The desire to achieve sexual equality began as a truly meaningful issue after the revolution. Women participated in numerous efforts to improve their status, defend their interests, and increase their rights. This desire for women to participate more was shown in various types of arts and in many writers trying to support this idea. Manifestos became one way to show the ideal role of women. A manifesto is referred to as “a cry emanating from a speaker who turns back and forward in time and in history, declaring a break with what was, diagnosing how things are, and proclaiming what should be” (Damrosch, Alliston, Brown, Dubois, Hafez, Heise, Kadir, Pike, Pollock, Robbins, Shirane, Tylus, Yu 21) and that’s exactly what Mina Loy means in her Feminist Manifesto.
Loy, as an artist conveyed her Anti Feminist Movement through the explicitness of her work. In my opinion, her manifesto has an objective that is in the strict sense targeted to the so called weaker sex. It makes us as women prove things for ourselves and not for what people make us belief. The Feminist Manifesto is a protest that enables us to profoundly look inside ourselves and determine the kind of human beings we are; it is an invitation to live with our heads held high to a horizon that shows us more than what we apparently direct our eyes to.
Consequently, Mina Loy wants women to undergo an emotional sensation after reading her manifesto, I’m going to cite her and comment on the meaning of each of the citations. While studying it, one of the statements that called my attention was: “And if you honestly desire to find your level without prejudice-be brave and deny the outset-that pathetic clap trap war cry Women is the equal to ma-for she is not!” (Mina Loy 34). I consider that what she means by “not equal to men” is merely that women could have the same rights and we should constantly struggle for that, but still we are not equal to men. She emphasizes this statement with capital letters so...