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Analysis and Critique: “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe

is the result of the selective way in which African affairs have been reported in the West over a long period (Bacon). Since Afr...

Stereotypes

also stereotyped in contemporary culture. These societal assumptions typically associate liberal political aspirations on the part...

Nations, Nationalism and Gender

a certain ethnic group. However, this conceptualization of "membership in the national collectivity depends on ones being born in...

Review of An Article on a Text on “The Yellow Wallpaper”

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

Motivation for the Purchase of Cosmetic Surgery

are extremely important. The purchase of plastic surgery is undertaken by men and women, but the main target market remains women...

A Critical Look at A Doll's House

yet to come in society at large. In Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House, the protagonist is a woman who has in...

The Portrayal of Women in Biggers “The House Without A Key” T

assessment of the likelihood of her return "And was there any chance that his strong-minded relative would take the hint? Not one ...

Feminist Reaction to Frankenstein by Shelley

as one, writing about a man. She was raised by her father and surrounded by many intellectual and literary men and it just makes s...

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Feminist Biography

("Eleanor Roosevelt Biography," 2007). Orphaned at a young age, Eleanor lived with a grandmother in New York and was educated by p...

Criticisms of Freud

the meaning of "culture," as well, which Freud saw as "the necessary bulwark for survival pitted against the primitive desires of ...

A Feminist Perspective for a Psychology Practitioner

individual women (Walker. 1990). It is my belief that we live within a culture that has created inherent inequities based on gend...

The Portrayal of Schizophrenia in “A Beautiful Mind”

seems to ring true" (Rosenstock, 2003). In the film, Nashs hallucinations take a visual form; his roommate, the man he believes re...

A Feminist Reformulation of the Main Principles of Realism

of power, and stresses the "rational objective and unemotional" (Tickner, 1988, p. 429). Of course these qualities-rationality, ob...

International Relations and the Feminist Perspective

feminine, both viewpoints should be represented if balance is to be achieved (Tickner, 1988, p. 429). Morgenthaus second principl...

A Feminist Perspective on “Frankenstein”

"varied and prolonged dependence on others" that follows the birth of a normal human (Yousef 197). The creature himself associates...

Proverbs and Feminine Wisdom

in order to obtain the principal goal of her text.3 This goal is "move beyond" the way in which the male sages of the Old Testamen...

Adultery in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"other woman" because she wears the "A but the reality is that in this day and age, Hester would be any woman. That she has an aff...

Revelation and Gospels Portrayal of Jesus

Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...

A Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill and Different Interpretations

a purely psychoanalytic point of view, this family epitomizes the term dysfunctional. The father, James, is battling depression be...

Portrayal of Time in Works by Terence Davies and T.S. Eliot

his films. In so doing we look at one line from the film and two lines from Eliots poem. Lily states, "I thought that I could ma...

Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

Postmodernism and Feminist Therapy

has always been the primary quest of the feminist critical theory to assess the sometimes-strained yet always misunderstood relati...

Feminist Perspective on Occupational Therapy

Foucault begins by assessing the way in which individual control, power and decision-making come into play for each individual. F...

Film She's Gotta Have It by Director Spike Lee

of her three suitors, a sex therapist, her father and her former roommate, and a lesbian acquaintance (Shes Gotta Have It). Nolas ...

Review of Animal Farm by George Orwell

could have happened when the intentions were so noble. In other words, this novel/fable is a "must read" for anyone trying to unde...

Psychoanalysis and Feminist Theory

concepts and insight to issues that previously were only of interest to analytic philosophers. Analytic feminists want clarity an...

Differing Feminist Perspectives

feminists named. This is different from those embracing the ideas of the enlightenment for example. When De Beauvoir references t...

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

of the reading event" (Serafini, 2003). Further, each text has one main idea that "only competent readers have access to" and the...

Lorna Simpson's Impact on Postmodern Feminist Art

depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...

Mappings, Feminism and Cultural Geographies of Encounters by Susan S. Friedman

cultures" (Friedman 5). This is what Friedman attempts to offer her readers in this text. Part I focuses on the encounters betwe...