Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Women Activism reaches campus

Women activists have many different definitions of how it is accomplished. The American way of activism differs from the world view and especially the African perspective. The African perspective of women's activism. The Burial at Thebes relates to the struggle women go through and it can also cause in it's own sense orderly chaos. When the women in Africa went to the European explorers and tried to tell them what they are doing incorrect by using body language. When that failed the women would band together and hurt the man (of either ethnicity) for harming the woman.
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In The Burial at Thebes, Antigone was treated horribly by her uncle Creon of Thebes and she committed suicide after sentencing her to a cave for the rest of her life. If Antigone was in Africa when this happened the women would have united and caused an uproar out of the sheer disrespect that was thrown upon Antigone. The gender issues in the world today represent the oldest form of order and chaos representation based on the differences between the strengths and weaknesses of men and women alike. The issue continues to reveal itself in literature and in pop culture to modern era.

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