It's A Womans World By Eavan Boland Analysis

In the poem “It’s a Woman’s World,” Eavan Boland uses many poetic devices such as alliteration, simile, and enjambment in order to explain life from a woman’s point of view and how women have lived the same since the beginning of time.

The book is titled: Pink Think Becoming A Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, the author of the book is Lynn Peril. The first copyright of the book is in 2002 the type of book pink think it would be the author stating her ideals on what it is to be a woman. The subject matter is the ideal woman meaning what America sees as the ideal woman and the things they have done to create or influence women to go and become these ideal roles. The book shows various pictures depicting how women were looked at as well shows newspaper advertisements and pictures of the different roles of men and women in society. The pictures are there to show the ideology of the time of how people wanted women to basically worship the men and treat them with nothing but love and respect. Also included are quizzes from magazines that were created to test if you were feminine enough. These quizzes were good example of what people assumed the role of a women were. The price of the book varies from place to place and is sold between $10.00-$15.00 the isbn for the book is 978-0-393-32354-2.

For Judith Butler, gender roles, norms, behavior, and generally everything about and associated with gender is an artificial performance. In "Gender Trouble," Butler asks: “does being female constitute a ‘natural fact’ or a cultural performance, or is “naturalness” constituted through discursively constrained performative acts that produce the body through and within the categories of sex?” Butler’s answer to this question is, of course, yes, gender is no natural fact, and is indeed produced and maintained by a programmed and repeated set of performances. I argue that the female characters in "The Duchess of Malfi" by John Webster, are completely aware of how they are perceived to act as a gender, and use the idea of “cultural performance”

In analyzation, the connotation aspect of this poem is how women during this time, specifically white women, used their power over black men and their freedom. Although the texts’ literal interpretation, or denotation,

In poems it is essential to be a creative writer. The author uses many techniques from from exposing deep thoughts to giving humorous jokes throughout the sentence. As a human being, we may have difficult times in understanding what is trying to be said. We may agree or disagree depending our viewpoints on life. One of my Favorite poems is “The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield” by Robert Hayden. My favorite poem is the type of poem that has some history and confusion. When getting the audience confused, it makes them want to know more and reread the whole passage again. Hayden’s poem is a fresh new opening that brought an old dimension, his creativity to open the minds of others and look back to the past.

In Barbara Ehrenreich’s essay on ‘’ Will women still need men’’, her essay talks about how men and women will be able to be going their own separate ways. The essay mostly argues that men need to still be a part of a woman’s life because without men, they can’t be quite successful as men. She most of all comes up with some possible scenarios in which can change in which one person can be independent from a normal marriage. Ehrenreich’s tells the reader that women might possibly be successful without men because of the divorce rate in the world alone. The main idea of this essay in my opinion is that women should still have a husband because life would not quite make sense if we had to switch to different forms of marriage.

Over the years, views on women’s roles in society have drastically changed. The gender differences highlighted in Deborah Tannen’s excerpts from You Just Don’t Understand emphasize the differences between women’s desire for intimacy and men’s pull towards independence. By this theory, men tend to drift in the direction of power and self-reliance, which are characteristics of action television shows and movies, whereas women immerse themselves in romance and family oriented media. While The Game of Thrones appeals to males through the fast-paced storyline, the characters of Arya Stark, Sensa Stark, and Daenerys Targaryen break away from Tannen 's stereotypes and empower women watching the series through the ladies’ demonstration of survival and independent judgment, even among formidable males. As a result, both genders are equalized, but women are ennobled in the process.

Steve Craig, in his article Men’s Men and Women’s Women especially define how different sexes in advertisement can influence a particular audience towards a product; one stereotypical method he describes is “Men’s Women” (Craig).One such ad using sex appeal, and a basic structure of “Men’s Women” to bring in customer was made by BMW in 2008 to sell their used cars. BMW, which is a world-renowned company known for its performance heavy automobiles, targets a male audience by comparing a gorgeous woman to their cars.This ad by BMW, who no doubt make amazing cars, degrade women through its message, and it enforces Steve Craig’s “Men’s women” tactic, but this ad also goes a step further and displays the ever-present patriarchy in advertisement overtly.

and Femininity. The poem is mainly about motherhood in a way as previously discussed. She

Adam Zyglis harsh portrayal illustrates the need of society to take action towards abused wives; his picture represents sadness, anger, and fright, all present on the mirror’s reflection: a young woman covering her face with makeup, her face is bruised, her eye bluish red, and her shirt with an NFL ( National Football League) logo with the word WIVES in bold letters written under which represents her identity as a football player wife. The woman’s facial expression cries for media’s attention to take a step and reveal her misery to the world. this drawing aims to give people the knowledge of what’s happening behind the scene’s of NFL football player’s houses,the middle aged lady in the picture has blond hair, which gives the generic

Barbara Perry’s article “Doing Gender and Doing Gender Inappropriately” addresses violence and gender, and how gender is influenced through the way it is perceived in society. The construction of gender comes in polar extremes, with masculine dominant men and feminine subordinate women. Gendered violence is used to control women as a class. It is a systematic tool used by men to reinforce gender norms and patriarchal ideas of masculine superiority and feminine inferiority. It “terrorizes the collective by victimizing the individual”. Like any dichotomy, it has scripts, and to deviate from these scripts will leave you labeled as ‘unnatural’ and ‘immoral’. These scripts “constrain everything from modes of dress and social roles to ways of expressing emotion and sexual desire”. In Judith Lorber’s “A World Without Gender” we are introduced to the possibility of eliminating gender and how “degendering [would] undercut the patriarchal and oppressive structure of Western Societies”.

Personally, I am not a feminist but i know many women who are and i support them in every way. In this case with Mina Loy’s view on Feminist i find very interesting and intriguing. My view on “Feminist Manifesto”is that Mina Loy is trying to prove a statement to the reader about how women need to start a revolution against men and prove that woman can achieve power. An example of this is when she says “Women if you want to realise yourselfs-you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval- all you pet illusions must be unmasked-....” (Loy 338). I feel like this is saying how if women want to prove and make a stand for themselves be prepared for battle. The “mask” that women wear will be taken off because they will not hiding anymore

The poem itself has a really challenging procedure for women but it shows the courage on how they can over come them. Although the poem appears

Injustices were performed against women for a long period of time. Women were treated unfairly and never had the chance to show society that they can succeed. Whether a woman was dead or alive, they were not cared about, but when a woman makes a mistake she is judged and not treated with the respect that she deserves. In “A Woman Speaks” by Audre Lorde, she presents the idea that women weren’t treated like they were supposed to and how women are equal to men. In her poem, she states:

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices, and she writes in her preface to the 10th anniversary edition released in 1999 that one point of Gender Trouble was "not to prescribe a new gendered way of life [...] but to open up the field of possibility for gender [...]" Widely taught, and widely debated, Gender Trouble continues to offer a powerful