There are a couple of points seeming to be relevant in society presently. However, there is one that somehow changed over the years when Audre Lorde wrote this in 1980. It would be sexism. During those times long before, women didn’t had much rights nor independence of themselves. Men overseen women as housewives, such as remaining in the household, cleaning, taking care their children, and other housework chores they must do. Men were in the higher placement in a hierarchy chart whilst women were at the bottom. The society we are living presently, women have their own rights as well as independence. However, there are some men who still have that mindset women are no better than men. I, for one as a woman, think they’re wrong. Because women are also defined as human beings, persons. Women equally can do what men can do.
Professor Laura Westengard
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I do agree with your post, I have a friend who used to live in Guyana and he moved over here when he was five. His father now coming to America still lives in his Guyanese mentality that women must stay in the kitchen and cook all day. The thing about it is that he has a great wife that is intelligent and beautiful that can do many other things but he doesn’t allow her cause of his “old time mentallity.”
Good point, Sudesh. In America, we often forget that women have gained many rights in the last 30 years or so, but in other places they are still forced to “stay in the kitchen and cook all day.”
I wonder if Baldwin placed the setting of his novel in Europe so that it would force Americans to consider the differences in social expectations in various world locations.
Very true sudesh, that “men” needs to be educated!
but some places they are not force to tell women to “stay in the kitchen and cook all day.” some of them they wants to, learn from older, or men and women make deal with it.