Caribbean Women Analysis

The theory of intersectionality has been growing and developing for hundreds of years. This theory suggests that women are more than just their gender; that they have all of these different underlying identities, oppressions, and privileges that have influenced who they are as an individual. While the concept may still be new to many individuals, Black feminist thinkers everywhere for years, have been struggling to have their voices and opinions heard about how their lives are more than just their gender, that they are more than simply one single issue. By tracing back throughout history and looking at how these black feminists thinkers developed their theories and ideas, only then can one fully try to understand the whole concept and importance

But thanks to the women’s suffrage movement courage and tenacity women gained their right and went on to fight for equal representation in other fields such as in the courtroom, marriage, and job market. A world without women’s rights would look like Margaret Atwood famous dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale.” In the story, the government suspends the US Constitution and revokes all women’s rights, and establish a new regime largely based on the hierarchical model of the Old Testament inspired social and religious fanaticism. In this society women’s rights are strictly curtailed, the women are physically segregated by the color of clothing — blue, red, green, striped and white - to signify social class and assigned position ranked highest to

Soon after her move to the Norcom’s estate, Dr. Norcom began pursuing her. Along with the constant sexual harassment, Jacobs suffered the wrath of a jealous Mrs. Norcom. After attempting to escape the evils of Dr. Norcom by bearing two children to a white lawyer, Jacobs suffering only worsened due to the fact Dr. Norcom now had leverage over her. With her children’s lives in mind, “the thought that her children would be made plantation slaves and subjected to all of the brutality that implied convinced Jacobs that she had no choice but to escape her enslavement once and for all. In her absence the children would not be sent to the plantation” (“Harriet Jacobs”).

While Bethune was an ardent supporter, and frequently a part of the black leadership that defined key race issues and strategies, by 1928 she was extremely concerned about the lack of financial support from NACW members and African-American women that gave the causes and issues specifically related to NACW and also to black women. Racism was a big issue back in day for black women because they didn’t get recognize until this organization came into establishment. Bethune noted that black women spent an inordinate amount of time and raising money for male-dominated organizations and male-defined causes. Bethune 's focus on securing and maintaining a national headquarters brought her and her program into direct conflict with the old guard NACW leadership, which for years

This project examines the novel The Help on the basis of race. It discovers the unsympathetic attitude of the white masters and adversity of the coloured maids who worked against racism. The starvation for self dignity and equality is the major issue in every coloured’s mind. The protagonist Aibileen and Minny are the representation of coloured maids, who lost their self respect in the beginning and later crave for equal rights. This project presents African American maids’ depressed mindset and their quest for equality.

Root, Identity and Community have always been the underlying theme of Toni Morrison. Through the accounts of her novels, Toni Morrison shows several ways in which slavery, which was the most oppressive period in the black history, has affected the identity of African American. In Bluest Eye, Morrison shows that a black woman who searches for her true identity feels frustrated by her blackness and yearns to be white because of the constant fear of being rejected in her surroundings. Thus Morrison tries to locate post colonial black identity in the socio-political ground where cultures are hybridized, powers are negotiated and individuals are reproduced as resistant agents. She not only writes about claiming the superiority by the white but also

In the manuscript, Stewart thundered, “WE CLAIM OUR RIGHTS”, she prophesied to ominous white America: “Dark and dismal is the cloud that hangs over thee, for thy cruel wrongs and injuries to the fallen sons of Africa. The blood of her murdered ones cries to heaven for vengeance against thee.” This was her call for African Americans to stand up for their rights. Stewart was different from a lot of abolitionists during her time because of the role she established for black women. She believed that it was the women who could establish the “sure foundation” in this movement. Unlike what many believed at the time of the duties reserved for black women, which was the responsibilities of the home, Stewart upheld those beliefs and served as a standard of moral rectitude exemplary to man.

Anne Bradstreet (1612 – 1672) has been a long-lasting leading figure in the American literature who embodied a myriad of identities; she was a Puritan, poet, feminist, woman, wife, and mother. Bradstreet’s poetry was a presence of an erudite voice that animadverted the patriarchal constraints on women in the seventeenth century. In a society where women were deprived of their voices, Bradstreet tried to search for their identities. When the new settlers came to America, they struggled considerably in defining their identities. However, the women’s struggles were twice than of these new settlers; because they wanted to ascertain their identities in a new environment, and in a masculine society.

In America’s Antebellum Period, the concept of slavery meant much more to a slave woman than hours of hard labor; to many, it also meant the continuous objectification of black women, both as property and subservient dependents of their masters. There is no better an example of this than in 12 Years A Slave’s Patsy, whose is enslaved through her forceful resignation to the role of an object, both to be used at her master’s lecherous whim and broken by a scorned mistress. An ever-present aspect of Patsy’s bondage is her inability to refuse her master’s lust, as she is his property. As was typical of the 1850s, the lack of legal liability of white plantation owners for the children they produced with their slaves allowed those same white masters to sexually abuse their bondswomen without repercussions, who—akin to “children” dependent upon their guardians, according to the law and to later views of men such as George Fitzhugh —had no legal right to consent or refuse their masters’ advances. An object of her master’s lustful hedonism, Patsy sees herself trapped in a similar fashion; the film boldly displays a

Walker exposes the patriarchy that condones male domination of women. The novel is about the trials and tribulations faced by a black woman under colonialism and black male oppression and her journey to attain knowledge, identity and freedom. Walker’s womanism stems from her mixed ancestry-