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Essays 781 - 810
Holofernes reflects the angst so commonly portrayed in Gentileschis work. With the prospect of danger forever just around the cor...
for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretched to give back to life the love it gives her" (OBrien Bi...
felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...
- male or female? For the most part, Michel Foucault, in his thesis "Discipline and Punishment," seems to regard feminism ...
her sister to save her marriage. Yet throughout the brutal violence and stereotypes, "Streetcar" is also a long story of s...
low energy. Small conservative town in New England, but situated in the progressive atmosphere of an University. This is very symb...
the end of her days, the Princess abided by societal expectations. For example, when the young heroine first comes to the court,...
societal need. Plath and Churchill would both serve as vehicles through which we can not only better understand these injustices ...
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 ...
"Egypt and Hollywood were equivalent phenomena to me, equally rich and fabulous" (pp. 62). As a young teenager she had her first e...
in many cases, to chide in unison that prostitution should be accepted as a valid part of the worlds economy and even as a means f...
Trambley implies that the concept of feminism embodies a number of critical theories by which to better address the various perspe...
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,...
receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...
factor into the equation, though it would seem that love was possible eventually. Given that Petruchio considers Katherine his p...
feeling of liberty would be extended to them. They were wrong. The fifteenth and fourteenth amendments came and went, but their ri...
the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...
it would be quite difficult to effectively heal the afflicted. The goals of treatment are of course to help the client to reduce ...
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...
Margaret Bourke-White was born in The Bronx, New York on June 14, 1904, although some sources place her year of birth as 1906....
her day and age, women were of two types, generally speaking: bad and good. The good were set upon pedestals and were seen as the ...
accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...
seriously challenged until later in the twentieth century (Powell 14)" (Owen, 2002). If a woman had any kind of physical condition...
also stereotyped in contemporary culture. These societal assumptions typically associate liberal political aspirations on the part...
this girl died it seems Sarah began to see things differently than would a typical Southern belle. She would later find hope and a...
is the result of the selective way in which African affairs have been reported in the West over a long period (Bacon). Since Afr...
yet to come in society at large. In Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House, the protagonist is a woman who has in...
Foucault begins by assessing the way in which individual control, power and decision-making come into play for each individual. F...