Women’s Oppression in Hurston’s “Sweat”: The Stereotype of Women’s Role in Society

Women's repression by Mr. Hurston's "sweat": Delia Jones is a laundry house and homeowner in 1926's short story "Sweat", in Zola Neil Hurston the role of women in social stereotypes, subject It is painted as an abused wife. She has a job and owns a house it owns, but this does not change the fact that her husband still has the power. Because women are shaped by society as housewives, they feel that they are depressed. Because women are oppressed by social views and freedom is limited, women like Delia can not get what they want.

In the 1940s, the role and expectation of women in society had changed rapidly. In the past, the voice of a woman in a community is small, just having a child in the house, a good housewife and a wife. In the 1940 's, the lives of women are expanding, men by war differ, some people stood to occupy the position of men. Not only the men also war, the war is as great as establishing a woman who received a women's party (WAC) and emergency service volunteers (WAVES) in 1942. After these organizations were approved, Congress granted permission to send women to the US Navy. Go back to the state government, the factory women, the role of labor intensive work, will be the focus of the entertainment community. In 1943, the National Women's Professional Baseball League was founded. In 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt became the representative of the newly-formed United Nations. Through the 1940s, the number of women in the labor force increased by 25-35%.

The American society of the 1950s was a clear but robust portrayal of men and women. A woman is a housewife, a secretary, a mother. Male is donor, hero of war, businessman. Television, newspapers, magazines also play an important role in determining the behavior of men and women. Real estate ads are intended to be sold to families in the "nation". For example, my father veteran to prosper in the 1950's ... ... now it will be the United States. Economy has grown rapidly, booming in the suburbs, but notoriously a "baby boom", secondly all of them appeared after the end of the world war. But in the 1950s the age of the civil rights movement, African Americans are right to protest with voice, their life is still not easy. A young family facing racism in the slums of Chicago, the protagonists of the drama