Alice Walker's Oppression Of Black Women In The Twentieth Century

Abuse, misery and desperation are what readers feel about the life of black women in the twentieth century through Alice Walker's stories. Passing throughout the Civil Rights Movement, Walker sympathies all the difficulties and struggles that every black woman, mothers and young ladies had to suffer during that time. She understood that the discrimination of race, gender, class and religion were the main causes of the women's torment in poverty. Dependence on man on food, money and religion, the black women were abused on racism and sexism. These causes forced women to go up and fight for their rights. They wanted to overcome the prejudice of society to against to violence from man. Black women built up the friendship for understanding and encouraging them to get back their
“We shall overcome...We shall overcome, someday...Deep in my heart, I do believe...We shall overcome, someday...” (Walker, 1986: 48)

Throughout Alice Walker's writings about the black women in the tweinth century, viewers find that Walker emphasized the feminist. She wanted to say about the love and sympathy between mothers to daughters, and between female to female. Female need to fight for their rights. According the definition of Feminism theory, it is support of equality for women and men. Women can study, work and live like their desires. They are indepent in economic. They have fair rights like man have. These rights were passed in the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972. Furthermore, Walker also created many different ways for her feminine characters to escape from their bad fates and hard lives. She added the escapism into her stories as the consolation for those characters, for readers and for herself. According the definition of