Supression of Women help.

[Ravin the Poet]

Hello everyone,

I have been on lit for over 2 years now and have wrote poetry for over 3-4 years. I am currently taking English and Creative Writing in University, and lately we have been studying political works that deal with the supression of women. I find this area very amousing, because being a male, it gives me a chance to look at the female side of things and see the strides they have made.

My poems will focus around the writings on Charles Darwin, Ruskin, Wollstonecraft, Sarah Ellies, and many others from early and later British history. But I don't just want to include poems about that time frame, as I see women are still being supressed in areas, such as sex (women are always seen as submissive...its a norm), so what other areas would you think I might cover.

So far, I have thought of the abortion debate here in Canada with our Conservative government now in power, and I also have though about women in the world not getting fair deals. (Like when they go to an auto place)

My first poem in this series is called My Dearest Cordeilia a poem about women being the inspiration for man, and being the leading spiritual force.

Any input from anyone on this subject would be greatful. Thanks for reading.

Ravin

 

[wildsweetone]

something a little different...

how about a woman who wants to be a homemaker - a wife and/or mother? seems like in this day and age that act is being supressed in certain cultures.

 

[Ravin the Poet]

The poem I am working on now kind of goes with that theme. Its about a women who will do everything in the house, and tend to the children, yet she will not be subjected to being a servant, so will not be a wife to the man of the house. The political reading slips of the top of my head on this one, but it basically states "Women are to mend the house and bear children, and when the husband returns, she is to be his moral strength"

That poem I started is in the "writing live" thread if you wish to read it. Needs huge editing though.


Ravin

 

[Sex and Death]

something a little different...

how about a woman who wants to be a homemaker - a wife and/or mother? seems like in this day and age that act is being supressed in certain cultures.

Yes.

Hestia. Hera. Gaea.

They are goddesses, too.

 

[Sex and Death]

If you are seeking images for inspiration, google these:

Kali

Dakini

Krishna and the Gopis

Persephone

Pele

Sophia and Gnosticism

Baba Yaga

Cerridwen

Hecate

Artemis

 

[bluerains]

ditto

Women are repressed by "religion"..not spirit...

To dwell outside ourselves, and by that I mean on external directives only rather than from our internal knowledge and needs, when one gets away from erotic guides from within self, then a life is
limited by external foundations, and we conform to the needs of a structure that is not based on human need, let alone an individual's. But when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to inform and illuminate actions upon the world around us, then we begin to be responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense. For as we begin to recognize our deepest feelings, we begin to give up, of necessity, being satisfied with suffering, and self-negation, and with the stunned soul which so often seems like the only alternative in our society. Our acts against oppression become integral with self, motivated and empowered from within. As
Ancient East has pointed out long ago by Kipling: “Ship me somewhere East of Suez .*.*. where there ain’t no ten commandments*.*.*.”
to live the way of the goddess...is to live such..ty S&D...

If you are seeking images for inspiration, google these:

Kali

Dakini

Krishna and the Gopis

Persephone

Pele

Sophia and Gnosticism

Baba Yaga

Cerridwen

Hecate

Artemis