The Early Role of Women and their Counter Strike.
First off, the feminist movement started after years of the dominate male population deciding what it means to be a women, and expecting them to follow it. The first major outcry that this was wrong was from Mary Wollstonecraft, who claimed that women “Must define for themselves what it means to be a women.” (Feminism 171). While this was one of the first published author of this message, it did not take hold until the early 1900s. Even after the right to vote was gained and women were able to enter the workforce without to much trouble, women were still held down and oppressed. This led to the rise of the style of writing and analyzing works or art , which is labeled Feminism.
This style of writing became popular with women writers who were getting the right to publish, and they made a point to show whether that women were being held down, or what happened because of this oppression to an individual woman. This is seen in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own which was written to create a scenario in which a women had great talent that the world will stop it from growing. This can be seen in the fact that “ Because she cannot economically afford a room of her own, her initiate artistic talents would never flourish.” (172) This for example shows the damage done to the individual woman because of the oppression. The analyzation come from a person viewing a piece of work in a way to understand and interpret the way women are treated. This is a way of showing how a text empowers the males while disfranchising the females.
In Things Fall Apart,the women are treated like worse then slaves as they are just expected to do as they are told with no other bonding then the rules of society. Every wife much cook for the male head of the household, and her children are always in the property of the father. He is allowed to beat them for little to no real reason and it is seen as acceptable. Women can take no title in the Ibo society, and the is only one female character that has any real power, and she is the priestess of the god.
Feminism is a hard one to do, I will most likely use the theoretical text to help explain how the dominate male society forces these idea on the women. With that, I will uses the societies expectations, the fact that it is the men that decide and control, not the women, and the actions of the males that keep the females in a class lower then them. Throughout the essay I hope to answer any other question that the Feminism text suggests.
