Roots of the oppression of women -Internet (JEAN KIM)

In determining whether the myth of male dominance, saying that "women's subordination is a function of their biology or psychology", logical or not, the article provides an excerpt of the book called the Myths of Male Dominance by Eleanor Burke Leacock, a femminist-antrhopologist.

In the book Myths of Male Dominance, the author mentions a couple of articles she used as to demonstrate how the "universal male dominance is myth not fact". Though the articles from the past and even today depict women as inevitably "passive" and therefore often live subservient lives, the author defies such stereotype from her own experience and the cross cultural study of anthropology. By narrating on her own experience of unconsciously taking the role of a house keeper while both the author and her husband have independant work outside. The author explains how the passive learning of women's general role in a society/household accounts for the oppression of women and further blames such subservient tendency of women to the women's lack of will to rebel and voice up for their equal rights they deserve.

As an article on internet, the layout of the page is unique in which it has some kind of advertisement/ announcement section beside the article. As the website is of a national newspaper wirtten on a socialist worker's standpoint, the advertisement/announcement beside the article deliberately delivers the newspaper's characteristic and goal -to present "a socialist analysis of the events and forces that have shaped today's world and sharing the voices of those involved in the many efforts to try to change that world."

The article holds a value in which it provides an expertise opinion on the roots of the oppression of women. However, it is inevitably biased, since it only presents an extreme femminist view on the women's issue and thus prevents the readers from gaining a rational/ fair perspective on the same issue.

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*BIBLIOGRAPHY) "Roots of women's oppression SocialistWorker.org." SocialistWorker.org. 14 Sep. 2008 .