With only having the job as a “happy homemaker” woman in the 1950’s felt dissatisfaction and needed fulfillment in their life other than staying home, and taking care of their families. Consequently, in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller women were portrayed almost the same way. They both were treated poorly and held a position of that inferior to men. Because, women in the Crucible held no real power or independence they were forced to follow the negative stereotypes of the 1950’s. Women in the 1950’s were expected to stay home, and were more or less left out of everything that were to be of importance.
Ellen's arguments make good points for why a woman should keep her maiden name, and how there's no reason for the woman to change the name, but as a young girl grows up around parents who shared the father's name, and in a society where it is normal to take the mans name, it seems only inevitable that the tradition will continue. Most women would say that Ellen is making an argument out of nothing, since the majority of women honestly will not care what name they feel more bonding with their loved one by sharing a last
Even though she knows that a woman being educated is not usual she believes all women should receive a quality education. “Yet only to teach men and not to teach women – is that not ignoring the essential relation between them?” She uses her statement to advocate for women passively while still holding men in a higher position. She believes that women should be educated to better serve their husbands because that would help to keep the cycle going. Education for Ban Zhao started before she was married and even after her husband died. Ban Zhao continued to write and never remarried.
Yes, but you need a bit more specific overview. What year was it? Where did Frieden live? Friedan began by writing her book, The Feminine Mystique, by describing what she called "the problem that has no name." With words that she spoke which hit a nerve of many American women, she wrote, "The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women.
The Women's Rights movement, also known as "Women's Libbers," told women not to waste their time taking care of their homes and families, and they were too smart for that. They proclaimed that women had a "choice" not to be housewives now thanks to them. They said women could be anything they wanted to be, and they would find fulfillment in jobs outside of the home. Many women seemed to want to have jobs outside of the home, leaving their children, even very young babies, in day care centers. Older children were also in day care or on their own.
Most women were brought up to support her husband and look after her home and children; her time was always contributed to her home. As the women would always be in the house they would barely go out. The odd occasion would consist of going to the shop or going to visit the neighbor, even though they were minor trips a women would need a chaperone to take her out of the house, this would consist of the husband or brother, or even another female, but a women would never go out by herself. Women were expected to act in an appropriate restrained way than men. This would include men spitting, swearing, smoking and drinking alcohol.
Mrs Linde has had to work hard and was not afforded love and children which she longed to have. She took care of her mother and brother as her own but still desired more. Once her circumstances had changed she set out to acquire that which she had lost. When Mrs Linde is introduced in Act I, we can immediately see she is a woman who has been through a harder time and worked hard to have a meekly accommodating life. She is more insightful of her surrounding than Nora Helmer.
In earlier times, women were viewed by society to have their only place be in the home. Women were expected to bare and raise children, perform multiple tasks of housework, cook, and were considered to have very little say in anything other than matters of the home. Women were expected to respect their husbands and be inferior to them. Divorce was not an option (Hartman, n.d.). While some people may still consider this to be a woman’s role in society, the standards have evolved greatly.
There were undoubtedly some other writers who dealt with this question, e.g. Jane Austen, but the heroine of Brontë is something different because she has no high social status, she is poor, uninteresting, small and plain and Quaker-like girl. Nevertheless her personality is standing out above the others, because she is not following contemporary convention, but she venerates equality of rights and gender instead of submission. “Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel...“ (141) I as a reader perceive Jane as very strong personality venerating feminist ideals which weren‘t common in Victorian culture. Does her inner power stem from her horrible situation in childhood?
Her mother only wanted to possess the beauty she created with her hands, other possessions were meaningless to her. Walker’s mother told her children to take anything because it might not be there next time they came. Alice Walker was brought up with these lessons of self-sacrifice. Through the work of “Though We May Feel Alone,” (1166) Walker emphasizes the importance of ancestors. Prominent to ancestors is the lessons that are obtained through them.