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Re: My Abstract: Feminism in Baptiste's Voyage D'Auvergne

Posted by Tay Silveira on February 13, 2002 at 09:53:39:

In Reply to: My Abstract: Feminism in Baptiste's Voyage D'Auvergne posted by Marisa Messenger on February 12, 2002 at 22:30:42:

I find that yoy have a well laid out start and you should be quite successful. I appreciate that your idea is somewhat original. :
: Theme:
: the Role of feminism in Baptiste's voyage D'Auvergne

: Argument:
: I am going to argue that rather than giving a straight-forward account of the peasant life, Baptiste has used this piece as a forum for focusing the reader on his disdain for the male peasant attitude toward women. I believe that Baptiste does so using three methods:
: 1. By describing female daily activities in such a way as to make them seem more challenging than men's work.
: 2. word choice: he uses adjectives with negative connotations (i.e. idle, savage,etc.) to describe the men's activities.
: 3.sarcasm: this will be exemplified in the example of evidence below.

: Evidence:
: 1. "It is the women who are burdened with all the details of the housework... Thus they get up earlier and go to bed later than the men." (147)
: 2. "These mountain yokels have a deep contempt and despotic disdain for women, which is proper to all savages and semi-barbarous peoples." (147)

: 3. "During this time the master of the stable sleeps in his box, but since, after all, it wouldn't be right that he give the women a place to talk and pay the cost of their pleasures as well, the women have a special lamp for their night gossipings, the cost of whose oil is shared among them." (148)

: Connections:
: Bonnie Smith seems to be implying that women are over-burdened with regard to the daily work load as well as Baptiste. She explains on pages seven and eight that in addition to the household duties, women had a number of other responsibilities year round, including tending to the animals and assisting with the harvest.

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: I find that yoy have a well laid out start and you should be quite successful. I appreciate that your idea is somewhat original. : : : Theme: : : the Role of feminism in Baptiste's voyage D'Auvergne : : Argument: : : I am going to argue that rather than giving a straight-forward account of the peasant life, Baptiste has used this piece as a forum for focusing the reader on his disdain for the male peasant attitude toward women. I believe that Baptiste does so using three methods: : : 1. By describing female daily activities in such a way as to make them seem more challenging than men's work. : : 2. word choice: he uses adjectives with negative connotations (i.e. idle, savage,etc.) to describe the men's activities. : : 3.sarcasm: this will be exemplified in the example of evidence below. : : Evidence: : : 1. "It is the women who are burdened with all the details of the housework... Thus they get up earlier and go to bed later than the men." (147) : : 2. "These mountain yokels have a deep contempt and despotic disdain for women, which is proper to all savages and semi-barbarous peoples." (147) : : 3. "During this time the master of the stable sleeps in his box, but since, after all, it wouldn't be right that he give the women a place to talk and pay the cost of their pleasures as well, the women have a special lamp for their night gossipings, the cost of whose oil is shared among them." (148) : : Connections: : : Bonnie Smith seems to be implying that women are over-burdened with regard to the daily work load as well as Baptiste. She explains on pages seven and eight that in addition to the household duties, women had a number of other responsibilities year round, including tending to the animals and assisting with the harvest.

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