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Feminine Literary Ideal

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 ...

Analyzing 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...

Luis Valdez's 'Los Vendidos'

large degree. As such, the feminist qualities are vague and incredibly subtle. The only woman in the play is Miss Jimenez. She is ...

The Goddess vs. Christianity

Many modern feminists have embraced the worship of the Goddess as more liberating and less patriarchal than most mainstream monoth...

Feminist Approach to 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

OConnors most controversial and problematic short stories (Clark 66). There are really only two characters in this story-the grand...

Comparison Between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Harriet Jacobs

Southern slave law and of the law itself" (Accomando 229, 1998). By writing her narrative, Jacobs was vocalizing for all others w...

Overview of Experimental Feminist Poetry

Hunt conveys her message in a type of rapid New York "urban speak," which is specifically intended to jolt the readers passivity. ...

Women's Literature Contributions of Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street

Street. In this classic work, Cisnero embraces and illuminates those feelings that she felt as a child growing up, those feelings ...

Feminist Theatre as Reflected in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls

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

Mainstream Cinema and the Portrayal of Women

that there is an interpretation of the films in a subconscious manner. Therefore, the reinforcing is appalling to the baser self, ...

Commentary on Virginia Woolf's 'The Lady in the Looking Glass'

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

The Sound and the Fury Novel Analysis

father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...

The Importance of Women's History

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

Judith and Her Maidservant with The Head Of Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi

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

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Linda Loman

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...

Comparing Kate Chopin Tales 'The Story of an Hour' and 'Desiree's Baby'

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

Anthropology and Lack of Feminism

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

Child Pornography and Prostitution: A Question of Economics?

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...

Values and Estela Portillo Trambley

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

Feminist Readings of Twentieth Century Novels

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

The Princess of Cleves by Marie de Lafayette

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

Feminists Sylvia Plath and Cary Churchill and Their Literary Messages

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

Feminist Discourse in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

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 ...

Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier and Gender Roles

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...

'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning

with its personae, while feeling extraneous or beside the point; more than sympathy or judgment, these alternatives lead readers t...

Biographical Overview of 'Mother of Our Country' Abigail Adams

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

Feminist Perspective of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire

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

Feminism and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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

Criminal Justice and the Feminist Movement

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

Selfish Gene Theory v. Heterozygote Superiority Theory

views on heterozygote superiority, we first must consider the views of Richard Dawkins. Dawkins The Selfish Gene articulates his ...