... , But of no nombre mencion made he-of bigamye or of octogamye; Why shoulde men thanne speke of it vilainye?- (lines 27-34). She uses her multiple marriages as a sort of fulfillment of God's Word. She also uses specific examples from Scripture where men had more than one wife: Solomon, Abraham, and Jacob, who were all considered holy, devout men. She then justifies her ... marriages by citing St. Paul's warning that it is better to marry than to burn. The Wife uses these biblical examples not only to justify her own marriages, but also to state that without such marriages there would be n...

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... , But of no nombre mencion made he-of bigamye or of octogamye; Why shoulde men thanne speke of it vilainye?- (lines 27-34). She uses her multiple marriages as a sort of fulfillment of God's Word. She also uses specific examples from Scripture where men had more than one wife: Solomon, Abraham, and Jacob, who were all considered holy, devout men. She then justifies her ... marriages by citing St. Paul's warning that it is better to marry than to burn. The Wife uses these biblical examples not only to justify her own marriages, but also to state that without such marriages there would be n...

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... fish is male, but it has a plain-colored belly resembling the female belly. This male fish patiently waits by another male's nest for a female to lay her eggs and then he unsuspectingly darts in and fertilizes the eggs before the rightful male can do so. An interesting discussion of mating revolved around the ovulation of females in the mating process. This revolves around ... the fact that human females allow no overt signs of the time when they are ovulating. Female primate species all have menstrual cycles similar to that of human woman, but in contrast, there ... complete. All Kach...

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... aiming to write in defense of Blanche: Jane is our heroine. Her statement of women's independence may have been taken more seriously if such opinions were expressed through her protagonist, but in holding consequence to the female as opposed to the male, she is subconsciously committing a feminist faux pas in ... together at Thornfield; the destruction of which somewhat wipes the slate clean. Whereas Jane once relied on Rochester for attention, salary and social solidarity, the roles are now reversed: "For I was then his vision, as I am still his right hand. Literally, I was (what he oft...

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... . Alicia wanted to personal history that was different than the Latina women that played important roles in her life. Alicia's mother and father were not there for her as a child and so Alicia rebelled by leering herself into becoming better than them and by breaking the predetermined history she would be given had she walked in her parents footsteps. The predetermined path would be dropping ... as well if the view society has on a woman oppresses her. In order for ultimate happiness and success to be achieved in a woman's life she must feel as though she spent her life making a statemen...

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... ;sentimental comedy," derived from the French variety of "well-made play". In the Victorian era, wives, daughters and sisters were left at home all day to oversee the domestic duties that were increasingly carried out by servants. In The Importance of Being Earnest, however, this is not always the case, as gender role ... control of her life. At this point however, Jack is being more rational, "You know what I have got to say to you." perhaps implying there is no point in formally asking her, as she already knows what he is going to say. Gwendoline however does not accept this, as her co...

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... there is no essence, only experience. All beings, De Beauvoir insists, have the right to define their own existences rather than labor under some vague notion of femininity. "If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine, " and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then ... that "woman " does not, in fact, exist as an immense and that men and women alike should always be defined primarily as human beings. De Beauvoir argues the myths are a product of woman's oppression, although women ...

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During the time of the Ancient Greeks there was a very different attitude towards the role of women compared to what we are accustom to today. Women were regarded as less than equal to men and were afforded responsibilities such as cooking, cleaning, and birthing children. The overall female role in society was subservient. With the formation of certain policies, Plato revolutionized ... individuals to professions in an exemplary community. "...For people born and educated as we have described, then, there is, I believe, no correct way to acquire and employ children and women other than to fo...

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... categories, circling only one number per category on each 5-point scale. After this questionnaire was completed, the second questionnaire of gender connotation was given to the students. Participants were then asked to rate each of the words based on its gender attribution by marking an "F" for female or "M" for male on the line provided next to the word. ... Overall, participants agreed that words with feminine connotations are highly related to a rating of goodness according to the bad/good measurement. There was also some indication that "feminine" words are related to weakness. There...

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... a mortality rate 40 times greater than an abortion procedure. As for the chance of fertility, investigations into post-abortion infertility showed that women who underwent two or more abortion procedures were said to experience future fertility, just as would a woman who had two or more natural births ("The Effect of Induced Abortion"). Another reason why abortion is beneficial to ... . Lastly, after in vitro fertilization, the fertilized eggs not used in procedures are routinely thrown out. Does anyone consider this murder? If throwing away unused fertilized eggs is not murder, then how...

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... routine during the early 1900s. With all the domestic work Mattie and other women in her situation had to do, there was no time for them to pursue their dreams and they were forced to be selfless. In the context of A Gathering Light women were expected to be selfless and put their husbands and children before themselves and their wants. In early twenty- first century New York City, Andy ... uses juxtaposition to show the difference between everyone's low-calorie lunches compared to Andy's tray laden with 'carbs.' It is then revealed later in the movie that Andy drops down a size in...

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... they feature: controversial events in the lives of each woman created a sharp divide among the members of each faith tradition; and their alleged adulterous backgrounds originated from and were crystallized by fearful male-dominated hierarchical societies. The analysis of each theme will consist of side-by-side individual evaluations. Mary ... among you. Do not regard it as a bad thing for you; no, it is good for you. Every one of them will receive what he has earned of sin; and he who has the greater share therein, for him there will be an awful doom."13 Tenth century Shi'i author al ....

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... rise up against the oppressive ways they had come to know. While history has shown that there were those who rose up and fought against oppression with blood, few women did so in the colonial period. There were those in the new world who fought the oppressive ways of society by proving that the pen ... it's stol'n, or else it was by chance. (Bradstreet 549) This line in particular highlights her radical views; she looks honestly at her own abilities and then notes that the culture she lives in will disregard her success by calling her a thief, which is slander, or saying she just got luc...

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... room to dress in the kitchen with his wife, where previously she had been working in there with her daughter and no sense of it being too small. Following on from this, we then see Frau Brechenmacher banished to the dark, while the husband basks in the warm and light of the kitchen to get dressed, a visual indication of their relative importance, echoing sun ... suggesting that this is a regular occurrence. However, even more disturbing is the implication that women were complicitous in their own oppression. In a strongly homosocial environment where men bonded with each other and women ...

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... many contemporary viewers would have become accustomed to the vocabulary of symbolism that artists continued to employ within their genre scenes. Viewers were aided by the emblematic literature, allowing them to familiarize themselves with these symbols. For the modern viewer, the understanding of these disguised ... , the number of recognized symbols within the painting that carry sexual associations make their inclusion seem purposeful. There seems to be little purpose to the crudity of Metsu's painting: it conveys no message, and it certainly cannot be described as moralizing. Yet Jan...

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... impact they seemed to have made, the legacy they seemed to have left behind for the many after them. The complexity of the then exisiting social order, the tensions in the understanding and imagination of spiritual ideas and their s=translations in the structure of the emerging languages, the already existing role of women in the spiritual sphere- all play very significant roles in ... not quite existent before Bhakti emerged. In the space of the various, eclectic Bhakti traditions that emerged, however, women saints seem to own a space of their own and voice their opinions, bold and ex...

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... time were beginning to adhere. This level of independence a woman can feel is a struggle for the female race in its own sense. Fuller feels that men and women can "weaken and narrow one another- and as a result, "to themselves they seem the only wise- (Fuller 767). Margaret Fuller suggests that if men and women are so encapsulated within each other, then there is no room for equal and separate ... lives with the rest of society. Fuller's struggles with equality are more than played out in her "great lawsuit."" Fuller wants to be an individual among society, but she also want the comfort...

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... armed combat, most casualties in combat are attributed to "friendly fire," and the majority of war takes place from a safely controlled area. In decades past, during World Wars, times were different. Overall, the social roles of the past were substantially different; women were by far thought to be the weaker sex, and there was no denial of the fact that a male was more physically capable to serve ... in a time of war, when she is needed from her fellow soldiers, her patriotism and devotion will compensate. If one is dedicated to a cause, then this notion of compensation is easy to unde...

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... a substantial amount of savings to rely on upon her father's death, however, risked falling into poverty. While belonging to the gentry, it is suggested that the Bennets have little or no savings, and furthermore, the family estate, Longbourn, does not make a significant amount of money. This makes it necessary for the Bennet sisters to marry, in order to ensure their financial stability ... world, that your estate should be entailed away from your own children," stresses the unfairness of the rule and highlights its privileging of males (61). Aside from owning an estate, there were many...

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... overall acceptance of the equal cognitive capabilities of women compared to males resulted in masses of women entering the workforce and launching a revolution in gender roles where women were no longer confined to the domesticity of homes. The percentage of women in the work force has increased from 59 percent in 1970 to 72 percent in 1995 while that of ... child-bearing age in the U.S. are now choosing not to give birth at all. The stress and expense, the lost opportunity costs appear not to be worth it for these women. Others postpone motherhood, and then find them selves unable or ...

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... wrong. Title IX is a law that was originally intended to eliminate discrimination based on sex and to allow equal opportunity for both sexes to participate in educational programs. The law itself states: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation ... split of the student body. If a school is 55 percent female, 55 percent of its athletes must also be female. If not, then some male athletes have to be eliminated" (Gavora). This presents the problem of interest: if the afore mentioned proportion of 55 percent female ... proportional to the en...

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... ; you become the main character of a situation you are trying to hide. Hypocrisy is not a good thing; you become cynical and start affecting others only to save yourself. There is a very interesting quote by Alan Dershowitz, which says, "Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is ... because this shows how the female gender were not forced to go to war and when she mentions that she might join the Women's Army Corps even though that was work assigned to the working class women and the upper class women's work was only t...

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... her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet."1 Women were in the right to pursue protection for themselves during the progressive era and if not for themselves then at least for people like them. With slavery and true womanhood ideologies all but gone from America it was the working woman that became ... their rights in the work place.5 With years of striking and militant action from labor unions, women were making a powerful offensive to reach their goals in earning better wages and professional security. In addition, with th...

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... account. There is much exploration into the challenges facing Del as a woman in a patriarchal world. Descriptions of the lives of Canadian girls and women during the 1920's and 1930's fill the book and prompt the conclusion that these years really saw no discontinuity with ... is torn between her own passions and intelligence, and the guide of her intellectual mother, and the conventional house wife role that her best friend Naomi so strongly adopts. We also meet Dells Baptist boyfriend and a suicidal music teacher. Del's ... Munro argues that growing up for Canadian girls was marked ...

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... not true for Hester. She is doomed at the end of the book to live a life full of loneliness and denial, and in no way does she come close to obtaining the freedom and love that she had desired. It seems as though the only aspiration open to her as a woman can never ... to become a member of that society and strives still to be accepted by it, "here had been her sin; here her sorrow, and here was yet to be her penitence...women...came to Hester's cottage demanding why they were so wretched, and what the remedy! Hester comforted and counseled them" (Hawthorne 185). What ... seventeenth-c...

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