... 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 expected to be? Throughout the novel, honor and sexual chastity are linked inexorably with reputation, the implication being that the former two are very determinedly dependent on the ... latter. The sole reason society condemns Violenta and " ... ...

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

... 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 females are in paid ... ...

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

... 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 By the use of various historical documents, including the many diaries of adolescent women, the author looks at the developing attitudes towards such issues as physical occurrences like that of menarche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 parental importance. The author allows us as a modern day society to come and understand how these historical influences opera...

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

... body is inverted, "For who would not judge that body to be a monster where there was no head eminent above the rest, but that the eyes were in the hands, the tongue and mouth beneath in the belly, and the ears in the feet?" However this damning paper was aimed primarily at Mary Tudor and Mary Stuart therefore to accommodate Elizabeth a body politic was created "out of ... and desires. She offered "hearty thanks for the good zeal and loving care of her people" in her first speech to parliament, and assured her council that the success of her reign who stem from "good advise and council" ...

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

... , Mercy Otis Warren who was known as the most productive "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 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 traditi...

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

... 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 ... , to marry within their class so as to protect and sustain their social position. Also like Hermia, Olivia is determined to love who she wants and on her own terms; for this reason she invents t...

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