YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Comparative View of Female Protagonists
Essays 751 - 780
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...
challenge to remain sexually faithful to his wife. These tremendous setbacks, including the reality of being bisexual in a patria...
that is only one aspect of politics. Again, women had smaller roles. Jeanette Rankin of Montana was elected to office in 1917, and...
his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 2). Women - wives, rather -...
and other obligations, as well as having a higher level of courage to commit such an act, men reflect a significantly higher suici...
dynamics of the power relationship between them is more complicated than a simple balance between active and passive: at the start...
the massive scope of mortality, with some contending that natural rights are those that are without social infiltration, while oth...
"1 teenage girl in 8, and 4% of teenage boys had serious symptoms of anorexia nervosa...
on the outside. Her only exposure to American lifeways, in fact is that she sees infiltrating her home through my daughter and in...
of social community that is unaffected by racial stereotypes, which are misconstrued attitudes, opinions or judgments. From schoo...
of the treaty at Article 3 (2) (ex 3 (), which specifies similar sentiments in a more general statement (Weatherill and Beaumont, ...
attack if irreparable harm and indeed loss of life is to be prevented (Isenstein, 1999). The statistics regarding coronar...
her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...
She stated that sex was "only warranted as an expression of true and passionate love" (DEmilio and Freedman, 1988, p.56). DEmilio ...
arrested by photography(Mendieta). Almost no one was defining their art as Mendieta was during this time in history. Certainly ...
is condemned even by her own mother. Throughout the...
can choose not to marry, by and large, that is an unpopular choice. While the term spinster is no longer bandied about, certainly ...
knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...
Dakota Sioux during the 19th century is as different a life from our current society as one could imagine. And yet, Deloria has t...
statement, but a truth. Women are, by nature, very different from men and thus do not aggressively involve themselves in violence ...
sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...
popular culture today. It is though advertisements, movies, radio broadcasts, even bill boards that we have filled the cultural v...
a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony" (Book V). She illustrates how she found him after all alone and shipwrecked and...
in reality is not one of the "good girls." She is living an illusion. Her need for self improvement has reached an emergency lev...
men and women around the country to the strength and perseverance of Appalachian women" (Appalachian Women 2002, PG). THE STRENGT...
that females should function in subordinate and often demeaning roles in comparison with men (Readers Companion to American Histor...
basically limited them to either living off the largess of relatives, living on a subsistence wage as a governess looking after ot...
that dragged Englands economy and drained her resources were the many and varied territories she claimed abroad. Faced with the de...
her sister to save her marriage. Yet throughout the brutal violence and stereotypes, "Streetcar" is also a long story of s...
in his own quest to find his own American Dream, squanders an inheritance on a one-shot deal that goes bad. And in the old adage t...