Week 7 Mina Loy

Sep 07, 2007 00:48


Mina Loy ‘Feminist Manifesto’

The question is whether her writing is relevant for today?

I think that certainly some aspects of her writing are relevant but most are outdated due to the fact that we have rights now that we did not have in Loy’s time. This is because she states that women are not equal to men, and I a woman of the 21st century think that in today’s society were are more equal to men than we have ever been in the past. We have equal pay, equal rights and we have become recognised for our achievements that in the time of Mina Loy we may not have been.

However, I think that I would have been a suffragette in her time to fight for the rights of women.

Where she talks about women having to choose between being a parasite, a prostitute or negation its like she is devaluing women herself even though she is one herself, I think that although women did not have the rights that we have now, we don’t need to be put into that category. When she talks of sex and marriage its like it is a women job to allow her husband to have her when he wants or she is not a good wife, I think that she here is also devaluing sex and marriage for what it truly is, this may have been the case but it is certainly not now.

I do agree with her on he maternity issue, women do have a right to bear children, in her time it would have been considered wrong and immoral to have a child by yourself, but now it has become something that we accept whole heartedly because of the rights that women now have.

I also don’t agree with her that women should destroy their desire for love, I think that this is definitely an outdated idea, as women we want to feel needed, respected, and most of all loved by our partners. I think that love is very important.

Loy raises some very interesting points however I don’t think that her thoughts are that relevant to today as we as women benefit from the rights that we have fought for over many years and that some women are still fighting to earn these rights.



Previous post Next post
Up