Similarities Between Feminine Mystique And I Am Joaquin

Take-Home/In-Class Assessment on Revolutionary Writer

Comparison Between Betty Friedan and Gonzales Rodolfo

In Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan and I am Joaquin by Rodolfo Gonzales, both authors discuss the impact that society often has on how one chooses to identify oneself. In both works the authors talk about how America society often attempts to erase individuality by means of assimilate. In Feminine Mystique, Friedan explains that in the 50s and 60s society constantly tried to tell women they should strive to become one thing; a suburban house wife. Similarly, Gonzales states that's that there is an internal battle within many people with native ancestry on whether or not to abandon and forget their culture heritage and assimilate

The reason is that the cause of these riots, the racist malignancy in America, has been too long unattended.” This passage immediately stood out to me because it reminded of the very similar perspective I had received when I was interviewing my interviewee from the Oral History Project. My interviewee had lived during Civil Rights movement and had witnessed the Hough and Glenville riots, while living in East Cleveland Ohio. When I asked him if he could draw a comparison between the riots that happened in Cleveland and some of the more recent years, he answered that, “You can’t hardly separate the two. A riot is a riot. A riot is caused by people’s discontentment.” The racist malignancy in America that Malcolm X indicates Ignited these riots stemmed from (as my interviewee explained) Slavery and the Jim Crow era and the effect it had on. The civil Rights Bill attempted to fix the issue of inequality of right’s but as my interviewee, Malcolm X, and I argued, failed to address the long existing sentiment that Blacks were inherently

It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”

Che Guevara’s quote strongly relates to revolutionary writer, Betty Freidan. Freidan was passionate about advocating for women’s rights and bring light to the concepts of gender stereotypes and femminity that women silently struggled with. She talked about these issues out of compassion for other women who might have been subjected to the same societal pressure she had experienced as women. If she did not have any empathy in her heart for others, then she would not have even considered exerting a tremulous amount of her effort in writing and speaking out for women’s