Summary: Why Labels Should Label Matter

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Why Should Labels Matter? Why should an author’s gender matter? What difference could a chromosomal assignment make on their words? In today’s culture gender equality has become far more complex than the days of the authors we will be focusing on; in their day there were only two genders. Male and female. While science still maintains there are only two biological genders popular society has designated at least 15 gender variations. (Adams, 2017) So again I ask; What difference could gender have on an author’s words? The answer to this question does not lie with biology, but instead with experience. The experience of being a particular gender, in the case of these authors female, is what matters. The attitude towards and liberties possessed by a gender in society can shape a person's thought process. These attitudes, liberties, and current affairs playing heavily on what sentiments an author chooses to express. Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins-Gilman, and Edna St. Vincent Millay all by biological …show more content…

Throughout her life Gilman lectured, and created a body of the work which is to this day used to herald the feminist movement. In 1915 Gilman wrote “Herland” a novel which paints the picture of a utopian society of “women who worked cooperatively.” (Radcliffe Institute, 2017) Gilman was labeled as a woman of a weak constitution, but yet she went on to fight some the hardest battles anyone could ever face. She fought her whole life against gender equality, marital norms, depression, and in the end even cancer. She chose use her own death to illustrate how taking one’s own life is no more of sin than leaving a party early. Gilman’s legacy would be to pave the way for future people, not just women, to make their own choices in

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