Taking Women Students Seriously [pp. 40-43]

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Melanie Ngai focuses on three subjects of gender discrimination, focusing on Adrienne Rich's article "Female students seriously consider" female student overview, focusing on the difficulties female students face in a male-dominated university setting I'm counting on you. Collegiate education and rape at college This article was written in 1978 and sent to a group of female teachers at a meeting held at Scripps College, Claremont, California in 1978. The famous poet Adriana Richey is talking about the status of girls in college as well as female college students and lesbians of society as a whole. The problem described in this article is eternal and related to today's culture and society. Throughout the article, she told the audience that before a woman seriously thought about it, she had to seriously consider herself and remember that we are also people.

Adrienne's article titled "Take Serious Serious Schoolgirls" focuses on the difficulties female students face in a male-dominated society, provides valuable insights to female teachers, girls students critically think and truth It helps to discover the value of. The basic theme of this article is to prove that there is no equality between men and women, and that society believes that deceiving women will succumb to men. The whole education system and society as a whole promotes the passivity of female students in general, which in turn prevents girls 'students' intellectual development.

At a co-educational Radcliffe school, Adrienne Rich discovered that the entire education system is biased towards women, but female students were not appreciated. At university, "Adults talked about other great people, the essence of humanity, the history of mankind, the future of humanity." Adriana Ritchie said fear of rape and sexual harassment is a major obstacle to women's thinking and development of free thinking It was said. According to Adrienne Ritchie, the whole education system urged to think that "men are the world's shaper and thinker, this is natural", and since women are also soft targets for pornographic magazines, gender equality I could not achieve it. According to Adrienne Rich, female teachers have two choices, either to ignore the whole problem or to refuse to follow fixed specifications. The attitude of society changes only when a female educator begins to think seriously about them.