The Importance Of Gender Conflicts Literature To Society Past And Present

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Term Paper Title	The Importance Of Gender Conflicts Literature To Society Past And Present
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The Importance of Gender Conflicts Literature to Society Past and Present

     Gender conflict arises when one set or another defies social norn through thought or actions.  Society is constantly changing, some would say evolving, and gender roles are constantly being redefined.  Female have traditionally been subservient to males women throughout the passage of time have found themselves fighting our male dominated society in order to gain their rights and remedies in the legal system and society itself.
     At one time in American society, women were not permitted to own property, were discouraged from seeking higher education and were relegated to home and hearth.  Men were hunter and women were gatherers.
     World War II and the subsequent Industrial Revolution put women into the American workforce, not only in large numbers, but also for the first time in American history, in jobs that were traditionally male dominated positions.  The war effort actively recruited the women due to lack of males available for these factory positions in large part because most of the healthy males were engaged in active military service.  It was during this time that many women discovered that they could be financially independent of their male family members and because disgruntled when the war effort ended; thus our male dominated society sought once again to sentence them to the limited existence they lived before the war.
     Gender conflict is not limited to females in our society.  Men who seek to be house husbands or wish to take on the role of primary caretaker for the children, suffer the stigma society attaches to them as being too lazy to go out to support their families, or are viewed and possibly as effeminate homosexual      I have chosen three works in which gender conflict arises.  Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"; Sophocles' "Antigone"; and McElroy's "My Fathers Wars".  I include McElroy's poem because I felt it essential to show that despite the feminist belief that only they, as women, encounter gender discrimination, McElroy shows through her work that men encounter the same types of social stigmas when they attempt to cross the gender line as well.
     William Faulkner was born Sept 25, 1897 to Murry C and Maud Butler Faulkner in  New Albany Mississippi.  He was the oldest of four sons.  His education was speractic and he did not graduate from high school.  Having already determined that he wanted to become a writer he could be said to be self educated through exten...

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