Anne Bradstreet Letter To Her Husband Upon Public Employment Analysis

Feminism within a Household:
Feminism describes the scope of ideologies and movements that strive to achieve and define equality between men and women, in political, social, personal, economic and cultural aspects of everyone’s lives. These movements also seek to establish equal opportunities for men in all of these environments, including the right to education and equal employment. A feminist is a person who supports and advocates for the rights and equality of women, believing that both men and women are equal. However, this does not necessarily mean that a feminist believes that men and women are the same, but equal and, therefore, they are entitled to equal rights and treatment. These movements strive for women’s rights, which include …show more content…
The reasoning behind people assuming Bradstreet cannot be a feminist is mainly based on her poem “Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment”, where she states how much better her life is when her husband is around her and how lost she feels whenever her husband is absent from her life. What these people fail to realize is that being a feminist has little to do with having a loving relationship with your partner. Therefore, the fact that Bradstreet wanted to be with her husband does not mean she was not a feminist or did not have feminist views, but that she was deeply in love with him. While it is often assumed that, especially throughout Puritan society, women resented their husbands because they were considered to be more than the women, it is never shown that Bradstreet has these feeling of resentment against her husband. Even if her husband did show a complex of superiority in regards of her, thinking of himself as greater than her, this shows the sexism within the values of her husband and, again, does not infer on her feminist views. She does not