Who Is Renoir And Gauguin Ruin A Misogynist?

Renoir and Gauguin are both misogynist after having read Renoir and the Natural Woman and Going Native. They both think that women shouldn't be included in society and only should be kept at home. Renoir believed that women shouldn't think for themselves and that if they got a job outside of the house as a doctor, lawyer or other similar than they became a man and didn't need to be treated like a women anymore. He believed that women should be controlled by males and that they shouldn't have rights or thoughts to themselves. ""When women were slaves they were really mistresses. Now that they have begun to have rights, they are losing their importance. When they become men's equals they will really be slaves"" (300). Renoir believed that if a women was smart and independent they were no longer desirable since their main jobs should be to take care of the house and children.
Gauguin believed that women were similar to nature "The feminine populated, the women possessing a shared character which took form in a sort of animal nature, the result of centuries of ritualized response to an established role" (318). Gauguin seemed to show that since women become mothers and create new life they are more closely to nature. He also believed that women should be controlled. "In this respect, the image of the savage and the image of the woman van be seen as similarly structured, not only within Gauguin's work, but as a characteristic feature in the project of representing the Other's body, be it the woman's or the native's" (327). He believed that women were best to be controlled by a