WARRING GENDER In the autobiography The Woman Warrior, Maxine Kingston sruggles with her identity which reflects her gender ideas. Maxine Kingston wants to show the audience that she is a woman warrior. She shows this in many ways by telling stories which reflect her personality or in her mind, her gender. Today woman who are proud of their gender are feminists. Feminists seek equal econimic rights, support reproductive rights, including the right to abortion; critize …showed first 75 words of 10431 total…

…showed last 75 words of 10431 total…plan to ever have a husband. I would show my mother and father and the noisy emigrant villagers that girls have no outward tendency. I stopped getting straight A's." Maxine Kingston's life tells her readers that people need to be proud of thier gender whether male or female and as individuals we do not need to live up to anyones expectations. We represent our own gender but in our own individual ways according to Kingston.