Gender

Gender and sexuality problem is one of the big issues in the history. The concept of gender and sexuality is basically generated by the people and the experience of life. Hence, gender and sexuality is one of the social construction. Throughout the American history, women always had no right in the male-dominated society. In the male-dominated society, women were usually treated as children, pets and dolls. Because of the patriarchy, women always defined as dependant, weak and silent. I believe that it is stereotyping toward the women. In the text book, the"creeping woman" in the story, the Yellow Wallpaper, that mentioned in the chapter impressed me a lot. I think that it is very unfair and inhuman to lock a woman in a bedroom and make her becomes animal-like human. In the later history, feminist such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton attempted to fight for equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities to women. The chapter has mentioned that Angelina Grimke suggested that women duties are not characterize by sex or gender, but represent by diversity of the relations in life, the various gift and talent committed to their care and the region that they live. After struggling for a long period of time, women always obtain the equal social and political right and sometimes get more privilege than men in current day.