When I hear the term Liberated Women I picture a woman who has broken free. A woman who broke free from the invisible chains that were placed on them by society. A woman who has given it their all and fought to be their own person rather than hide and be someone they aren’t. A woman who doesn’t become someone they aren’t simply because they are told they must be that way. When thinking back on history, it saddens me to think about how women were being treated. Back then, a woman didn’t have a say in much. The role that was given to a woman was to simply get married to a man, bare their children, and be a housewife. They didn’t necessarily have a voice. That was taken from them. A woman was deemed crazy or didn’t fit in if they didn’t simply follow what society decided they could do. Something that stood out to me was on the first page when the author wrote ” The first brings sex without marriage, sex before marriage, cozy housekeeping arrangements (“I’m living with this chick”) and the self-content of knowing that you’re not the kind of man who wants a doormat instead of a woman. That will come later. After all, who wants that old commodity anymore, the Standard American Housewife, all husband, home and kids? The New Commodity; the Liberated Woman, has sex a lot and has a Career, preferably something that can be fitted in with the household chores-like dancing, pottery, or painting”. This got me into thinking what makes a Liberated Woman and Woman Liberation different. At first glance I thought they were the same thing the only difference being what they are being called. However, Women’s Liberation is a movement toward combating sexual discrimination. Liberated women can benefit Womens Liberation because those women are fighting for the change that they want. They are fighting for more equality for women. They support and show other women that they aren’t alone and that they can all come together to demand change and fight for that change. These reading helped into showing that personal is political because we are all often taught certain things that make us have a different perspective on things. Some women might feel and want certain things to remain the same while others might want the opposite. (Example: some woman might want to be a stay at home wife while others might not want that). Personal is political because of the way one might respond to certain things.
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Hi Sofia,
I like your comment about how what you were tought and your upbringing effects your perspective on things. As well as you mentioning women’s perspective on liberation is not the same, some women are fine with their current position while others may want change. I think that is an important concept to talk about because liberation is all about freedom and freedom of choice. While liberation for some women may be independence and/or employment, for others they may feel liberated being a stay at home wife and/or mother. Either should be considered a liberated woman because that is the life they are choosing to lead. Liberation should be accepting of every woman’s decision, not preferring or looking down upon one lifestyle over the other.
Hey Sofia,
I really liked the way you described your idea of a liberated woman, someone who has broken free of society’s invisible chains and isn’t afraid to be their own person. When you started talking about how in the old days women were deemed crazy if they didn’t fit in, it reminded me of how any woman who would express herself differently used to be accused of being a witch and burned at the stake immediately.
Hi Sofia, I love the way that you think of what a liberated woman should be. Yes she is belonging to herself and she can be totally free. When I read the word chain it makes me remind of what happened and reported in China. There was a woman wearing chain on her neck so that she can’t run away from the house, and she only wear a sweater while it was 32F and the wind can get in the house. She had been kidnapped to a countryside to be someone’s wife and she gave birth to eight kids during these years. It is happening, it is not something old and it seems still happening. She is not the only woman got kidnapped and to be forced to give birth. It is like a common thing in that place/town. A female journalist went to the village want to have a report this case but now even the journalist is disappearing. I do really wish these chains can be gone and women can be really free.
Thinking a women is crazy for going against sexist norm is bizarre. From a young age these things should be taught in school to help undo this problem that developed slowly over time and became normal. If a woman chooses to do housework and not really care about some of the sexist aspects to it thats fine to me. If i had a daughter and her husband tries to make it seem like it a Womens good to do housework then A real problem has arrived.