Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Perkins

For the longest time in America and across the world I believe that males have minimized the roles of women in society down to be a stay at home mom, but as society has grown and evolved we have seen that this isn’t the case.  Through the outstanding work that many have put out it has made it apparent that females can add to the ever growing realm of sociology.  Charolette Perkins Gilman had to overcome this in the 1800s where it was much more prevalent but with this she was still able to come out with pieces of work that are still recognized today.  The yellow paper wall is one of her best known pieces of work, but some people don’t really go inside and see what the writing was truly about.  Though it was a fiction sorry she is able to really dig into some core cultural values like the women agreeing she was wrong and other things of this nature.  Though we know today it is not true culture just set a lot of the guide lines on which he find normal.


I think that her work gave me a good out look on marriage.  I want to have something that my wife and I will be able to agree with, not just the morns of society and what they think the marriage should be like.  

1 comment:

  1. I was very moved by the story as well! I thought that yes, although it was based on fiction, it was probally not a far cry from the realities of a lot of women in that era. I could not imagine my husband not beleiving me if I was letigimately ill, and him just brushing it off as me having a manifested mental aliment! Glad I don't live in those times!!!

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