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Summary of the Piece

Questions For You

Observations of adults in his youth

  • Men: usually laborers & burdened with financial responsibilities
  • Women: usually stay at home & tasked with parental responsibilities

Analyzes the perspectives of a different society

  • Concludes that
  • Not all men are as privileged as women think
  • Both want the same things in life
  • If women and men have different strengths and weaknesses, what makes one superior to the other, if not equal?
  • Considering what was expected of men and women through the ages, why would women only see the benefits of being a man?
  • Does the society we live in today treat both genders equally without stereotyping?

The Purpose

To show how the personal experiences of individuals affect the way they view gender stereotypes in societies

Scott Russell Sanders

The Men We Carry In our Minds

Hallie Faust, Christina Trautner, and Bianca Brown

Occupation:

  • English Professor at Indiana University

Accomplishments:

  • Published 20 novels of fiction & non-fiction
  • Won several literary awards

Married & 2 kids

Quote 2

"Warriors and toilers: those seemed, in my boyhood vision, to be the chief destinies for men."

Quote 1

"Hatless, stooped, they chopped weeds in the fierce heat, row after row, breathing the acrid dust of boll-weevil poison."

Quote 3

Quote 4

"Few of them held jobs outside the home . . . I didn't see, [back] then, what a prison a house could be, since houses seemed to me brighter, handsomer places than any factory . . . [or] how often women suffered from men's bullying."

"The daughters of such men wanted to share this power, this glory. So did I."

(boll-weevil: a beetle that feeds on cotton crops)

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