"Women Against War: A Rally In Solidarity With International Women's Day" Reviewed
Submitted by FFE on 07/10/2008 11:52 PM
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"Women Against War: A Rally In Solidarity With International Women's Day" Reviewed
In her speech, "Women Against War: A Rally in Solidarity with International Women's Day," Brooke Anderson makes an argument in which she effectively uses rhetoric to convey an important message. On an immediate level, her purpose is to create a new consciousness in the women who constitute her audience concerning their exploitation at the hands of a patriarchal society and to create a sense of identification with and among these "sisters" of the women's movement. Linking the women's movement to militarism by establishing war as an oppressive tool used by the patriarchy that is oppressing women, Anderson then tries to mobilize this unified force of women to action in the form of anti-war protest. Ultimately, through this action she wishes to establish a more just world, namely one with greater gender equality and with less violence and minority exploitation. Anderson's speech serves as an example of a rhetorical argument which, by revealing to the women in her audience the oppressed position which they and their "sisters" occupy and by revealing how the impending war would further exacerbate this exploitation, mobilizes these women to participate in anti-war protests rejecting the exploitative patriarchal tool of war and thus directly works in conjunction with the feminist goals of the Women Against War movement.
Anderson's speech can be better understood by examining the social climate surrounding the occasion on which it was given. On the brink of war with Iraq, the United States was full of tension on March 7, 2003 when Anderson gave her speech addressing this very issue of war. While troops were mobilized and many American politicians sought to convince the United Nations of the just causes of war, thousands of people worldwide mobilized peace protests and allied countries stood adamant against going to war. Rivaling headlines shared the newsstands as anti-war headlines such as In this case, the Simple Solution of War Is Simply the Wrong One set next...
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