women and writing

Midterm Assignment : Women and writing

Since the beginning of times, human beings have found various ways to express themselves and more specifically how to declare their feelings and emotions. We all know that art (in a general term) is supposed to be the tool used for expression. People from different communities, cultural backgrounds, and religions, have been appealed to manifest and share their uniqueness through art. Art, whether it was music, painting, sculpting or writing has been highly censured through time because of its contents of truth. The majorities of a society did not allow minorities to fully express themselves with fear of manifestations and revolts . Women, as a minority have fought to tell the truth. In order to understand better the meaning of Women’s writing, we will first analyze the factors that pushed women to write, then we will go over the obstacles that women encountered and finally, we will discuss what the writers wanted to achieve through their writing.

"There are writers who need to make sense of the world they live"(Dorothy Allison, Trash, p.19.) This sentence shows that the writer needed to write to see and understand herself through writing. Th

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15) after that she declares "Searching for a space were writing could be understood, I asked for a diary" (Bell Hooks, remembered ruptures, p. Women couldn’t do anything else than have children and be submissive housewives, "Making a fortune and bearing thirteen children-no human being could stand it" (Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, p. ) And even if women had been able to earn money, they could not keep it until 1870. However, her writing was threatening "the natural functioning" of a patriarchal society. In her writings, Sandra Cisneros implies that she wants to change the world. It is crucial to the development of our societies that people speak out loud, so, whether it is spoken by a male or a female, the message has to go through. Constantly fooling herself, she still had to yell out her truth, this, by spreading her pain on paper. She describes how writing was considered a curse, by giving us the explanations her mother gave her. She could also need to write like Allison Dorothy, because she needs to face herself and she has so much inside her that can not been taken out unless it is trough writing. That is maybe why, we did not see any man talking about Lesbianism around the 1920s, it might also be why no men wrote anything like the concept of the Red Clowns of Sandra Cisneros in the House on Mango Street. Men do not want to be invaded in the workplace, so women stay home. In other words, some things may just not be perceivable to men, just as other might not be to women.

Approximate Word count = 1642
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

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