... . For centuries there has been a struggle between men and woman in the literary community and this struggle has manifested itself in the fact that prior to the twentieth century women did not have much of a tradition in the literary arts so as to form and articulate their ideas in writing. As women grew as literary writers by reading and responding to their contemporaries, their literary tradition grew with ... , Mercy Otis Warren who was known as the most productive "woman of the American revolution", with works that viewed history and politics as a struggle between liberty and power, an...

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... to which this supposedly invaluable entity was treated as a bargaining tool, a material representation of the value of a "proper" woman. In the face of Roderigo's urgent persuasions, Violenta claims to be "a maidwho knows the the true estimation of virtue" and counters his dramatic claims of death by simply stating, "You very eloquently tell me you shall die if I continue unkind; but ... defense" (152) is because she has no witnesses to validate her virtuous behavior in getting married before admitting the Count to her bed. No matter how regaled her beauty and wit, no matter how well kno...

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... historical reality is important to keep in mind when analyzing the variety of female characters in the plays of Shakespeare. In this Shakespearean society, it was men who held exclusively the official posts of authority and power, and men who kept the agency and influence to direct the outcome of events. Nevertheless, the careful reader notices a curious trend in many of Shakespeare's plays: many ... them and in many cases, to view many of the characters present in several plays by Shakespeare as some of the main motivators of action as well as some of the most complex characters overal...

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... to a certain extent more females are in paid-employment that in the last 50 years with lead them to become more financially independent which has also caused females to gain more freedom, equality and status inside and outside the home. Ann Oakley (1974) is a feminist who is critic of the Young and Willmott's symmetrical family study and isn't convinced by their evidence as she believes that ... occasional help from a husband like ironing his own trousers on a Saturday doesn't make him a 'good' husband and it also doesn't mean he is helpful in the home. For example Young and Willmo...

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In the book "The Body Project", Joan Jacobs Brumberg examines how the social changes of the last century have affected the ways in which teenage girls regard their bodies and themselves. By the use of various historical documents, including the many diaries of adolescent women, the author looks at the developing attitudes towards such issues as physical occurrences like that of menarche which we know as "menstruation" and skin conditions such as acne ... pressure from peer groups." This mismatch may be due to a lack or misunderstanding of the female experience and how the biological events th...

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... expediency" . Elizabeth further distended gender boundaries by frequently referring to herself in male pronouns as well as female. The concept of the body politic and redefining gender in the context of possessing two bodies, one male, the other female are inextricably entwined in The Old Arcadia. The Old Arcadia, through a series of surrogacies demonstrates the ideal of the body politic transferred from male to female, in similar circumstances to that of Elizabeth, culminating ... advantage, so too did Cleophila spy "her coming had bred an alteration", and that even "the eyes of the ba...

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