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the course readings: Why and how are womens voices marginalized?
Eniola Lamina
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Theres always been a big problem in our society with feminism,
females havent had the chance to be something big or whatever they want,
but for male its been anything anytime for them, Marginalization is the social
women are subjugated not only as blacks but as women also. Women are
man. They are treated as chattels. Their status has been degraded. Gender
divisions are a misconception of the patriarchy. Its true that a child belongs to
its father. But when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in its mothers
hut. A man belongs to his father when things are good and life is sweet. But
when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland. Your
mother is there to protect you. And that is why we say that mother is
1Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New Delhi. Arnold Associates. 1987.
Print.
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can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not
too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man" Because I am female I
Always keeping in mind that Marriage is the most important Now marriage can
be a source of Joy and love and mutual support But why do we teach girls to
aspire to marriage And we don't teach boys the same? We raise girls to each
other as competitors Not for jobs or for accomplishments Which I think can be
a good thing But for the attention of men We teach girls that they cannot be
sexual beings In the way that boys are Feminist, the person who believes in
Most people feel a womans duty only lies in the family or indoors either as
housewives or maids or cooks and they believe there are some certain jobs a
man can do that a woman cannot do which I feel is wrong a woman should be
able to do any kind of job her strength is capable of doing not just what her
of justice and rights and the ethical orientation of justice and rights and the
ethical orientation of justice and rights and the ethical orientation of care and
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responsibility allows her to account for womens moral development and
cognitive skills they show in a new way womens moral judgment is more
shows a greater propensity to take the standpoint of the particular other, and
required by this.
There are many ways in which women are still marginalized in America today,
first the dollar bills, Every day the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing
produces 38 million paper bills. Actually they are not bills; they are the likes of
George, Alexander, and Abe. These may be great men, but where are the
great women who have also helped shape American history? Every day when
we pull out our dollar bills we take it for granted that its men who are
important, but isnt it time for us to see some notable women too?
Secondly, most religion that serve gods are mostly male gods, not thats its a
good thing to make people your gods but I mean women still do some
religions God is he. In the Christian religions New Testament, Jesus always
refers to God as Father. The Lords Prayer begins Our Father. The writers of
the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, were of course men, and so they
reflected their own culture and ideas. Although the same is true in all the main
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religions of the world, this was not always the case. We have plenty of
religion. There are many theories as to how the men took over and the women
allowed them to, but soon we see female sexuality being demonized along
with the sacred She. Mens views and voices tend to dominate the text of most
Cardif. Women were also found to feature more in articles about fashion,
entertainment and art but were much less present in those involving sport and
politics, which researchers said provided empirical evidence that they were
Bibliography
Benhabib, Seyla. The Generalized and the Concrete Other: The Kohlberg-
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Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics, 148-177. New York:
Routledge, 1992.