Summary Of A Woman's Place By Naomi Wolf

In Naomi Wolf’s story, “A Woman’s Place” is about her giving women four messages for certain situations in a woman’s life, and that men always find a way to put women down in a sexist way. Wolf gives personal situations she or others have been through in their life, and what they faced as a woman. Situations from rape, sexual exploitation and becoming a woman. Wolf shows that it is needed for women to speak up and take action for themselves no matter what anyone says. For example, when Wolf says, “Become goddesses of disobedience” (159) is telling her readers that go for it do what you feel like doing for you. Another example would be when she was about to graduate from Yale and this speaker put down all women in that ceremony talking about how the nude of Valet were leaked, and nobody bought the pornography; however, no woman stood up and said something they were all in silence, yet they were embarrassed for the fact he said that in front of the public that including their parents.
I felt the connection to her statements, yet I do believe we should stand up to stand up and speak up for the situations us women go through, and keeping it all in could possibly shut another voice down as well. I absolutely love when Wolf says “I want to give you a backlash survival kit, a four-step manual to keep the dragons from taking up residence inside your own heads.” (157) when I read that I had an idea of what she was going to write about, and that you shouldn’t change the way you think things just because someone else puts your opinion down, and I was in way right about it. In the end, Wolf talks about how you shouldn't keep your silences as women just because you will be judged. Sure you'll lose loved ones and friends on the way, for speaking out your mind, but the ones who accept you for you are worth keeping in your