Essays 451 - 480
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...
ostensibly, the use of the masculine pronoun is suppose to encompass both men and women, Johnson argues that to consistently use t...
participant within the workplace was but one aspect of feminism between 1955 and 1975; however, along with it also came undesirabl...
laboratory tests!"(Ibsen, 71). This constant tearing down of Nora, it can be assumed serves several purposes for Torvald. Firstly,...
which also includes the tales of the Friar, Summoner, Clerk, Merchant, Squire and Franklin and consist of tales or perceptions rel...
support rigid and inhumane practices toward women. Celebrating diversity should not extend to an embracing of those ideologies, no...
conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...
been victims of domestic violence.4 Furthermore, there is evidence that women who are in situations of conflict and female refugee...
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...
of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...
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...
libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...
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...
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...
who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...
Throughout the centuries, patriarchy has been responsible for designing womens role within society; many of these devices used in ...
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...
it is just a game, lacking serious verity" (219). Sons and Lovers focuses on artist Paul Morels troubled relationships with women...
the development of social movements (1996). In the United States where there is freedom of expression, the setting is ripe for mov...
In four pages Eugene O'Neill's play is analyzed from historical, feminist, and psychoanalytical perspectives. There is one biblio...
Its clear this feminist perspective seeks no harm, but merely wishes to illuminate her celebration of women. Specificall...
status quo in order to embrace her own intellectual redoubt ("The feminism," 1998). In the 1850s, the vote was really the only co...
observations is that sports changed with the introduction of females and acceptance of gay athletes as traditional male sporting e...
poem begins with darkness, of the raw pain of expectancy. And everything, from that point forward, is motion(Annas 171-183). The s...
"linear narrative and instead went to an interior monologue, or stream of consciousness, technique"(Virginia Woolf, 2003). Woolfs...
her own hair so that she will remain his forever, and be forever trapped in that role of loving him completely. It...