The Last Nail in the Coffin of Feminism

By

Dr. Asmaa Khalaf Madlool

University of Anbar/ Collage of Education for Women

  Feminism, feminists, victory and loss are the key slogans in the world of women who fight to gain freedom and equality in patriarchal kingdom. Unfortunately women read manly voice, oppression, power, dress and even language mistakenly to be the sources of Strength and freedom. She wastes years in fighting not the true enemies.¹

      Out of over ambition or maybe disappointment, some female poets select forbidden paths to empower women, destruct female normalcy and be painfully equal to man.² Fighting in the long universal battle for gaining rights turns into a campaign of changing sex, distorting female features and   changing dress, the heated campaign goes further when female persona devotes effort to gain manly features. Oh, the oppressed fail to hide the infatuation toward the oppressor. So crestfallen, the divergence of feminism towards glorifying the patriarchal  sovereignty unintentionally.  Modern women as it is clear in  20^th poetry, select sometimes self-destruction to be a  mad, a witch, q prostitute,   a genderless  and  a drunk only to defy the frames that man or instinct  put her in.³ linguistic power is not far from the fire of this arena, woman seeks for a new language  or sometime she changes her language to be violent and powerful like her man.

    Woman in doing so proves that she does not qualified yet to be a master of her own. She needs to be re-qualified over and over  to accept her power and feel proud to be a master without distortion her body or accusing her melody or conquering her sentimentality. Kitchen , home baby, love, colorful dress, decency turn to be enemies for the new woman who regards  these  as  chains used by man to keep her as a mother and a wife. the modern women fall in the trap of trendy slogans that take them for years far from the true goals. Woman steps down from her crown of being a woman.  Stop glorifying the abnormal personae by regarding them as  icons of feminism instead  let's celebrate the achievements of only women who do accept her gender and  excel, Women  who  accept the challenge of her mate in a natural environment not in island amazon.

Works Cited

1-Dasgupta, Neelam and Jyoti Sharma. ''Confessional Autobiographical Poetry of Anne Sexton and Sarojini Naidu: A Tail of Victimhood and Empowerment''. International Journal of English.3(4) 2003.

2-Rosen Maggie. '' A Feminist Perspective on the History of Women as Witches'' Dissenting Voices .6(1) 2017.

3-Rowell Dadon. A Body of One`s Own: Representations of Women`s Bodies in the Poetry of Emily Dickenson and Anne Sexton and Breaking of the Gendering Patriarchy. Waikato: University of Waikato press, 2019.