... marry, and never allowed the subject to be raised,"" (Adulterous Love: The Story of Equitan, 113). For all the good troubadour poetry did for women it still kept up the misogynistic tendencies from previous centuries and courtly love did make women vulnerable to an extent. The idea of not being in love with the person but of being "in love with love- can certainly be applied to a lot of the poems and feelings present in the 13th ... through 17th centuries. Women were seen as the objects of love for their beauty not for who they ... ...

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... heard this story wrote it down to teach that obedience may well bring a man to love and give him happiness, as it did this knight- (Florent 3). The priest wants to convey a message of love and happiness with the submissiveness of men. Each tale conveys the same message but with different morals for each. The Tale of Florent that is told by a priest, is a very well rounded story that involves a man ... put on by her evil stepmother (Grower 3). Overjoyed and extremely happy the couple lives happily ever after. The moral of the Tale of Florent is neatly summed up by the words of the priest...

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... and loving. By giving the power to the woman, the Knight has accomplished the task set before him by the Wife of Bath. She asks for rule over the household, and by giving the female rule, it results in equality over both sexes. Blake states " the end result is two people who are happy and secure in their love for one another and respectful of each other's power." This is the ending of "The Wife's Tale", and ... now Alison of Bath has proven her ideas. No happiness can come of a marriage based on power in one sex of the household. Both should be treated fairly, as the Wife states in her p...

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... world and has no issues showing us. As Ernst wrote,How easy is it to relegate girls to second class citizens when they are seen as second-class citizens, or not at all? (Ernst 67). This point is only furthered by the fact that the only woman present is such a fairy tale character ... . She is portrayed to us as all but a sorceress and it can be assumed she has taken on this persona in order to survive in a ... love life. I guess Paige and Tina want to date football players, so these two will do. Erik and Arthur want to date cheerleaders, so these two will do? (Bloor 39). Erik now is show...

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... stories, a questionable social standing for a woman could taint her. The Wife of Bath's Tale begins with an unusual tale of her past. She recounts her 5 marriages and how she used the men for their wealth. Even though she did not marry for love, one of her husband's cheated on her and she made him feel immense guilt and tortured him, not physically, but mentally until his death. She ... finally married a man for love and not his wealth. This husband hit her and she also made him feel guilty for his actions. She realized that she needed to be the boss, in charge of the relationship. The ...

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... but she is not strong enough to survive the battle. She is placed in the situation of choosing between independence and love. If Edna's break with her husband represents a "type of regression rather than growth- (Martin 22), then we can see The Awakening as a tale of frustration. The New Woman wants freedom, and deserves it, but has not been given the skills necessary for survival. Images of birds, from ... the caged bird at the story's beginning to the symbolic one of the pigeon-house ... ...

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... , which is supported by social structure and cultural practice, is still widely maintained (184). Although the number of people against the idea that "Men should work outside, and women should housekeep" is increasing, 46.2% of men and 39.8% of women are still for the idea. Surprisingly, despite the fact that Japan is such a rich country, the ratio of people affirmative to the division of labor by gender role ... is the highest of all OECD countries. The prime minister of Japan ... ...

• Word Count: 1966
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... a disputed form, dependent on various interpretive strategies." Marilyn Farwell offers a detailed response to the complicated genre of lesbian literature. Farwell recognizes the need to "read against the grain" in order to establish the encoded meanings and forms in lesbian writing that are not clearly placed across a fictional tale. It is with this type of reading perhaps that a lesbian narrative space is created by ... her, I was astonished at her soft voice and easy, gentle ways". Cather somewhat eroticizes Lena here and perhaps continues to do so throughout the novel. Fetterly reite...

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... seem to resist engaging with prostitutes however feels shame for the personal success his family has gained from his mother's sex business, and he feels prostitution is disgraceful if the women within his family engage as participants. The Vietnamese's respectful opinion of the magnanimity of prostitution is grounded in the country's literary cultural epic, Tale of Kieu. As Andrew learns of this ancient text, ... he constantly engages with them. Andrew's opposing reactions to this sex industry mirror his confusion about his own identity. His uncertainties of culture and gender manifest...

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... in One, in which a parade for Easter was being planned and the last year's parade had been scandalous. Valerie Sayers puts in her views on portions of religion and sex in Who Do You Love?, when she writes of a Catholic girl who must go home and tell her mother she is a prostitute. The girl finally breaks down and tells her mother, who in turn goes ash gray ... . The mother asks her to repeat herself, and the girl again tells her mother what she has done. Her ... must do to keep a family going, but never once is a man mentioned in her tale; the woman does all this alone. This shows the i...

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... specifically, woman's complicity in the oppression of others by the dominant male. The story's subject is the wedding in which Herr and Frau Brechenmacher attend, including their preparation beforehand and a post-mortem afterwards, which, if read by itself, would not intimate anything sinister or unhappy about the idea. However, the theme of suppression and domestic violence is developed very soon within the tale. Frau Brechenmacher's husband, from the first, is presented as ... a dominating, patriarchal man who controls her absolutely. The Frau calls him "The Father", which at once dis...

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... . Moreover, she exclaimed that everybody saw that, when actually there was nothing of that sort and the lottery was conducted very fairly. This expresses the emotional nature of the woman and the love and care she has for her family, that she was rebelling against what was actually right. The sad part about the situation is that when Mrs. Hutchinson was trying to protect her family, Bill rudely told her ... was chatting and laughing some times back. So strong was the effect that someone even gave little Davy, son of Tessie, a few pebbles to stone her mom. Before dying, Mrs. Hutchinson sc...

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... even a set of issues one must espouse to be feminist inheriting critiques of sexist dominant culture and embracing pop culture that supported women" (Baumgardner, p. 39). Additionally, this Third Wave saw the rise of combining the feminist movement with the fight against other forms of oppression, especially those of homophobia and racism. Combahee explains this concept beautifully, stating that Third Wave feminists are "actively committed ... to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis a...

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... be male or female comes from the parents. There is an expectant behavior from the child and as children grow and develop the gender stereotypes that are continuously reinforced are further perpetuated throughout childhood and into adolescence. Thus the stereotypes become firmly implanted into beliefs and also as part of the child's self-concept. The theoretical perspective of gender polarization is the foundation for these gender specific divisions ... serious crimes that females are not important or non-existent within criminological research. (Hannon and Dufour 1998) Yet, females are...

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... the fact that they were simply driving through this intersection. The observers recorded the sex of the driver as well as the type of stop the driver made at the stop sign. The sample consisted of 103 female drivers (46.8%) and 117 male drivers (53.2%). Procedure The observers stood unobtrusively on a corner across the street from the target ... stop sign. They had observed each accidental sample, the vehicle, as they immerged onto the stop sign. The observed variables were the gender and the ... type of stop made. The ... ...

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... are becoming very scarce. This suggests that discrimination is less practiced than perhaps it was. The majority of American working women--63%--are on the job 40 hours a week or more; 30% work 20 to 39 hours, and only 7% work fewer than 20 hours a week, according to a recent survey.(teach) The literacy rate for women worldwide is 71.4 percent, compared with 83.7 per cent for ... men. Of the 960 million illiterate adults, two-thirds are women. The gender gap in earning persists, with ... women employed in industry and services typically earning 78 per cent of ... ...

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... Wind, and through the air, cloudy and serene, and every kind of weather through which You give sustenance to Your creatures Praised be You through Sister Water, which is very useful and humble and precious and chaste. (Francis, 39) In this quotation Francis identifies all male figures as peaceful providers and the female figures with beauty, humility, and chastity. These are duplications of the roles men and women played in society and the religious hierarchy ... . Francis did seem to believe in the patriarchal system, but he attempted to humble himself so as ... ...

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... 's books has increased greatly, the study still demonstrated an inequality between males and females with men being portrayed more often and in a wider range of roles than women. More recent research by Gooden and Gooden (2001) showed that the total female count slightly edged out the male count with 51% of the population. Females were main characters 40% of the time in comparison with a 39% male representation. Furthermore, no ... significant difference was found between books of female and male main characters. However, while females were found more often, they ... ...

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... volleyball clinic. I observed inequalities between the sexes not only in sports, but also in "Fiero," "The Asheville Reader," and my personal experiences as a woman and an athlete. Women have been suppressed by men for centuries, and the paradigms and stereotypes that developed in the past and originated with the fall of Eve have lingered and are still present today. Despite one's religion, the Bible is a dominating force not only ... 14 sports that have men's and women's teams, the Division I men's head and assistant coaches' combined average base salaries were more than the women's in...

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... she needs, like affection and trust. Miranda does not believe in the perfect relationship and she thinks that all men are scum and they do not deserve to live. She acts like a man when it comes to sex. She loves to have sex and does not care about having a relationship with these men. Charlotte is a believer in fairy tale relationships. She believes that there is a perfect ... soul mate for everyone in the world. She wants that relationship with a man where she is treated like a princess. This show should get ... the approval of feminist because the women are so successful and no other...

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... re-telling of a good girl gone bad tale, Delarivier Manley's The Wife's Resentment engages with 18th-century notions of female identity, sexuality, and criminality, using a subtle mixture of counter-arguments to successfully flip the early conventions on their heads. Through her (very appropriately named) heroine Violenta, Manley examines the lack of options and loss of power women of the 18th century faced in a unforgivingly patriarchal society that ... by her modesty and its betrayal, they publicly denounce Roderigo. The narrator makes the brief, yet caustic remark that "Notwithstandi...

• Word Count: 1986
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... husband, locking herself away in the house and never loving anyone else. The second theme is how misogyny takes over Smirnov and his emotions, Smirnov conveys himself as a misogynist when he argues that women can't actually love or love anybody good. The third theme is how powerful emotions can be because in the end they both set aside their differences and fall in love. The themes in this play show emotion ... that relates to real life, the first one being staying faithful, the second being how misogyny can take over a man, and the third how powerful emotions can be. In ... to her hus...

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... hostage. Fergus, an IRA volunteer is assigned to keep watch over the prisoner, and the two end up developing a friendship. Before he dies, Jody asks Fergus to look after his "girl-, Dil. Fergus carries out the request and goes to England to hide from the IRA and to meet Dil, who he ends up falling in love with. Before they consumate their relationship, that she is not really ... this initial aversion. He realizes he has fallen in love with Dil as a person, and the fact that she has a penis and is medically considered a man ultimately doesn't seem to overrule his feelings for Dil. If one...

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... who are usually associated with another field. Among these are Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung, who are all considered psychologists rather than philosophers. However, they present multitudes of information regarding the disadvantages of women when it comes to love and marriage. The basis of Freud's argument comes from the Oedipal complex. Freud argues that in order to develop one's sexuality in a normal ... one of its attributes, as long as our society continues to promote the inequalities between men and women, we will never experience it in its true form. Our society...

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... ' insecurity, shown through James' insults toward Minnie, with Liu's strong sense of masculinity, demonstrated by his great respect for Minnie. Liu also demonstrates the masculine traits of a protector, proclaiming to Minnie, "I will love you and would protect you from all trouble. Your child shall be as my own-(75). Because Liu promises to not only to protect Minnie, but her ... loves him, questioning, "Do you have for me the love feeling-(75). Everything about Liu's question contains a sense of nativity. First of all, the question remains simple and not overly detailed. Liu's referenc...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate