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known in postmodern films beginning in the late 1970s because it was a significant way of breaking down the stifling barrier of ge...
the director and the male filmgoer) receive a sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of th...
the Victory of the Jews. The unknown author seems to have drawn on the Exodus narrative, especially Exodus 14:31 as well as from ...
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...
page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...
The link between the two groups was that of mother and daughter, four descended from four. Despite the mother daughter bo...
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 ...
born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore to Arnold Rich, a doctor and pathology professor and Helen Jones Rich, a pianist and composer. She ...
go unexplained based on ordinary criminological theory. Trait theory provides new explanations for odd behavior. At the same time,...
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 ...
are that: 1. Standard personality instruments can consistently measure peoples perceptions of God. 2. Women see God as more emotio...
has changed into that of "practicalism" which she describes as a way of thinking that "arises from and is tested against practices...
of Wicca, a matriarchal based religion. When one studies the ancient belief systems in which the goddesses were worshiped it is no...
libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...
Throughout the centuries, patriarchy has been responsible for designing womens role within society; many of these devices used in ...
men who had money if they wished to do more than survive. Women did not work, save as servants and perhaps teachers, and as such t...
of her three suitors, a sex therapist, her father and her former roommate, and a lesbian acquaintance (Shes Gotta Have It). Nolas ...
Enlightenment must be researched as well. Finally, the literature from the age of Enlightenment by women in support of feminism sh...
Foucault begins by assessing the way in which individual control, power and decision-making come into play for each individual. F...
has always been the primary quest of the feminist critical theory to assess the sometimes-strained yet always misunderstood relati...
In four pages Eugene O'Neill's play is analyzed from historical, feminist, and psychoanalytical perspectives. There is one biblio...
it is just a game, lacking serious verity" (219). Sons and Lovers focuses on artist Paul Morels troubled relationships with women...
the development of social movements (1996). In the United States where there is freedom of expression, the setting is ripe for mov...
observations is that sports changed with the introduction of females and acceptance of gay athletes as traditional male sporting e...
of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...
been victims of domestic violence.4 Furthermore, there is evidence that women who are in situations of conflict and female refugee...
are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...
They have mixed emotions after an acquaintance rape, and if their own husband is responsible for the rape, they question whether o...
a patriarchal world would be a gross understatement and one that would also be staunchly supported by the likes of both Bertrande ...