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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...

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 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...

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...

David Fincher's The Fight Club

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

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...

Women and Violence

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

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...

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 ...

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...

Sexual Politics in Women in Love, The Rainbow, and Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

it is just a game, lacking serious verity" (219). Sons and Lovers focuses on artist Paul Morels troubled relationships with women...

A Feminist Movement Analysis

the development of social movements (1996). In the United States where there is freedom of expression, the setting is ripe for mov...

Differing Analyses of A Long Day's Journey Into Night

In four pages Eugene O'Neill's play is analyzed from historical, feminist, and psychoanalytical perspectives. There is one biblio...

Women and Multiculturalism's Disadvantages

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

Women's Right to Vote Movement Success

status quo in order to embrace her own intellectual redoubt ("The feminism," 1998). In the 1850s, the vote was really the only co...

Power at Play Sports and the Problem of Masculinity by Michael A. Messner Reviewed

observations is that sports changed with the introduction of females and acceptance of gay athletes as traditional male sporting e...

Feminist Critique of Robert Browning's 'Porphyria's Lover'

her own hair so that she will remain his forever, and be forever trapped in that role of loving him completely. It...

19th Century Women's Activist Susan B. Anthony

work of Susan B. Anthony and others like her the womens movement would be far more stagnated than it currently is. Anthonys...

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...

Feminist Ideals in Twain's, Pudd'nhead Wilson

for a marriage proposal will cause scholars to revise previous assessments that Twain was ineffective in representing women and un...

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...

The Princess of Cleves by Marie de Lafayette

the end of her days, the Princess abided by societal expectations. For example, when the young heroine first comes to the court,...

Feminist Readings of Twentieth Century Novels

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

Feminism and Feminist Concerns Today

seriously challenged until later in the twentieth century (Powell 14)" (Owen, 2002). If a woman had any kind of physical condition...

Feminist Perspective of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire

her sister to save her marriage. Yet throughout the brutal violence and stereotypes, "Streetcar" is also a long story of s...

Feminism and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

low energy. Small conservative town in New England, but situated in the progressive atmosphere of an University. This is very symb...

2 Essays in Christina and Fred Sommers' Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life

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

Feminist Discourse in '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 ...