Feminist Readings

There are many arguments that show how women where mistreated, and discriminated by men. Although, things changed over the time as result that women started protesting, in order to be heard in the society. After reading these Feminist text, the main considered text that women were interested and drawn to was the discrimination caused by men. Men where considered superior, the dominant sex that considered women inferior and did not gave them an important role in life. Therefore, women could not play important roles in society, they could not get educated, but these things will change over the time.

By reading the Marx-Feminist criticism, and the reading, "Reading as Women: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart And Feminist Criticism", the main thing that women are interested in the text, is the discrimination of men. Women where not considered to have an important role in life, on the other hand men where the 'superior'. Women where just given the task to work at home, and as the importantance in child reproduction. The quote that best describes this is as read in "Things Fall Apart", "Women are viewed maily as child bearers and help mates for their husbands."(6) Again this quote best describes the discrimination not just of men but society over women. All the injustices that women went thru as in this reading how the husband (Okonko), had more than one wife, which in those times was not considered unfair, the unfairness that one wife had by being considered unable to give birth to healthy children, after many birthsshe was just able to give birth to a female child, whereas it was important to have male children to carry on the fathers last name to keep the name generations to come. Women where just considered to have many childs, and to be an object controled by men, mailnly sexual. In the Marxist-Feminist reading of "Jane Eyre: Her Hand in Marriage", is said at the end "The feminism of the text resides in its 'not-said', its attempt to inscribe women as sexual subjects within this system". This describes the interpretation men saw women as an object and not a caring human being.

Consequently, the main theme that best interest women text in this readings is the discrimination of men towards women, the important way women where seen as reproducing children, and the other unfair way men saw women as sexual objects, whereas women shpuld have had more importance due to the fact that they played important roles in life. Nowadays, things have change for the better, now they are equals, and play important roles in society and life same as me.