Women's suffrage

Christine De Pizan was a French Renaissance writer who by disobeying many traditional roles that were forced upon women and fighting for what she believed true wrote many inspiring works that helped the women during the Renaissance. She was born in Venice, Italy in the year of 1365 and lived during the French Renaissance Period. She is also one of the few women who was educated and able to write. She spent her lifetime of sixty-five years writing about religion, politics, morals, and what will…

“A Long Road To Somewhere” Out of the ashes a princess rises, since 1999 she has been growing, glowing, and becoming a queen. I have fought my hardest in the past eighteen years to get where I am today. I am not the same person I was in the past and I am not yet who I will be in the future. I have come a long way from the silly little girl with the gap to the very tomboyish pre-teen, to “that one girl with half her head shaved” in middle school, to the depressed high school kid trying to save…

The Last of the Mohicans, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and the play Zuit Suit both have very different gender roles throughout. Except the fact that all three authors use something against women. Rather it be that they have no power, they are absent from the piece of literature, or they play a big role in the society but still get frowned upon. All three of these pieces look at women as lacking power or not allowed to acquire power. Women were looked at nothing else except a person who was not needed in…

Classical female rhetoricians needed to utilise several rhetorical strategies in order to navigate the misogynistic landscape of past societies and to have their arguments heard. Logos, pathos, and ethos can be found within Hortensia, Julian of Norwich, and Christine de Pizan’s works as tools to allow them to speak and record their thoughts during a period where women were forbidden to do so, and subsequently make lasting impacts on society’s view of women. Hortensia uses logos in her “Speech…

In hard times many people feel they are being wronged whether it’s about their race, gender, or employment. This often leads to a unification of like minded individuals looking to change the things they feel are unsuitable for others and their own life. A leader of social justice who fought for the rights of the people was young mother, Ella May Wiggins. She died standing strong in her beliefs on the rights of workers and the standards at which their jobs should be held. She is not unlike the…

Personal velocity by Rebecca Miller is a series of seven short stories all in one novel. They are about seven different women, describing their personalities and how they are shaped. Each character was unique in their own way, but the background of their lives was usually the same. The three characters I liked more were Greta, Delia, and Julianne. These three women have very different basic core personalities. A core personality is are primary traits that people develop usually in their…

connection between the rise of patriarchy in ancient times and the situation today where scholars are having to rediscover the contributions made by women in the past. The connection between the rise of patriarchy and scholars having to rediscover women’s contributions is that as patriarchy began to rise the contributions made by women began to be forgotten or lost. As horticulture based agricultural societies became more plow based the development of patriarchy began to rise because men became…

Richard A. Epstein’s article “The problem with ‘Equal Pay’: a competitive labor market will make short work of pay gaps” was the first article that I chose. I found this article on the Opposing Viewpoints in Context database. I chose to discuss this article first because it connects to my question the strongest and makes a lot of excellent points on the gender pay gap. The author talks a lot about how the gender pay gap is mistaken for being because of discrimination against women. Epstein also…

Being a woman in modern society comes with the pressure of being modest but not prude, sexy but not slutty, coy but not rude, strong but not powerful. Women are held to high, contradicting standards that are unrealistic to meet. I have always been the girl to call out injustice and voice my opinion; I am outspoken, opinionated, and passionate. However, to society I am seen as a bitch who needs to keep my thoughts to myself. For a majority of my life, I took offense to this term. People were…

Taking Joy in Work: A Critical Analysis of Gendered and Racial Stereotypes in Joy The new blockbuster film, Joy, showed a lot of promise. It was billed as a woman persevering and marketing her new invention: the self-wringing mop. Presuming it would be a refreshing and feminist portrayal of women in the workplace was ultimately disappointing, though. While the film did have one or two poignant moments, the bad outweighed the good. The movie was based on a true story, so I fear audiences will let…