatment in some cases because of the sexual status.
American society for a long time now tried to keep the gender status at an equal level, but if either side can learn to no confine themselves to such extreme guidelines then there will come a greater sense of accomplishment. In our culture, gender roles have become blended with many disregarding the gender they are give or refusing the role associated with their gender, but we still have a concept of what feminine and masculine imply to due to our society’s expectations for women to be women and men to be men. In “Veiled Intention: Don’t Judge a Muslim Girl by Her Covering” and “Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender” by Aaron H. Devor both illustrated how Americans are so judgmental on image and gender roles. It is ok to thin that you should not be judged based on appearance alone, but America
Finally, the public’s view of males in the nursing profession leaves men apprehensive and raises the want to protect their masculinity. Research shows that the, once female dominated, nursing profession has significantly been updated by the up rise of males entering this work field, however, unfortunately, males are limited to advancement based on the biased minds of the feminist who run the nursing profession. History’s view of male nurses still holds the position that nursing is a single-sex occupation and also something that is natural to the female gender. Medeaus writes, “Nursing is an occupation established by women it supports the feminine image with traits of nurturing, caring, and gentleness in contrast to masculine characteristics of strength, aggression, and dominance (6) it is almost as if people do not believe that men can encompass the traits that women need to be nurses. History in a sense perpetuates the notion of men nurses as anomalies.
Well as I was growing up, I learned from my parents and other various forms of media that sex occurs between two people in deep love and in most cases marriage as well. But as I matured and grow, I became more aware of my surroundings, that society teaches us that this is not how sex occurs. Men and women are enlightened to a variety of social differences in regards to sex through society. One of the prevalent double standards seen between men and women is when non marital sexual relations are acceptable for men, but not for women. This can be seen throughout all ages starting in the early teen years all the way through adulthood.
After all, in countries such as New Zealand (1893), Australia (1901), Finland (1906) or Norway (1913) women got the vote before the war began, whereas others such as Denmark (1915), Iceland (1915), Holland (1917) or Sweden (1919) gave it to women during the war without being involved in it. (http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/womenww1_three.htm) Women did make steps when it came to labor, but many women also looked down on the working class feminists. They thought it was unnecessary, and women should have their own place in the home
Women in the Americas, who had once seen power and almost equality to men, were now going to lose respect in religious, legal, and cultural ways that they never saw coming. Religion in the Americas before the Spanish arrived was based a lot off of cosmology. In Inca religion, the men worshipped the sun, and women worshipped the moon. They were separate but both just as important as the other. There were priests that ruled the men organization and priestesses that ruled the women organization.
Men may have enforced the oppression of the female gender but it could not have been done without the aid of women in upholding the illusion that the patriarchy is based on. If the truth of this illusion could be found, ‘if she begins to tell the truth, the figure in the looking-glass shrinks,’ the strength of this patriarchy would suffer. Inevitably, Woolf demonstrates that women and men are inextricably connected, as the men cannot function without the misconceptions of women. Ultimately the patriarchy remains because it is a constructed reality that is accepted as norm and thus exists unchallenged by society. ‘England is under the rule of a patriarchy.
The Church felt this way because they blame Eve for the failure of mankind and viewed all women to be an advocate of the devil. (Hollister) Women were allowed to work, but they were definitely not equal in the work force because they represented a large source of cheap labor in that time period; the same can be said for today with the exception of minimum wage. Most writings of the Arthurian period were about the king and his knights’ triumphant battles. Women were minor characters, if they were included at all. They were not mentioned except at the end of a battle, when the
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 helped women out a lot concerning wages and titles in their careers. “Employers could refuse to offer training, advancement, or partnership to the women they employed” (“Employment”). “Employers could also lawfully refuse to consider hiring a woman for a position, and if she was hired, her employer could provide her with different benefits than that of a man in the same position” (“Employment”). This type of discrimination led to many problems within families because there was nothing a woman could do about how much