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Room of One's Own," the author discussed how men continuously perpetuated the idea that men are superior than women. Woolf asserted this position through the "looking-glass vision," in which she posits that, "[w]omen have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." Thus, acting as looking-glasses of the society, women are then relegated to a lower status while men, having witnessed their superiority through their "perceived" 'frailty' of women, takes up a higher status superior than women. Audre Lorde in her work, "Age, Race, Class, and Sex," illustrates how different view their stratification in the society. Lorde shows how a difference of perspectives of people with different ages, classes, races, and sexes manifest the degree of his/her outlook about his/her standing or status in the society. Thus, just like what Lorde exemplifies in her essay, a white American woman might view herself as stratified based on sex while an Africa-American woman might view herself stratified based on class, race, and sex. Because of differing and not reconciled perspectives, women continue to perpetuate their role as the sector belonging to the lower strata of the society.
St. Thomas Aquinas' discourse about women shows how his contentions against Aristotle's claims (that women are the "weaker sex") are false; his arguments are based on the prevailing thought during the 13th century that "female is a misbegotten male." Arguing against this, Aquinas set out to prove that on the contrary, women is equal to men, saying that, "the woman should neither use authority over man... Nor was it right for her to be subject to man's contempt as his slave."

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