Brayan Barreto 

FIQWS 10115 JPOE

DB#4 Rhetorical Strategies 

10/23/19

 

    In the text “ Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefinig Difference,’’ Audre Lorde purpose is to convey the idea that women need to become united no matter what race, sexual difference, or socioleconomic status in order to change the role of women in the society expectation and structure through the use of diction to make the reader understand the difficult challenges women have to faced in their life.This is important because women has always been belittle in the society. For instance, in the 1900s women were label as the housewife which meant that they take care of the house mess when their husband or for young girls whose parents are not in the house. This related to the text “ Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefinig Difference,’’ Lorde state, “ [W]hite women . . . teach the children to behave, hate the right men, marry the right men . . .until a men needs your job or the neighborhood rapist happens along ( page 3).” This quote elaborate on the idea that there’s still segregation of power between women and men still happening today which reveal that women are still held unimportant in society. Leading man to be the superior and most valuable person in the community. In addition, the author is persuading and informing at a certain point in the essay. Also, this format is logic and pathos since some part of the essay has data references and emotion due to the extreme pain that women face in their life. The audience is to western european history condition which are the colonist people that made the system of oppression and the secondary source is the mens ( general) , lesiban women, white women and women of color. The narrative target mostly to the white men who were superior that created the laws, integrated christianity and ideas in the America constitution. These people were the ones that cause many unfair treatment and had the power so those who didn’t had this were different. Lorde point out this idea that people of color are a majority target, “ Women of color are the lowest paid wage earners in america.We are the primary targets of abortion and sterilization abuse, here and aboard. . . sewed shut between their legs to keep them docile and for men’s pleasure( page 3).” The evidence points out that women of color face more repercussions from men due to the less power these women of color have in the community and are more easier to dominant. Overall, this text want the readers to know what is occurring to women now a days and what could be done to make a turning point to this problem which is having women come together and work together.

 

Audre Lorde, 1980, ‘’ Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference.” Amerst College. Use 10/23/19