Woman's Rights
Woman’s Rights
I have heard this Chinese phrase few years ago, “Women hold up half of the sky.” Today, both men and women can work outside the house; basically they got almost the same rights either in families or in society. Men are no longer the central of the family, and women also are no longer slaves of the family. However, can you image in the past decades, women have no rights and positions neither in families nor in society. The only things that the society gave them were their abilities to give birth and work as slaves in the house for the men. In the book Negotiating Difference – Cultural Case Studies for Composition, there are two articles against the women rights activities. One of the articles called The Woman’s Rights Convention: The Last Act of Drama (September 12, 1852) from New York Herald, it describes ideas of woman’s rights activists in some ridiculous ways to imply their activities were unnecessary and unworthy to be listened to. “…mannish women, like hens that crow; some of boundless vanity and egotism, who believe that they are superior in intellectual ability to “all the world and the rest of mankind,” and delight to see their speeches and addresses in print; and man shall be consigned to this proper sphere – nursing the babies, washing the dishes, mending stockings, and sweeping the house.” In this sentences, the editorial writer attempts that women though themselves superior that the men and the rest of the mankind. He’s trying to make the images of
Feng 2 women being the queen of the world, and he also wanted to tell that women were supercilious and selfish. He disagree the idea of men being put into the women’s position. “How funny it would sound in the newspapers, that Lucy Stone, pleading a cause, took suddenly ill in the pains of parturition, and perhaps gave birth to a fine bouncing boy in court! Antoinette Brown was arrested in the middle of her sermon in the pulpit from the same cause, and presented a “pledge”
I have heard this Chinese phrase few years ago, “Women hold up half of the sky.” Today, both men and women can work outside the house; basically they got almost the same rights either in families or in society. Men are no longer the central of the family, and women also are no longer slaves of the family. However, can you image in the past decades, women have no rights and positions neither in families nor in society. The only things that the society gave them were their abilities to give birth and work as slaves in the house for the men. In the book Negotiating Difference – Cultural Case Studies for Composition, there are two articles against the women rights activities. One of the articles called The Woman’s Rights Convention: The Last Act of Drama (September 12, 1852) from New York Herald, it describes ideas of woman’s rights activists in some ridiculous ways to imply their activities were unnecessary and unworthy to be listened to. “…mannish women, like hens that crow; some of boundless vanity and egotism, who believe that they are superior in intellectual ability to “all the world and the rest of mankind,” and delight to see their speeches and addresses in print; and man shall be consigned to this proper sphere – nursing the babies, washing the dishes, mending stockings, and sweeping the house.” In this sentences, the editorial writer attempts that women though themselves superior that the men and the rest of the mankind. He’s trying to make the images of
Feng 2 women being the queen of the world, and he also wanted to tell that women were supercilious and selfish. He disagree the idea of men being put into the women’s position. “How funny it would sound in the newspapers, that Lucy Stone, pleading a cause, took suddenly ill in the pains of parturition, and perhaps gave birth to a fine bouncing boy in court! Antoinette Brown was arrested in the middle of her sermon in the pulpit from the same cause, and presented a “pledge”