YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Feminist Concepts of Judith Lorber
Essays 181 - 210
Throughout the centuries, patriarchy has been responsible for designing womens role within society; many of these devices used in ...
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...
a patriarchal world would be a gross understatement and one that would also be staunchly supported by the likes of both Bertrande ...
that "Nothing happened in Bertrandes marriage bed, it seemed, neither that night nor for more than eight years afterward. Martin G...
been victims of domestic violence.4 Furthermore, there is evidence that women who are in situations of conflict and female refugee...
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...
libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...
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...
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...
"Egypt and Hollywood were equivalent phenomena to me, equally rich and fabulous" (pp. 62). As a young teenager she had her first e...
feeling of liberty would be extended to them. They were wrong. The fifteenth and fourteenth amendments came and went, but their ri...
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 ...
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...
child (Eckhaus, 2002). Just look at modern mothers for verification of this. Mothers today are torn between working, shuttling k...
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....
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 ...
Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...
Adizua cannot be found for the funeral and it is then that Efuru finds out that Adizua has married another woman in another villag...
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,...