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Comparative study - 'Trickle-down feminism' article analysis -…
Comparative study - 'Trickle-down feminism' article analysis
Theme
Social inequality
'...there are millions of women standing in the basement—and the basement is flooding'
'most women are up against the wall.'
Gender inequality
'Women may be overrepresented in the growing sectors of the economy, but those sectors pay poverty wages'
'women in the restaurant industry earn 83 cents to a man’s dollar.'
Audience and purpose
Feminist writers
'This is where feminists should be spending their time, too.'
Poor women
'it was women who had economic opportunities who were able to break the cycle of violence'
Tone and mood
Tone- Logical(logos)
'Some 60 percent of the jobs lost in the public sector were held by women'
Mood- Dissonance
'In the New York area, a full 95 percent of domestic workers are female'
Tone-Dissapointed.
'even in retail, women make only 90 percent of what men make.'
Mood- Pity
'as the recession drags on, it’s women who’ve faced the largest losses'
Language and structure
Most paragraphs of equal length, medium sized
Punctuation is mainly full stops, commas
Most sentences are complex and long to convey as much logical information as possible.
Stylistic devices
Use of anecdotes
'Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s refusal to call herself a feminist'
Mockery, sarcasm
'and yet for much of mainstream feminist discourse, it’s as if the economy hasn’t shifted'
Contrast, juxtaposition. '“While we all worry about the glass ceiling, there are millions of women standing in the basement—and the basement is flooding.”'