... - this time to an heiress. Despite having done everything according to the stipulations of how proper virtuous women should behave, Violenta is left destitute by her husband, for although he gives her 2,000 ducats the morning after the wedding, the exchange is unbalanced as he takes from her something that he cannot ( or will not ) replace - the reputation of her sexual chasteness. Violenta ... as a bargaining tool. And without that bargaining tool, no longer "pure" in either a bodily or a moral sense, her value has been stripped from her. She is quite literally reduced to nothing by th...

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

Tradition in writing has always played a key roll in the originality and success in the literary arts for both men and women. Tradition in this case refers to the heritage of struggle and triumph that has characterized ... did not have much of a tradition in the literary arts so as to form and articulate their ideas in writing. As women grew as literary 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 ... know to occasionally write under the pen name Stephe...

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

... Cleophila assumes "the judgement seat of the duke" , and thus acts as a substitute for Basilius briefly adopting the responsibilities of a monarch. As Elizabeth is granted by God's permission "a body politic to govern" , so too Cleophila was destined by the Oracle to sit in Basilius's place: "And in thy throne a foreign state shall sit" . The function of the "king" remains unchanged, ... that gives her opportunity to speak. The delivery she makes could not have been achieved by someone who appeared to be male, yet ironically, the persuasiveness would require "the heart and stomach of a ki...

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

... more financially independent which has also caused females to gain more freedom, equality and status inside and outside the home. Ann Oakley (1974) is a feminist who is critic of the Young and Willmott's symmetrical family study and isn't convinced by their evidence as she believes that occasional help from a husband like ironing his own trousers on a Saturday doesn't make him a 'good' husband ... and it also doesn't mean he is helpful in the home. For example Young and Willmott regard a husband who washes up at least once a week as &apos ... female, Just as there are some househo...

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

... define themselves progressively through their bodies, thus becoming the primary project of the female society. Brumberg argues that there is a mismatch between biology and culture in the lives of contemporary adolescent girls. She states that "Although girls now mature ... by consideration of moral character and by cultural mandated patterns of emotional denial and 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 female character is ... no longer...

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

... 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 to the literal and symbolic seat of the highest authority of the land, she will recognize and honor masculine authority and ... your grace that I may know the worst that may befall me in this case." With this statement, Hermia demonstrates respect for authority by using the formal address of "your grace," but articulates clearly that she is a woman who will decide what she ...

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