Feminist Equality In The Story 'My Father's Hands'

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A Father and His Daughter
“No one in the world can love a girl more than her father” This quote written by Michael Ratnadeepak is true in many family’s including the story, “My Father’s Hands” Written by Joanne Ryder. In the story, “My Father’s Hands” a father and daughter are doing yard work together. While they are doing this, they find different insects in the yard. The father and daughter put them in their hand and let them craw around before releasing back into the bushes. Although in the story the little girl does some yard work the author does not support feminism equality when the daughter is only with the father in the yard and not the mother.
Through the story, it is evident with the father that the author does not support feminist equality. In the story, it says, “My Fathers hands are big and strong” (Ryder). This is stereotyping men that all of them having big and strong hands which is sexist towards woman saying that they cannot have big and …show more content…
This is also evident in the illustrations thought the story. In the story, it shows the farther doing the yard work by himself. This is showing gender and masculine roles because society says the man should do the yard work and he is doing it. The daughter may help for a while but she goes and sits on the porch while he does the majority of it. Overall, there is more evidence that the author does not support feminist equality.
As shown above, the author of the book, “My Father hands” does not support feminist equality. This is evident though multiple characters including the father and daughter even ones that are not present in the story like the mother. The quote, “No one in the world can love a girl more than her father” by Michael Ratnadeepak is evident in the book but is not supporting feminist equality when the father does all the yard work and the mother is not in the book
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