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Feminist Views in 'A Doll's House'

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

Antigone Character Analysis

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

Feminist Themes and The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

factor into the equation, though it would seem that love was possible eventually. Given that Petruchio considers Katherine his p...

Controversial Camille Paglia

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

'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...

Feminist Movement's 'Second Wave'

feeling of liberty would be extended to them. They were wrong. The fifteenth and fourteenth amendments came and went, but their ri...

Contemporary Slavery and Philosophical Concepts

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

Susan Bordo and Feminine Malaise

it would be quite difficult to effectively heal the afflicted. The goals of treatment are of course to help the client to reduce ...

Book of the Three Virtues by Christine de Pizan

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...

Goddess and Motherhood Feminist Conceptual Comparisons

has changed into that of "practicalism" which she describes as a way of thinking that "arises from and is tested against practices...

Religion, Feminism, and the Goddess

of Wicca, a matriarchal based religion. When one studies the ancient belief systems in which the goddesses were worshiped it is no...

Freedom, Consent, and Other Feminist Issues

Throughout the centuries, patriarchy has been responsible for designing womens role within society; many of these devices used in ...

Feminist Ideals of Wollstonecraft and Austen

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...

David Fincher's The Fight Club

libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...

Early Modern Society of France and Men's and Women's Status

a patriarchal world would be a gross understatement and one that would also be staunchly supported by the likes of both Bertrande ...

Poullain de la Barre's Three Cartesian Feminist Treaties and Natalie Zemon Davis' The Return of Martin Guerre

that "Nothing happened in Bertrandes marriage bed, it seemed, neither that night nor for more than eight years afterward. Martin G...

Women and Violence

been victims of domestic violence.4 Furthermore, there is evidence that women who are in situations of conflict and female refugee...

The Feminist Literary Works of Mary Wilkins Freeman

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...

Reasons Why Men Commit Rape

They have mixed emotions after an acquaintance rape, and if their own husband is responsible for the rape, they question whether o...

Gertrude Stein and the Advancement of Women

of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...

Simone de Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Foucault's Power Structure, and the Film The Matrix

who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...

Feminism in Roald Dahl's, The Witches

takes care of her grandson and loves him. That is her life and she is not sexual, pretty, or threatening in any way. She is the id...

2 Theology Types

are that: 1. Standard personality instruments can consistently measure peoples perceptions of God. 2. Women see God as more emotio...

Review of Amy Tan's Novel The Joy Luck Club

The link between the two groups was that of mother and daughter, four descended from four. Despite the mother daughter bo...

An Article on Jane Eyre and Feminism Theories Evaluated

my aunt shut me up in the red-room", Jane receives only comments that she should feel very lucky about living in such a fine home ...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin and an Evaluation of Minor Female Characters

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 ...

'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

fixed entities but rather as "symbols that are embedded in the socialization and power dynamics of our culture" (127). Such image...

The Awakening and Gender Criticism

page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...

Review of Flora Nwapa's Efuru

Adizua cannot be found for the funeral and it is then that Efuru finds out that Adizua has married another woman in another villag...

Feminist Perspectives and '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 ...