Even a female who wrote to herself without intension to publish, was looked down upon by the society made up of male writers. ... Throughout history male writers have played a large part in prolonging progress towards men and women being considered equal. In male literature, numerous ways to keep unequal roles were to stereotype women and make it apparent that men and women play very different roles in life. On page 632, Rich writes, "And there were all those poems about women, written by men: it seemed to be a given that men wrote poems and women frequently inhabited them. ... Rich strong...

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Humor has bee incorporated into work, play and education. ... Humor has played a huge role in the lives of southerners, but until recently the southern women were unable, or not allowed, to show their own version of humor to the world. ... By allowing people to laugh at the men they wrote about, they allowed people to observe the injustices women lived and to break free of what women were permitted to say and not to say in public. Ann Stephens, an author in the 1830s, wrote about the injustice of some women's lives by exaggerating the differences in them. ... When she wrote about ...

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In 1916, Susan Glaspell wrote the one-act play Trifles. was originally written by Susan Glaspell as a play entitled Trifles. She wrote the play in 1916, and a year later she rewrote it as a short story. ... This story takes us back in time to a place in our history where men and women played very different roles in their lives. ...

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One of the main topics of interest in the field of Shakespearian studies is that which considers the various roles that women play in the Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies. Literary and historical scholars agree that women did not enjoy political, economic, or social parity with men during Shakespeare's time, and this historical reality is important to keep in mind when analyzing the variety of female characters in the plays of Shakespeare. ... The contemporary reader can't help but be aware of them and in many cases, to view many of the characters present in several plays by...

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She wrote The Handmaid's Tale shortly after the elections of Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in Great Britain, during a period of conservative revival in the West partly fueled by a strong, well-organized movement of religious conservatives who criticized what they perceived as the excesses of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. ... Women play tricks on your mind. ... At the time Margaret Atwood wrote this, the feminist movement had been setback a little. ... So she wrote this book, which in my opinion is about the power that women should hold rather t...

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Considering men play such an important role to women, men should be engaged and educated on what feminism actually means and furthermore, what a feminist truly stands for. ... Adichie wrote, "We have evolved, yet the idea of gender has not. " Women have been fighting to obtain job positions of equal or higher status than men and with the prerequisites necessary for jobs today any women could uphold these positions. ... Emma Watson and Adichie are both presenting that men play a close role in enabling women. ... Emma Watson similarly states in her speech, "Men are unaware of what life for...

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Her extreme desperation and aggravation is played out in a monologue she delivers during the play: When I gave birth I remember so clearlyshe came out and clambered right onto my breast and tried to eat me, she was so hungry, so hungry it terrified me – her hunger. ... Though the play is set in the 19th century, when Ruhl wrote the play, she came in with the mindset of a "contemporary woman writing with subsequent knowledge that informed her view of the periodIn some ways, people then were innocent of sexuality compared to the biological knowledge we've acquired about the subje...

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She likes to play the role of a matchmaker, and at one point she thinks that William and Lily should marry each other, and she thinks that this would be an "admirable idea" (Woolf, 2000, p. 42). ... He wrote to his mother; otherwise he did not suppose he wrote one letter a month, said Mr. ...

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For example, for the collegiate basketball tournament, tickets to the men's games are often played in venues such as Madison Square Garden and are still sold out. ... The news media often separates female athletes into categories based on whether they play masculine or feminine sports. Although more girls and women play traditionally "male" sports it is the feminine sports that actually receive more recognition from the media. ... For example, young girls are supposed to play with dolls and play house where they take on maternal roles. ... Wendy Olson, a writer for the Yale Law ...

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Are girls more prone to play with dolls and cooperate among themselves because they are taught to be so by parents, teachers and social peers, or is it the reverse order? ... However, recent findings have shown that ovarian hormones also play a significant role in sexual differentiation8. ... The Female Mind "The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways," wrote the British philosopher Bertrand Russell. ...

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As always has been the stereo type girls have always seemed to want to communicate just for the sake of talking, and boys" just want to play and rough house. ... Karen Gallas conducted the experiment and wrote a book called Sometimes I Can Be Anything, Power, Gender, and Identity in a Primary Setting. ... She clearly reflects that though boys and girls are certainly different in many ways (biologically, mentally, and personality wise) at hand are many factors from both sexes that can be used together to level out the playing field. Furthermore teachers need to level the playing field by doing ...

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"They expected her alone to keep the traditional ways, which her brothers, now among the barbarians, could fumble without detection .The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action." ... Kingston also wrote "White Tigers," which she uses her storytelling as a way to live out her possibilities within her storytelling. ... She is not allowed to speak up for herself when confronted with an unwanted predicament because of the roles that woman must play in society. ... Yet, what Kingston reveals is how this story plays into the hands ...

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As performers, women neither tried to become one of the boys nor played up to the traditional feminine image by seeking the heterosexual male gaze. ... Basing many of their observations on the disco movie Saturday Night Fever, they wrote of the social relations of disco as 'traditional' – girls dreaming of 'dis...

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"In vain did I solicit to share, in those instructions, which were so liberally allowed to him," she wrote in a letter to a friend (Harris 176). ... Murray's two plays, The Traveler Returned and Virtue Triumphant were both works that were first published in her collections of work titled The Gleaner. It was with these two works she was able to create plays that exercised her intellectual freedom. ...

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"Trifles," a one-act play by Susan Glaspell, is a simple story of little things. ... As stated above, women had a place, a role they were supposed to play. ... The County Attorney wrote them off saying "Oh, I guess they're not very dangerous things the ladies have picked out" (Ronson 224). ...

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I look the part of the perfect wife and mother, and it's a part I play with all my heart. ... Nine out of ten considered themselves "very happy" and found work to be an essential ingredient, "a challenge and outlet," one wrote. ...

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It could be said that this act is a sign of emasculation as he wrote this declaration in order to escape the horror and brutality of warfare, as he was no longer able to face it. ... The scarcity of women also played an important role, as sexual pleasure is a necessity for most men. ...

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Over a period of five years in the early 1950s, Lupino wrote and directed six feature length films, which still makes her one of the most prolific female directors in the Hollywood system today. ... Harry plays a bigamist but not because of spite, but because he does not want to hurt the feelings of Eve who cannot bear children, nor Phyllis, the woman he has met while on business because she is going to bear his child. ...

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Nancy Pelosi once said "Women are leaders everywhere you look-from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes." As seen today, women have...

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