Theme of Oppressed Women We know, of

First of all, in Marge Piercy's Barbie Doll, the social conditions are those of women who are less than the ideal. We, in society today, worship the looks of Barbie dolls- nearly perfect. Beverly Hills plastic surgeons make a fortune trying to right Nature's wrongs. There are now popular TV reality shows, such as "Extreme Makeover" which takes ugly ducklings and, within an hour, turn them into lovely swans. But, this "girlchild" in the poem suffered from a classmate's taunts. "You have a big nose and fat legs" (Piercy line 6). Some women are oppressed by the expressed thoughts of others, by the way they look to others, rather than how they actually feel, or how bright they are. "Oppressed" physically, means that women feel like they don't measure up if they don't look like a model or someone on the swimsuit cover of Sports Illustr

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me" (Gilman 3). Not well enough to write? This opens up a floodgate of questions. What is well and what is well enough? What is being ill or just not feeling up to par? And then when she actually begins to write, she hears her sister-ion-law coming and her first thought is :"she must not let her find me writing" (Gilman 4). Why would a doctor's sister be content to be a housekeeper, and what power does she have for our subject to stop writing when her sister-in-law arrives. Slowly, we begin to put together pieces of a teetering mind. There is something obviously wrong with her, but is it her body or her mind or both? "I don't know why I should write this. I don't want to. I don't feel able" (Gilman 6). And, a short time later, she now admits "It is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight. Just this nervous weakness, I suppose" (Gilman 6). Now, at this point one might look up and ask, what does the mind's deterioration (if it is really that) to do with the oppression of women. Time to move ahead, then. What is her obsession with that paper, feeling, as she does, that it moves sometimes and seems to change color with the passing of the day or with moonlight. And through it all, she seems to feel that her husband
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