... exerting power reserved for a male monarch. Elizabeth's use of language to describe herself resonates with the way gender, power and sexuality were used in the literature of the time. Marie Axton equates this resurgence of the theory of the king's two bodies as "an attempt to deal with paradox" . Presenting similar paradoxes in The Old Arcadia, Phillip Sidney not 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...

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

... a wealthy family and who's father was a very prominent lawyer, had the luxury of studying his craft at university, with a peer group that included such contemporaries as Robert Southey and Samuel Coleridge. These companions of Wordsworth's, but most importantly collaborators had the advantage of a male tradition in literature to work and study from. Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge are merely three ... of many examples of great male writers who began their literary careers with the luxury of guidance and example, an advantage the women writers would seek elsewhere. Adeline Virginia Woo...

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

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 By the use of various historical documents, including the many diaries of adolescent women, the author looks at the developing attitudes towards such issues as physical occurrences like that of menarche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. Brumberg also focuses on the shift in emphasis from "good works" to "good looks", and the changing relationships between teenagers and pare...

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

... is still 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 ... 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 battl...

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

... is rarely or never to be regained." Perhaps somewhat astonishingly, Violenta is not adverse to Count Roderigo's suit; rather, her objections lie in the Count's intentions of having Violenta trade in her virginal status, in effect, her honor, without offering the proper 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 ... reputation be considered an accurate judge of character? Despite appearances, Violenta has not been dishonored, her only fault has been her meek obedience of her husb...

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

... that her soul "consents not to give sovereignty" of itself to another, even if that other is a powerful man who holds the highest authority in the land. It is clear that this is a bold statement to make and the reason why this is so enervating is that she is openly refusing to offer her own right to make decisions to authority simply ... respected because it is a male-based authority. Until this early point in the play, Hermia is an admirable and even heroic female figure, especially for the feminist reader, for both in this and other examples from A Midsummer Night's Dream she has succe...

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