Wollstonecraft And Sontag Essay

Susan Sontag, and Mary Wollstonecraft are two authors who fought for women's equality in their articles, A vindication of the Rights of Woman, and A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source, feminism is expressed through these readings while being compared they are also indiffierent from one another. Wollstonecraft states that women have always been seen as less than, and unimportant, in the other hand Sontag expresses the pressure a woman goes through in her lifetime. Feminist writers just like these authors expose the hardships women go through such as, how men see women, how women evaluate themselves, and how they are differently raised compared to men. Wollstonecraft begins her essay by stating how men see women, she uses the phrase “unable to stand …show more content…
A woman must be pretty, elegant, and thin, these are a a few stereotypes that have been implanted upon women. Ever since a girl is born they are raised differently than a boy they are limited to do a various of activities because they are women, they are taught to sit a specific way, to speak a specific way and to act in a specific way. As the little girl grows up nothing much changes they are still expected to act as they were taught to but now they are also pressured to look a certain way. Advertisements on T.V make women feel as if they need makeup to be pretty, they put models that seem flawless that affects young women who have seen those advertisements because they would eventually want to look like them. They then grow up to become self conscious about their body as Sontag states in paragraph 9 line 6-7, “Women are taught to see their bodies in parts, and to evaluate each part separately.” Most women become conscious about their weight, waistline and even infiniment body parts such as the eyes, nose, hair and even the