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Comparing Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Medea by Euripides

shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...

Freud and Aristophanes Compared

was this very notion of instincts which led Freud to the form the idea of eros (Freud, 1989). Freud believed that all individuals...

Totalizing Theories Replaced by Postmodern Theories

that the world is undergoing a period of economic globalization and political fragmentation. If one accepts that as truth, one c...

Feminism and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'

"a shrewd businesswoman in an emergent bourgeoisie, a master of parody providing a corrective to the truths of conventional autho...

Comparing Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Tartuffe by Moliere the Uses of Humor

terms to refer to exaggeration and understatement within the realm of comedy. As far as I can determine, both Moliere and Aristoph...

Feminism and the Appreciation of Film

lovers. In many of the classics we see women having jobs, but they only seem to have jobs so that they can find a husband. They ma...

The Female Rejection of Feminism

more similarities. The terms masculinity and femininity are no longer considered genders as much as a state of mind and a social c...

Radical, Socialist, and Liberal Feminism Types

the same rights, opportunities and representation within society. Liberal political theory can be considered at the core of femini...

An Overview of Hooks', Feminism is For Everybody

had ceased to be for everyone. This is where the movement failed she suggests. Brooks puts forth a type of clarion call for wome...

Barriers According to Gender

do not get the appropriate help they may need in respect to learning disabilities and things of that nature. Kleinfeld (1998) repo...

Work and Gender

still, when we think back to the 1950s and 1960s, one cannot help but conjure up images of womens roles versus mens work roles. W...

India Song by Marguerite Duras

feelings of forgetfulness (Marguerite Duras). In "India Song", Duras tells of the life during the 1930s in a fashionable di...

Feminist Elements in Bradley's Mists of Avalon

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

Comparison Between The Trojan Women by Euripides and Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Women, the impact of these unequal gender scales on women are examined and depicted very differently, for in one, the women are ac...

Arguing That for Women Pornography is Damaging

obviously submissive, if not threatened, position. She uses the words of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography to define por...

Nursing Scholars, Feminism, and Postmodernism

As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...

Feminism as Seen in Gilman's, The Yellow Wallpaper

to appear more frequently. Eventually she locks herself in her room and tears the paper from the walls (Gilman, 1996; Yim, 1996). ...

Social Inequalities' Definition, Identification, and Measurement

not the working class but the middle class that drove history along its ever-progressing path. Social historians and political sc...

Is Medea a Feminist Work?

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...

Feminist Concepts of Judith Lorber

were contributory to the reemergence of feminism (1991). At the time, there were many married women who were drawn into the job ma...

Views of Wollstonecraft and Austen

treatment of women. Her novel, Sense and Sensibility considers the social position of the early nineteenth-century woman, and thr...

Theories of Feminism and Law

at how this can be applied in critiquing the law. If we consider the concept of the law under critical legal studies the approach ...

Interpreting Fiction of the Latter 20th Century

dies. The question as to where the boy should be raised crops up as Lilas first in-laws are intimately involved in the life of the...

Issues of Second Wave Feminism

by reason of the existence of the relationship (Second wave feminism). (Im not certain what the feminists objection to "mannish" ...

Feminism and Lysistrata

and cunning. As Lysistrata so desperately asserts: "The nations fate is in our hands alone!" (Aristophanes, 1994). Lysist...

Handkerchief Significance in William Shakespeare's Othello

good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...

The Perseverance of Feminism in Film

a woman who is a leader of her people, and yet her role is reduced to love and childbearing. War of the Worlds does not have any s...

Feminism of Writer Dorothy Allison

England, every woman ever burned at the stake anywhere" (Pratt, 1995, p. 32). In her imagination, she forged a "clear link between...

Native American Perspectives on Ecology, Feminism, and Activism

they argue, man comes and chops, burns, uproots. Why should they care about the plight of man? This reflects the ongoing prob...

Internet and Immorality

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...