Gloria Naylor

glance into Joan Didion’s life would put readers under the assumption that she identifies as a standard second-wave feminist. A prominent female writer in the 1960s, Didion had initially left me drawing connections to the likes of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem. Even her stern gaze present on book covers and articles seems to give off a sense of feminine mystique. But after careful venture into her work, it is my understanding that while feminism plays a role in what Didion tackles as a…

Action Assignment 1 Feminism have been around for a long period of time, while feminist in the past and present have accomplished a lot, there are still some anti-feminists who opposed everything that feminist have done or trying to do. Society have come a long way when it comes to feminism, many changes happened because of the hard work of people who are feminist who are not afraid to stand up for what they believe in. After reading different articles on “ The Eagle Forum “ and “ The Feminist…

Gloria Steinem is an American journalist, feminist, and social activist. Born in Ohio, early in her life her mother became an invalid and her father left the family. She followed her dreams and became a writer, organizer, and reporter. Her work focused on equal rights for women, which later helped found the National Women’s Political Caucus and feminist magazine Ms. In her op-ed piece, Women Are Never Front Runners, Steinem asks us to imagine a female Barack Obama. Keep in mind this piece was…

debate in the Philippines then and now. In this paper, you will see how the English language adapted in the educational system of the Philippines and how the mother tongue language sporadically spread in the Philippines. In 2003, former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) signed the Executive Order No. 20, which aims to strengthen the use of the English language “to maintain and improve their competitive edge in emerging and fast-growing local and international industries, particularly in…

In an attempt to give body meaning, Irigaray refuses to accept the binary of the sexed body. Patriarchy views the male and female body within a constant framework. Time-periods, cultures, and traditions shape the body with different representations. Irigaray wants the body removed from its normative constraints of patriarchy. This paper consists of Irigaray’s theory while also comparing and contrasting it to other theorists including Bartky, Anzaldua, and Daly. Luce Irigaray is a well-known…

In a radical kind she calls autohistoria, which offers an inventive approach to compose history, Gloria Anzaldua presents a nonlinear history of both the geological and mental scenes of Borderlands. Anzaldua's autohistoria is a class of blended media—individual story, testimonio, true records, cuento, and verse—that disproves stasis pretty much as the Borderlands from which Anzaldua comes. As indicated by Anzaldua, the Fringe is a "third nation" whose history as been told on Anglocentric terms,…

In both "To live in the Borderlands means you. . .", by Gloria Anzaldua, and "Crying poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca the authors use various unique stylistic techniques and figures of speech to not just tell the reader of their past, but to paint a picture of the circumstances they faced when growing and how they have affected them. In "Crying Poem", Baca uses the structure of his poem and various stylistic techniques to reflect the frustration and internal conflict he has faced having to "grow…

moving personal stories of each customer. However, amidst these astonishing stories lies a clear distinction between the characterization of men and women of the café. Through a selective omniscient point of view from Bailey and Nadine, author Gloria Naylor seems to depict the women to be weaker than the men. While Bailey, and at times his wife, provides the readers impartial, non-judgmental insight to each customer’s lives, the women have experienced extreme amounts of trauma, prejudice, inner…

Word” by Gloria Naylor and “Being a Chink” by Christine Leong examines how hurtful and degrading words can be. Both authors shared similar thoughts on the topic of these derogatory terms and their effect. The authors show how hurtful slanderous words can be. While some differences between Naylors piece and Leong’s piece are evident, the similarities are striking. Both authors, share the purpose of trying to show the meaning of these harmful words and their underlying effects on people.…

In response to the issue of the n-word, Gloria Naylor reasons that the word can be meant differently based on who says it. Naylor considers the n-word inferior to the frustration of writers on the awareness when discussing about the n-word. The n-word based on what Naylor describes seems not to be an insult, but for a different purpose in an understanding meaning. Naylor builds her personal reason by explaining how the community utilizes it and the ethicalal aspects of it in the way it's being…