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Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan

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

Motherhood According to Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...

Femme Rompue by Simone de Beauvoir

the role of a child begging for a coin. In this book she also seems to suggest that women ought to be able...

Women's Defender Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

library (Oregon State, 2006). By the time she was six years of age she had read everything in his library (Sor Juana Ines de la Cr...

Feminine Cinematic Construction in Christopher Strong and La Maternelle

film La Maternelle (The Nursery School) begins with the story of Rose, who has been forced by the men in her life - her fathers ba...

Anne Hebert and Gabrielle Roy

be troubled by the nature of life and how, so often, those we love are either ahead of us or behind on lifes journey. Each of the ...

The Feminist Literary Works of Mary Wilkins Freeman

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...

Analyzing Readings The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector and Tsvetayeva by Helene Cixous

Its clear this feminist perspective seeks no harm, but merely wishes to illuminate her celebration of women. Specificall...

A Feminist Interpretation of, The Yellow Wallpaper

to my mind)--perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick!" (Gilman). Because her...

Irigaray's Spiritual Concepts Analyzed

way to change. She has come up with a way of looking at things that transcends traditional feminist thought. The thesis of this pa...

Protagonist Analysis of Edna Pontellier in 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin

Iin five pages this paper examines Edna before and after marriage, considers her 'awakening' and conflict and also incorporates fe...

Individual Perspectives of Nancy Chodorow and Sigmund Freud

In seven pages this report contrasts and compares Nancy Chodorow's feminist sociological theories with the psychoanalytical theori...

A Feminist Criticism of Traditional Male Patriarchy

This paper examines the methodology of feminist criticism as it relates to traditional views of male dominance. The author review...

Maria Irene Fornés Feminist Writiings

In six pages the feminist writings of Maria Irene Fornés are analyzed. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Critical Thinking, Multicultural Perspectives and Feminist Pedagogy in Women's Studies

and economic indiscretions. Certain pedagogical strategies are necessary for carrying out the goals of womens studies for the fun...

Feminist Readings of Twentieth Century Novels

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

Mainstream Cinema and the Portrayal of Women

that there is an interpretation of the films in a subconscious manner. Therefore, the reinforcing is appalling to the baser self, ...

Contemporary Slavery and Philosophical Concepts

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

Antigone Character Analysis

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

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 ...

Religion, Feminism, and the Goddess

of Wicca, a matriarchal based religion. When one studies the ancient belief systems in which the goddesses were worshiped it is no...

Simone de Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Foucault's Power Structure, and the Film The Matrix

who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...

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...

Comparative Analysis of Feminist Art Views

it should be judged by a different criteria then is usually applied to mainstream art. Higonnet may have been evasive as to her ...

Two Theories, Domestic Violence

This paper pertains to two theories that explain the causation of domestic violence, feminist theory and the social-ecological mod...

Black Feminism in 'How It Feels to Be Colored Me' and 'Sweat' by Zora Neale Hurston

feminism, and on the realities of women in general. Some of those statements are presented in her 1926 short story "Sweat" and he...

Analysis of Sojourner Truth's Narrative

In five pages this paper examines the narrative that chronicles the amazing life of onetime slave and feminist activist Sojourner ...

New Atalantis by Mary Delariviere Manley and Fantomina by Eliza Fowler Haywood

In 5 pages these two female authors of the 18th century are examined in terms of their popular works and the feminist social criti...

Feminist Perspectives on Guy de Maupassant's Short Story 'The Necklace'

In six pages this paper presents a feminist critical analysis of this famous 19th century short story. Two sources are cited in t...

Different Feminist Views on Pornography

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares 2 feminist views on pornography in a consideration of Talk Dirty to Me An Intimate...