Essays 721 - 750
In five pages this essay analyzes the short story in order to determine that it is an example of feminist literature. Three sourc...
In ten pages this African American feminist text is analyzed in its portrayal of gender and racial issues. Eight sources are list...
and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...
In six pages this landmark fifteenth century feminist text is analyzed in terms of how the author portrayed the connection between...
destroyed, and that in its place, a society based on equality and not by the limitations imposed by gender. Piercys radical views...
This paper examines the methodology of feminist criticism as it relates to traditional views of male dominance. The author review...
In six pages the feminist writings of Maria Irene Fornés are analyzed. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....
women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...
An article on the Taliban rule in Afghanistan and how it has oppressed women is discussed through an application of Joan Scott's f...
father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...
distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...
that there is an interpretation of the films in a subconscious manner. Therefore, the reinforcing is appalling to the baser self, ...
of the feminist critical theory. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting her audience to experience with her t...
OConnors most controversial and problematic short stories (Clark 66). There are really only two characters in this story-the grand...
large degree. As such, the feminist qualities are vague and incredibly subtle. The only woman in the play is Miss Jimenez. She is ...
Many modern feminists have embraced the worship of the Goddess as more liberating and less patriarchal than most mainstream monoth...
Southern slave law and of the law itself" (Accomando 229, 1998). By writing her narrative, Jacobs was vocalizing for all others w...
Hunt conveys her message in a type of rapid New York "urban speak," which is specifically intended to jolt the readers passivity. ...
Street. In this classic work, Cisnero embraces and illuminates those feelings that she felt as a child growing up, those feelings ...
forth but this time it was with broader generational appeal; it was more interesting and expressed female sexual desire for the f...
he marries her. He agrees and she tells him that women want the power. He returns to the king and queen and his life is spared by ...
the Victory of the Jews. The unknown author seems to have drawn on the Exodus narrative, especially Exodus 14:31 as well as from ...
known in postmodern films beginning in the late 1970s because it was a significant way of breaking down the stifling barrier of ge...
the director and the male filmgoer) receive a sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of th...
child (Eckhaus, 2002). Just look at modern mothers for verification of this. Mothers today are torn between working, shuttling k...
but had no clue how to engage in interpersonal relationships with members of the opposite sex. For him, the Bible was a way for h...
is reflected in The Awakening. No woman could have any greater calling than to be a good wife and mother. In fact, that was the ...
fixed entities but rather as "symbols that are embedded in the socialization and power dynamics of our culture" (127). Such image...
page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...
The link between the two groups was that of mother and daughter, four descended from four. Despite the mother daughter bo...