This is demonstrated throughout media, social approaches, education system etc. Things like rape culture have evolved from these gender inequalities and continues to be predominant within woman's suffrage. Women often during the 70s were not given value to rape cases. Instead they had to fear, "will you swallow, will you deny them, will you lie your way home" (Rich, 45) Due to Rich's experience of women's oppression where there was, "a woman terribly vulnerable, critical, using femaleness as a sort of standard or yardstick to measure and discard men" (Rich Compulsory heterosexuality, 1) there lay an inherent political emphasis on gender roles. Adrienne Rich was popular for speaking about what was not heard and through that, she as well had a bias and a different perspective that lead towards more political
This is demonstrated throughout media, social approaches, education system etc. Things like rape culture have evolved from these gender inequalities and continues to be predominant within woman's suffrage. Women often during the 70s were not given value to rape cases. Instead they had to fear, "will you swallow, will you deny them, will you lie your way home" (Rich, 45) Due to Rich's experience of women's oppression where there was, "a woman terribly vulnerable, critical, using femaleness as a sort of standard or yardstick to measure and discard men" (Rich Compulsory heterosexuality, 1) there lay an inherent political emphasis on gender roles. Adrienne Rich was popular for speaking about what was not heard and through that, she as well had a bias and a different perspective that lead towards more political