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

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...