Women as Secondary Sex in 'Shrinking Women" by Lily Myers

Abstract

This paper intends to shed light on the shocking concept of women hood portrayed by Lily Myers in her slam poem "Shrinking Women". An attempt is made to study the their roles and duties that are socially constructed by the society for women and they are supposed to live within these confines by silencing their inner self. This poem is about the confusions and anxieties of women about her inner self, her position in the society, roles prescribed for her and the difference of her image and life from those of males in the society. This socially constructed gender difference has been studied under the light of Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex".