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Sylvia Plath Mental State
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The role of a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead
is ultimately to breed, and nothing more. Cooped
up in a nondescript room with nothing but her own
thoughts and painful memories for company, the
narrator, Offred, shows many signs of retreating
further and further into her own world, and
becoming slowly more unstable throughout the
course of the novel as her terrible new life
continues. The most common and by far the most
disturbing example of this is the use of imagery
and symbolism in the book....
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Wrote About Artists Lucy Lippard Art
691 words
Postmodernism and Feminism Definitions of what
postmodernism is and how it is related to feminism
seem to vary with every citation. This taken into
consideration we may say that postmodernism is
simply what anyone wants it to be, changed to suit
their view on the matter. Perhaps that is what the
person who coined the phrase wanted it to be, an
entirely personal piece of art that is not
supposed to be interpreted by anyone else.
Therefore, a postmodern art critic would have to
be someone who inte...
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Women As A Disadvantage Group Women As A Disadvantage Environment
637 words
Of what historic and contemporary concern is it
that the architecture profession has been, and
continues to be, strongly male dominated in
Australia (currently 90 % of registered architects
in NSW are men). Ideally, what proportion of the
profession should women occupy and why? From the
start of human history, we always experience
certain level of inequality between sexes. It can
be seen everywhere around the world and is a
concern to everyone, both men and women. This
inequality is an important...
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Scarlet Letter Single Mother
464 words
Throughout The Scarlet Letter, the main character,
Hester Prynne, is portrayed as a feminist woman.
Unlike many Puritan women, Hester creates her own
lifestyle and way of living without the help of a
male husband. Hawthorne uses Hester's business
success, assertiveness toward well respected men,
and skills as a single mother to emphasize the
feminist aspects of The Scarlet Letter. Though the
community rejects her, Hester is able to establish
a thriving business as a seamstress. Since
Hester's pr...
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Joseph Conrad Heart Heart Of Darkness
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Feminist Imagery in Joseph Conrad's Heart of
Darkness Many feminist critics have used Joseph
Conrad's Heart of Darkness to show how Marlow
constructs parallels and personification between
women and the inanimate jungle that he speaks of.
The jungle that houses the savages and the
remarkable Kurtz has many feminine
characteristics. By the end of the novel, it is
the same feminized wilderness and darkness that
Marlow identifies as being the cause of Kurtz's
mental and physical collapse. In Heart o...
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Jeffrey Moore Weidenfeld Red Rose Chain One
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Theyve started and Ill finish Red-Rose Chain
Jeffrey Moore Weidenfeld 038; Nicholson? 12.
99, pp 392 Gone Helena EchlinSecker 038;
Warburg? 10, pp 230 The Virgins Knotty Holly Payne
Orion? 12. 99, pp 303 This is my final monthly
round-up of first novels. My first selection two
years ago included Helen Dewitt's remarkably fresh
and original tale of an intellectual prodigy, The
Last Samurai; high points in between have been
Nuala OFaolains My Dream of You and Accidents in
the Home by Tessa H...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Form Of Art
774 words
Freedom of Pornography? Free Speech means exactly
what it says, the right to express any opinion in
public without censorship or restraint by the
government. There have been many questions on the
topic of Free Speech and Pornography. Many people
feel that pornography should not be included in
Free Speech, but if someone limited what their
idea of free speech was, then wouldn t that be
illegal? There are many statistics proving that
pornography does not cause violence against women,
and that men ...
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Socialist Party Workers Party
636 words
In 1965, Clara Fraser and her second husband,
Richard Fraser, helped lead the Seattle branch of
the Socialist Workers Party in an exodus from the
national organization. They founded the Freedom
Socialist Party, which was marked by its
commitment to womens liberation, African American
freedom, revolutionary socialism, societal and
organizational democracy, and principled politics.
A turning point in the young partys development
was the Fraser's divorce which split the ranks
over whether feminist ...
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Marx And Engels Sociological Theories
996 words
Gender and Child Custody Within the fabric of our
society their seems to be a ideology about gender
and child custody. This ideology stems from the
facts about who should be the legal guardian of
their son or daughter. The stereotypical views of
our culture would perceive that women are more
suited for the task of child development leaving
the father bound to support the child. This
created such movements as the fathers rights
movement where they were determined to appeal to
the masses by attemp...
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Social Hedda Theatrical
503 words
Hedda Gabler is not an easy character to get to
know. At first reading she seems a bitter
personality portrayed in an old-fashioned script
set in an out-outmoded and foreign society. How
could a woman in 102 -year-old play possibly be
understandable or relevant to the
late-twentieth-century student? However, upon
further examination, Hedda Gablers fictional
reality not only offers us the opportunity to
observe the art and social concerns of Ibsen's
day, but extends to us a paradigm by which we m...
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Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen
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Critical Analysis of Ibsen? s Hedda Gabler 9; A
spider becomes caught in it? s own web. This is an
example of an attempted manipulation that went
awry. Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen, is a work
about a woman who manipulates the fates of others
in order to fulfill her own desires. The title
character is a woman who has recently returned
from a six month " honeymoon" with her
groom, Tesman, a man whom she does not love. She
yearns for freedom, but she feels as if she cannot
leave her m...
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Oscar Chopin Kate Chopin
676 words
Kate Chopin was born on February 8, 1850, in
Missouri. Her father had two sons from his first
marriage, and three daughters in his second.
Chopin's sisters died in infancy, and her older
brothers died in their twenties. Her father died
in a train accident when she was very young.
Chopin lived with her mother, grandmother, and
great- grandmother before attending a Catholic
boarding school. She grew up surrounded by
unconventional, independent women, and performed
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B Anthony
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Throughout the years, women have been seen as
someone to have children, someone to cook, someone
to clean, and someone who does not deserve rights.
Until women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton rose up
against these stereotypes, it looked as if women
would always be seen as them. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton was not alone in her fight to earn rights
for women; Susan B. Anthony was helping her. These
two women joined together to start the fight for
women? s rights. Almost 100 years after they
started this fi...
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Adrienne Rich Bell Hooks
884 words
Is Education Equal? The United States provides our
society with the undeniable right to learn. The
right to higher education is not limited to the
middle and upper classes; it allows the less
privileged, minorities, as well as both sexes, to
receive an equal education. Two arguments which
present interesting views on higher education are
bell hook s Keeping Close to Home and Adrienne
Rich s What Does a Woman Need to Know? Hooks views
higher education with a concern for the
underprivileged, where...
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Role Of Women Jane Eyre
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In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte portrays one womans
desperate struggle to attain her identity in the
mist of temptation, isolation, and impossible
odds. Although she processes a strong soul she
must fight not only the forces of passion and
reason within herself, but others wills constantly
imposed on her. In its first publication, it
outraged many for its realistic portrayal of life
during that time. Ultimately, the controversy of
Bronte's novel lied in its realism, challenging
the role of women,...
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Yellow Wall Paper Woman
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Signs of society? s sexism in The Yellow
Wall-Paper The Yellow Wallpaper is a story, by
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Although the work is
short, it is one of the most interesting works in
existence. Gilman uses literary techniques very
well. The symbolism of The Yellow Wall-Paper, can
be seen and employed after some thought and make
sense immediately. The views and ideals of society
are often found in literary works. Whether the
author is trying to show the ills of society of
merely telling a story...
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Louisa May Alcott Bronson Alcott
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Malaysia Williamson 4 / 27 / 00 Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown,
Pennsylvania, the daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott,
an educator and philosopher, and Abigail May, the
energetic, philanthropist. Louisa grew up in
Concord and Boston, suffering from poverty as a
result of her selfish idealist fathers inability
to support his family. Bronson Alcott habitually
sacrificed his wife and daughters by refusing to
compromise with a venal world, most conspicuously
when he subjected...
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House On Mango Street Sandra Cisneros
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It Sandra Cisneros Sandra Cisneros It was a cold
and windy day, a perfect day to uncover secrets
and truths about writers I had heard of, but new
little about. I entered the library to escape the
weather and lose myself in books about Sandra
Cisneros and the characters she creates in her
poems and stories. I began my search at a computer
resource station, and then absorbed myself in the
materials it provided, which were biographies,
criticisms, and the works of Cisneros. Initially,
the computer ...
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Learn About Sex Dolphins And Whales Zuk
1,267 words
Doing what comes naturally Sexual Selections: What
We Can and Cant Learn About Sex from Animals
Marlene Zuk 252 pp, California Stud: Adventures in
Breeding by Kevin Conley 219 pp, Bloomsbury It is
often claimed that their pantheon of deities
allows Hindus the freedom to explore all manner of
lifestyles, each with the blessing of one of the
gods. If you are faithful, then thats fine because
Sita was faithful. If you are an adulterer then
thats also OK, because Indra was a terrible
fornicator. In ...
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Sort Of Life Reta Winters Shields
1,170 words
Up at the end of lonely streetUnlessCarol Shields
Fourth Estate? 16. 99, pp 224 Carol Shields has
always been a beguiling writer. Shed have you
think her concerns were little affairs of the
heart, the minor compromises women make with love,
the ways in which her characters might hold on to
contentment, or find hope and satisfaction in the
everyday. But at the root of her fiction, beneath
the often well-kempt surfaces of the lives she
describes, there is as much unflinching emotional
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