Feminist Writers of the 1960's and 1970's

The feminist writers of the 1960s and 1970s were making sure that the woman was suffering emotional and psychological stress on having assumed roles traditionally feminus, and were setting the women up to have their own professions and change there positions and rolls of the woman in society.

Women, especially those who had a formal education, were not happy with there housewive roles. These women, who were possessing aptitudes to carry out professions out of the house, were meeting doing vulgar tasks that were very far from satisfying the husbands desires. Between the resultant problems it enumerates: emotional crisises, alcoholism, marriages adolescents and illegitimate pregnancies. The feminine mystique turned into the springboard for the movement of liberation of the woman and that it bloomed at the beginning of the 70s.

The point of view on the quandary of the traditional woman was thought to be outraged. There is this theory of the shock of marriage. It says that the marriage was producing interruptions that were modifying the life of the woman in a drastic way. The women who are capable of looking after the marriage are placed in a role of dependency with regard to the husband in economic topics, of status. The role of the housewife has prestiged to be small, and the woman

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suffers a loss of legal rights.

The pathogenic mother is the woman who spends there adult life breeding children. to take care of children the whole day is too demanding. In spite of loving there children, they cannot support the maternity, and nevertheless they must expire with a role that they despise.

It seems logical to think that the women with non traditional mentality towards the gender roles, is that they should live better ...

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...he Great Gatsby gives us a glimpse into the gender roles of post-WWI America. Gender roles are in part decided by societal roles, as Tom’s upper class masculinity (strength, intimidation, virility) is contrasted with Wilson’s lower class version (hard working nature, naiveté). Unfaithfulness is a trait of both women and men, as we see in the text’s prevalent adultery. Women take physical abuse at the hands of Tom’s overly-macho persona, which seems a right of his gender at the time. His abuse is a form of the control that he exercises over both his mistress and his wife. Even Gatsby, who treats Daisy as if she is the most precious jewel in the world, does not ultimately understand women. He treats his love as a prize, rather than a person. Daisy and Jordan, interestingly, seem to do as they please – but they still define themselves by their ability to attract men.