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Motherhood Critique by Black Feminists

child (Eckhaus, 2002). Just look at modern mothers for verification of this. Mothers today are torn between working, shuttling k...

Rear Window Film and Feminist Theories of Cinema

the director and the male filmgoer) receive a sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of th...

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...

Feminist George Eliot

In her novels, Eliot seems to rail against the fact that a woman must be a certain type of person and act a certain way...

Mary Robinson's Feminist Poem 'The Lamentation of Marie Antoinette'

Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...

Analyzing Kate Chopin's Male Characters in 'The Awakening'

but had no clue how to engage in interpersonal relationships with members of the opposite sex. For him, the Bible was a way for h...

Feminine Literary Ideal

her day and age, women were of two types, generally speaking: bad and good. The good were set upon pedestals and were seen as the ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Criminology Theory Glossary

go unexplained based on ordinary criminological theory. Trait theory provides new explanations for odd behavior. At the same time,...

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...

A Life in Art: How Kate Chopin’s Life Influenced Her Feminist Writings

accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...

Feminist Theory and Videos of Shakira’s “Whenever, Wherever” and Lil’ Kim’s “No Matter What People Say”

how old and new discourses about sex are portrayed within the context of a "televisual apparatus" (134). This refers to how the v...

Black American Feminism

7 pages. This paper provides an overview of the authorship of four significant African American authors, Maria Stewart, Anna Juli...

Turth And Impact Of Stereotypes

tattooed persons is geared at a specific subset of this group whose antisocial actions (i.e. criminality) have created such a bias...

Critique of Familie Theories

rates. Because women were finding themselves capable of being self-sufficient, there came a new outlook on relationships and the ...

An Analysis of the Women's Movement

81). Later on, feminism would hold that the home was not the center of the womans world. At that time however, women were not read...

The Use of Rhetoric in Stereotyping Groups

image to all persons" must be interpreted to mean that "all persons" means "everyone in the world." Since its not possible to cont...

Hypothetical Cross-Cultural Psychology Course

are inextricably intertwined within the complexities of social existence; that women have always had to confirm their worth as hum...

Suicide And Sociological Theories

what choices they believe they have to better their lives; as such, they become all the more vulnerable to being influenced in the...

The Feminist Dimension of Work Life Balance

of problems and issues that are not always faced by their male counterparts. One can go on about the glass ceiling and how instead...

Family Studies - The Feminist Approach

feminists that marriage and the family exploit the female is not unique. This is also seen in Marxist theories, for example Zarets...

Feminism in the Work of Sylvia Plath

Slyvia Plath is regarded as one of the earliest feminist. Interestingly, feminism as a social movement was only...

Stereotypes of the Elderly, Tattooed Persons, Feminists and Politicians

the observation of one or two members of that group. For instance, one young African-American mother cheats to get welfare, and su...

Gender in Media - The Effects of Stereotyping

of the most fundamental and basic components of human culture. This is evidenced by the fact that various cultures across the worl...