... writers by reading and responding to their contemporaries, their literary tradition grew with them. For instance, In North Carolina the number of published women writers in the whole of the 1800's totaled 11, from 1900 to 1929 - 10, from 1930 to 1959 - 47, from 1960 to 1979 - 100 and, 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 ... that viewed history and politics as a struggle between liberty and power, and Sarah Moore Grimke who drove one of the fir...

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

... 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, magnanimity, entirely separate from the body natural, this division enabled Elizabeth to disassociate her role as Queen from her inferior ... an unruly mob. Alfred Bill states that despite the "background of forest shepherd and shepherdesses, flocks and herds" political undercurrents make Arcadia "no true pastoral" ,...

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

... Her father, Egeus, has dragged Hermia off to Theseus's court in a desperate 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 ... and to Theseus is that it is impassioned but logical, convincing but calm. She protests, but is neither aggressive nor apologetic in doing so. In fact, Hermia deploys a clever and intelligent argumentative strategy to respond to the men and to maintain her own position and the ... female characters who have b...

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

... ;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 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 fe...

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

... defense of those same societal constructs upon which the value of a female is precariously balanced. The first of the contradictions Manley addresses appears in relation to the economics of an 18th-century woman. Specifically, Manley highlights the disparity between the belief that a woman's sexual chastity ... to which this supposedly invaluable entity was treated as a bargaining tool, a material representation of the value of a "proper" woman. In the face of Roderigo's urgent persuasions, Violenta claims to be "a maidwho knows the the true estimation of virtue" and counters his ... be...

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

... 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 parental importance. The author allows us as a modern day society to come and understand how ... repression. Females during that time period were not quite as involved in linking their bodily appearance to their self-worth or personhood as it is in today's society. In today's society the fem...

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