Essays 781 - 810
for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretched to give back to life the love it gives her" (OBrien Bi...
mock romance, a post-modernist parody of a familiar genre" (Oates carter-wise.html). Interestingly enough, even with little, or no...
felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...
- male or female? For the most part, Michel Foucault, in his thesis "Discipline and Punishment," seems to regard feminism ...
her day and age, women were of two types, generally speaking: bad and good. The good were set upon pedestals and were seen as the ...
In her novels, Eliot seems to rail against the fact that a woman must be a certain type of person and act a certain way...
Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...
at the time at the mercy of men. Women had no say so in the political outlook of the country in any shape, form or fashion. Oppr...
feeling of liberty would be extended to them. They were wrong. The fifteenth and fourteenth amendments came and went, but their ri...
the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...
it would be quite difficult to effectively heal the afflicted. The goals of treatment are of course to help the client to reduce ...
of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...
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...
forth but this time it was with broader generational appeal; it was more interesting and expressed female sexual desire for the f...
Margaret Bourke-White was born in The Bronx, New York on June 14, 1904, although some sources place her year of birth as 1906....
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...
my aunt shut me up in the red-room", Jane receives only comments that she should feel very lucky about living in such a fine home ...
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 ...
takes care of her grandson and loves him. That is her life and she is not sexual, pretty, or threatening in any way. She is the id...
born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore to Arnold Rich, a doctor and pathology professor and Helen Jones Rich, a pianist and composer. She ...
men who had money if they wished to do more than survive. Women did not work, save as servants and perhaps teachers, and as such t...
libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...
Throughout the centuries, patriarchy has been responsible for designing womens role within society; many of these devices used in ...