Gender Stereotypes In Susan Glaspell's A Jury Of Her Peers

Many African Americans are tried for crimes that they did not commit. In the book Just Mercy, the author, Bryan Stevenson reveals one such incident involving Walter McMillian. The McMillian case became one of Bryan’s career defining work. Walter McMillian, a somewhat successful black man in Monroe County, Alabama, was wrongly charged of the murder of a local white girl named Rhonda Morrison. The investigation of Rhonda Morrison was ongoing and the public had began to lose confidence in the local law enforcement and were starting to question the effectiveness of the law.

Irving’s Depiction of Women Letty Cottin Pogrebin once said, “When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition.” Washington Irving is at times sanctioned as being a misogynist as a result of his well-known writings such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. While his depictions of women represented in his writings were heinous, I do not believe Irving was a misogynist.

There are two extremes of one “whore-ish” and the other cruel that do not give room for a positive interpretation of women. The one woman who is given a softer role is not given enough time to be a true character to really matter in the representation of Women. Kesey does not represent the women in a good way because these men have basically been ruined by women, and that is the underlying reason that Kesey gives them poor characteristics. Many of the characters seem to have problems with the women in their lives be it Ratched, their wife, mothers, or other women in power, which leads to the point Kesey is trying to make with portraying women this way. The changing culture of women obviously frightens men because they have never been used to women being so powerful or so open with thier sexuallity and all they would like in this blossoming era of the 60’s is to go back to the ideal and perfect

In the novel, the women gossiping about Hester say: “The magistrates may be God-fearing but they are too merciful” (1). Those women believed that Hester should be stamped with the letter A and put to death. Women today are not as harsh, however, they do view adultery with more disgrace than men. For example, women censure other women for committing adultery more than men do. These women see it as a shameful act to the entire sex and criticize adulterers heavily.

Have you ever feltthat in your life some things are unfair or why it happen to you? In this book of the Rag and the Bone shop. The events in the book it shows that in life not everything is fair. In the beginning of the book the police officer discovers that a young girl had been murder really bad.

Now, women are actually treated like equals among men.

Conclusion "Medea" criticizes the male dominated society. It criticizes what a small role women play in society even if they have great abilities, what little power women have, and how unfair it is that men can do what they want while women cannot. I find this interesting because it seems so modern, women all over the world still struggle with the problems that the women in Medea did. Euripides, and C.A.E Luschnig. "

Things like feminist theory, inequality and empathy can be found within the text of this play when taking a deeper view. This murder is looked at as an act of rebellion on the male dominated society. Today, women have less issues with inequality then women of that time period, thus allowing us to understand why these women would act this way. As a final point, these women empathized with Minnie Foster based off of the way they all were being treated and proceeded to cover up the

In Homer’s The Odyssey, particular characters have some sort of disguise that allows them to deceive others. In the epic, there is also a demonstration of inequality between men and women. The idea of guile in The Odyssey was raised multiple times throughout the epic and it was often considered to be wisdom. From the beginning of the epic, we see characters praising men for their “wisdom” and women are oppressed for the majority of their actions, including lying.

Her thoughts soon become clouded with animosity which leads her to make rash decisions. Although Forbes says “the way people assess and understand others is compromised”, the reader sees how these stereotypes can be used to a character’s advantage when getting away with wrong doing. The story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl depicts how betrayal can provoke characters to commit crime in order to emphasize the inaccurate perception of women. The author uses irony and characterization to portray how once betrayed women may not be as innocent or fragile as they seem. Dahl uses irony to show the effects of betrayal on a character’s behaviour.

The following quote should hopefully secure the idea that oppression is still very much a prominent part of society that affects women, “We look silly, incompetent, weak, and generally contemptible” Frye writes, regarding the differences between female restrains and male restraints, “Our exercise of this discipline tends to low esteem and self-esteem. It does not benefit us. It fits in a network of behaviors through which we constantly announce to others our membership in a lower caste and our unwillingness and/or inability to defend our bodily or moral integrity” (16). In essence, this quote displays how women are mocked for attempting to develop their own independence.

This is one of the resolutions I most agree with because women should be able to vote. Gender shouldn’t be an implication to deny someone’s power to vote. Another resolution I agree with is the one which states,”All laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position to that inferior of men, are contrary to the great precept of nature.” What this means is that any laws that stop women from reaching their full potential or make them more inferior than men are against principle. Without a doubt this is what women are and should be entitled to.

The feminist movement is pushing and calling for men to join them in an effort to stop violence against women, stop human trafficking and enslavement. Feminism does not only focus on equality at work but in human rights

In the short story, “A Jury of Her Peers”, by Susan Glaspell, the author shows how we should perceive gender roles. Susan focuses on the female side of gender roles more often than the male. Only to reveal and focus on the inequality a female is treated because of her gender role. Susan depicts a whole story where the men are the predators and the women are the victims, and how when more women begin to stand up for each other the more you begin to see the destruction of gender roles.