Feminism
Before I started in this course my knowledge of feminism was low. I had heard of the suffragists and women finally being given the right to vote, however, that was the only part of history I was familiar with. After reading Suffragist City I was horrified to read how unfairly women were treated in everyday life. I was even more horrified when I read Pauls recounts of her jail time in England.
I was clapped into jail three times while in England, and during my first and second terms I refused to eat. When the forcible feeding was ordered, I was bound with sheets and sat upon bodily by a fat murderes, whose duty it was to keep me still. Then the prison doctor placed a rubber tube up my nostrils and pumped liquid food through it into the stomach.In my opinion, not out of a book, feminism is a belief that females want to be treated as equally as males. Women should have the same liberties as men, should be able to get the same job as a man and be guaranteed the same pay as a man.
Comments
pleas get over you self . that i sooooo old .. all that about women and men and rights in the world. i only saying let it be .
all right its unfair that the men gets higher pay . and other stuff.
but you cant do so every thing gets fair . its never gonna be fair . life is unfair .
take care lexie ......:)
Posted by: lexie | December 31, 2008 6:19 PM
Wow... Just wow... This is not old lexie the fact that you are writing here and not cleaning the floors is something that you should thank to women like this who suffered for their rights. Get over it and accept life? No, it is time that these mental (cultural) barriers are broken completely. Life may not be fair but we can work on it to make it less unfair. We can't just wait with for things to magically happen, we have to shape our futures. Shame on you Lexie, shame on you...
Posted by: Surprised by lexie | February 17, 2009 9:12 PM