The position of women in the Canadian society: political rights and traditional expectations referring to the poems by Tom Wayman and Margaret Atwood.
Title: The position of women in the Canadian society: political rights and traditional expectations referring to the poems by Tom Wayman and Margaret Atwood.
Category: /Social Sciences/Communication Studies
Details: Words: 1190 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
The position of women in the Canadian society: political rights and traditional expectations referring to the poems by Tom Wayman and Margaret Atwood.
Category: /Social Sciences/Communication Studies
Details: Words: 1190 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Social class, status, and power are predetermined by one's gender. Within any patriarchal society, men simply possess greater power than women. Patriarchal thought produces male dominance, and authority within multiple areas, including politics. Throughout history, governments have designed laws to maintain such divisions of power, resulting in the oppression of women. Patriarchal power constructs sexual differences as political differences by giving legal form to the belief that women, because of their sex, are fit only …showed first 75 words of 1190 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1190 total…stripped of female individuals in patriarchal societies. The aim of this elaborate and age long subjection of women to the mechanism of men's vision of the world is to disable women from perceiving their real nature and to alienate them from the rest of the society. Women are successfully turned aside, left there hopeless and forever bound to the stereotype of a mother and a housewife, which contribute to the survival of men dominated reality.
