... could have the same tastes' as Torvald. Through Nora's accusation of Torvald for having committed a grievous sin' against herself, saying that it's Torvald's fault she's made nothing of her life', Ibsen shows how women's intelligence and capabilities were ignored, even suppressed so that when she was married, she could be a suitable doll-wife', according to society's demands. I have been performing tricks ... for you, Torvald', says Nora in the final scene of A Doll's House. Through Nora's epiphany and intellectual liberation, Ibsen represents the long-ignored views of a woman, showing ...

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... "accomplished" (38). As well as these skills, a woman must possess a natural grace and flawless manner "to deserve the word" (39). Elizabeth Bennet's reply of "I never saw such a woman" highlights Austen's concern with the notion of the ideal woman within her nineteenth-century English ... 'accomplished woman' at this time. Moreover, a woman must "possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking" (39). According to this list of requirements, Caroline and Emma Woodhouse of Emma are two of the few women who could fit the 'ideal' ... ;not rich enough, or grand enough" ...

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... as well as women to be silent in certain situations, so that order can be established "and he finishes the topic with a balanced phrase of speech and silence in v.39-40 ""Therefore, my brothers, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way."" To understand the verses ... speaking and conversation. He thus raises women's status in marriage by making her education important to her husband, making a wife a spiritual companion not just a possession. Concerning female education, Leon Morris notes that from the Greek a...

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... partners arose in spheres of both work and domestic responsibilities. Such desires are quite vividly portrayed in the gender ideologies of Nancy, a character from Second shift [Arlie Hochschild, 1989: Pg. 39-41]. Nancy tried to establish herself as the career woman. Her gender ideology centered on the idea of herself as a woman who would be needed and appreciated both at home ... them to devote a lot of time to their children. This was mainly made possible by the turning of women to the home front as house wives. [Stephanie Coontz, 1997: Pg. 39] But when women started getting employed i...

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... of women as being dominated, lacking independence and tied to the role of motherhood carried on through the rest of the 1800's in the form of plays such as Henrik Ibsen's A Dolls House, written shortly after what was considered to be the mid-Victorian period, 1879, it tells of Nora's fight against her husband's dominance, and her struggle to break the ... ...

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... poses a great threat to orthodox Christian doctrine. Following this train of thought, the event of the woman with the alabaster jar could instead be considered, as Margaret Starbird in her book, "The Woman with the Alabaster Jar," suggests, a "symbolic ritual enacted between two lovers about to be separated."10 Bourgeault attempts to reconcile and validate this potential ... society, it has been argued that the role of Muslim women became one of "passivity and submissiveness comparable to that already imposed on contemporary Jewish and Christian women."39 Moreover, Spellberg states that...

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... her. (Gilman 23) These alleged terms of endearment tap into what the famous psychologist Thomas A. Harris would refer to as, her "Not OK child."" Harris explains these terms in his book, I'm OK You're OK, based on Eric Burne's ideas called Transactional Analysis. Harris explores in depth what he calls 'life positions'. At some stage early in our lives we adopt ... and obedient. John's ignorance of psychology does not enable him to realize that he is being sexist and harmful to his wife. One can see at the beginning of the book that the woman is not too far gone. Her first impression is ...

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... her. (Gilman 23) These alleged terms of endearment tap into what the famous psychologist Thomas A. Harris would refer to as, her "Not OK child."" Harris explains these terms in his book, I'm OK You're OK, based on Eric Burne's ideas called Transactional Analysis. Harris explores in depth what he calls 'life positions'. At some stage early in our lives we adopt ... and obedient. John's ignorance of psychology does not enable him to realize that he is being sexist and harmful to his wife. One can see at the beginning of the book that the woman is not too far gone. Her first impression is ...

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... messages across to her readers. Peter Pan focuses primarily on children growing into adults. In Little Women, Alcott accepts this inevitable changeover with the four March sisters maturing as the book progresses. J.M. Barrie takes a much different approach. Whereas Alcott seeks to grapple with the hardships of everyday life, putting her characters through common situations and conflicts, Barrie writes to escape from ... reality (class notes, 4/3/03). When Barrie teaches his readers about childhood, he does so through the character of Peter Pan, who "symbolizes the child's reluctance to ...

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... , when and under what circumstances a woman may obtain an abortion. According to the Guttmacher Institute, ("An Overview of Abortion laws") the following state laws are instituted: Physician and Hospital Requirements: 39 states require an abortion to be performed by a licensed physician, 20 states require an abortion to be performed in a hospital after a specified point in the pregnancy, and 18 states require ... counseling and the procedure is performed. Nine of these states have laws that effectively require the woman make two separate trips to the clinic to obtain the procedure. Paren...

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... to perform in cultural sphere (79.4% 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 them are people from ... Female Male Female Economic 66.5 58.8 21.8 26.1 11.7 15.1 Social 71.9 62.1 15.8 21.2 12.2 16.6 Cultural 84.5 76.8 7.1 11.9 8.4 11.3 Civil 79.4 71.7 10.8 15.2 9.8 13.0 Political 48.0 39.9 36.6 41.3 15.4 18.8 Professional 59.0 54.3 27.0...

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... Kate Chopin's story The Awakening, one is able to see that the author planned to depict the final scene to be tragic yet triumphant. Like Edna's final act in chapter 39, the first half of chapter 6 allows the reader to understand that Edna is lost in her search for individuality and freedom in her life. Perhaps the most apparent connection between ... ...

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... of Venice, focuses on the structures of exchange as they exist Karen in Shakespeare's play. The play, she argues is told in the rhetoric of the commercial world, even, she notes, in Belmont where life is generally free of direct commercial involvement, but the love alliances forged there are a representation of exchange in the commodity of women. Before examining exchange in ... the play, Newman takes time to discuss the idea of exchange as it relates to anthropology. The first essay Newman names is that of Marcel Mauss who notes that one of the most significant exchanges is that of gif...

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... and thus be a "home for fallen women would be another total world for him to control. Here he could create and run everything according to his rules." (Hartley 39) The fallen woman shows defiance by making the transition from the private and feminine space to the public and masculine space. The punishment of death is Tennyson's stern warning to ... ...

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... are to give birth or have just given birth. The idea of having a set amount of time and percentage of income for everyone reflects Deborah Stone's idea of equity. (Stone 39) In a Utopian society, there would be complete equality and everyone would be able to take as much time off as they needed, but this is not always true. The problem ... ...

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... stream-of-consciousness narrative. Earlier in the text, one of the narrator's caretakers, Jennie, states that she finds the color of the wallpaper in the narrator's clothing. Later the narrator notes that a "streak runs round the room as if it had been rubbed over and over" (Gilman, 310). This example illustrates the dissociation that the narrator begins to suffer ... ...

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... , They'll say 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 lucky. She calls these proponents of such beliefs ... ...

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... , seemingly lost in a very deep and magical thought. The two models' femininity and masculinity is established immediately in this one frame. As Sut Jhally, a member of the Media Education Foundation, notes, "So while women drift, men anchor and protect"" (Jhally 11). This domineering cultural implication of masculinity and femininity has enveloped and morphed peoples' ideas about gender identity and the manifestation ... ...

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... reveal that, they too, agree with this assumption; "Only a man of Colonel Sartoris" generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it" (Faulkner 426). Fetterley notes, "It indicates that the impulse to exempt is analogous to the desire to restrict, and that what appears to be a kindness or an act of veneration is in fact an ... ...

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... passive acceptance of fate and she instead battled destiny. Her position was considered "distinctly unfeminine, unchristian."(Baker 128) Akers" paraphrase that "only in the mind of God did the discordant notes of life blend into a harmonious melancholy."(Akers 11) reflects Abigail Adams" attitude of rational acceptance of life and its polarities while Mary Todd often overlooked this kind of reasoning and ... ...

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... can be noted in "it is interesting to note that one in five college-age women have an eating disorder". While she states this statistic as "interesting" the reader easily notes his sarcasm and realizes that it is not "interesting" at all, but in fact repulsive. Kilbourne's main reason for writing this essay was to inform the public of the dangers ... ...

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... innapropriate clothing and underwear are being used. This information has come to light from Professor Sue Lees who has been researching rape trials for the past ten years. Professor Lees notes that 'convictions have fallen to around 10 per cent in 1993, from 24 per cent in 1985 and 37 per cent in 1980. Only 463 out of 4,600 rapes reported ... ...

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... third part deals with the demographics of purchasing: the different　behaviors of men, women, seniors, and kids. The fourth section of the book tackles the dynamics of shopping: in other words how shoppers respond psychologically to the placement of merchandise, packaging, and other features of the ... the longer the shopper spends in the store the more they will spend comes into play. The final fourth part of the book is devoted to a discussion of how shoppers psychologically react to shopping environments. Much of this discussion covers and reinforces ground that he ... dealt with in...

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... between one man and several women), and polyandry (the marriage between one women and several men). Another word that was commonly used in the book was "promiscuity." In discussing animal species other then humans, promiscuity means (male or female animals) quickly moving from one sexual partner to the ... much the same- also means an act of consistent depersonalized sexual activity, an act that is not a norm, but an exception. Throughout the book, several examples, and references were made to birds, mammals (other than humans) and fish to further develop the argument about the differenc...

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... of a Hummingbird", I have had the privilege to read such a book with lots of ethnic, ethic, and religious issues at hand, and the struggle for a womans identity. There are a couple of issues that I found myself in ... idea what they are praying to or why but they just know that it has to be done in order to live up to the Catholic religion. This book explains just how Spaniards invaded the Mexicas and imposed their religion without real explanation and with high expectations especially from women. I noticed that in regards to Father ... impressed them in a sexual manner. They both used ...

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