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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...

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 ...

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...

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

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

her sister to save her marriage. Yet throughout the brutal violence and stereotypes, "Streetcar" is also a long story of s...

low energy. Small conservative town in New England, but situated in the progressive atmosphere of an University. This is very symb...

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 ...

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

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...

tattooed persons is geared at a specific subset of this group whose antisocial actions (i.e. criminality) have created such a bias...

rates. Because women were finding themselves capable of being self-sufficient, there came a new outlook on relationships and the ...

accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...

how old and new discourses about sex are portrayed within the context of a "televisual apparatus" (134). This refers to how the v...

81). Later on, feminism would hold that the home was not the center of the womans world. At that time however, women were not read...

what choices they believe they have to better their lives; as such, they become all the more vulnerable to being influenced in the...

are inextricably intertwined within the complexities of social existence; that women have always had to confirm their worth as hum...

of problems and issues that are not always faced by their male counterparts. One can go on about the glass ceiling and how instead...

of the most fundamental and basic components of human culture. This is evidenced by the fact that various cultures across the worl...

shared her names (Cisneros, 1987). This places a poetic emphasis on the lack of personal efficacious power women experienced in th...

violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...

Slyvia Plath is regarded as one of the earliest feminist. Interestingly, feminism as a social movement was only...

feminists that marriage and the family exploit the female is not unique. This is also seen in Marxist theories, for example Zarets...

a branch of feminism created in the early 1970s to get women to win reforms that will improve their lives, give them a sense of po...