In 'Yellow Woman And Beauty Of Spirit ', Author Leslie Marmon Silko tells stories from her childhood and recalls the struggles she faced as she learned about modern day racism, sexism, and what it means to be considered beautiful. Silko ends her work with the conclusion that women can accept their sensuality, and while embracing themselves become ‘beautiful’. And In a world as progressive as our own, I agree that it is important to accept one another and we should not shame women and men for breaking gender roles and expressing their own sexuality.
First off, I would like to speak on the subject of gender roles. I am a woman who works in an environment that is very heavily influenced by gender roles and gender stereotyping. The work is …show more content…
I can also recall being a little girl, and whenever I was with my playmates; found myself drawn to more boyish games and toys. Parents often chided my mother and my friends gave me weird looks when I wanted to play with 'boys ' toys, like miniature cars and action figures. So even at young age, it was being instilled into my mind that I was to play a certain role in life.
Silko paints a very beautiful picture for the reader as she describes the olden days of her tribe, a tribe of strong, healthy women who did rough work throughout the day, men who cared for children and craft, and folklore that embraced the exploration of one 's own femininity, masculinity, and sensuality. She proposes a world where people can live in harmony and be successful without without sexual shaming, stereotypes and gender roles. Men and women both do whatever work they can, without judging who is eligible for which task, and farther into the article Silko states,
'No job was a man’s job or a woman’s job; the most able person did the work. …show more content…
She is very vocalized in her respect for the character called Kochininako, orYellow Woman. Kochininako is a woman in the old-time stories who continually stands for courage, honesty, and is not afraid of her own desires. She is a woman who is unashamed of the liaisons she has, and even uses her own beauty and passion to save the tribe in times of need. In those times, the Pueblo people celebrated her open sexuality, and even praised her for it. Without her uninhibited encounters, they would not have survived. In this way, as well as many others, Silko says Yellow Woman was describedas being 'strong ' and 'beautiful ', though she doesn 't know if Yellow Woman was actually considered attractive in her time. Yellow Woman may not have been beautiful, but because of her selflessness, her spiritedness and unrestrained love, they saw her being as a beautiful one. But why is that so wrong in our own generation? In today standards, it is wrong for a woman so have open, sexual
First off, I would like to speak on the subject of gender roles. I am a woman who works in an environment that is very heavily influenced by gender roles and gender stereotyping. The work is …show more content…
I can also recall being a little girl, and whenever I was with my playmates; found myself drawn to more boyish games and toys. Parents often chided my mother and my friends gave me weird looks when I wanted to play with 'boys ' toys, like miniature cars and action figures. So even at young age, it was being instilled into my mind that I was to play a certain role in life.
Silko paints a very beautiful picture for the reader as she describes the olden days of her tribe, a tribe of strong, healthy women who did rough work throughout the day, men who cared for children and craft, and folklore that embraced the exploration of one 's own femininity, masculinity, and sensuality. She proposes a world where people can live in harmony and be successful without without sexual shaming, stereotypes and gender roles. Men and women both do whatever work they can, without judging who is eligible for which task, and farther into the article Silko states,
'No job was a man’s job or a woman’s job; the most able person did the work. …show more content…
She is very vocalized in her respect for the character called Kochininako, orYellow Woman. Kochininako is a woman in the old-time stories who continually stands for courage, honesty, and is not afraid of her own desires. She is a woman who is unashamed of the liaisons she has, and even uses her own beauty and passion to save the tribe in times of need. In those times, the Pueblo people celebrated her open sexuality, and even praised her for it. Without her uninhibited encounters, they would not have survived. In this way, as well as many others, Silko says Yellow Woman was describedas being 'strong ' and 'beautiful ', though she doesn 't know if Yellow Woman was actually considered attractive in her time. Yellow Woman may not have been beautiful, but because of her selflessness, her spiritedness and unrestrained love, they saw her being as a beautiful one. But why is that so wrong in our own generation? In today standards, it is wrong for a woman so have open, sexual