Feminist Reading Summary

Reading Selection 7: Feminist Readings

Reading 1

The main argument of the piece is that the author is just talking about the problems that women face.

The major rhetorical strategies that were sued in this reading were emotion and logic.

Logic The proportion of women attending college in comparison with men dropped from 47 per cent in 1920 to 35 per cent in 1958. A century earlier, women had fought for higher education; now girls went to college to get a husband. By the mid‐fifties, 60 per cent dropped out of college to marry, or because they were afraid too much education would be a marriage bar

Emotion , she went to a doctor with symptoms she could hardly describe: “A tired feeling. . . I get so angry with the children it scares

The writer claims that a 8th grade dropout male makes the same as a woman that is a college graduate and that is a false claim.

Reading 3

The main idea in this writing is a call to women to go and protest against the Miss America beauty pageant.

The major rhetorical strategy that is used in this writing is pathos.

The reason why I think that this writing has an emotional feeling is because the writer We will protest the image of Miss America, an image that oppresses women in every area in which it purports to represent us.

Reading 4

This piece of writing shows all of the things that the Miss America pageant did. First it starts by talking bad about the pageant saying that it treats women badly because the organization treats them like a an object judging everything of the person. Then the writing goes on and it says 10 wrong things of the pageant.

This document's main strategy is pathos and

They are called bad names treated differently, and not asked for their opinion when it comes to a major decisions.

This writing uses pathos and Hyperbole.

This whole piece is making it seem that women are treated really badly the writer has exaggerating some somethings.

Reading 6

The main point of this reading is that the author is giving experiences from her own life. She talks about how she would feel when her husband would help ger with her chores, and she claimed that it was her job and the only reason why she would say thank you is because it was her way to remind her husband that it was her job. Then she talks about how she would go to therapy and then she felt more important in life. After the therapies she ended up joining a feminist organization then she talks about how the political system helps male supremacy also that the system does not help women.

This reading relies on pathos.

The reason why the reading has a strong emotional feeling is because the writer talks about her female struggle and how her problems related to the oppression of women.

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