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The Vagina Monologue

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The Vagina Monologues is a poetic play which brings the injustices which women are subjected to and/or force to abide with into the open; whiles encouraging women to resist and recover from these abuses. Such injustice includes gender-based violence including rape, spouse abuse, and sex trafficking; along with pressure from the society to achieve a stereotypic body type.The discussion of these injustices have always been suppressed or shunned upon in many cultures. However, it is only when these matters are boldly brought into the open that, as a society, we can work together to correct them.
I was born and bred in Ghana, West Africa. Being a woman in this community requires one to assimilate to the stereotypic description of a perfect body, …show more content…

In the family, the man makes the final decision regardless of what every other person thinks. In the absence of the father, the son actually takes up the decision making role even when an elder and definitely wiser woman is present .Unfortunately some men, desiring to maintain that “manhood”, take advantage of the submissiveness of women and begin to abuse them. For example in the Celia Monologue, Celia was married to a soldier, who could not cope with the traumatizing situations which he was involved in during the war. Since the society requires men to “man up” crying or talking to a therapist about his emotional battles will discredit his “manhood”. I guess in order to remind themselves that they are still men, most married men begin to abuse their wives. As Celia mentioned, her husband,“...Will grab [her] by the back of [her] hair and just throw [her] up against the car just to remind [her] of who is the boss…”. Showing his wife that he is the boss allows him to align with the societal view of a man being strong and superior. Unfortunately in most societies, abused women are viewed as not being submissive enough. Some women go even further to blame themselves for the …show more content…

In a discussion with a group of people belonging to a religious organization, it was made known that women cannot teach/preach in their gatherings. According to them,women are not worthy to stand in front of men and teach. Furthermore, “A woman should not even cook for her husband during her menstrual periods” thus painting a picture that classifies femininity as

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