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Today’s Discussion: “The Yellow Wallpaper” Feminism in Literature HW: “The Story of

Today’s Discussion: “The Yellow Wallpaper” Feminism in Literature HW: “The Story of an Hour”. Women’s Rights. Women’s Rights.

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Today’s Discussion: “The Yellow Wallpaper” Feminism in Literature HW: “The Story of

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  1. Today’s Discussion: • “The Yellow Wallpaper” • Feminism in Literature • HW: “The Story of an Hour”

  2. Women’s Rights

  3. Women’s Rights • 1887 For the first and only time in this century, the US Senate votes on woman suffrage. It loses, 34 to 16. Twenty-five Senators do not bother to participate. • 1909 Women garment workers strike in New York for better wages and working conditions in the Uprising of the 20,000. Over 300 shops eventually sign union contracts. • 1917 During WWI women move into many jobs working in heavy industry in mining, chemical manufacturing, automobile and railway plants. They also run street cars, conduct trains, direct traffic, and deliver mail. • 1919 The House of Representatives passes the women's suffrage amendment, 304 to 89; the Senate passes it with just two votes to spare, 56 to 25.

  4. Feminist Literature • Issues of control- shifts by the end of the story • Social issues:  gender roles (women's passivity, relegation to the house and the inside) • Gender roles -- how does she fit into her traditional gender role from beginning to end? • Escape to freedom, need for autonomy. 

  5. “The Yellow Wallpaper” • What is the setting of the story; what does her room look like? Time period? • What duality exists in the narrator? • How does this story address women’s rights? • What does it show us about sentiments of some women of the time?

  6. Charlotte Perkins Gilman • Became depressed after the birth of her child • Physician, specializing in women’s “nervous disorders” prescribed cure: total bed rest, confinement, and isolation. • Mitchell also recommended that she devote herself to domestic work and her child, limit intellectual work, and absolutely avoid artistic production and writing

  7. “Found” Two-Voice Poem • Options: 1.) To convey the duality between male and female voices, craft a two voice poem to juxtapose John and the narrator OR 2.) juxtapose the duality of the narrator. • Use direct words and phrases from the story; Play with repetition and arrangement of words. • Include a Found Title

  8. Trimester 2’s Extra Credit Opportunity: Tea stain your poem’s paper and/or decorate in an artistic way to uncover another layer of the story. Up to 10ec pts for intention, time, and detail.

  9. Kate Chopin • “The Story of an Hour”

  10. Kate Chopin’s literary work • Unconventional perspectives on marriage • Her characters face choices between what society expects of them and what they really desire, and they usually decide to follow their own path, not society's. • Exploration of special problems and dilemmas that women face • Unafraid to suggest that sometimes women want sex, or even independence.

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