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Freedom, Consent, and Other Feminist Issues

Throughout the centuries, patriarchy has been responsible for designing womens role within society; many of these devices used in ...

Feminist Ideals of Wollstonecraft and Austen

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...

Women and Violence

been victims of domestic violence.4 Furthermore, there is evidence that women who are in situations of conflict and female refugee...

The Feminist Literary Works of Mary Wilkins Freeman

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...

Reasons Why Men Commit Rape

They have mixed emotions after an acquaintance rape, and if their own husband is responsible for the rape, they question whether o...

Poullain de la Barre's Three Cartesian Feminist Treaties and Natalie Zemon Davis' The Return of Martin Guerre

that "Nothing happened in Bertrandes marriage bed, it seemed, neither that night nor for more than eight years afterward. Martin G...

A Feminist Reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet

conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...

Women and Multiculturalism's Disadvantages

support rigid and inhumane practices toward women. Celebrating diversity should not extend to an embracing of those ideologies, no...

The Wife of Bath Examined Critically

which also includes the tales of the Friar, Summoner, Clerk, Merchant, Squire and Franklin and consist of tales or perceptions rel...

Early Modern Society of France and Men's and Women's Status

a patriarchal world would be a gross understatement and one that would also be staunchly supported by the likes of both Bertrande ...

Gertrude Stein and the Advancement of Women

of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...

Feminism in Roald Dahl's, The Witches

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...

Simone de Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Foucault's Power Structure, and the Film The Matrix

who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...

The Male Influences on the Writing of Adrienne Rich

born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore to Arnold Rich, a doctor and pathology professor and Helen Jones Rich, a pianist and composer. She ...

2 Theology Types

are that: 1. Standard personality instruments can consistently measure peoples perceptions of God. 2. Women see God as more emotio...

Religion, Feminism, and the Goddess

of Wicca, a matriarchal based religion. When one studies the ancient belief systems in which the goddesses were worshiped it is no...

A Comparison of Various Feminist Movements

forth but this time it was with broader generational appeal; it was more interesting and expressed female sexual desire for the f...

Review of Flora Nwapa's Efuru

Adizua cannot be found for the funeral and it is then that Efuru finds out that Adizua has married another woman in another villag...

Mysterious Book of Judith

the Victory of the Jews. The unknown author seems to have drawn on the Exodus narrative, especially Exodus 14:31 as well as from ...

Feminist Perspectives and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

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 ...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin and an Evaluation of Minor Female Characters

is reflected in The Awakening. No woman could have any greater calling than to be a good wife and mother. In fact, that was the ...

'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

fixed entities but rather as "symbols that are embedded in the socialization and power dynamics of our culture" (127). Such image...

The Awakening and Gender Criticism

page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...

Review of Amy Tan's Novel The Joy Luck Club

The link between the two groups was that of mother and daughter, four descended from four. Despite the mother daughter bo...

An Article on Jane Eyre and Feminism Theories Evaluated

my aunt shut me up in the red-room", Jane receives only comments that she should feel very lucky about living in such a fine home ...

Feminist Voices of Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich

poem begins with darkness, of the raw pain of expectancy. And everything, from that point forward, is motion(Annas 171-183). The s...

Anne Bradstreet’s “The Prologue”

presents the understanding of how she will write what she knows, what is particular to her and her experiences and perceptions, st...

Feminist Message in A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

"linear narrative and instead went to an interior monologue, or stream of consciousness, technique"(Virginia Woolf, 2003). Woolfs...

Women's Defender Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

library (Oregon State, 2006). By the time she was six years of age she had read everything in his library (Sor Juana Ines de la Cr...

Feminism and the Stargate Television Series

While Carter is rescued by the rest of SG-1, Nya is caught trying to elope and her father sentences her to death by stoning as pun...