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of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...

ostensibly, the use of the masculine pronoun is suppose to encompass both men and women, Johnson argues that to consistently use t...

laboratory tests!"(Ibsen, 71). This constant tearing down of Nora, it can be assumed serves several purposes for Torvald. Firstly,...

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

factor into the equation, though it would seem that love was possible eventually. Given that Petruchio considers Katherine his p...

at the time at the mercy of men. Women had no say so in the political outlook of the country in any shape, form or fashion. Oppr...

forth but this time it was with broader generational appeal; it was more interesting and expressed female sexual desire for the f...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

an intimate conversation among feminine equals. Men are excluded" (Marcus 79). She has, in essence, constructed an alternate fem...

material conditions and may be equated with historical materialism ("Exploration," 1992). They emphasize the economic value of wo...

and mother. At the age of 17, she eloped with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, already a married father of two. She didnt rea...

considerations. CHAPTER 5 The basic assumptions about human behavior and the structure of society as they relate to the theories...

as adjuncts of male society, defined through the male gaze and the male cultural perspective....

a man who is looking to the future. He looks to the future through his three daughters, imagining that his favorite, the youngest,...

the movement as a whole. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, at the time a school teacher, met at one of the...

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...

- male or female? For the most part, Michel Foucault, in his thesis "Discipline and Punishment," seems to regard feminism ...

societal need. Plath and Churchill would both serve as vehicles through which we can not only better understand these injustices ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

a whole has revolted against. The primary perpetrator of this situation in Mary Shellys "Frankenstein" could be identified as Dr....

Holofernes reflects the angst so commonly portrayed in Gentileschis work. With the prospect of danger forever just around the cor...

to some extent. One critics opinion seems to support such a perspective: "The Wife of Baths negative image seems only to have chan...