...During the late 1800's women were treated unequally compared to women in the household as well as the work place. The late 1800's and beginning of the nineteenth century, women were typically belittled and analyzed harshly. Women were treated indifferently from men in all aspects, especially in the work place. As stated, "Female workers experienced wage labor differently, depending on marital status, race, class, and citizenship." (Louis Barner, pg. 1-16) In other words women discriminated in the work place. Altogether, during this time men had a higher chance of succeeding and getting the job one truly desired rather women as they were expected to stay home. In the same manner, wives were not supposed to work outside the home nor paid labor. As stated, "By 1890, only 4.5...
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...“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892 that follows a married woman and her husband and doctor, John, in order to aid in her recovery from a mental illness for which John has prescribed a rest cure. The story focuses on this rest cure, its effects on the narrator, and how her mental affliction makes her consider her role as woman in both her marriage and society. In her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Gilman examines the treatment of mental afflictions in women during the 19th century. One way that Gilman examines the treatment of mental afflictions in women during the 19th century is through the characterization of John in order to display his disregard of female patients and their conditions.....
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...in the late 1800's. His work is highly debated to this day. Despite this, his theories are still widely accepted and have spawned their own form of criticism. If we apply Freud's theories to Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" we look into a world of what Freud would have called the hysterical. When Gilman wrote this piece she was trying to describe the "therapy" that she received for her hysterical spells years earlier. Freud's work or the "talking cure" was still not widely accepted to treat psychological problems. A psychoanalytic reading of Gilman's piece would lead us to see a woman who is most likely still haunted by her expiriences while under psychological duress. We can also see Perkins' opinion on the course of therapy that she received. If the woman was not mad before her complete and total separation from society her incarceration brought her there in short order. Through the use of Freudian theory we know that Perkins suffered greatly from her depression & suffered even more from her misdiagnoses. We can also surmise that though the womans movement of the late 19th century was in full swing one of the only forums that she had to vent her frustrations and problems was in her writing. Since the talking cure was yet to be realized as a viable resources for treating "hysterics" Gilman was left only with pen & paper to vent her concerns. It is also reasonable to conclude that her sexuality influenced her opinion of the men in her stories. Though she married, we know...
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...Susan B. Anthony for the first time. The two women soon became personal and political partners. Eighteen years later, when the Women’s Rights Movement split apart, the two women created the NWSA (National Woman Suffrage Association). Both women seemed to have different lives. While Anthony was much more independent and strong willed, Stanton had married and bared seven children. Even though both women had different lifestyles, they shared the same political goals (Burns 1999). While the NWSA was up and running, the women covered many equality issues, with the right to vote being the most...
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...rights movement period women faced political, economic, and social challenges. Women were meant to maintain the house and raise their children while men went to work outside home. Women also could not vote during the period of late 1800’s to 1960’sthat period. Women mostly increasingly involved themselves in their family life. Women’s life lives was were bounded around their family as they went for shopping only when they were accompanied by their husbands or their children. . Women since that period and till now face a lot of social problems. Especially educated women had tremendous knowledge to influence both man and a boy but due to problems of domesticity like taking care of family members and the house, many women feltel frustrated. They often felt feel a sense of contraction and lost opportunities as they did do dishes and remaining household work and wentgo to sleep. Educated women of the civil rights movement period were not happy with the ideology of domesticity of the gilded age as many had a college education and desired to put their hard work, education, and knowledge for their own self-growthfor good . A woman in the 1950’s appealed for a right to be a “modern young women.” . The right to have economic independence by having a job that is not completely involved in domesticity and have individual choice which is not guided by her family. But this individualism left her alone in a world that continued to discriminate against women . The biggest social challenge...
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...Hour” (1894) is a fictional short story presumably set in America in the late 19th century. Chopin’s story is a description of an hour in the life of Louise Mallard, the protagonist in the story. The subject of the story is the transformation of Louise Mallard after she learns about the supposed death of her husband, Brently Mallard; what she thinks and how she feels as she is alone and contemplates self-assertion for the first time. (Koloski) Chopin first introduces the reader to the main character as only Mrs. Mallard. Given the time period of the story, Chopin directs the reader to the conclusion that Mrs. Mallard has no identity of her own. This reference to her as only by her husband’s last name foreshadows how marriage represses Mrs. Mallard and realistically like many women of this time in history. The virtuous wife, in Mrs. Mallard’s world, accepts the idea that her husband has a right to impose a private will upon her. (Jamil) During the time period in which the story takes place, married women are in a subservient role to their husbands under the “femme covert laws.” “Covert refers to a woman’s legal status after marriage: legally upon marriage, the husband and wife were treated as one entity. In essence, the wife’s separate legal existence disappeared as far as property.” (Lewis 1) A married woman’s very being is under her husband’s control. These laws and restrictions society places upon women in that day helps the reader better understand why Mrs. Mallard feels so...
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...Family Theorizing and Researching 1. Structural Theories a) Materialism & Conflict theory Marx & Engles -changes in family lives reflect material change (ex, the mode of production, industrialization) macro-micro focus -power differences characterize society at all levels (ex, capitalism creates: exploitation of men in the workforce; oppression of women b) Political Economy -assumes the power of the one class over another (social control), capitalist relations of production -a more concentrated focus on how economic and political processes shape society and history and therefore family, families c) Structural Functionalism Parsons & Bales -the social institution of the family - family is seen as a function, and different parts of society helps it move along -the nuclear family performs functions -they saw the families as a main faction, economic support, these functions that happen in nuclear families include economic support -equilibrium, all parts help it work as a whole -hierarchical generations and role specialization within families produces harmony -the different roles that men and women take on, allows the family be a harmony -parsons and bales, gendered perspective on families, families having instrumental roles such as achieving income, feed the family, cloth the family, this would be men 2. Symbolic Interactionism Mead & Cooley - individuals create their own family realities through micro level interactions -from this perspective...
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...Carlos Gonzalez Professor Dr. Wiggins 26, September 2011 Essay # 1 Throughout history many people have fought for their freedom in many ways. People have protested, marched, and even fought wars in order to preserve their rights. Women fought for equal rights. The black population fought to be freed from slavery. Today everyone is free and everyone has equal rights, but even today in 2011 after women have the same authority as men, some men still see women as their property. Some men still think the female is meant to stay home, Cook, clean, and take care of the children and her husband. Many females with a low education tend to follow their husbands commands. These circumstances are shown to us In The Story Of An Hour, by Kate Chopin, she explains in her short story how men and women observed life. Men were responsible of certain things and women were responsible of certain duties as well. This was normal for a typical matrimony in the late 1800’s. In this short story the protagonist, Mrs. Louise Mallard, lives with her husband, Mr. Mallard, in a rural setting. There has been a railroad disaster in which people think Mrs. Mallard husband was involved and died. Kate’s sister Josephine does not know how to tell her sister about the incident since Louise suffers from heart problems. Once Louise finds out about the incident, her first reaction is to cry and run to her room. Kate Chopin uses positive description to describe the room. Even though she had just gotten the...
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...The Changing Role of Women Since 1865 “It can be said that the feminist movement has resulted in action and legislation; that in consciousness-raising it has found a new technique and self-realization; that at its very best it has counseled that men as well as women should be able to do and to be whatever they wish- and that if this involves men staying at home while women work, so be it” (Banner, 1974, p. 250). Women have come a long way since the late 1800s. They have fought many hard battles to change the way they were viewed in American society and have achieved much over the decades. The movement of women’s rights and being treated as an equal to men has been part of history for well over 100 years as women fought to be heard by obtaining a higher education, equality in the job market and in the voting booth. “Before the Civil War women could attend only three private colleges. After the war they had new ones all their own, among them Smith (1871), Wellesley (1875), and Bryn Mawr (1885)” (Davidson et al., 2008, p. 587). In the 1920s, a woman with a college education was part of a small advantaged group. The female students were discriminated against and in some cases, were asked to withdraw from courses so that a man could take her place in the classroom. Women were not taken seriously in the college setting. Men were the ones with the bachelor’s or master’s degrees at a rate of two to one. However, by 1970 this rate did change. For every five men that received...
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...fought by many different races, genders, and groups of people. Women have fought for things like the right to vote, work and be treated as equal individuals for more than a decade and though there has been a little head way in our society there are still some things women are looked over. The same could be said for the gay community. There are big issues that will touch on such as work, marriage, adoption, and opportunities that the gay communities have been discriminated against. A Long Way to Equality A Long Way to Equality For decades now women have been fighting for equality in many areas of life. Wethier it was the right to vote, equal opportunity in work environments or just to be treated as equals it has been a fight since at least the late 1700’s. Between the 1700’s early and the1800’s it was under common law that a woman leaving her husband not only had to give up her name but also all the property and belongs to her husband. It was as if all the work that women did to maintain a home was not good enough to be able to keep what was obtains during the marriage. In 1776 Abigail Adams wrote her husband in reference to the Deceleration of Independence reminding him that women “will not hold ourselves bound by laws which we have no voice.” Over time it seems the struggle for women wanting equal things such as work opportunity and education began to develop. In the mid 1800’s a woman name Emma Hart Willard wrote a “Plan for improving female...
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...The Women of Today are Thankful for the Women of Our Past Student Name HIST 204 Naomi Rendina September 3, 2012 The Women of Today are Thankful for the Women of Our Past The American Women started out as the basic homemaker since coming to the New World. They were seen as nothing but a person that should stay home with the children, tend to the land and their husbands. As the world began to change, so did the view point and the rights of women. This change did not happen overnight and it was not an easy battle. The women of our past paved the road so that the women today can play a major role in the military, politics and on the home front of America. The first battle for women’s rights came in the mid to late 1800’s, prior to the Civil War at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. The movement came to a sudden halt, just as it started to begin, due to the Civil War. In 1869 the proposed 15th Amendment, which gave black men the right to vote, fueled the women’s right movement even more (Bowles 2011). Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton played a major role in the early part of this movement. In May 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; an organization made up primarily of women. Their object was to secure an amendment to the Constitution in favor of women's suffrage, and they opposed passage of the Fifteenth Amendment unless it was changed to guarantee to women the right to vote...
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...your life frightens you, and all of a sudden that beautiful woman standing next you is looking more like a prison warden, rather than your future wife. Whatever your views or opinions on marriage may be one things for certain; no one ever walked down the aisle, said their vows, and pledged before God and everyone most precious to them expecting to fail. Marriage was not always based on the idea of two people falling in love and wanting to spend the rest of their lives together. In the 1800’s marriage was not just regarded as the joining of two people, but the joining of families, businesses, and wealth. Many women had suitors pre-arranged for them by their fathers. Although most marriages were based on the idea of security and companionship, that doesn’t mean that love did not exist in marriage. Once married, it was very difficult for a woman to divorce. The Matrimonial Act of 1857 gave men the right to divorce their wives on the grounds of adultery. However, there was no such act granting women that same right. Once divorced, the husband would automatically gain custody of the...
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...The suffrage movement occurred around the early 19th century and it was one of the primary social transformations in American history. Women battled for their rights and thought suffrage existed as the greatest effective to change an unfair system. Iron Jawed Angels was a flick that covered a period in U.S. history with the tussles from women that battled for their privileges to vote. In a nation controlled by prejudice, it was very challenging for women to battle against the men. Females were continuously labeled and were measured to be a weaker gender. The idea that was involved was that women were always seen to have certain responsibility. Men believed that caring for the children was to be their only role that was considered appropriate for females. The women was seen as a substandard when they contributed to legislations but, males were always seen to be the strong ones and their thinking’s that without man we would not be anywhere. Suffrage is known as, the right or opportunity of electing and is often combined among the rights of residency. Nevertheless, not all individuals in the United States are automatically allowed the privilege of citizenship, not all citizens are evenly capable with the right to vote. Throughout U.S. history, many individuals were refused suffrage established upon race, sex, age, and salary. The nonexistence of widespread suffrage traditionally stemmed in a landslide of debates, disputes and encouragement for political improvement. However, in...
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...Supporters also argue that legalizing same-sex marriages will positively impact society at large, not just homosexuals. Opponents of same-sex unions claim that marriage is a religious tradition that must not “cave in” to immoral attitudes; in fact, many states have or have attempted to pass constitutional bans on same-sex marriage. After considering the arguments on both sides and reviewing several readings on the matter, it seems that homosexual couples should, in fact, be allowed to legally marry. The opportunity to marry the spouse of one’s choice, regardless of gender, is a constitutional right that should receive the same protections as ethnic minorities, women, and those who practice different religions. Gay marriage supporters point out that heterosexual couples are granted many rights and benefits when they get married. These rights include...
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...blacksmith. He lives in the town of Rochester during the 1800’s with his mother two sisters and four brothers, all between the ages of 6 months old- 16 years old. Jonathan goes to school from November to April because the other months are harvesting time. He dresses like his father with overalls and boots. Jonathan has been trying to save up money so he can afford to buy a hat for his pa when he has the sun beating on his head when they harvest the crops, corn, wheat, and beans. His father takes him out of school when it comes time for the harvesting season. All of the family except for his sisters and mother come to help them in the fields. The women in the family stay and clean the house or cook and tend to the babies. Joseph had taught him how to farm starting when Jonathan reached the age of 10, of course at that time he didn’t have the strength to lift the heavy wood so he would carry the water buckets to and from the fields to water the plants during the dry seasons. As an apprentice of his father’s Jonathan would help take orders and clean out the fire until he was old enough and more experienced enough to actually start making the items. Some of the items people would request where horseshoes, and parts for carriages. Shovels or other construction tools used for building had also been made in the blacksmith’s shop too. The men would start their work at around five or six o’clock in the morning and work as late as eight or nine o’clock. During the workday Jonathan and...
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