Works Cited
Hooks, Bell. “The Significance of Feminist Movement.” A World of Ideas: Essential Reading for College Writers. Ed. Lee A Jacobus. 7th Ed. New York; Bedford St. Martins, 2006. Pp 821-831
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Blog 17 Bell Hooks
The Significance Of Feminist Movement pg 821
What does Hooks see as the mistakes of the early feminists?
-Bell Hooks did a very great job for women and men to understand the feminist movement. She mainly discussed “exploitation and oppression of women”, basically women struggles. Hooks make a good point that “ some feminist efforts actually pushed people away who might have had a stake in the movement”(pg822), which to me mean that women had opportunities and goals that could have been pushed away. Hooks said it defiantly happened to women of color than privileged white women, but white women as Hooks explained, there lives was still based on limited opportunity. I think that women in the modern society were afraid to express how they felt about never being equally to men. Women did want to go out and work in stead of being home all the time, but now in today’s society there are working independent women who do both work and take care of their household. I appreciate the women in the modern society because they went through so much that women today couldn’t even survive through some of the issues that women fought for or went through. Most women and men I think don’t appreciate the struggles the women had to come across so women in the next generation won’t suffer from the same causes. There is still a controversy between both sexes and I believe that there will always continue to be a major issue because men will still think they have control over everything and treat women as if they was below them and women will continue to be strong and speak up for what’s right.
What does Hooks see as the mistakes of the early feminists?
-Bell Hooks did a very great job for women and men to understand the feminist movement. She mainly discussed “exploitation and oppression of women”, basically women struggles. Hooks make a good point that “ some feminist efforts actually pushed people away who might have had a stake in the movement”(pg822), which to me mean that women had opportunities and goals that could have been pushed away. Hooks said it defiantly happened to women of color than privileged white women, but white women as Hooks explained, there lives was still based on limited opportunity. I think that women in the modern society were afraid to express how they felt about never being equally to men. Women did want to go out and work in stead of being home all the time, but now in today’s society there are working independent women who do both work and take care of their household. I appreciate the women in the modern society because they went through so much that women today couldn’t even survive through some of the issues that women fought for or went through. Most women and men I think don’t appreciate the struggles the women had to come across so women in the next generation won’t suffer from the same causes. There is still a controversy between both sexes and I believe that there will always continue to be a major issue because men will still think they have control over everything and treat women as if they was below them and women will continue to be strong and speak up for what’s right.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Blog 16 Carol Gilligan
Woman’s Place In Man’s life cycle pg 797
What are the difference between man and women in terms of the way they regard relationships?
-Gilligan reading I thought was a very easy and understandable reading. Gillian discussed issues regarding boys and girls of how people have these boy games that prepare boys for competition later in life and girls probably tend to be more girly and not having to do anything. Gilligan stated that “fair treatment of the sexes they thought demanded that the sexes be more alike than different.”(pg 798). I think that fair treatment would emphasis equality between both sexes , because men and women are always going to be different, however society sets it up as men are suppose to be dominant and competitive and women are suppose to be just housewives. Personally I think women would make a better president because a woman can handle situations better than a man because a man, not all are more likely to put the state a risk. Men always judge women like they think we don’t have any capabilities0 of doing anything. In Beauvoir view men tend to judge women as the “other” rather than a woman with than with their own nature and identities”. Gilligan stated growing up girls would prefer to be more like their mothers and boys like their fathers. I highly agree because boys do tend to want to be like their father while the girls want to be more like their mother because that’s how it always been. Even though they look up to both parents the boy may see his father being the man of the house going to work and having control of the relationship while the girl see’s her mother being a loving mother, raising children, cleaning, cooking, and being the best mother and wife there is. This shows how Gilligan explained how society separates people and made deviant in society.
What are the difference between man and women in terms of the way they regard relationships?
-Gilligan reading I thought was a very easy and understandable reading. Gillian discussed issues regarding boys and girls of how people have these boy games that prepare boys for competition later in life and girls probably tend to be more girly and not having to do anything. Gilligan stated that “fair treatment of the sexes they thought demanded that the sexes be more alike than different.”(pg 798). I think that fair treatment would emphasis equality between both sexes , because men and women are always going to be different, however society sets it up as men are suppose to be dominant and competitive and women are suppose to be just housewives. Personally I think women would make a better president because a woman can handle situations better than a man because a man, not all are more likely to put the state a risk. Men always judge women like they think we don’t have any capabilities0 of doing anything. In Beauvoir view men tend to judge women as the “other” rather than a woman with than with their own nature and identities”. Gilligan stated growing up girls would prefer to be more like their mothers and boys like their fathers. I highly agree because boys do tend to want to be like their father while the girls want to be more like their mother because that’s how it always been. Even though they look up to both parents the boy may see his father being the man of the house going to work and having control of the relationship while the girl see’s her mother being a loving mother, raising children, cleaning, cooking, and being the best mother and wife there is. This shows how Gilligan explained how society separates people and made deviant in society.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Works Cited
De Beauvoir, Simone. "Woman: Myth and Reality." A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers. Ed. Lee A. Jacobus.
7th ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2006. pp. 784-794
7th ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2006. pp. 784-794
Blog 15
Woman: Myth and Reality
Simone De Beauvoir
When reading Simone De Beauvoir essay Woman: Myth and Reality I thought the reading was a little difficult to understand. I read important facts that she discussed about women, mysterious, and equality. Beauvoir points out that “a woman like man is being rooted in nature she is more enslaved to the species than is the male”(Beauvoir 787). I thin she proves a very interesting point that in reality a woman is more like a man, she cooks, clean, take care of the children, and take care of her husband at the same time. She also stated in her rhetoric that mysteriousness does not serve men or woman well. That means that a woman defines or calls herself a mystery she will always be lower than the man. In paragraph 11 Beauvoir explains a woman who is mystery “that she is no t silent, her language is not understood she is hidden behind appearance”(Beauvoir 188). A woman who is mystery can mean all of thee above she can be silent, a housewife, crazy, wild because she’s just a woman with different appearances who can be flexible no matter what the situation may be. I believe women are very dominant and powerful, and men really didn’t see the inner beauty of a woman they always looked at the outside. Women are beautiful inside and out. Women should be mysterious sometimes because women aren’t really hard to understand they just want to be talked about also. It still in today’s society that women have to still prove to men that they can do what they do. For example I think that women would be a better president than a man, because women can set rules and be a dominant as a man.
Simone De Beauvoir
When reading Simone De Beauvoir essay Woman: Myth and Reality I thought the reading was a little difficult to understand. I read important facts that she discussed about women, mysterious, and equality. Beauvoir points out that “a woman like man is being rooted in nature she is more enslaved to the species than is the male”(Beauvoir 787). I thin she proves a very interesting point that in reality a woman is more like a man, she cooks, clean, take care of the children, and take care of her husband at the same time. She also stated in her rhetoric that mysteriousness does not serve men or woman well. That means that a woman defines or calls herself a mystery she will always be lower than the man. In paragraph 11 Beauvoir explains a woman who is mystery “that she is no t silent, her language is not understood she is hidden behind appearance”(Beauvoir 188). A woman who is mystery can mean all of thee above she can be silent, a housewife, crazy, wild because she’s just a woman with different appearances who can be flexible no matter what the situation may be. I believe women are very dominant and powerful, and men really didn’t see the inner beauty of a woman they always looked at the outside. Women are beautiful inside and out. Women should be mysterious sometimes because women aren’t really hard to understand they just want to be talked about also. It still in today’s society that women have to still prove to men that they can do what they do. For example I think that women would be a better president than a man, because women can set rules and be a dominant as a man.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Blog 13 Mary Wollstonecraft
Pernicious Effects Which Arise From The Unnatural Distinctions Established In Society
What kind of wok are women fit for, in Wollstonecraft view?
Wollstonecraft reading was a little difficult, even though I can relate to some issues. First I kind of had to break down the title because how would I know what the story is about when I don’t understand the title. From my perspective the title meant to me that Bad Effects Which Arise From The Strange Discrimination Established In Society. that she discussed far as women’s rights, and women equality because it’s going on today. She felt that it was unnecessary to live with a man in order to be happy, I agree because women basically do more than men, because more women are beginning to find it out that they can be independent, and make as much money as a man. “There must be equality established in society”(748), she felt it was vain to except virtue from women till they are in some degree independent to men. In paragraph 7 she talks about issues that a woman who is nursing her children, keeping the house in order, and having a husband to do the same because rarely I see or hear a husband and wife who treat each other equally. There has always been a stereotype that women are suppose to be the stay at home wife and men are suppose to control the money and property. Rousseau has claimed that “How can women leave nursery for a campaign “(753). I believe that women can leave a nursery for a camp” in other words “going to war” because women have a say so on what’s fair to them and what’s not, so the women felt that they were treated unfairly to an certain extent.
-What happen to people who are born to wealth and have nothing to do?
-Wollstonecraft stated that the upper class spent much of their time gambling. She referred to the British heroes like Fabricius as one of the wealthy generals who gambled, that did not care about the country. Wollstonecraft made a point that “multiplying dependent and contriving taxes, which grind the poor and pamper the rich”. When she stated that I think she meant that what can’t help the poor makes the wealthy richer, because the wealthy people really don’t have much to worry about while the poor suffer. I do believe that men are dominant, but women have to be dominant also. Women are victorious soldiers, because to be so independent, and I think that Wollstonecraft is very independent and dominate to speak up for all the women in the world who has bee treated unfairly.
Works Cited
Wollstonecraft, Mary. “Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinction Established in Society.” A World of Ideas: Essential Reading for College Writers. Lee A. Jacobs. 7th Ed. New York; Bedford St. Martins, 2006. pp 748-758.
What kind of wok are women fit for, in Wollstonecraft view?
Wollstonecraft reading was a little difficult, even though I can relate to some issues. First I kind of had to break down the title because how would I know what the story is about when I don’t understand the title. From my perspective the title meant to me that Bad Effects Which Arise From The Strange Discrimination Established In Society. that she discussed far as women’s rights, and women equality because it’s going on today. She felt that it was unnecessary to live with a man in order to be happy, I agree because women basically do more than men, because more women are beginning to find it out that they can be independent, and make as much money as a man. “There must be equality established in society”(748), she felt it was vain to except virtue from women till they are in some degree independent to men. In paragraph 7 she talks about issues that a woman who is nursing her children, keeping the house in order, and having a husband to do the same because rarely I see or hear a husband and wife who treat each other equally. There has always been a stereotype that women are suppose to be the stay at home wife and men are suppose to control the money and property. Rousseau has claimed that “How can women leave nursery for a campaign “(753). I believe that women can leave a nursery for a camp” in other words “going to war” because women have a say so on what’s fair to them and what’s not, so the women felt that they were treated unfairly to an certain extent.
-What happen to people who are born to wealth and have nothing to do?
-Wollstonecraft stated that the upper class spent much of their time gambling. She referred to the British heroes like Fabricius as one of the wealthy generals who gambled, that did not care about the country. Wollstonecraft made a point that “multiplying dependent and contriving taxes, which grind the poor and pamper the rich”. When she stated that I think she meant that what can’t help the poor makes the wealthy richer, because the wealthy people really don’t have much to worry about while the poor suffer. I do believe that men are dominant, but women have to be dominant also. Women are victorious soldiers, because to be so independent, and I think that Wollstonecraft is very independent and dominate to speak up for all the women in the world who has bee treated unfairly.
Works Cited
Wollstonecraft, Mary. “Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinction Established in Society.” A World of Ideas: Essential Reading for College Writers. Lee A. Jacobs. 7th Ed. New York; Bedford St. Martins, 2006. pp 748-758.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Blog 12
Robert B. Reich Why the Rich are Getting And The Poor Are Getting Poorer
-What are the “routine producers? What will be their fate in the future?
Well, when I think of the title of why the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer first thing come to mind is that there is no hope for the poor people, well I will refer to them as the lower class people. The lower class will stay lower class while the rich people or the middle class people will get richer. This is what I don’t understand as far as the routine producers and their fate in the future, well they really don’t have a future far as money is concerned. Reich describes the “the fortunes of routine producers are declining”(Reich 420). I think that he means that there are not many jobs people due to the fact that companies are going out of business and people are losing their jobs. This reading can be compared to the Galbraith reading bourgeois and the proletariat. There will not be a future for the proletariat, as Reich describes in his reading that we are all in different boats that’s sinking rapidly. I think he means that the people who are making a lot of money are in one boat who have the businesses and wealthy, the other boat are the poor people/lower class people who don’t have nothing but each other and welfare in another boat. This is a major issue that needs to be solved, because it’s not fair how segregated everyone is or the way people are categorized I think it’s enough money in this world for everyone to have. Even though that the U.S is in debt, but that shouldn't stop anyone from working because there's enough jobs that are out here, it's just that the jobs problably don't have enough money to pay their employees and it could be numerous of other reasons.
-What are the “routine producers? What will be their fate in the future?
Well, when I think of the title of why the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer first thing come to mind is that there is no hope for the poor people, well I will refer to them as the lower class people. The lower class will stay lower class while the rich people or the middle class people will get richer. This is what I don’t understand as far as the routine producers and their fate in the future, well they really don’t have a future far as money is concerned. Reich describes the “the fortunes of routine producers are declining”(Reich 420). I think that he means that there are not many jobs people due to the fact that companies are going out of business and people are losing their jobs. This reading can be compared to the Galbraith reading bourgeois and the proletariat. There will not be a future for the proletariat, as Reich describes in his reading that we are all in different boats that’s sinking rapidly. I think he means that the people who are making a lot of money are in one boat who have the businesses and wealthy, the other boat are the poor people/lower class people who don’t have nothing but each other and welfare in another boat. This is a major issue that needs to be solved, because it’s not fair how segregated everyone is or the way people are categorized I think it’s enough money in this world for everyone to have. Even though that the U.S is in debt, but that shouldn't stop anyone from working because there's enough jobs that are out here, it's just that the jobs problably don't have enough money to pay their employees and it could be numerous of other reasons.
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