Adrianne Rich's essay is a very influential passionate essay. Rich shows us the way society categorizes women that are smart enough to succeed without a mans help. For example, the manikins that portray sophisticated independent women are sad and chained up not being able to be free. Pictures like this made women think that being an independent unmarried woman meant living a depressing life because the only way to really be successful is to be married and having a family. This isn't true because the teachers she had in high school were single, independent successful, women that were perfectly happy the way they were.
Rich tries to show and prove that women are just as good as man. She doesn't want us to act like "men" she wants women to act like women showing that women have their own independent ideas and could be just as successful as man or even more successful then men. In order to do this women have to know the history of women and their struggles. They have to learn who and what women did not only in a women's history class but also in any other time to make it mainstream and socially accepted and respected.
Very good point Kandy Rich wants women to ponder on the essay and believe that we are able to go further then what most men believe we can. And as you stated above in order for us to succeed we need to learn about women and how we struggled, I mean when we read this in class and discussed it most of our classmates got the idea that we should go on to college and finish and get a degree and show the men that we are capable of surviving.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I agree with you on that, one of the important points she had was that women shouldn't have to act like men to be noticed as a strong person but through our skills and opinions on subjects that are based on the knowledge of what women did throughout history.
ReplyDeleteI think women are way better than men. In houses women are usually the boss of the house and control the income of money.Men might be stronger physically but women are stronger in mind. yup yup
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