My First Dinner Guest Analysis

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My first dinner guest would be Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1898) Author of Women and Economics. Ms. Gilman spoke of the spirit of Independence. She reinforced the idea of a woman's freedom lay in the workplace. Saying that "in the home, she argued, women experienced not fulfillment but oppression and the housewife was an unproductive parasite, little more than a servant to her husband and children."(p.691) Making them incapable of contributing to society or enjoying the freedom in any meaningful sense of the word. I would say Ms. Gilman was rather opinionated and I find that so refreshing. The reason I would have chosen Ms. Gilman as my guest is for her outspoken words during this dramatic time of changes in gender roles in the progressive era. Ms. Gilman was an Author, poet, advocate for feminism and a social theorist. I appreciate her means of communication and her outreach to others. Ms. Gilman had created a magazine for women to express her ideas on women's issues and reform. She was outspoken and obviously fearless.
I think our conversation would revolve around promoting and encouraging women of all ages. I would most like to hear or learn about what kept her so optimistic, to understand her input on our how our world has changed for women
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Rosa Parks. Ms. parks was best known for her arrest in 1955 after she refused to surrender her seat on a city bus to a white rider, this law was part of the Jim Crow laws in the 1950's. This action sparked a big civil rights movement and eventually overturned the segregation laws. I chose Ms. Parks because her actions were courageous and fearless in standing up for change and I admire this characteristic. Ms. Parks was symbol of ordinary blacks, she worked as a seamstress and attended church and was a God fearing woman and a veteran of black politics. She had worked as a secretary to the local leader of the NAACP in 1943 and had shared in the protest for the injustices of the Jim Crow