William Carlos Williams

At first I thought it was a little odd that a man would make such a point to side with the women's right movement. Typically men in this time would not have even come close to respecting or accepting women as equals. However William Carlos Williams is the most diverse and challenging poet of his generation. Perhaps most of his cultural diversity and respect for women, the working class, and middle class resulted from his mother being of Spanish decent and his father of English decent. He was an extremely well-rounded individual growing up in Paris, Geneva, and Rutherford, New Jersey. Therefore William Carlos Williams has a very good reason for why he believes so strongly in siding with the women's movement.

In his work, "The Young Housewife," Williams speaks in the voice of a woman who is a housewife living under the contraints of "her husband's house" in a man's world. Williams suprisingly sarcastic attitude towards a woman's usual role as a housewife is not exactly seen clearly at first. Most see it as Williams making fun of woman or even further degrading them for even trying to be individuals. Although once a very in-depth look is taken into, "The Young Housewife," it then becomes evident that Williams is acting in a sarcastic manner to relay information to his audience which includes his true feelings for women's rights. I enjoy Williams' approach here, and I think that his actions taken toward helping the women's right movement are extremely revolutionary in that not many men especially in this time would even consider treating women as equals.