Eve's Apology In Defense Of Women Analysis

Women and Men are not equal. Historically, men have assumed labor intensive jobs. Women in contrast, have taken jobs related to child rearing and housekeeping. It was actually not until the second world war were women, in mass kitchen exodus, started to take up factory jobs. Jobs which men used to hold exclusively. Through the ages poets and writers have speculated as to why there is a divide between men and women. Some have argued that this divide stems from culture. Others suggest that the divide does not even exist. In the seventeenth century Aemilia Lanyer, was an influential writer who tried to explain this divide. Her writings during the time were seen as some of the “most eloquent attempts in early seventeenth-century England to counter the misogynistic view of women as weak, seductive and malicious.” Despite how eloquent her attempt may have been, eloquence alone does not make up for logical inadequacies. …show more content…
Firstly she contradicts herself, but more troubling, her entire argument stems from a false, unsubstantiated premise. Lanyer argues that womankind’s unequal footing with mankind is a direct result of Eve’s sin in the