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Gender Analysis: Women In Films, an Essay fanfic - FictionPress.com
- All women
- are diverse
- due to factors such as their experiences living in different societies, under different religions, times, their private lives and the public sphere, which all go to creating the individual woman and also man.
- most societies are patriarchal where the males hold most of the power.
- All the women from the two films, with the exception of Claire Donnelly, have something in common – their private sphere. All these women are comforted and nurtured in their private lives.
- Vera Drake and Claire Donnelly both live in post-war 1950s; a time men were called heroes for defending their country. When the soldiers arrived back home from the war, women, like the rest of the country who didn’t actively help the country in the time of crisis, felt like they owed something to the men who fought. In my opinion, this was one of the main reasons why women were so submissive in those times
- It is not their fault either, it’s the way that they were brought up, and it was the way their parents were brought up – gender construction - their mothers and fathers were roles models and gender socialisation created in them the acceptance of females as nurturing, submissive, domesticated and belonging at home whilst males were intellectual, aggressive, dominating and providing the economic support for the family.
- There is one common bond that links all the female characters in Vera Drake and If These Walls Could Talk together; they are all very similar in the way that they cherish their family ties. Vera Drake and Barbara Barrows are both mothers and love their family very much; running their household in a cheerful, efficient manner. This is what has been reinforced through their own families and the society they live in that women should be happiest in the home and not want for anymore.
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