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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...

of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...

child (Eckhaus, 2002). Just look at modern mothers for verification of this. Mothers today are torn between working, shuttling k...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Margaret Bourke-White was born in The Bronx, New York on June 14, 1904, although some sources place her year of birth as 1906....

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...

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...

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

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...

in many cases, to chide in unison that prostitution should be accepted as a valid part of the worlds economy and even as a means f...

Trambley implies that the concept of feminism embodies a number of critical theories by which to better address the various perspe...

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