Woman

In the memoir The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston writes about her experiences as a Chinese American growing up in the United States. Although the value of women differ in China and America, they are still seen as inferior in both counties. Kingston shows her enmity toward the way females are viewed in Chinese culture through the use of talk stories, comparison, and personal experiences. Kingston incorporates the use of talk-stories into her writing as a technique to show how society views…

archetypes, or they can reinforce negative stereotypes that are already so abundant in the media today. The two films I chose to write about were Pretty Woman and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Both films has positives and negatives influences throughout, but can be referenced as popular films which carry a strong social message. The Film Pretty Woman, was directed by Garry Marshall and written by J.F. Lawton. The film centers around Los Angeles prostitute Vivian Ward, Julia Roberts, who encounters…

Through her written work in The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria, Judith Ortiz Cofer expresses her experiences thus far in America as a Puerto Rican immigrant. She shares how the differences between her traditions and culture and those of Americans caus her to not feel a sense of belonging among others in the United States. The differences provoke stereotypes that Cofer is not able to escape, no matter what she accomplishes in life. These stereotypes are a direct result…

family members, friends, and acquaintances. Yes, I used to weigh less than 130 pounds in my life, and I used to fit into size 4 dresses. Nowadays, I fit into size 14 dresses and weigh 175 pounds. Like Kate Harding in her article, “How Do You Fuck a Fat Woman?” I struggle with accepting myself. Society teaches women to be ashamed of their bodies. They learn to believe that they aren’t beautiful if they are not skinny. Shaming women for the number of pounds they weigh not only damages their…

Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” is about an abused woman who is saved by the thoughtfulness of other women, this story this story symbolized the struggles for women in early America. Miss wright had a bird a pretty songbird that lived in its cage not flying or singing. Miss wright was the same as the bird, because her husband didn’t let her sing like she did when she was young. Also he didn’t allow her to leave just like the bird locked in its cage. But when her husband broke her bird Miss…

“Ar’n’t I a Woman?” By Sojourner Truth The speaker is Sojourner Truth. She was born a slave and grew up speaking Dutch in her settlement. Self-educated and charismatic, she traveled along the east coast, moving on spiritual journeys hoping to preach. While in Massachusetts, she met abolitionists who inspired her to proclaim women's suffrage and abolition. We can assume that she is a black woman who wants to make a difference because of her powerful persona. Truth delivered her speech to the 1851…

together under shared beliefs and live “in association with others,” (OED). With the understanding of each other’s abilities, certain individuals have ownership of responsibilities in order to advance the community. As seen in Walt Whitman’s poem “A Woman Waits for Me,” the community develops into one, which divides these responsibilities between genders. Therefore, the community expects certain actions and results of the separate genders; creating gender roles. In the poem, Whitman exemplifies…

restrictions on what they can or cannot do. A Taste of Earth, One Hundred Eggs, and The White Buffalo Woman are all feminist myths, and the main characters, Au Co and White Buffalo Woman, are both culture bringers. In the beginning of both female’s journeys as culture bringers, the degree of feminism in their cultures becomes immediately evident. Both are feminist culture bringers, but White Buffalo Woman places more gender based barriers on her…

As one can see in the speech given by Sojourner Truth in 1851, “Ain’t I a Woman”, she believes that women’s right and, even more specifically, African American women’s right are extremely important. In her speech presented in Akron, Ohio, she takes numerous points of her opponents and finds counterclaims to rebut them. She uses points such as how she has been treated compared to how other women have been treated, the lack of intelligence the men assume she has, and she even poses the question of…

This paper seeks to uncover relationships between Margaret Fuller’s passages on prostitution that she lately attached to Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) and her personal experience linked with this social phenomenon prior to the publication of the book. A large number of critics constantly describe a connection between Margaret’s ideas on advancement opportunities for women's education with her background as a schoolteacher, but almost none of them focus on the significance of her visit…