Remember, Resist, Do Not Comply, By Andrea Dwoekin

Discussion

Women were criticized for being incapable of working outside their houses while the only reason was that men destroyed the right of working outside. They just not smashed the right of work, women even did not have their basic rights, such as education, join politics, share their opinions, trade, and election. Those rights were ignored by men. Women were always defined as soft. In one hand, men believed that women were physically and emotionally weak. Therefore, this was the reason why they could not work properly and have high positions in the public. In another hand, men thought that if women go to work outside their houses, they would bring disorder into the social order. The idea was that societies will go under disorder because

An example of a woman who was active during 19th century and after was Andrea Dworkin. She was an American author who was the speaker among women, and she was fighting against inequality and violence against women, especially pornography. She wrote many books and one of her best one was "Remember, Resist, Do not Comply.'' Her main argument in this book was about continuing and accomplishing duties. Therefore, Andrea Dwoekin was one of the women who started to end the careless of women's right (Strayer, p. 1175). According to Andrea Dwoekin, "We have identified rape; we have identified incest; we have identified battery; we have identified prostitution; we have identified pornography- as crimes against women, as means of exploiting women, ways of hurting women that are systematic and supported by the practices of the societies in which we live" (Dwoekin,1995). To illustrate, she showed how women were suffering from cultures that were not supportive for them, In contrast, it was the way of suffering. Also, she mentioned in her book that women should take an action. They should respond those aggressions that attempted against them (Strayer, p. 1176). Those kinds of activities of women were needed because they were struggle the injustice that surrounded by the

This means that they were prohibited to work. For example, women were banned to work in early 18th until early 20th century in some places in British, and the rule was a proved by British parliament. Plus, Indian women were paying for men’s fee, and Japanese women paid to for their society as well. Beside this partichyes, the role of women increased by ten percent from 1977 to 1979 (Mercier, 2011, p. 34). Men did not except women to success. According to Bordering on Equality: Women Miners in North America, "Two important recent, comparative anthologies reveal that gender constructions of work, family and militancy have been central to the masculine world of mining; and that women have played a more critical role in mining enterprises and communities than previously understood" (Mercier, 2011, p. 34). This means that women were doing quite well in their works that men did not except it. Moreover, they did not even want to help them. In contrast, men wanted to diminish those rights from them. This was by using violence against them in work, or by giving them over their abilities to show how weak they were. As I mentioned before, women were doing men’s hard works because they had to prove their skills so that they would not lose their jobs. Consequently, they got the chance to work, but the difficulty that faced them was because men were using fierceness against them. In addition, this was the reason for disorder because sexual