... : "Her kerchiefs were of finely woven ground; I dared have sworn they weighed a good ten pound, The ones she wore on Sunday, on her head. Her hose were of the finest scarlet red and gartered tight; her shoes were soft and new." Also on lines 480-483: "Well wimpled up, and on her head a hat as broad as is a buckler or a shield ... the deceit that defines her. She also prides herself in the fact that she has been able to control and manipulate her numerous husbands. The Wife of Bath has married five times, all rich men, and then when her husbands died she inherited their wealth and fortune...

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... Agamemnon, Clytemnestra is more powerful and intelligent than any of the men in the play. Clytemnestra is portrayed as a strong willed woman seeking revenge on her husband for the murder of Iphigenia, a crime that is less of a concern than the regain of Helen and punishment Troy. ... her time as she is described by the watchman as "male strength of heart" (11). The Queen's main motive is a mother's revenge overcoming "wifely loyalty and womanly shame".1 The sacrifice of Iphigenia to Clytemnestra cannot be justified since she possesses traditional female values and this drives ... The r...

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... know the opinion of those who are engaged in the public administration but not on the high ranks. The spouses of civil servants - their husbands were needed to know what could be the level of difference between the answers of males and females and what do husband consider his wife to ... .4% male, 71.7% female). The 36.6% of male and 41.3% of female respondents think that their political rights are infringed. But 47% of male and 39.9% of female respondents feel that it is possible to perform in political sphere. About 20% of respondent could not answer at least one question. Most of ......

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... whether Athenian society was strongly patriarchal. This play is not a man-versus-woman struggle with one side or the other as morally right. It is more of a disapproval of passion, revenge and arrogant pride. Euripides explores these ideas in his play. At the start of the play Medea Euripides gives Medea an opening speech to the chorus in which she reminds ... women as "wretched creatures" and by stating that they do anything for their men. The chorus strengthen this unequal gender position by agreeing for Medea to get her revenge by saying "you will be right to exact vengeance from you...

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... to the way other man felt about women in Classical Athens. This being that the main function of the woman was to produce heirs for their husbands. "But you women Have reached a state where, if all's well with your sex life You've everything yo wished for; but when that goes ... successful in her goal to destroy Jason, and is shown as too strong to regret her decision to kill her children. She has extracted the perfect revenge on Jason. Sophocles, Antigone, is seen as one of the most impressive female figures in Greek tragedy. She is shown to be standing up for ... Argos in Agamemnon's ab...

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... remember, I've worked-that's been one of my one great joy." This independence was a serious taboo; it implied that women were capable of acting independently from the confines of their husbands and fathers. Breaking away from the social standards of their time and acting on their own terms. No character demonstrates this better than Linde and eventually Nora as she follows ... and influences Nora's decision. His willingness to allow Nora's torment to continue is cruel and this culminates with her contemplating suicide in order to save her husbands reputation from the incinerator. Howeve...

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... Gatsby when Tom is literally in the next room proves her rebellious nature of the flapper woman. Woman at that time were expected only to be intimate with their own husbands as men were allowed to do whatever they pleased. This is shown in the novel as Tom is having an affair with Myrtle while he is still married to Daisy ... women as equals to men. She believes that "Until they could link overtly male oppression to the nature of public activity as well as to the home"(Honey 39) the dream of women rights would never be within reach. This is interesting because Fitzgerald seems to portra...

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... only be noted that, for the most part, Catholics in medieval times took the bible very seriously and quite literally.] Clare continues the appraisal of God as man in her letter to Ermentrude of Bruges as well: "Remain faithful until death, dearly beloved, to Him Whom you have promised yourself, for you shall be crowned by Him with the garland of ... amounts of responsibilities in the western world. It is openly believed now that we should not regard God as a man for we do not really know what God is. The letter of the bible may refer to God as a man, but only because the people of that ...

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... Middle Ages were thought of as having wildly creative imaginations. They were capable of much more description and creativity then men. This is portrayed in all of medieval literature. The husbands in the fabliaux only wish that his wife is faithful and obedient like a good wife should be, but it is obvious that the wife is the one with the creative ... that she wants, it should be recognized that she uses it more than just to be sexually engaged, but she can use her sexuality in an evil way to get revenge. This is clear in "Lanval" when the queen becomes extremely jealous and spiteful....

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... Greek. In Medea's time, especially in Greece, women were expected to be solely maternal figures capable of little strength or rational cerebration; they were basically passive, reactive servants to their husbands. Common perception of women was that they were, as Aristotle put it, no better than slaves. Through Euripides's play, however, Medea proves to be the purest antithesis of these qualities ... . She does not accept Jason's actions submissively; she resolves to exact revenge. Grecian society isolates Medea for two simple reasons: she is a woman exhibiting stereotypical male qualiti...

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... Wanley stepped out of the men's club at night to stare into the window and look at the portrait of the attractive woman. In Lang's other works such as M and Scarlet Street, there are recurrent images of radiant shop windows. The shop windows are displays of seductive commodity and are thus commonly depicted as a symbol of forbidden desires. While Wanley never ... why Wanley ran off hysterically when a woman innocently asked him to light her a cigarette. (63) Lang could have decided to kill off the main characters, just as he did in Scarlet Street. Instead, Lang made a deliberate decisio...

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... found to be relatively weak, Women created an "informal trade union" which largely excluded men. Willmott & Young claim that "Husbands were often squeezed out of the warmth of the female circle and took to the pub as their defence". Therefore with ... husbands spending little time at home the conjugal roles really were segregated with husbands having little to do with any household tasks or childcare. However these segregated roles did begin to change over ... Metropolitan area. The results of this survey formed the basis of their book "The Symmetrical Family". Willmott & Young argue t...

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... 1946. In this movie a beautiful, blonde wife (Lana Turner) talks her lover into killing her husband. Some other movies that are along the lines of the femme fatale are The Letter, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, You Only Live Once, and The Woman in The Window. The second way women were portrayed on screen were as reliable and honest. This ... film noir family is usually nonexistent or shows to be negatively affecting the character in some way. Film noir makes women appear to be headstrong in wanting to destroy their husbands and any trace of family. Unhappy wives or some other beautif...

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... serve in the military at home and abroad. With a large percent of the working population gone there was a need for new workers. Women were able to fill in for their husbands and brothers who were forced to leave their jobs to serve in the military. This social change of allowing women to enter into the workforce was beneficial to the advancement ... holes and placed 3,300 rivets in an airplane tail end within six hours at the former General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division in North Tarrytown. Mrs. Hickey was recognized with personal letter from President Roosevelt, and became afterwards...

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... after the female lead character of the play. It portrays Athenian Lysistrata and the women of Athens teaming up with the women of Sparta to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian War. To make the men agree to a peace treaty, the women seized the Acropolis, where Athens' financial reserves are kept, ... then beat back an attack on their position by the old men who have remained in Athens while the younger men are out on campaign. When their husbands return from battle, the women refuse to have sex with them. This sex strike, which is portrayed in a series of exaggerated and clamorou...

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... the goddess Parvati. Folk traditions of elite castes explained Sati as "virtuous women who ontologically bounded to her husband" (Hawley, 1993. p.12 ). Such women had to comply with what their husbands wanted them to do. This could be explained as a strong devotion. At that point, the meaning of Sati was taken as a concept of being loyal to men. Also in Hindu ... or married women, they were enforced to follow a horrible custom named Sati where they were burnt alive in the funeral pyre of their dead husbands; because widows were taken as people with have no identity when their husbands p...

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... there is something wrong with his wife because she is lacking physical symptoms of sickness. Her brother, who is also a physician, conforms to her husbands point of view, and she whisked away to the colonial mansion. Her husbands stiff insistence that she remain in bed signifies the traditional male role, dominant and commanding. The protagonist abhors the room in which she is ... put, but she bows to her husbands orders without a second thought; "he takes all care from me, and so I feel basely ungrateful not to value it more." In this the protagonist shows how generally submissive she,...

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... into the past American societies. However, the fact that they were both women who found themselves next to highly public lives of their husbands provides for interesting insight into roles and limitations of females in the past. And while Abigail Adams passed the very year that Mary ... . (Baker 131) Nevertheless, unlike majority of females, these two women both retained the power of self-expression in their marriages and greatly influenced their husbands. Mary in particular, had complete control and supervision of the household as well as of her husband's manners, social behavior and ev...

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... storyline. Both have strong female characters that are mothers, sisters, wives, and witches. Also, the shows have equally strong male roles that show husbands, in-laws, and strong masculine personalities. Within these two television shows you can see how mainstream ideals and masculine and feminine personalities have changed ... they represent. We can represent the comparative roles each member plays in their television family. Finally we can compare their relationship with their husbands and vise-a-versa. The clothing of Samantha, the lead female role on Bewitched, shows the version of ...

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... the fear of the feminine. Yet Malvolio is duped by theater in pursuit of social climbing and condescension. After Maria, Feste, Sir Toby and Sir Andrew devise a plan to forge a letter from Olivia to Malvolia, stating that if he adheres to "[wear] thy yellow stockings/ and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered" (2.5.133-134) amongst smiling excessively and avoiding questioning ... , he"ll confirm and reciprocate her love. Malvolio feverishly complies, resulting in Olivia's supposition: "Why, this is very midsummer madness" (3.4.52). After the prank is revealed, Malvolio hauntingly procla...

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... most stereotypical and minimal of roles. The women were left with the children to care for having no idea when they would see their husbands again. Their lives were spent in anxious anticipation awaiting the return of their husbands. Mothers were proud to send their sons off to war, having no doubt that they would be home within weeks. Girls and children ... sayings goes "women place is in the home." Women were the ones cleaning, washing, and cooking, providing care for the children and to be available to please their husbands whenever they are home. Weir allowed viewers to identify wit...

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... is less available mother of she does work." (Family Therapy) As much of a relief as quitting work may initially be, after six months women generally feel bereft, particularly since their husbands have not had to trade work for parenthood." (J. PETERS) As we often see our society pressure women into full-time motherhood, it does not necessary value their mother-work. In ... at home while the kids were at school. The man should also have the career job so that his family won't look obscure to other families in their community. Working husbands and wives can invest heavily in their own job...

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... woman's job to be a housewife and caretaker. This restriction could be from of gender capitalizing women to do these things. Women assumed these responsibilities because of the demand of their husbands and the gender expectations our society has. Furthermore, women in those days were accustomed to obeying and being extremely submissive to their ... husbands, as well as not being given the freedom or choices to do what they wanted. These traditional roles of the husband being the breadwinner and the wife being a housewife are ... still seen today in traditional families across America. ...

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... wealthy members of high society. Most of the activities that the characters take part in revolve around socializing or attending dinner parties, and everyone fits into a stereotypical role. Men are husbands, whose primary job is to make money for the family. So long as they adore their wives and treat them like gold, and can occasionally show their children a fun time ... being a picture-perfect beautiful, delicate lady. In this society, a woman such as Adele Ratignolle is therefore the epitome of the ideal "mother-woman," those who "idolized their children, worshipped their husbands, a...

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... these two women are frustrated by their gender codes when they express their overwhelming needs to be free. Though in both cases the women desire to be free from their husbands, the reader can assume that they want to be free from their entire domestic gender. In the case of the young woman in Machinal, we know that she did not ... she needed a bird for company because her own husband paid her no attention. Though Trifles" Mrs. Wright and Machinal's young woman differ somewhat in their presumed motives to kill their husbands, there are some obvious similarities. They were not happy with...

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