CELEBRATING STRONG, INFLUENTIAL WOMEN FROM THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.
Since this is an English
class,let us honor all the great women writers,
from Mary Shelley to Jane Austen.
class,let us honor all the great women writers,
from Mary Shelley to Jane Austen.
Woo Hooo! Go Women!
Yeah! Women are awesome! Especially women who are willing to stand up and fight for what they want!
ReplyDeleteso by that rationelle, steven,do you consider lady Macbeth to be awesome? She stood up for what she wanted and what she wanted was power.
ReplyDeleteQuite, so mah boi. Women who are involved and atcive are what helps this country develop.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Granted Lady Macbeth's motives were... questionable. However, she fought hard to get them! She was willing to go the distance!
ReplyDeleteeven so far as to kill her child if it posed as a threat to her in the acquisition of power?
ReplyDeleteYES
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite poems is by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "How Do I Love Thee?" also entitled "Sonnet 43." Have you noticed how women are also the subject of many poems? Lord Byron, e.e. cummings, Poe, Shakespeare, etc. wrote about women with such reverence.
ReplyDeleteFrom a cultural standpoint, I found this excerpt from Marie Claire (2010):
If you want to be happy, healthy, and powerful, you might consider packing your bags and moving to a picturesque country on the other side of the Atlantic. According to a new report, Sweden tops out as the #1 place for women to live. Is it the year-long maternity leave? The chance to date four men at once? The unisex public bathrooms? (Ewww!)
Sweden, which has a population of 9 million — around the same as the state of New Jersey — has a long history of female-friendly policies. The government gave women equal rights to inherit property way back in 1845; in 1901, it introduced the world's first formalized maternity-leave program. In 1958, the Swedish Lutheran church changed its doctrine to permit women to become priests. And today, female politicians make up around half of the Swedish parliament.
The goal of equality starts young: "Anti-Sexism Awareness Training" begins in kindergarten, where male toddlers are encouraged to play with dolls, and females with toy tractors. In school, classes in cooking, sewing, metalworking, and woodworking are compulsory for both sexes. All education, including college, is free, and girls routinely outperform boys; in 2005, women made up more than 60 percent of all Swedish college students.
In my lifetime thus far, I have only read one novel that reeks of feminism. And it was written during the Romantic Era, it is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. If you are to take away anything from this comment it is that, the Bronte sister wrote under pen male names because it was deemed improper and irrational for women to write. Ultimately, women writers were not shown reverence. Yet, even in her novel, Charlotte Bronte makes Jane Eyre, the protagonist an independent and strong willed woman!
ReplyDeleteShe can be quoted saying the following:
"Women are supposed to be very calm generally;but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags."
Through is quote, it is as if Charlotte Bronte was fighting for women's rights in the 1800s, long before Elizabeth Stanton..