In society it is the nature of people to judge, separate and oppress each other. Women have expierenced this first hand, being unheard, underestimated and stereotyped. This has always been accepted but the past two or three generations have decided that things need to change. Society is beginning to change its unjust ways, and feminists are making it happen.
             Feminism, when viewed simply, is exactly what the dictionary states it as: the movement for social, political and economic equality of men and women." Feminists are women who just don't want to be treated like shit" (baumgardner, 1). Feminism is a movement that is carried out by average everyday women, who are trying to accomplish social and political change. "Feminism isn't for any specific type of women it's solely for one that desires to be exactly who they are" (baumgardner, 3).in the story the yellow wallpaper, a women suffering from a deep depression is able to overcome a struggle she has with a strange wallpaper in her bedroom. "I've got out at last said I, in spite of you Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back."(Gilman, 481).
             This illustrates her breakthrough from her own oppression.
             Throughout history women have been overlooked and subjugated to society's idea of how women should behave. Women are expected to be passive, pretty, soft-spoken, motherly and dominated by men." Why not let up on the bitchery just a little Margot" (Hemmingway, 10). States Macomber to a woman when she becomes out of line, in the story A Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. Women also are thought to be capable of one general duty which is to stay home and take care of their home and family." Seventeen years old just a child, blond and innocent, but weren't they all."(Obrein, 107).a man said in the story Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong as a he views all women
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