... popular culture and to pressure from peer groups." This mismatch may be due to a lack or misunderstanding of the female experience and how the biological events that occur within are simply shaped by her surroundings. Brumberg notes that back in the nineteenth century, beauty imperatives for girls were kept in check by consideration of moral character and by cultural mandated patterns of emotional denial and ... is not just an external issue resulting from a lack of societal vigilance or adult support; it has become an internal, psychological problem: girls today make the body into an a...

• Word Count: 759
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... on their attitudes, they have fought a long and hard battle for equal rights in the workplace and in education. As a result of them practically 'winning' the battles 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 ... 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 Willmott regard a husband who washes up at least once a wee...

• Word Count: 676
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... recompense - marriage - in return. One could say then, while Violenta is not making her virtue available for sale, she certainly is waiting for a society-sanctioned "trade-off" of sorts to take place in which she exchanges her chastity for the putative security of marriage. Though sexual chastity may have been considered an entity "whose price was inestimable" it certainly ... of a society that has no place for a woman who doesn't fit into the proposed mold of "femininity", simply because she happened to be on the receiving end of a series of unfortunate events. Manley's text then, hig...

• Word Count: 1986
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... only weaves a subtle yet extravagant tapestry of blatant flattery and cautionary advice, but also literalises the "heart and stomach of a king" in the cross dressing Cleophila. In his letter preceding The Old Arcadia Sidney is quick to dismiss his pastoral romance as an "idle work". Such a comment invites the reader to look past this initial reflection. In a highly artificial tableau, his mirror ... political undercurrents make Arcadia "no true pastoral" , this is highly evident in Cleophila's speech. In accordance of the body politic as a concept which embodies "kingship", rather than th...

• Word Count: 1452
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... of Twelfth Night, and which is often overlooked throughout the body of Shakespeare criticism. Although being of the aristocratic class permits both women some freedoms that poorer women did not enjoy, it also imposes an extra set of gender expectations upon them. Like Hermia, it is important for the women in Twelfth Night, especially for Olivia, to marry within their class so as to protect and ... sustain their social position. Also like Hermia, Olivia is determined to love who she wants and on her ... own terms; for this reason she invents the excuse that she is mourning for her decea...

• Word Count: 2208
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... established female literary writers who pooled their efforts to form a community and build the women's literary tradition that exists today. In Woolf's essay, she states: "For we think back through our mothers if we are women". Not only was this how the "women's literary revolution" evolved, but it was also the dominant force in Woolf's argument in that, she argues that without a women's tradition to ... freeing her mind to write, and by doing this she would procure the status in society worthy of some acknowledgment from her male counterparts but would also accomplish something women h...

• Word Count: 1471
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate