Feminism: Now and ThenA Comparative Study on Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Weldon's She-Devil

Chapter II
ANALYSIS

II. A. Women and the Domestic Life
When talking about women, they are always connected with household matters. It is generally believed that the best place for women is inside the house. This statement is provoked by the fact that women are the one who give birth, nurse the baby, and serve the husband. They are even hardly to get out of the house.
In Lysistrata, the condition is plainly said by Lysistrata herself, the main character of the play: “….You know a woman’s way is hard- mainly the way out of the house: fuss over hubby, wake the maid up, put the baby down, bathe him, feed him…” (1970: 17). Realising that she has been a dutiful wife in her marriage, she is bothered to know that her husband is rarely at home because he must fight against the Spartans. Annoyed, she invites other women to protest the war, forcing the soldiers to stop it by rejecting the husband’s conjugal right and taking over Acropolis, a city to save money for the war.
Lysi...