overcome the damage and self-hatred inflicted by compulsory heterosexuality. In Adrienne Rich’s Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence‚ she highlights men’s control over women’s bodies and what women must do in order to exist in a patriarchal world‚ especially as lesbians. Men control women in eight ways according to Rich‚ including denying women their own sexuality and forcing male sexuality upon them (Rich
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In the first stanza of the poem‚ Rich associates women with monsters‚ which implies that in the society‚ it is still a strange and uncommon thing for a woman to be a professional scientist. These women may feel unsure about their identities‚ and people around them may look at them weirdly
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"Prospective Immigrants Please Note" Adrienne Rich Either you will go through this door or you will not go through. If you go through there is always the risk of remembering your name. Things look at you doubly and you must look back and let them happen. If you do not go through it is possible to live worthily to maintain your attitudes to hold your position to die bravely but much will blind you‚ much will evade you‚ at what cost who knows? The door itself makes no promises
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The essay“ When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision” written in 1971 by Adrienne Rich is composed of basic feminist ideals and beliefs. In that essay‚ Rich explores the theme of women’s roles in society‚ as she writes “ Historically‚ men and women have played very different parts… where women [have] been a luxury for man...but also as comforter‚ nurse‚ cook‚ bearer of his seed…man has played quite a different role for the female artist.” This reflects the culture of the time period in which women
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written by Adrienne Rich in 1997. This speech was presented at Douglass College. In the speech Rich addresses how society views young women for sexist and woman duty such as begin nice‚ cooking and cleaning. However‚ rich wants young women to see that it is so much more than just being what society wants us to be. That young woman should be able to achieve their highest level of education in life. Rich wants the first-semester woman to look at their educated and claim it as their rightful owe. Rich makes
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1) Brian Turner’s "Jundee Ameriki" The narrator feels like someone talking to his own subconscious‚ someone who was present at the scene back in Baghdad‚ who not only knew the story but experienced it. Although the speaker was presented in 3rd person it could be the Jundee Ameriki himself‚ a battle buddy or one of the rescue team. The fragments symbolize the suffering the soldier encounters from the war‚ the long-lasting physical scars embedded with mementos from the suicidal lady and the scene “bits
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1) Brian Turner’s "Jundee Ameriki" The narrator feels like someone talking to his own subconscious‚ someone who was present at the scene back in Baghdad‚ who not only knew the story but experienced it. Although the speaker was presented in 3rd person‚ it could be the Jundee Ameriki himself‚ a battle buddy or one of the rescue team. The fragments symbolize the suffering the soldier encounters from war‚ the long-lasting physical scars embedded with mementos from the suicidal lady and the scene “bits
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criticisms on compulsory heterosexuality and the idea that heterosexuality is the only real natural relationship. In the article‚ “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” by Adrienne Rich‚ she states that‚ “heterosexuality‚ like motherhood‚ needs to be recognized and studied as a political institution” (Rich 637). She argues that heterosexuality is politically institutionalized because it has been strategically and deliberately carried out by laws and regulations that restrains women and
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The Struggle for Help Billionaires speed off in their Bentleys and Lamborghinis off to work. Millionaires are stowed away in the lovely Beverly Hills or in Hollywood. The rich live in their nice houses and send their kids to private schools. The middle class is content and are happy with what they have. The poor are making an effort to get by and living with the bare necessities. What about the homeless? Some argue that the homeless got where they are through drug problems and mental
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movement‚ as Adrienne Rich states in her 1929 essay‚ “Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking‚ talking‚ and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence‚ grappling with your hard work .” (Rich). As I dissect this statement‚ I come to the conclusion that in 1929 men were thought to control women‚ thinking for and talking for women‚ meaning they neither had a say‚ nor were able to think for themselves. Women like Rich were very
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