... of "The Body Project", u soon learn that females have begun to change from concentrating 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 th...

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... a fair division of roles and contribution around the house. Another aspect of the Symmetrical family is that the role of the 'breadwinner' is more shared that laid upon the male, as there are more families with both spouses in 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 ... also caused females to gain more freedom, equality and status inside and outside the home. Ann Oakley (1974) is a feminist who is cr...

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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 ... ...

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... her inferior female body. John Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women likened the political state to the human body. Knox contended that "the head hath [God] joined with the body, that from it, doth life and motion flow to the rest of the members" the extended metaphor continued, encoding the head as male, and the kingdom as female, thus when a ... appeared to be male, yet ironically, the persuasiveness would require "the heart and stomach of a king" . The physical representation of Cleophila is paramount, Sidney has redefined the success of female l...

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... 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 he...

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