Essays 91 - 120
low energy. Small conservative town in New England, but situated in the progressive atmosphere of an University. This is very symb...
- male or female? For the most part, Michel Foucault, in his thesis "Discipline and Punishment," seems to regard feminism ...
participant within the workplace was but one aspect of feminism between 1955 and 1975; however, along with it also came undesirabl...
to resurrect and preserve (Gordon 4). Woolf, a manic-depressive, found herself constantly searching for approval...Battling with a...
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...
known in postmodern films beginning in the late 1970s because it was a significant way of breaking down the stifling barrier of ge...
determine their relationships with others, as well as pull people of similar interests and often similar personalities together an...
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 ...
Marion Zimmer Bradley viewed the legend with a historians eye. The time period of King Arthur supposedly took place at the time wh...
he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...
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...
of Wicca, a matriarchal based religion. When one studies the ancient belief systems in which the goddesses were worshiped it is no...
to appear more frequently. Eventually she locks herself in her room and tears the paper from the walls (Gilman, 1996; Yim, 1996). ...
As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...
for a marriage proposal will cause scholars to revise previous assessments that Twain was ineffective in representing women and un...
discussed, or not discussed during the time period, abortions were available to those who knew where to look. But, it was a danger...
the same rights, opportunities and representation within society. Liberal political theory can be considered at the core of femini...
than an idiot, indicating that he had no real knowledge of who she was. However, as the story progresses she slowly began to emerg...
had ceased to be for everyone. This is where the movement failed she suggests. Brooks puts forth a type of clarion call for wome...
can further see feminist perspectives. Lorie Jerrell Leiningers essay, The Miranda Trap: Racism and Sexism in Shakespeares Tempes...
"a shrewd businesswoman in an emergent bourgeoisie, a master of parody providing a corrective to the truths of conventional autho...
a whole has revolted against. The primary perpetrator of this situation in Mary Shellys "Frankenstein" could be identified as Dr....
lovers. In many of the classics we see women having jobs, but they only seem to have jobs so that they can find a husband. They ma...
more similarities. The terms masculinity and femininity are no longer considered genders as much as a state of mind and a social c...
(Woolf, 2002). Written for a largely female readership over a hundred years after Wollstonecraft, Woolf can afford to be more cri...
twenty-first century women have today. The matriarch after all has played a very different role in society over the past centuries...
to represent his wifes ideal, and she was expected to follow his lead without question. In societys view, a woman was incapable o...
black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...
the one of the "waves" of feminism in the twentieth century. The first wave of feminism is associated with the womens suffrage mov...
they argue, man comes and chops, burns, uproots. Why should they care about the plight of man? This reflects the ongoing prob...