... issues and asks questions about our society, in a way that is a thought provoking and relevant. It is presented in such a way that the novel flows with pace and does not impend on the book. Subtle hints come together to question the reader of their morals and beliefs. Child abuse is an issue that has been discussed and debated in New Zealand recently ... of society over wether this is should be accepted in a modern society when we have so many resources at out command. Child abuse is often unnoticeable to an observer and Esquivel has imitated this in her novel. It creeps up on the reade...

• Word Count: 1309
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• Grade Level: High School

... ; (Woolf, 2000, p.61). At the same time she also seems submissive and rarely express her own opinions. She seems to feel the need of relying on her husband's opinions, as this is the way a devoted Victorian woman would act. Throughout the novel she is constantly taking an unrealistic view of herself by being in the background of her husband, and she fails ... to go beyond the traditional female role in society as a wife and mother. As a result, Mrs. Ramsay loses her independence and ... just complying with the conventional female gender role and take on the role of wife and mother in fo...

• Word Count: 1474
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... to enter careers such as law or transport, breaking down barriers, taboos, and prejudices. However these changes in attitudes towards women have not been shared across the world, countries such as Afghanistan still treat women with little or any respect and authority. Women were extremely restricted in the 19th Century. Maggie Tulliver shows this in the Novel ... of Mill on the floss. Maggie is a romantic character and a dutiful daughter and sister she is devoted, tender and longing to give and receive love. Maggie is often read as Eliot's ... moral code, constrains Maggie psychological...

• Word Count: 1369
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the number of women in the workforce negatively correlates with the increase of birth rates. This depicting the major affect of women withdrawing from the workforce is due to women's desire to channel their ambitions to their family rather than into a job: In 1990, for the first time since 1948, the number of women in the workforce dropped. Also in 1990, ... unemployment rate for women, Linda Petrosino undoubtedly is not alone in her theories and predictions. On the contrary to Mrs. Petrosino's viewpoints, in Mary E. William's book, Working Women, she writes that "mother-infant bonding ...

• Word Count: 2200
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• Grade Level: High School

... as Aphrodite as their way of showing the beauty of the woman. Titian's Venus of Urbino displays one artist that portrayed a woman in comparison to Aphrodite. The reclining nude played a very important part in famous Italian paintings. Also, artists try and associate the goddess with different objects such as ... roses, putti, and the swan (Paris). Along side of paintings, temples were built, statues were carved and ceremonies were performed to worship the goddess (Paris). The most famous statue carved by an unknown sculptor was found in two pieces in an underground cavern. Aphrodite de ...

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... it helps them earn respect from their family and the society that they live in. Along with performing domestic duties, the mother also explains to her daughter that she has to behave with proper etiquette and manners in public. For example, the mother says, "always eat your food in such a way that ... won't turn someone else's stomach [and] don't eat fruits on the streets-flies will follow you." One might assume that the mother is telling her daughter to eat like a lady- have manners and maybe not eat too quickly or spill on herself- instead of perhaps eating like a barbarian with no ta...

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... person, but Berger's statement still holds true, "she turns herself into an object "and most particularly an object of vision: a sight " (Berger 47). Women are used all the time to advertise products. "A visual association may be made between some product, often alcohol, and the female form. The female and the product become equivalent and interchangeable, and both are promoted as ... a pleasure object " (Cabrillo 1). The woman in the Budweiser advertisement is just there to sell herself and the product to men. Similar to the paintings described by Berger, these advertisements take away...

• Word Count: 1423
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... This however is not what transpires, Chaucer completely reverses the gender roles in the Tale. The very fact that Chaucer gave her such a story to tell reflects the rich paradoxes of the more deeply experienced Wife of Bath, "The theory, the love, and the miraculous transformation are all there. ... virtue and admirable behaviour are seen as being almost exclusively as the preserve of those with power. And in doing so, they give their support to and glamorise the prevailing social structure. The story is very traditional opening with the equivalent of "once upon a time "Whilom, as olde s...

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... Two children bicker and whine, tug her skirt. A third draws aimless patterns in the dirt. Someone she loved once passes by - too late to feign indifference to that casual nod. "How nice," et cetera. "Time holds great surprises." From his neat head unquestionably rises a small balloon "but for the grace ... an individual and that her children have gobbled up her mind and life. Harwood displays this woman's feelings very accurately and I find her ability to do this greatly appealing. Another one of her sonnets, also dealing with this subject matter, is "Suburban Sonnet." It is a poem abou...

• Word Count: 1594
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• Grade Level: High School

... that sixty-eight percent of a sample of Stanford undergraduate and graduate students felt worse about their own looks after reading women's magazines (Bugard, D.). Ninety to ninety-five percent of all anorexics and bulimics are women. Though a growing number of males now have the disorder. It usually begins between the ages of ... athletic brunette. So, for all of us who roll our eyes at the giggling blondes, only ten percent of the men prefer them. Interesting to find as well was that the males were very honest and factual when asked about their appearance. They talked more about their ...

• Word Count: 2146
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• Grade Level: High School

... England before 1914 women's write were very limited. I will explore this through two poems by Thomas Hardy and Walt Whitman the poems being The Ruined Maid' and To a Common Prostitute' respectively. Both poems are found in the IGCSE poetry anthology (Poetry written before 1914). I will begin by looking at the historical fact behind ... when you think of the poems, because if the social norm was that women's rights were ignored like this then surely the poets would not have wanted to stray too far from this The first poem I shall discuss is "The Ruined maid- by Thomas Hardy written in 1901...

• Word Count: 1369
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• Grade Level: High School

... ? Literature surrounding women's gender socialization towards caretaking has been carefully studied. Research into this theory elaborates the ways in which actual women viewers set aside time from caring for others to care for themselves. This has developed through the fascination of the world of soap operas. Caring for others is a main area in women's gender socialization. Nancy Chodrow (1978) describes ... how women's socialisation to relate to other begins virtually from birth. Mothers relate to their daughter and son differently, girls are regarded as continuous with the self where a...

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... , kept repeating over and over, "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right! He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mockingbird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence- (Beaty 41). The caged parrot will come ... to symbolize the expectations that society has for Edna. As a woman and mother, she is caged in those roles and never expected to think for herself. The carefree mockingbird symbolizes those women who are satisfied with their limited rol...

• Word Count: 2280
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... which nobody [understands], unless it was the mocking-bird" (Chopin 1). The mockingbird, which merely whistles inarticulate "fluty notes" with "maddening persistence," resembles Edna's friends who seem to understand Edna but do not speak back. "Edna wants to womanly in her own way "to keep her own identity, her goals, her artistry, and to live a sexual life, liberated from the confines of societal expectations" (MacDonald ... the sea ""a vast body of water that is analogous to the uncharted frontier of her submerged identity and sexuality" (MacDonald 2). The sensuous sound of the surf c...

• Word Count: 1307
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• Grade Level: High School

... "she depended on her husband for everything- (Allende 149). Sexual discrimination denied a female her health care, education and legal protection. It also robbed her of the power to make decisions, to earn a living and to be free from violence, abuse and exploitation. The forefather (scratch that, make it "foremother- even though this feminine term is not found in Webster's New World Dictionary) ... become a suspect when his first wife dies, like in the case of Scott Peterson, while a wife would have to be with her second or even third husband terminated in order to garner the same susp...

• Word Count: 1987
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... it will relieve his conscience and secondly it will provide the means for disgraced and dismissed Gerta to return home to Sweden. This would leaving him free to return home from a suspiciously long extended trip away to resume life as before. When Mr Marroner finally returns home nearly eight months later he finds a deserted ... she must forgive him. The only words spoken are those of the woman who had been his wife addressing her former husband: 'What have you to say to us?'' For the final time a simple preposition informs the reader of the relationship that has developed between the wo...

• Word Count: 2335
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• Grade Level: High School

... herself from her husband. Although Ramatoulaye and Aissatou choose different ways of dealing with the disintegration of their marriages because of polygamy, they still turn to their friendship as a source of empowerment throughout the novel. This shows that even conflicts and differences between female friends only make these relationships stronger. As Ramatoulaye writes, "Friendship has splendours that love ... knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love (Bâ 56)." This ...

• Word Count: 1849
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... . A deeper level involved with Petra's name is that it means "rock" in Spanish. She could be considered the "philosopher stone" of the novel due to this association and her purpose in the story. Petra Cotes (the rock or stone) brings wealth to Aureliano Segundo. The philosopher's stone is a magical substance in alchemy which will cause the transmutation of metals (e.g. a plentiful supply of aluminum ... relevant because Petra can propagate money (gold) by her supernaturally rapid animal breeding. Also related to the stone is Aureliano Segundo's preoccupation with alchemy prior to Petra's...

• Word Count: 1630
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• Grade Level: High School

... mixed messages that trap Sylvia Plath's heroine, Esther Greenwood, within its glass dome (166). In addition the idea of the bell jar as a means of confinement, feeds Esther's desperate need to escape as shown in the novel, "I am climbing to freedom, freedom from fear"" (223). It's here that Esther's, not only physical but psychological conflict, is addressed as she strives ... married very far away from Esther's future plans. With this in mind, the pursuit of motherhood dances in the mind of our young heroine. There are many places throughout the novel that Esther makes note of being a ...

• Word Count: 2257
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• Grade Level: High School

... ideals leaves women. However, rather than launching into an explicit diatribe against the repressive societal standards women of the 18th century were subject to, Manley's novel employs a more subtle approach in highlighting the contradictory foundation upon which 18th-century concepts of femininity and female sexuality were based. The text ... then lies directly with the social, societal system that fosters such false standards of living and demand that people, specifically women, adhere to them. The novel suggests that female violence is a direct cause of a weak social system that ref...

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

... / I do it exceptionally well" ("Lady Lazarus" 43-45), she is using snide sarcasm regarding how she really is not good at anything because she is unable to kill herself due to the control of her oppressor. She has no confidence in her own capabilities because, as mentioned above, her existence solely depends on the decisions of the male doctor. Throughout ... Games in which one boy and one girl from each district are placed into an element-modified arena and forced to fight to the death. The winning boy or girl will bring higher rations of food and money back to their district. This novel...

• Word Count: 2160
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... sure of her decisions or comments, and Hedda takes advantage of the weakness of both persons to further uphold her position. The conflict is further intensified by the return trip of Eilert LÖvborg, a former companion of Hedda's. Hedda has feelings for Eilert throughout the entire novel, and had them before George, but she did not follow her heart because her instincts ... , and her father, had told her that men like Eilert were not good enough to have a real relationship with. However, when Eilert returns, Hedda's feelings grow intensely. She tries not ... can not do so on her own in ...

• Word Count: 1296
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• Grade Level: High School

... works were romantic stories set in the Midwest, and she was published in several popular magazines. In 1909, she published her first novel, and in 1913, she married George Cram Cook. He was also a writer, and the two moved to the east coast where they worked on many projects together, and founded two different theater groups. Glaspell died in 1948, having published ... the stage directions as part of the action, and in some ways makes it easier to visualize the scene than reading a story or novel. The way the author uses dashes as pauses makes it easier to hear the words as they are mea...

• Word Count: 2006
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• Grade Level: High School

... " of her house, was she now allowed to speak as freely as she wanted to in this house? History would show that after the war, women did not go back to their subservient roles as just housewives and mothers and could begin to freely express their opinions as they believed. The public assumed that women would resume their traditional roles as mothers and housewives. But ... like the Revolutionary War-and the many wars to come-this conflict had brought about new opportunities for women ... , and many were not willing to give up these gains. Also, because so many ... ...

• Word Count: 1678
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• Grade Level: High School

... will not be good influences on their daughter. Karla tells her parents she thinks being Greek will look good on her resume and that she does not participate in the drinking and partying that comes along with the sorority. In actuality, Karla says that she goes out ... parents would never approve of. Rachel says she did fall into the trap of living a double life and then became so confused about what a woman was supposed to do and act like. "I finally discovered who I really am and now I am in a happy relationship with another woman, Ayisha. I am involved in many activities ... sexual abs...

• Word Count: 1444
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• Grade Level: High School