Rhetorical Analysis Of The Oppression Of Women

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Did you know 21 percent of women in Ghana said that their sexual initiation was by rape (62)? WuDunn and Kristof call to question the morals of society by discussing violence against women in developing countries, and persuade the audience into action by finding convincing solutions to this problem like increasing education amongst girls by using appeals to emotion and logic through several rhetorical strategies while they tour the globe in 2009 to find solutions to the endemic that is the oppression of women.
In Chapter Four of Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, they describe rape as an “entire culture of sexual predation” rather than just single individuals committing these atrocities (62). WuDunn and Kristof explain this culture using a series of examples, including a young girl named Woinshet who was repeatedly kidnapped and raped to be forced into marriage by bringing shame to her family. Due to the culture, many people in her village thought she “broke tradition,” and encouraged her to marry her rapist instead of charging him (64). Another example of the cultural aspect of violence against women was the story of Zoya Najabi, who lived with her husband in his household and he and his family, especially his mother, beat her without any reasoning behind it. This brought about the internalized misogyny
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However, violence against women is on the right