Womwn and Sexuality

After reading all of the feminist readings, I can say that it seems that the main focus of a feminist critic is most concerned with women and their sexuality. In the reading of Jane Eyre, "Charlotte Bronte's fiction explores the constraints of the dominant ideology as they bear on female sexual and social identity."(171) In Jane Eyre, even though the author uses other ways to describe sex and sexual organs also, such as "strong arm" and "vital", just the same the author discusses sexuality even without really discussing it. It also says that, " For a woman to become a member of the 'master-class' depends on her taking a sexual mastery whereby her submission brings her access to the dominant culture."(171)
Even though woman are humans and supposed to be equal, the only way for them to get ahead in the Victorian time period or even now sometimes also, is succumbing to the domination of a man. This is also something that feminist readings discuss very much; the idea of how we live in a patriarchal society.

Even in a poem by Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress it discusses the degration of a woman and he tears her down in an essence even though he is trying to convinve her to lose her virginity to him. The line "time's winged chariot" refers to how if she doesn't do "it" now while she is still young and beautiful and fresh, then she might get too old and dry up. He uses a very cunning way to "flirt" with her, but it seems like he doesn't give a hoot about her or her honor. He wants it at any ocst. He even goes so far to say that if there was time in life, he would woo her properly, but what is the point? This goes to show how men really see women, just as sexual beings, and even woman want to be considered as a sexual being in Jane Eyre, but a woman author is never as graphic or indulgent in the text of this because they don't want to belittle themselves, just as any self respecting woman in this day and age would also want to be considered a sexual being but not "slutty".