Breaking Women is an ethnography piece by Jill McCorkel that speaks of how prisons changes over time given the War on Drugs movement, but she just doesn’t talk about men prisons. She talks about women prisons. She also mentions how race and gender affect the encounters women have in prison. The book starts off with McCorkel talking of how prisons use to be.…
The poem Jugged Hare was written by Jean Earle. It covers the events in which a woman makes her husband a meal called jugged hare. She has to skin and gut it despite not wanting to, however does it to please her husband. It is thought that the poem is based during the 1930s or 1940s; a time where there was great gender inequality. At this time, it was a woman’s role to do housework and please her husband, however challenging the task is.…
Renegade Women Renegade Women: Gender, Identity, and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean by Eric Dursteler tells real-historic tales of women in Mediterranean area, which has been a multi-cultural and multi-religious reigon with the Ottoman presence. The main focus of these tales are women who stand for what they believe themselves and not what their families chose them to believe. In the second part of the book, the story of two girls from two sides of Ottoman-Venice border is told.…
Thus, despite his liaisons he always finds himself coming back to her. Yet, she is not content with this relationship. Her repetition of “I can do this” comes with a lack of sincerity. Just because she comes off as pure and sweet does not make it so. She clearly desires the man in the poem, she clearly disapproves of his womanizing.…
In the article Don't Forget about Flint, Michigan by Philip Lewis we see a tragic situation that could have been handled more precisely. Unlike a hurricane which can’t be prevented, this water crisis could have been prevented. Coming from a Utilitarian point of view, the Flint water debate is something less than tragic. The government has put the citizens in a spot were they can’t even get clean water to do normal, daily things. Over half of Flint’s population is African American and they see it as a way of putting the less wealthy in a spot to suffer more than the rich.…
In the poem “The White Judges” by Marilyn Dumont, the speaker is aware of how she and her Indigenous family are consistently being judged by the primarily white population. The poem juxtaposes the family with the encircling colonialists who wait to demean and assimilate the group. Consequently, the family faces the pressures of being judged for their cultural practices, resulting in a sense of shame and guilt. Dumont’s use of prose and lyrical voice distinctly highlights the theme of being judged by white society. Her integration of figurative language enhances the Indigenous tradition and cultural practices throughout the poem.…
In Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England, Elizabeth Reis thoroughly discussed how the Puritan religion played a role in shaping the lives of the Puritan individuals. Puritanism had stressed women as having the role of only obeying their husband and tending to both the children and the household. Women who followed the Puritan religion were supposed to abide by the standards determined by God; those who did not abide were condemned as the ones who were found to be greatly possessed by Satan and were the ones who had been accused of participating in witchcraft. Therefore, the gender stereotypical ideals that Puritanism portrayed had been a key factor in why Puritan women were more likely to be possessed by Satan and accused of witchcraft.…
Subject Matter: The poem is a scenario about the inevitability of restlessness in the life of a transient-like family. This event is an Australian phenomenon, originated from shearers and rouseabouts (unskilled labourers, or odd jobbers) during the early colonial times. The family is constantly moving from place to place. A lot of Australian families went through similar situations during the time of economic hardship, including Bruce Dawe. The author of this poem that was written in 1999.…
The composer romanticises ideas of motherhood throughout this poem and expresses the hardships experienced. Her childhood home was a place of stories and songs, recounted to her by her mother and grandmother and her childhood had a pivotal effect on her writing. Everything she writes about has been infused with the radiance of those days in Brisbane growing up through the 1980s. The poem is about a daughter who has just faced the death of her mother.…
Deborah Gray White, author of Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South, courageously plunges into the research and understanding of the slave experience through race and gender. The overall slave experience of the antebellum South is often represented by the male experience. For the first time, White brings forth an understanding of slave life through the female lens. White reasons that the female slave experience differed from the male slave experience due to the assigned gender roles.…
Craig’s Essay Analysis In Men’s Men and Women’s Women by Steve Crag, he argues about the purpose of using gendered images and portrayals in advertising. Advertisers look to target audience such as men and women who are at home watching daytime televisions on weekdays or those who are at home on the weekend watching sports. Prime time (evening) is a good time to reach women who are outside of home and also the men who fall in this category. These gendered programs and portrayals are constructed for the desires of the target audience to watch.…
The writing style in this poem includes long, descriptive lines. Having the long lines with the descriptions helps to let the reader know the way society thinks as well as describes the woman herself. Describing the young woman is important because at the end of the poem she commits suicide. A young woman is being described as being normal, but then society is saying…
The story "Suzy and Leah", by Jane Yolen is about two young girls who meet at school, one being an everyday school girl, and one being a German-born Jew who moved to America. At first, they didn't get along, but as the story progresses, they start to understand each other. Suzy always does good in school, and she must be doing too good because she gets placed to help with one of the refugees. The rudest, stubbornest one in her opinion. Leah is a refugee who came from Germany and has to learn how to assimilate into this new crowd of people, especially this girl named Suzy who she is placed with to work with on English.…
The narrators tone in the poem is appreciative and peaceful. The poem contains stanzas, imagery, comparison but…
She put her education to good use by making many poems, religious hymns, children’s books and essays in her lifetime. Obviously, the theme of women and femininity is present in the piece. She starts off with a call to arms to all of the women in the world, and asks them to stand up and fight for their rights, however, she seems to back off in the last few stanzas of the poem. It is difficult be sure, but she might be trying to put a sense of irony in the piece.…