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

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...

libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...

must leave and also leave the children with him. In all honesty there is no reason why he should have dismissed her in such a mann...

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

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

Marion Zimmer Bradley viewed the legend with a historians eye. The time period of King Arthur supposedly took place at the time wh...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

This inequality is based upon the perception that they are the weaker gender. Feminist theory is an attempt to break through esta...

implied that she marries him because he is wealthy and has much to offer her. That she is in love is made clear, but there is alwa...

expressed her distinct points of view ("Presidential facts," 1998). Some say her letter writing became a way of life (Bober, 1996)...

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...

women, including approved activities, mannerism, education, sexuality and religious pursuits, as well as the extent to which there...

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 ...

with its personae, while feeling extraneous or beside the point; more than sympathy or judgment, these alternatives lead readers t...

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 ...

However, women continue to be restrained by social expectation by being routinely invalidated in popular culture. The road to gen...

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...

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 ...

mock romance, a post-modernist parody of a familiar genre" (Oates carter-wise.html). Interestingly enough, even with little, or no...

"Egypt and Hollywood were equivalent phenomena to me, equally rich and fabulous" (pp. 62). As a young teenager she had her first e...

participant within the workplace was but one aspect of feminism between 1955 and 1975; however, along with it also came undesirabl...