Essays 571 - 600
the government offices depicted in Elena Poniatowska?s The Night Visitor. In Poniatowska?s story as well, the author is striving f...
Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly; Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all ...
destroyed, and that in its place, a society based on equality and not by the limitations imposed by gender. Piercys radical views...
In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...
and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...
gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...
minority writers are rife with issues of postcolonial interest. It is commonly held that the literature of colonial societies refl...
a household that is constantly physically abused by the father. He is a product of colonization and Catholicism and believes that ...
called a "beast," when she all along she thought she was a woman. This humorous beginning not only shows two diametrically opposed...
women voting was by no means in the best interest of the country at large and the family unit in particular. Clearly, at the foun...
The past molds and conditions us yet few of us have an understanding of women's struggle for equality. Beginning in the early- to ...
the forties showed that a good majority focused on the problems that people had in love relationships (2005). There were romantic ...
the religion itself. And, one must perhaps understand that there are various forms and approaches to the religion so that there is...
by men. Some people have argued that our society itself allows men to abuse women because of the fact that they are male. Michae...
that women are generally excluded in these nations. The author claims that European women do a better job than men in Asian nation...
and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson" (Irving). Interestingly enough, this also brings into play women, for the na...
and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...
the Age of Enlightenment was formed, at its core, by "Empiricism and a rationalistic doctrine of natural rights... they also held ...
politeness in womens communications, for example, that is often lacking in mens communication. Holmes (2005), in fact, describes ...
has not initiated these changes (Gaskell, perhaps, realized that would be going too far), but she accepted them, albeit with a lit...
duties of men" (Craik 5). Craik argued that women already had a position, a role, and a work-based duty, that was the underpinnin...
based on criteria, but that criteria really should not include gender. Instead, it is thought that presidents choose based on all ...
occurred in humans as a whole over time. These changes included an increase in brain size, changes in teeth, a transition from wa...
The roles of women in these plays by August Wilson are discussed. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
her part. What she didnt know was that Zeus was responsible for thwarting her attempts at consummating her relationship with Odys...
America, for example, has women representing no less than twenty percent of its fighting throng; similarly, western Europe, the Ta...
focusing especially graphically on his Aunt Hesters assault by her master, and the abandonment of his grandmother by the master af...
of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...