The Subjection of Women

The gift of life is a blessing and it’s inevitable to realize it’s not always granted. It can be taken at any time, of any day. With this in thought, most try to live life to the fullest, always looking for immediate satisfaction to gratify life. The Quality of life has drastically shifted to revolve around mainstream culture, thereby concluding how westernized values are becoming idealized to inflict oppression towards the lives of all ethnic backgrounds. This idea confirms why many…

moral failure on her part. While men also encounter pressure to meet society's physical standards, the stakes are much lower. In most cases, men are not defined by their inability or unwillingness to conform the way women often are. Because of this extreme pressure they experience, women learn to scrutinize and objectify their own bodies, which contributes to creating a fractured sense of self. This is just one way in which women's bodies…

scarce. After marriage women had to give control of their property to the husband. A woman place was in the home caring for the children and tending to domestic affairs. Equality for women changed in the 1800s. Coeducational studies at the university became available. State laws were put in place that allowed married women to keep their property (“Gender-Discrimination-History,” n.d., para. 1). Harriet Taylor Mills was an English philosopher and an advocate for the rights of women in the…

her essay mentioned in the first chapter of the thesis when she states that “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender” (Walker, 1983). Interestingly, purple is associated by some researchers with the suffragette movement as well as with the women`s liberation movement (Diwakar, 2014). They organized The Purple Rain Protest which aim was to establish equal rights for the black. In this context, the color purple is a symbol of the fight for equal rights, freedom and acceptance within the…

Most feminist political thought scholar support the notion that western political thought has failed to include women in the category of “human” and its emancipatory promise is illusory or even dishonest. However, this paper focuses on the strong evidence from Carole Pateman, which she claims that the whole story is not revealed especially with social contract writers. Also, the civilized age with the help of technology, keeps on following the footsteps of the political thought writers to make…

My Wife’s Career First,” A Doll’s House, and On the Subjection of Women Women have historically been relegated to domestic roles, while men have been designated for more public roles. As a means of helping women in the struggle for gender equality, nineteenth-century Western writers began to detail the faulty factors that contributed to the problem. Some authors, including John Stuart Mill with his book The Subjection of Women, argued that women had proven themselves capable of handling similar…

The Nature vs. Nurture debate is the argument about whether human behavior is determined by aspects of the environment or genetic. In my opinion, behavior is governed by the environment and is not natural. Every little thing in life happens for a reason. I use this debate when discussing the implications of social constructionism. Gerda Lerner, Tukufu Zaberi, Jonathan Katz, Mary Wollstoncraft and John Stuart Mills all make crucial claims, proving that the development of oppression stems from…

During class, the topic of women has been discussed. In the Victorian Time period, women were not thought highly of. For example, people believed that men were lusty beasts and as a result women only had sex with their husbands to satisfy their lust. Women were seen as good for only two things, reproduction, stimulate the sexual desire of a man, maintain the household and care for the children. Women were predominately covered up all of the time and were never supposed to be completely naked as…

tool for the colonies. Inspired by the ideas of Thomas Paine, John Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu and other philosophers from the age of enlightenment the founding fathers found it essential for them to break free from under Britain’s oppression and subjection. The Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Tax, Townshend taxes, quartering of troops, impressment, the Boston Massacre, the cutting off colonial trade with others parts of the world, and having the colonies pay for war expenses were all signs of the…

the Southern horticultural construct economy was subordinate in light of that part of the work power to suspend the practice. Christian impacts presented another dilemma of Southern slave proprietors; while some Christian organizations condemned subjection, others could legitimize through perverted Biblical understanding that made bondage appear to be honest according to God. Perhaps the monetary need combined with a bit of kind treatment toward dark slaves made the foundation of servitude…