Comparative study - 'Trickle-down feminism' article analysis

Theme

Audience and purpose

Tone and mood

Language and structure

Stylistic devices

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Social inequality

Gender inequality

'...there are millions of women standing in the basement—and the basement is flooding'

'Women may be overrepresented in the growing sectors of the economy, but those sectors pay poverty wages'

'most women are up against the wall.'

'women in the restaurant industry earn 83 cents to a man’s dollar.'

Feminist writers

Poor women

'it was women who had economic opportunities who were able to break the cycle of violence'

'This is where feminists should be spending their time, too.'

Tone- Logical(logos)

Mood- Dissonance

Tone-Dissapointed.

Mood- Pity

'even in retail, women make only 90 percent of what men make.'

'Some 60 percent of the jobs lost in the public sector were held by women'

'In the New York area, a full 95 percent of domestic workers are female'

'as the recession drags on, it’s women who’ve faced the largest losses'

Use of anecdotes

Mockery, sarcasm

Contrast, juxtaposition. '“While we all worry about the glass ceiling, there are millions of women standing in the basement—and the basement is flooding.”'

'Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s refusal to call herself a feminist'

'and yet for much of mainstream feminist discourse, it’s as if the economy hasn’t shifted'

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.