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sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

country of origin in respect to whether or not they might be breaking the law. Likely, women who might go to bars or have "loose" ...

essentially the same as they were in the colonies, aside from the fact that slaves were far more important in the colonies, or bec...

romances, and their association with violence discloses the cultural anxieties about nation-making. Samuels reads the figure of wo...

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

This essay pertains to "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The writer presents the argument that the principal point that Chopi...

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

This book review is on Stacy Schiff's fascinating biography of Cleopatra, which relates the life narrative of a woman who was an i...

How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...

How patriarchy influenced the treatment of women in the 19th century is the focus of this analytical paper based on Charlotte Perk...

self worth and capabilities that remained in the forefront of their adult lives. For nineteenth century British working cla...

counterparts. Rather than a lack of information about their bodies and sex, a situation that was common in the nineteenth century,...

for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...

duties of men" (Craik 5). Craik argued that women already had a position, a role, and a work-based duty, that was the underpinnin...

and many of the traditional roles played by men and women in society and is famous for one of his quotes "Men at most differ as He...

Hate their job? Something drove them out of the workforce with inadequate resources, so they will have to determine if they want t...

that these girls and women were paid were considered high at that time. As long as labor was scarce, workers were too valuable to...

became very disenchanted with what she saw. His policies stifled an entire nation, and Changs family was no different. Chang wit...

come in direct conflict with conservative convention (Bennett 219). The so-called new woman became symbolic of what the Victorian...

who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She w...

dilemma for his children, Orestes and Electra, who have to choose between not avenging their father and murdering their mother (18...

attempt to attend Womans Medical College in Pennsylvania further supports the notion that there were areas of society in which Jan...

up slightly in the back in order to show a little bit of ankle or even the calf of her leg when flirting with a gentleman. Swim...

with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...

this child is not identified in the book (Fairbanks, 2002). It seems as if in this book he doesnt necessarily chastise himself fo...

that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...

The past molds and conditions us yet few of us have an understanding of women's struggle for equality. Beginning in the early- to ...

called a "beast," when she all along she thought she was a woman. This humorous beginning not only shows two diametrically opposed...

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

the right to vote. During the twentieth century, equality was the issue and in fact, some claim it is still an important fight. Th...