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The Second Great Awakening has typically been identified first as a Christian evangelical movement but it also had an impact on al...

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

The number and diversity of those involved in the debate surrounding the sexualization of women is overwhelming. Research abounds...

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 asserts that Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" presents a convincing argument that a woman could be herself, that is, an au...

heavily muscled "action hero"-type spokesman who rampages through a jungle, punching snakes, firing a laser rifle, and ensnaring h...

and demure, that he will take care of her. But as the play goes on, it becomes clear that she is far stronger than he is. She has ...

minority writers are rife with issues of postcolonial interest. It is commonly held that the literature of colonial societies refl...

that each person compose a ghost story (Gilbert and Gubar 239). Marys story was transformed into the novel Frankenstein; Or, the ...

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

lesser creatures than men. In relationship to medical science, which involves Gilmans story a great deal, one author notes how, "I...

was the wife of King Priam and the mother of Hector, who was killed by Achilles. Her other son; Polydorus was means to be safe as ...

the state has no interest in fetal life prior to a certain stage of development (when the fetus had developed to the point where i...

We begin with a brief literature review, then follow that with a discussion of the consensus, if there is one, of what the literat...

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

which involved a patriarchal society. At the same time there are characters in the story, female characters, who possess money a...

assessment of the likelihood of her return "And was there any chance that his strong-minded relative would take the hint? Not one ...

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

her from his pulpit, accusing her of being more "Husband than a Wife and a preacher (rather) than a Hearer; and a Magistrate (rath...

to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...

a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...

and 1 Kings 11:3 indicates that the monarch of Israel had "seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines." There is a gr...

groups and from culture which would clearly alter who or what women and men were/are. One author notes elements of this be...

the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...

to many other like-minded societies, Romans looked upon women as possessions to be treated in often a violent manner. What this i...

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...

course, on the home front, many women complain that men simply do not do chores or take care of the children. Often, it is the cas...

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

real women portraying such characters and this just encourages such perspectives. We see women in almost every single occu...

women played as mothers, servants, and leaders, even reflecting upon local leadership and the definition of matriarchal social seg...