The paper showcases the spiritual journey of Celie, the development and advancement of her from an oblivious and oppressed adolescent to a proficient lady who has figured out how to stand up for herself and adapt to her hostile surroundings. ... "7 In the beginning of the novel, fourteen year-old Celie is sexually abused by the person who she believes to be her father. Celie is treated badly and is subjected to harsh and unpleasant words from her father, to the extent that she starts to believe that she is worse than others: "I know I'm not as pretty or smart as Nettie"8. ....

• Word Count: 3403
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

"If a women be fair, she soon finds lovers; if she be ugly, it is easy to be wanton. ... How she chooses to travel is a minor aspect of crossing the lines of cultural gender expectations. ... Women were to do what they were told and if they did not then the man could punish them just as God punishes man. ... She argues that women should have the role of males, "soveraynetee by maistre" in marriages. ... WB does this when she delivers the governance of her property to Jankyn. ...

• Word Count: 2959
• Approx Pages: 12
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The gender category woman (that is, the so-called "feminine" gender automatically assigned to members of the female sex) carries with it certain expectations about how to act, what to do, who to love and so on: Women are generally expected to be more passive, submissive and dependent than men. ... Women are expected to love and marry a man and to become mothers. ... Men are expected to love and marry a woman and to become fathers. ... The two gender categories are, in other words, also interdependent: the idea of "feminine" behaviour says as much about how men are not supposed to act as it...

• Word Count: 3294
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

While the argument still rages as to whether (and how) women should take their husband's names when they marry Thorne et al points out that there are many other instances of this tendency. ... As if she were a valuable possession that was being damaged before his eyes. ... A point of view that is quite popular is that of Valian (1971, in Martyna 1980, 26) She believes that "it isn't a question of linguistics, but of how the people involved feel". ... However it does serve to illustrate that there is an important aspect of sexist language that is being ignored by Escala and Valian ...

• Word Count: 2723
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate