... uses the fine art of rhetoric to defend her ideas as opposed to simply her gender or sexuality. "I know not by what power I am made bold," Hermia begins thoughtfully but not tentatively, "But I beseech 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 ... 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 ma...

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

... of various historical documents, including the many diaries of adolescent women, the author looks at the developing attitudes towards such issues as physical occurrences like that of menarche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 ... 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...

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

... them with grounded advise. From this perspective, one reads a monarch, Basilius, neglecting his kingdom in search of idle, almost womanish pursuits. His friend Philanax illuminates the lunacy of Basilius's plan: "Why should you deprive yourself of governing your dukedom for fear of loosing your dukedom, like one that should kill himself for fear of death?" The failings of Basilius are character ... ...

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

... of death by simply stating, "You very eloquently tell me you shall die if I continue unkind; but I very plainly tell your Lordship, that I must perish if I prove otherwise: since I know it will be impossible for me to live after the loss of my honor" (146). Violenta reiterates the conventional belief of the time: the notion that the value of ... ...

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

... their literary careers with the luxury of guidance and example, an advantage the women writers would seek elsewhere. Adeline Virginia Woolf, better known to her readers as Virginia Woolf, also know to occasionally write under the pen name Stephen (if Woolf had been a man, she would probably had gone to university), was educated at home by her father: The women artists ... ...

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