The Revolt Of Mother And A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women

Throughout time men and women have been put into certain categories based on society's expectations. Our society have grown accustomed to assigning roles to genders. The responsibilities of these roles tend to predict how one should act. These roles become more evident in "The Revolt Of Mother" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,"Women's Brain" by Stephen Jay Gould, and "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" by Mary Wollstonecraft. In "The Revolt Of Mother", the women, the mother, and wife finds herself being constantly ignored, and not heard by the husband by society's expectations is the superior. In "Women's Brain" the author Stephen Jay Gould writes about a woman, Mary, Who changes her name to George Eliot, A recognizable male name, so that she could publish her book "Middlemarch." In " A Vindication of the rights of Women" by Mary Wollstonecraft, she demonstrate the distinctiveness between men and women during the 1700s. A plethora of stereotypes are born within a society, where Mendez search their position as superior, needy women to assume the role of non-educated, domesticated …show more content…
In other words, women were suppose to stay at home and cook, clean, and take care of the kids. This lifestyle for women was evident in “the Revolt of Mother” by Mary Wilkins Freeman. This short story portrays what the typical life of a women should be like according the expectations of society. Mary Wilkins Freeman portrays Sarah ,the wife and mother, as a goody two shoes who does what she is suppose to and listens to her husband, or at least she has for the last forty years of their marriage. Sareh is the stay at home mom, who cooks for her family and cleans clothes, plates, and mops the entire house. These were the responsibilities of women as far a the patriotic culture was concerned. Men on the other hand, were the ones that went out got educated, had “actual” jobs and the family’s providers. The usually tended to ignore the women