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for a marriage proposal will cause scholars to revise previous assessments that Twain was ineffective in representing women and un...

her own hair so that she will remain his forever, and be forever trapped in that role of loving him completely. It...

the development of social movements (1996). In the United States where there is freedom of expression, the setting is ripe for mov...

conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...

However, women continue to be restrained by social expectation by being routinely invalidated in popular culture. The road to gen...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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...

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

of the feminist critical theory. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting her audience to experience with her t...

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...

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...

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

the director and the male filmgoer) receive a sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of th...

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

laboratory tests!"(Ibsen, 71). This constant tearing down of Nora, it can be assumed serves several purposes for Torvald. Firstly,...

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

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

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...

her and keeps her confined out of jealousy. Things get worse as he begins to physically and emotionally abuse her. She eventual...

that never completely heals. She was humiliated by her slave master, who raped her, impregnated her, and beaten by his wife who t...

Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...

of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family to go to school"( Cather 172)...