... are reduced into doing the one thing for which Gilead can find no substitute -- producing children. They are so reduced that they cannot even feel passion or enjoy sex. " I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will ... the attempted outcome. Or one ends up with a dystopia that destroys the current society, as we know it. Women were often seen as the lesser sex, but no doubt the most important. They were the only way children could be reproduced. However, the circumstances they were put under cou...

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... one wedding, people criticized her & said that she should have only married once. Instead of feeling shameful about her intense sex drive, the Wife simply argued that God told them "to increase and multiply" (Prologue ln. 28). She sees sex as a fun & healthy activity to participate in. She does not feel shamed by her actions but sees herself as simply ... like their flaws pointed out to them. "I hate that man who tells me my vices" (Prologue ln. 662). She does not care about her husband's proverbs or misogynistic stories, nor would she let him tell her what to do. Women would rather be ...

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... Greece, as these Homeric epics were continually retold and inculcated by the populous. Present-day interpretations of these tales are often moot regarding woman's status, but the ideas of the stories vastly impacted Greece's history. Not much is known about women in bronze-age Mycenaean culture, but it is thought they were not as well regarded as in ancient Minoan society ... scholars think these contrasts dramatically with their actual roles. Sick and tired of endless fighting and war, the women of Athens decide they will seize the treasury and go on a sex strike until the warring ceas...

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... example, many believe that "it is not sexual abuse unless intercourse is involved"(Crawford-Clark). But, that is not true. Sexual abuse, although it includes a constant demand of sex, can also include criticizing the victim in sexual terms, calling the victim names such as "whore" and "frigid", forcing the victim to witness sexual acts with ... other people, and using threats to back up demands for sex. Physical abuse can escalate from painful pinches or squeezing to strikes that can cause permanent disabilities to the victim. As the violence increases, the abuser targets parts of the b...

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... shows that in order for a woman to have a voice she must literally be neutered. She calls upon spirits to make this wish, to suggest that she would rather lose her sex and fertility, to have the rights of a man, and even more so to be able to commit this evil act herself. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex ... my blood, and "stop the visiting of nature," to demand that she no longer wants to be a woman. "In women's violence and destructiveness we find the end of woman as a sex, and the end of all the consolations with which woman provides us, (Rossmann). Although Lady...

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... 's Bride" are objectified specifically by the men in their lives, and through their trials the women become confident with a new attitude and self-confidence. An important part in both stories is women's relationships with their fathers. The father in "Bellinda and the Monster" is portrayed differently from the father in "The Tiger's Bride." In "Bellinda ... heroine of this story is able to come to the realization that it is not the actions of those that surround her that define her character, but hers alone. Both stories are concerned with the objectification of women, but] they come to...

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... 't just adopted by a few, rather it was a widespread idea. Shakespeare put witches in Macbeth, many artists put witches in their work, some people went so far as to write full stories on them. The most well known is probably Malleus Maleficarum. This was written to explain what a witch is and what they do. The authors say that witches are deceiving and ... they are weaker than men both physically and mentally. According to the authors, men wanted nothing to do with women's "evil confining" ways. Woman were seen as a secretive sex with something to hide. The authors talk about how on the ...

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... lived isolated lives, having not much outside of household duties. This in turn made most women feel trapped. Both Glaspell and Chapin used these ideals to set a basis for their stories. In Chapin's story, her protagonist even goes as far to say "Free! Body and soul free!" (Ronson 216) This helps show that women of this era wanted nothing ... the emotions that come along with losing something so precious only to have "stillness". In a comment to Mrs. Hale, the County Attorney said "Ah, loyal to your sex" (Ronson 219). Little did he know, a simple joke proved to be truer then he'd though...

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... (2), p.214-215) Dolley was not only a formidable woman, but she was a charitable woman during peace time after war. "Madison, who, now that peace was at hand, enjoyed enormous popularity. The stories of her heroism-saving the government papers and the portrait of George Washington-had taken on the aura of legend, and she came to serve as the symbol of American ... would survive. And its success was in no small part due to the efforts of the women. George Washington himself recognized the contributions of women "Nor would I rob the fairer sex their share in the glory of a revolution so h...

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... instill in her values and self-belief. Because of her status in the household, she tell, Marium"The children of strangers get ice cream. What do you get, Mariam? Stories of ice cream" (Hosseini 7). Within the feministic discourse, the severity and harshness of Nana's words are there to raise the level of awareness and perceptions in a male dominated society ... . According to the feminist Ann Ferguson who also criticizes the patriarchal beliefs of women belonging to the lower classes. She calls women a gender classified on the basis of sex that overlaps social economic and racial boundar...

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... view social life as very valuable thing. Also, the freedom of bragging to friends is taken away. When hooking up with different women on a regular basis, men can tell boastful stories to friends in order to impress them. While men are building up their self esteems, in doing so they are at the same time worsening a woman's reputation. These actions can ... what they view as a much simpler way to deal with their desires. For many, hooking up is an easy task. While weighing the pros and cons of relationships and casual sex, many prefer the latter. These peoples' reasoning can be considere...

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... displays a very unbalanced relationship with her family members. She feels fearful by the indoor world around her and happy outside. She feels that by telling her younger brother Laird spooky stories and exposing him to experiences, she claims to be associated with, she can turn her lack of knowledge into real knowledge and control. In her later years her relationship with ... what she is obliged to be. Flora, the horse, cannot be free because she is a horse likewise, the young girl cannot do what she wishes because she is of opposite sex. After she releases the horse, she symbolically ...

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