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The Women Question (Terminology (gender and identity, misogyny and…
The Women Question
Terminology
gender and identity
misogyny and patriarcy
sex and gender
identity
ideology
feminism
suffrage
enfranchisement
Texts
Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
'The Yellow Wallpaper'
(1892)
early modernist
passages of stream of consciousness
horror story?
mental deterioration, supernatural, violent, the unknown, isolation, creepy, setting: an old (haunted) house
women struggle story
man is dismissive, woman locked up, a mother, the rest cure, no will of her own, have to hide her mental illness, postpartum depression
the horror elements are used to horrify the situation of women at that time
husband
a jailer, an unseeing doctor
sister-in-law
the housekeeper, the ideal?, a kind of antagonist?
maid
a nurse and nanny
yellow wallpaper
framework
her mental illness
it's confusing, ugly, irritating, fascination, impossible to ignore
narrator not a reliable source
Mary Wollstonecraft:
'Vindication of the Right of Women'
(1792)
crticises Enlightenment thinkers like Rousseau and Edmund Burke
lack of
education
makes women silly
women has a lack of agency
women are infantizied by marriage alternative: social outcast
women becomes their own oppressors
women have an obsession w/ innocence
Conventry Patmore:
'An Angel in the House'
(1854)
became an expression of the Victorian woman
an entity of purity that belongs in the house
hyperbolic admiration that will lead to the alienation of married/unmarried women
The Seneca Convention:
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
(1848)
uses the declaration of independence as a template for their grievances
women have no rights like they were promised in the declaration
Elizabeth I:
Speech to the House of Commons
(1563)
parliament wanted the Queen to marry because of succession
she excuses herself for being a woman despite being the QUEEN