... 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 different orientation from those ... of girls today. Being compared to females of our current era, nineteenth cent...

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... 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 and in education. As a result of them practically 'winning' the battles to a certain extent more females are in paid-employment ... also states that even women in paid employment still has the major responsibility for housework. There is no evidence that the domestic division of labour has been improved but ther...

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... 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, highlights not only the paradox surrounding the importance given to sexual chastity, but also underlines the foolishness of leaving women at the mercy of the often questionable chivalric urges of men. Violenta's inopportune fall from grace then raises the question of what exactly substantiates the societal constructs that women of the 18th century ... had to suffer - the truth? Or a convincing performance of what the truth is ... ...

• Word Count: 1986
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... offered "hearty thanks for the good zeal and loving care of her people" in her first speech to parliament, and assured her council that the success of her reign who stem from "good advise and council" , before outlining her own demands on the kingdom. Relying on such a formulaic base for Cleophila's speech, Sidney pays Elizabeth the ultimate compliment of imitation. It would appear ... that Sidney has conformed to worshiping the glory of Elizabeth, or is he, like Elizabeth batting ... his desired with flattery before revealing a more sinister motive? Written while "banished" from court,...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... 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 courageous stands against the male oriented culture of the day, eventually formed the tradition of women writers that exists today. In addition to the fortitude of women in the eighteen ... hundreds came the strength of the few established ... ...

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... attempt to compel his daughter to comply with his wish that she marry Demetrius, rather than her beloved, Lysander. Egeus doesn't choose the court on a whim; rather, he is hopeful that by taking Hermia to the literal and symbolic seat of the highest authority of the land, she will recognize and honor masculine authority and, by extension, will comply with traditional gender roles, which dictated that a woman ... 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....

• Word Count: 2208
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• Grade Level: Graduate