... women. However, rather than launching into an explicit diatribe against the repressive societal standards women of the 18th century were subject to, Manley's novel employs a more subtle approach in highlighting the contradictory foundation upon which 18th-century concepts of femininity and female sexuality were based. The text ... 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 ...

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

One of the main topics of interest in the field of Shakespearian studies is that which considers the various roles that women play in the Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies. Literary and ... successful in challenging those expectations and traditional gender roles. Others, however, were not. Shakespeare avoids an overly facile approach to solving women's problems, and he similarly avoids reducing women to one-dimensional characters. Finally, how can the reader come to an understanding of Shakespeare's women and their significance? Shakespeare's work, then, when understood in the context of...

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

... sense of self doubt or insignificance which often leads into the corruption of personal advancement of female adolescence into adult life. To understand the meaning of the title "Body Project", one must come to know and recognize the social concerns that females have undergone in American history. Since the beginning of the colonization of America, females, although considered secondary to males ... today's society. In today's society the female character is no longer built on attention to self-control, service to others, and belief in God, but it is solely focused on one's own, vastly ...

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

... from 1980 to 1992 - 114. (Statistics compiled by Ginny Daley. In conjunction with the North Carolina Women Writers Conference, March 1992.) As one can see from these statistics, as the tradition of women writers grew so as did the number of women writers. In Virginia Woolf's, A Room Of ... One's Own Woolf argues, the reasoning behind the struggle of aspiring women writers prior to the twentieth century was greatly due to the ... woman of the American revolution", with works that viewed history and politics as a struggle between liberty and power, and Sarah Moore Grimke who drove one of...

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

... an "idle work". Such a comment invites the reader to look past this initial reflection. In a highly artificial tableau, his mirror offers a distorted manifestation of Elizabethan court and the Queen herself, one angle presenting a warped realm, the other a cautionary tale to his dismissive monarch. The body politic is a concept born in a platonic world of ideals, eternal and a paradigm of political leadership, ... gender boundaries by frequently referring to herself in male pronouns as well as female. The concept of the body politic and redefining gender in the context of possessing two ...

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