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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 ...

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...

Jean Pierre Jeunet's 2001 Film Amelie from Montmartre, Feminism, and Postmodernism

known in postmodern films beginning in the late 1970s because it was a significant way of breaking down the stifling barrier of ge...

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...

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 ...

Who Stole Feminism? by Christina H. Sommers

subjugated. To support this supposition, feminist assemble on a regular basis to excha!nge stories and to address "anger issues" (...

The Writer and NOW Founder Betty Friedan

In a paper consisting of seven pages this influential feminist and how her career evolved are discussed. Five sources are listed ...

Rights for Women in the 19th Century Play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

In 9 pages the feminist manifesto characteristics of this social drama by Henrik Ibsen are analyzed. There are 3 sources cited in...

Evaluation of Barbara Ehrenreich's The Road to Equality

In eight pages this paper evaluates the writings contained within Barbara Ehrenreich's The Road To Equality Sorry Sisters This i...

Canada's Global Views on Foreign Policy

problem that too affects North America. In January of 2000 U.S. Customs Service commissioner launched a Northern Border Security I...

Feminism and Women's Studies

to coexist in this schizophrenic society, it was not always that way. Things were different in the 1970s. Womens studies emerged o...

Judaism and Feminism in Marcie Piercy's, He She and It

This paper details the theme of Jewish Feminist theory interwoven throughout Marcie Piercy's book, He She and It. This five page ...

African American and Feminist Themes in Walker's The Color Purple

This paper addresses the ways in which Alice Walker's, The Color Purple portrays different feminist points of view, as well as tho...

Post Structural Theory Feminism

In 5 pages this paper discusses the post structural theory feminist movement. There is 1 source cited in the bibliography....

Women Short Story Writers

In five pages four feminist short stories by Alice Munro, Susan Minot, Grace Pale, and Nadine Gordimer are thematically compared ...

Simone de Beauvoir's Feminist Philosophy and Theories

maintained that gender was more social and psychological than biological. In other words, girls grow up to be feminine largely bec...

Irigaray's Spiritual Concepts Analyzed

way to change. She has come up with a way of looking at things that transcends traditional feminist thought. The thesis of this pa...

Hollywood's 'Dream Factories' Powered by Special Effects

In five pages this paper examines special effects in films from a feminist point of view in a consideration of such movies as The ...

Feminism in Lysistrata by Aristophanes

clothes and wigs and necklaces, imported gowns and fancy lingerie!" (Aristophanes query=1). That women have been forced to prove ...

An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

This 6 page essay examines author Miguel Leon Portilla's "The Broken Spears : The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico&quo...

Luis Valdez's 'Los Vendidos'

large degree. As such, the feminist qualities are vague and incredibly subtle. The only woman in the play is Miss Jimenez. She is ...

The Goddess vs. Christianity

Many modern feminists have embraced the worship of the Goddess as more liberating and less patriarchal than most mainstream monoth...

Thomas Youk's Assisted Suicide Aired on Television

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

Comparison Between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Harriet Jacobs

Southern slave law and of the law itself" (Accomando 229, 1998). By writing her narrative, Jacobs was vocalizing for all others w...

Feminist Approach to 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

OConnors most controversial and problematic short stories (Clark 66). There are really only two characters in this story-the grand...

Suskind: “A Hope in the Unseen”

unfair to generalize about the response readers might have to this book, but its also impossible to resist the temptation. The ove...

Analyzing 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...

Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies

In six pages this landmark fifteenth century feminist text is analyzed in terms of how the author portrayed the connection between...