... on external controls to concentrating on internal controls. Brumberg states that "the current body problem 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 all-consuming project." She also notes that this obsession with making the body into an all-conceivable project has led to ... a traditional emphasis on ... "good works" as opposed to "good looks." This emphasis deals with the fact that the lives of young women in the nineteenth century had a very ... ...

• Word Count: 759
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

... signs of femininity, but remains male in the body politic. Organised around similar elements that Elizabeth employed in her addresses, this highly politicised moment of Cleophila's speech pays tribute to the Queen, embracing femininity, and expelling magnanimity while simultaneously exerting force. Femininity is fundamental in the success of Cleophila's speech. It is here that we see how Cleophila, ... doesn't defy gender hierarchy. Enhancing her "quiet magnanimity" Cleophila, while accusing her audience as "men who have forgotten all manely government" , demanding they "be ashamed" main...

• Word Count: 1452
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

... paid-employment than in the past. Young and Willmott think these changes have occurred due to the vast rise in feminism, and that this has had a major impact on gender roles generally; females have started to reject the traditional housewife role due to the influence that feminism has had on their attitudes, they have fought a long and hard battle for equal rights in the workplace ... is no evidence that the domestic division of labour has been improved but there is evidence that men are starting to share the domestic roles in the home however, majority of those roles are still segregat...

• Word Count: 676
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

... a good girl gone bad tale, Delarivier Manley's The Wife's Resentment engages with 18th-century notions of female identity, sexuality, and criminality, using a subtle mixture of counter-arguments to successfully flip the early conventions on their heads. Through her (very appropriately named) heroine Violenta, Manley examines the lack of options and loss of power women of the 18th century faced in a unforgivingly patriarchal ... 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...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate

... a struggle between liberty and power, and Sarah Moore Grimke who drove one of the first feminist spikes in her essay Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman. Grimke drew and compared the legal status of slaves to that of contemporary women. These are only but a few of the first woman writers who, through their strong will and ... the formal introduction into the literary arts at university, as did her male counterparts, gave way to the denial of opportunity to converse on an educated literary scale with her female contemporaries. Furthermore, a women's tradition ...

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

... for authority by using the formal address of "your grace," but articulates clearly that she is a woman who will decide what she deems best for herself based on a consideration of the consequences of the alternatives that are available to her. Interestingly though, she is using the delicate but weighty issue of power within her own defense, thus is offering a nod ... 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 d...

• Word Count: 2208
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate