YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Female Directors in American Cinema
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Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...
Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...
times a day (82). Food is an interesting consideration. Other documentation on slave diets is rather dismal. This subject creeps i...
from secondary characters to protagonists who were considered universal or genderless to those who were females yet were strong an...
dress so loud it hurt my eyes...yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Everyday...Walker). As this sugge...
Tanenbaum points out, "Even today a common way to damage a womans credibility is to call her a slut" (2000, p. 2). In many ways, ...
that females should function in subordinate and often demeaning roles in comparison with men (Readers Companion to American Histor...
It is this "darling," who, according to Chekhov, "could not exist without loving" (Chekhov, 2002). She falls in love with Kukin, w...
men and women around the country to the strength and perseverance of Appalachian women" (Appalachian Women 2002, PG). THE STRENGT...
a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony" (Book V). She illustrates how she found him after all alone and shipwrecked and...
more of a servant to her husband than a partner. Policies, both domestic and economic, were set by the husband, and the wife acte...
the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...
attack if irreparable harm and indeed loss of life is to be prevented (Isenstein, 1999). The statistics regarding coronar...
Dakota Sioux during the 19th century is as different a life from our current society as one could imagine. And yet, Deloria has t...
She stated that sex was "only warranted as an expression of true and passionate love" (DEmilio and Freedman, 1988, p.56). DEmilio ...
been described as "hands across the color line" (Quarles 146), or a belie that, "In all things that are purely social we can be as...
For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...
her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...
for decades to be a disease of the insane, mental conditions like depression that intensify juvenile delinquency have finally been...
sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...
hormones change and some depression sets in. The fact that they will no longer be able to reproduce is a relief to many women but...
is not a possible course of action. If we start the disciplinary proceeding, we do not know if we are proceeding against th...
of the public social sphere, keeping themselves completely within the domestic sphere. The "good" or "true" woman was passive, dep...
her sister to save her marriage. Yet throughout the brutal violence and stereotypes, "Streetcar" is also a long story of s...
in his own quest to find his own American Dream, squanders an inheritance on a one-shot deal that goes bad. And in the old adage t...
and early 1900s found it a particularly difficult career to pursue because of the prejudice against a woman doctor. She seems som...
that Afghanistan and Pakistan are also middle eastern ("Middle East," 1993). What this means is that, from a religious, political ...
this argument with great compassion. While Homer develops a sincere admiration for Dr. Larch, he disagrees with abortion because ...
that "all these houses have very large and very good rooms and also very pleasant gardens of various sorts of flowers both on the ...
basically limited them to either living off the largess of relatives, living on a subsistence wage as a governess looking after ot...