The Subjection of Women

FINDING MEANING IN MY FAVOURITE TEXT Margaret Atwood engages readers in her enthralling literary masterpiece entitled “The Handmaid’s Tale”, set against the backdrop of a gloomy dystopic future which explores women subjugation in a male-privileging society. Breaking out of the habit of reading via the ‘Leavis method’, to read and interpret from different perspectives can, in Robert Eaglestone’s perspective, “[..] change your ideas about the text and even about your place in the world”.…

Possessed by the Possession: The Unspoken Threat of Curley’s Wife Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “A woman is like a tea bag- you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water” (Brainyquote.com). Throughout the 1930s, society often ignored or suppressed women’s abilities due to prejudices and standards promoting male dominance and patriarchy. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men captures the essence of Roosevelt’s quote through the development of Curley’s wife. Although presented as…

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and beliefs. Whether it is religion or personal preference, people like to have their opinions. People often force their opinion on others and think they should have the same opinions because they think their opinion is “fact.” Some people do not have an open mind to listen to or accept that others can have their own views on things. I had a terrible experience once where a normal jog around the neighbor turned into a heated argument. This story…

white middle class women. Sojourner Truth does not seem to fit the crowd as a former slave, but she is forever remembered for her speech at the Women’s Convention “Ain’t I a Woman”. That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Truth’s speech infers that feminism is a privilege of white women only.…

First, it aimed at enhancing democratic rights in Iran. Moreover, it gathered the society in its entirety but the movement was especially known for its predominance of women. Indeed, at that time, the government controlled women’s sexuality by not letting them choosing their own husband, restraining them to divorce, to wear colourful clothes since they were considered as second-class citizens. (Abbasgholizadeh, 2014) They…

you going?" by Joyce Carol Oates we are taken back to a time in our lives in which most people can relate to in one sense or another and a theme that is still alive and well today. A constant struggle between equality of male and female and the subjection of the ideas of sexual intimacy is a reality in this story. The story is portrayed through the eyes and mind of a young teenager, Connie, trying to find her place in life. Unfortunately what she wants and what she gets are not what she needs.…

Otherization is a situation where some dominant individuals or groups in the society turn other people into an "other." So significantly ignorant of the way of subjection (slavery) are numerous people that they are resolutely distrustful at whatever point they read or tune into any presentation of the savageries, which are day by day delivered on its casualties. They do not deny that the slaves are held as property (Ernest 62-65). However, that repulsive certainty appears to pass on to their…

Well Behaved Women Seldom Make Community Guidelines Within the western world, social media platforms are nearly inescapable. Throughout the day, conversations surround; who’s subtweeting who, checking a Facebook invite for tonights plans or seeing which new love interest has slid into the DMs (direct messaging). In particular with Instagram, there has been a new-wave of exploring self-love and independence online networks. With owning a phone, one has access to taking photos at anytime,…

Women have been at the gaze of men for the duration of time for as long as we can remember. Laura Mulvey places this fact very strongly in her writing Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, and asserts that this has made a victim of the female gender. However, she seems to consider not how scopophilia can be a sensation felt by a woman, nor how she can also be the barer of the same gaze that a man may give. It is also discussed that, perhaps, men are unable to even receive the gaze, suggesting…

being able to be abused because we have this false dichotomy that since men are typically stronger than women, they are unable to be abused by one. This mentality of ours leads to little or no help offered to men that suffer from this kind of subjection, even though reliable statistics have shown that men who have been abused is surprising likely common and is not too far off as the number of women who are domestic violence victims. We do not take…