women then and now: Alice Walkers Women

Then and Now: Women of Yesterday and Today


As we look into the past at the women of yesterday’s time, we can see the struggles that took place to bring forth the rights of the women of today. There were many key players as far as women are concerned in the arena of rights and equalities. Alice Walkers’ poem, Women, sheds a little light on the everyday struggles that a woman of her time went through. The women of today still share the same attributes of those women of yesterday. The only difference between the women of today and then is the change in time frame. Society will forever give obstacles for women to overcome, but the goals and ambitions of women will not change as long as the heart and soul of a woman is as it is.
Walker first talks of the women of her time being “Husky of voice-stout of step”. This implies that if a woman didn’t speak up and take charge then the world would walk all over her. She had to be strong of voice as well as presence....