Feminity

The Feminity reading assighned in the Femninity sector of this weeks reading was by Sojournors truth. Sojournor was a black lady who made a speech on woman's rights at a venue where people did not want to hear what she said. Sojournor spoke about a man who said that women must be helped over ditches and treated like there were petite things that couldnt take care of themselves. Sojournor refuted this and talked about how strong she was and how much like a man she was, but ended it "Aint I woman". This leads to the conversation of what femininity has to do with being a woman. What is being feminine? Is it related to all woman. In an article writen by Johnetta B.Cole called commonalities and differences she states that we woman should not view themselves as all the same just because we are all woman. Woman are all meant to be feminine, what does that mean. Is a woman from America more feminine that a woman from Gambia. Femininity has different meanings in both these countries, this makes woman work towards different ideals showing that they are indeed different.