A woman on the Edge
There have many elements of gender inequality discussed throughout the semester. One point that I found interesting was, the ideal that the reproductive ability of women created a power imbalance so strong that the society of the future has to come up with a way to remove this imbalance by industuralinzing in a sense reproduction. (Kimmer & Merssner, 1998) I have mixed feelings about this, because on the one hand I feel that men desires to conquer women does derive form anger fear over our reproductive ability and without that the root source of so much violence against women would be gone, on the other hand a women's birth is natural, sacred, and significant role that deserves respect instead of cooption. Another thing along those lines is for many women who choose not to have children or cannot; the course has redefined what it means to women. In other words we are not locked into out biology. The course brought out the concept of motherhood and parenthood so that includes men and women, and people who don't biologically have children. Sometimes when respect is afforded to the women in society who have given birth to children, it is not afford to those women who haven't. (Richardson, 19
If women wish to ensure that movements, of which they are a part, should safeguard their fundamental and long-term interests, they should align themselves only with such of them, which have an ideological approach in harmony with the establishment of an equalitarian society. This is my thought on a solution. It is only by participating, in an articulate and vigilant manner, in such broader socio-political movements linked with other oppressed groups in their society that women can achieve long-lasting and basic changes in their position. As women do not form an independent class, they cannot form by themselves a movement, which will consistently fight for changes in the position of women. I feel that any change in women's position so far has come about as a result of broad-based movements in society and the participation of women in them. This is what needed to make a change for women. room for independence and the exercise of free spirit. Nothing is predetermined. In the society of Mattapoisett, Luciente's place of habitation, people live very simply in what we would consider a sustainable manner. Every element of their lifestyle is crafted with care. From the moment a child is brought into being to the moment of death, community practices and ritual cover all and yet, there is also a great deal of The women's movement developed from raised consciousness in the 1970's, a groundswell of changing political consciousness, and organizing activity by women. Women began to assert their rights to control their lives and bodies. Practical applications included hotlines and crisis centers providing a context for women to speak out. Shelters and houses of refuge formed networks, and state and local meetings provided settings in which women came together and created the battered women's movement. As women defined and addressed their
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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