And this ideal of male dominance is first developed in the chapter "No Name Woman " in the memoir Woman Warrior. ... However, by writing "No Name Woman ", Kingston brings her aunt back to life, she is creating her voice. ... As seen in the very first sentence of Woman Warrior, Kingston begins by writing, "You must not tell anyone " (Kingston 1). ... It is as if the only importance of a woman is to make babies, specifically boys. ... And this is specifically why Maxine Hong Kingston wrote her memoir Woman Warrior. ...

• Word Count: 1810
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

American governmental and state laws which imply gender are written on the principle that there are two sexes: male or female. But with nearly 700,000 transgender people living in our country, these laws overlook a large portion of society; Where do men and women making a change from one sex to anot...

• Word Count: 1712
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Traditionally speaking, a woman's place is in the kitchen. ... To be cliché, it's every man (and woman) for his (her) self. ... Warĩĩnga is Ngũgĩ's warrior. ... She is an African woman. ... Warĩĩnga is a woman, she is the weaker gender. ...

• Word Count: 1254
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"When a woman was married she passes guardian ship of her father into that of her husband. ... A woman was legally incapable of arranging her own marriage, and would often have their marriage arranged while very young. ... Euripides Medea is one of the tragedies that shows a woman dominating the rest of the characters in the play. ... Medea is shown to be tough, and is warrior like in her speeches to the chorus. ... This being that the main function of the woman was to produce heirs for their husbands. ...

• Word Count: 1759
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

For example when someone says that woman is beautiful if there is not a standard or guideline, how do we define beauty? ... Society has set the guidelines and molds us into what is stated to be the natural pattern for what makes a man or a woman. ... Take for example a woman getting ready to for work at a bank. ... Butler states "We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman."... Men were still very much the warrior class in that time and they wore their hair down their backs. ...

• Word Count: 1458
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

For example when someone says that woman is beautiful if there is not a standard or guideline, how do we define beauty? ... Society has set the guidelines and molds us into what is stated to be the natural pattern for what makes a man or a woman. ... Take for example a woman getting ready to for work at a bank. ... Butler states "We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman."... Men were still very much the warrior class in that time and they wore their hair down their backs. ...

• Word Count: 1458
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

These similes are both representations of war in which the gender of the warrior is separate. ... Knox (17) believes that the role of a woman is to be faithful to her husband and to uphold xenia. Being faithful demands that a woman does not engage in any sexual activity to any man apart from her husband. Xenia demands that a woman should show hospitality to strangers in her house. ...

• Word Count: 1671
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sanders states, "Warriors and toilers: those seemed, in my boyhood vision, to be the chief destinies for men" (Sanders 569). ... He states, "It was not my fate to become a woman, so it was easier for me to see the graces" (Sanders 571). ... I'm concerned with your identity as a human being, as a person, and as an individual, and as a woman" (Bellah 69). ...

• Word Count: 1394
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate