Woman

fascinated with people who have spent their lives passing as what is believed to be not an authentic self. The infamous former Spoanoke NAACP president, Rachel Dolezal, was thrown into the spotlight after it was discovered she was a white woman passing as a black woman. Lance Bass, former N’Sync boy band heart throb, spent years in the closet passing as a straight man to not to jeopardize the marketability of the band to young women. For transgender individuals, the notion of passing is much…

observations and by chronicling her own experience as a young woman growing up in the time of the black power movement. Much of the tension she mentions between black women and the black power movement permeate today and her identity as a black woman is a direct product of this tension. Reading this book caused me to become more aware of the cultural factors that shaped my identity. In the book, Wallace describes the archetype of the strong black woman. In fear of embodying this archetype,…

The book Woman at Point Zero, by Nawal El Saadawi has generalized the social group of women as objects instead of human beings by the way they are portrayed in the novel. You see this perspective by the way Firdaus, one of the characters, experiences being a female in Egypt. You vision her experiencing being molested at a young age through her depiction of the story. By the way we see all females in general, you get the sense that all females experience sexual abuse and are forced to live under…

Giulietta and the immigrant woman, they are very similar yet differ in their personality. Both of them are very protective and caring of their children. Giulietta worries about the future for Filippo, so she urges the family to move off the island. The immigrant women endures several hardships for two years with her son in order to be reunited with her husband. However, Giulietta seems more playful with her son as shown in the scene where she tickles him. The immigrant woman is more serious with…

To be a woman is not easy considering the hardship and abuse that a great number of women endure during their lifetime. In this story I will share what some of these hardships was about. The once ruling patriarchal system for the last two millennia has been declining to give room for a new era, where women have more ‘freedom.’ And, as a teenager I was totally confused about what that meant. In the old system there were so many points of views that did not serve our humanity, which created…

Throughout The Woman Warrior, Kingston reports a complex portrayal of the 20th century experiences of Chinese-Americans living in the U.S in the shadow of the Chinese Revolution. “ White Tigers”, the second chapter, has the feel of a warrior epic. It is drawn from a traditional Chinese myth about a woman who fights in place of her father. It is separated into two completely opposing sections. the first one being the telling of Fa Mu Lan’s heroic story, portraying a strong, independent woman of…

which Wonder Woman delivers in fantastic fashion. For example, intertwined throughout the movie are numerous jokes and one-liners that brighten up the otherwise somber setting of World War I Europe and bring the audience to laughter. Furthermore, the soundtrack provides exhilarating and suspenseful music to pair with the spectacular visuals. The massive action scenes such as the Battle of Themyscira and the charging of the trench are just another example of what makes Wonder Woman an amazing…

Written during the Dirty War in Argentina, a time of political and societal unrest, Kiss of the Spider Woman is a novel placed in a category of its own. Developing a connection between the hearts and minds of a revolutionary and a romantic, this text challenges the machismo culture and accentuates the volatile nature of morality. Incorporating an array of art forms, this work by Argentinian author Manuel Puig, has managed to obscure the lines of genre, gender, and wrongdoing. Through the use of…

Sorrowful Woman.” Gail Godwin lived with her mother and grandmother, seeing their forced independence influenced her to write about the characters searching for their identities (“Gail Godwin” Par. 3). Meanwhile, Kate Chopin’s father died in a railroad accident, which made her get close to her mom and great-grandmother. While living in Cloutierville, she developed her urban ways and collected material for use in her later work (“Kate Chopin: Overview” Par. 2). Godwin’s “A Sorrowful Woman” is…

In The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong has ambivalent sentiments about being a Chinese female. In the Chinese culture daughters are treated as a liability and that made her wish she was a boy when she was younger. The way her parents and other Chinese people speak about girls is one of the reasons that she seems to at sometimes resent the Chinese culture. However, she really seems to identify with the figure of the women warrior. As a kid she was told the story of Fa Mulan and to wants to be like her…