Being A Woman Is More Than Biology - 1658 Words

Being a woman is more than biology and it even goes beyond looking at gender as a category created and developed by society. In my opinion, womanhood is similar but at the same time different than manhood. With there being so many different representations of a woman, I ask myself: What constitutes a woman? What does it mean to be a woman? In past societies but mainly in today’s, we as human feel a need to categorize people and this has been showed by the way women have been treated for so long, from the post civil war to the 1920’s and up to the 21st century. By categorizing women, we are limiting them. Women are constantly being put in a box and this is the result of socio-economic and intellectual privilege that is mostly self-created.†¦show more content†¦Women are an important part of our society because they make a difference. Bruce Bliven was a journalist born in Iowa. He worked with the New Republic, which is a liberal American magazine. In the 1920s he wrote some of his best work in which some of the subjects were freedom of speech and most importantly the rights of women and minorities. In his article Flapper Jane, he says: â€Å"Feminism has won a victory so nearly complete that we have even forgotten the fierce challenge which once inhered in the very word. Women have highly resolved that they are just as good as men, and intend to be treated so. They don’t mean to have any more unwanted children. They don’t intend to be debarred from any profession or occupation which they choose to enter.† This means that women are no longer accepting to be forced to play a role. The flappers were middle class women who had steady jobs and were involved in the city nightlife. They were referred to as a â€Å"New woman† simply because they had a carefree attitude in regards to what the males thought. They consumed alcohol and smoked which were activities previously reserved for men. These flappers sought to elimina te double standards and have their way. They are as good as men and are capable to do as much as them. They are no longer accepting to be discriminated because they believe that they have earned the rights to work and they do not want to be treated as if they