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women, including approved activities, mannerism, education, sexuality and religious pursuits, as well as the extent to which there...

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 ...

with its personae, while feeling extraneous or beside the point; more than sympathy or judgment, these alternatives lead readers t...

This inequality is based upon the perception that they are the weaker gender. Feminist theory is an attempt to break through esta...

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...

father, for she is dependent upon him economically, and for whatever social status she hopes to realistically acquire. In his lit...

An article on the Taliban rule in Afghanistan and how it has oppressed women is discussed through an application of Joan Scott's f...

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

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

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...

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

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

father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...

expressed her distinct points of view ("Presidential facts," 1998). Some say her letter writing became a way of life (Bober, 1996)...

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

it would be quite difficult to effectively heal the afflicted. The goals of treatment are of course to help the client to reduce ...

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...

participant within the workplace was but one aspect of feminism between 1955 and 1975; however, along with it also came undesirabl...

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...

her husband, and knew herself to be near death. Her digestive system had been destroyed by the disease, and, in intense pain and u...

feeling of liberty would be extended to them. They were wrong. The fifteenth and fourteenth amendments came and went, but their ri...

The link between the two groups was that of mother and daughter, four descended from four. Despite the mother daughter bo...

my aunt shut me up in the red-room", Jane receives only comments that she should feel very lucky about living in such a fine home ...

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 ...

fixed entities but rather as "symbols that are embedded in the socialization and power dynamics of our culture" (127). Such image...