Essays 271 - 300
In four pages Eugene O'Neill's play is analyzed from historical, feminist, and psychoanalytical perspectives. There is one biblio...
for a marriage proposal will cause scholars to revise previous assessments that Twain was ineffective in representing women and un...
Its clear this feminist perspective seeks no harm, but merely wishes to illuminate her celebration of women. Specificall...
her own hair so that she will remain his forever, and be forever trapped in that role of loving him completely. It...
work of Susan B. Anthony and others like her the womens movement would be far more stagnated than it currently is. Anthonys...
page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...
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...
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 ...
Adizua cannot be found for the funeral and it is then that Efuru finds out that Adizua has married another woman in another villag...
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...
forth but this time it was with broader generational appeal; it was more interesting and expressed female sexual desire for the f...
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...
conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...
of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...
are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...
They have mixed emotions after an acquaintance rape, and if their own husband is responsible for the rape, they question whether o...
libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...
a patriarchal world would be a gross understatement and one that would also be staunchly supported by the likes of both Bertrande ...
that "Nothing happened in Bertrandes marriage bed, it seemed, neither that night nor for more than eight years afterward. Martin G...
been victims of domestic violence.4 Furthermore, there is evidence that women who are in situations of conflict and female refugee...
are that: 1. Standard personality instruments can consistently measure peoples perceptions of God. 2. Women see God as more emotio...
has changed into that of "practicalism" which she describes as a way of thinking that "arises from and is tested against practices...
of Wicca, a matriarchal based religion. When one studies the ancient belief systems in which the goddesses were worshiped it is no...
Throughout the centuries, patriarchy has been responsible for designing womens role within society; many of these devices used in ...