Essays Tagged: "Feminist"

The Bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of woman's emancipation.

ch have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of woman's emancipation.A famous 19th century feminist named Elizabeth Cady Stanton voiced this about her struggle for women's freedom.Women, cons ...

(3 pages) 72 0 3.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Andrea Dworkin, A Detrement to the Feminist Movement

orkin has been an influential write, speaker, and activist for over two decades. She claims to be a feminist, and that her ideas are beneficial to women. This paper will show that many of her most pop ... McElroy 102)Lynne Segal sees in inherent harm in trying to link the two together. She believes that feminists who try to do so are wasting valuable time that could be spent on other important issues. ...

(6 pages) 101 0 4.4 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

A biography of Germaine Greer

for the sexual revolution. Greer managed to combine both them interests by writing about her strong feminist opinions her books. Her most famous book is The Female Eunuch, which was a trenchant attack ...

(1 pages) 45 0 4.5 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

English: Shakespeare: Shakespeare the Feminist? Taming of the shrew

English: Shakespeare:Shakespeare the Feminist? Taming of the shrew June 14, 1998--------------------------------------------------------- ... beating his wifelike many a man before him has done. Though shakespeare does not go as far as some feminists would like him to, Sahkespeare does much fr the fight of equality of the sexes. Katherine ...

(4 pages) 99 0 4.1 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Archetypes in "A rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

thin the story, it can be suggested that Emily's over-protective father stands to represent Emily's feminist struggle, the ongoing battle for women to have an equal place in society. Emily should be a ... she figures that by keeping his body he can still be part of her life.The Jungian archetype of this feminist struggle can be noted as: Emily is not able to live a normal life because her father keeps ...

(2 pages) 99 0 3.0 Apr/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Femenism in "Jane Eyre" by Austen

daries.There is an ample amount of evidence to suggest that the tone of Jane Eyre is in fact a very feminist one and may well be thought as relevant to the women of today who feel they have been discr ... cross borders, and encompass lands whenever people traveled. Though many agree that Jane Eyre is a feminist novel, there are some who argue that Charlotte Bronte's only intention was to argue the soc ...

(6 pages) 145 1 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Kate Chopin's The Awakening

quality is definitely up to you Better! :)Portrayal of the character EdnaHer foilsSetting- feminist mvment, etc.StyleIntended to help the reader understand the character of Ednaher actual bel ... he entire content is relevant to the time frame it was written, expressing ideas of the forthcoming feminist movement and creating an awareness of what was happening to the women of the early nineteen ...

(3 pages) 243 0 4.5 Sep/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"The Kitchen God's Wife": Chinese Culture, Relationships, Adversity

other-daughter relationships, and the strength of women in the face of adversity. Tan even sets the feminist mood with the title of the book, which refers to a woman in Chinese Mythology who cared for ...

(11 pages) 128 0 4.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The history of women's rights. A fore-runner is Mary Wollstonecraft. It explains how times have changed from her time to the present day.

Mary Wollstonecraft has been called a forward-looking feminist. She was a woman that was decades ahead of her time. Her writing, A Vindication of Rights o ... ion has moved beyond the issue of equal rights and into territory that is controversial, even among feminists. To name a few:Women's reproductive rights--Whether or not women can terminate pregnancies ...

(4 pages) 212 0 4.1 Dec/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

The essay title is : a reflection on figurative nudes (usually used for art history class)

I am not a feminist. In fact I do not conform to any of the 'isms' that one so easily throw around these days. ... ge of mind, instability and sexual conflict.I would like to reiterate at this point that I am not a feminist. I do not believe in covering or exposing a 'woman's' body for reasons of equality/ decency ...

(4 pages) 132 1 4.8 Feb/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

How did the Nineteenth Amendment come to be part of our Constitution and why was it significant? A history of the female right's movement and the importance of the 19th amendment

1848, where the first women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, NY. Under the guidance of feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, they produced the Declaration of Sentiments, which protested the po ...

(6 pages) 156 1 4.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and and "The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin

o tries to overcome their controlling husbands to achieve individual freedom. The stories were both feminist. Webster's dictionary defines feminism as the belief that women should have economic, polit ...

(5 pages) 206 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

however, some reader may not depict "The Yellow Wallpaper" as a ghost story, nut may depict it as a feminist story. During the eighteenth century, women lived in a male dominated society. Gilman, howe ...

(3 pages) 291 0 3.9 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Flaming Feminist: Margaret Sanger's Battle for Birth Control.

Flaming Feminist: Margaret Sanger's Battle for Birth Control.Margaret Sanger devoted her life to educating w ...

(9 pages) 130 0 3.8 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Why do fewer women subscribe to the idea that they are feminists in 2003 than was the case in the 70's and early 80's?

Why do fewer women subscribe to the idea that they arefeminists in 2003 than may have been the case inthe 70's and early 80's.Within this essay I will be ... Within this essay I will be identifying the reasons why many women are reluctant to call themselves feminists. I will look at the ideas and opinions of feminists such as Natasha Walter, Katherine Vine ... order to answer the question and hope to successfully show why there has been a decline in women as feminists.The dictionary definition of feminism is simple enough: "belief in the social, political a ...

(7 pages) 118 1 3.5 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

The Expiration of the Feminist Necessity.

The Expiration of the Feminist NecessityFeminism started as a movement for women's equality to men in all aspects of exist ... n with an oppressor to blame when they are unhappy with the decisions that they have made. Although feminists today and fifty years ago will say that they were influenced and subjugated into their pos ... ity on behalf of women's rights and interests."3 In arguing that feminism is obsolete, because the "feminist movement" of today has taken on so many causes to support, my position will be based on the ...

(8 pages) 174 0 4.7 Aug/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

This is a leadership paper on Abigail Adams.

Abigail Adams, an active letter writer, early feminist, and patriot, was an inspiring leader who used her intelligence and wit to open the doors f ...

(7 pages) 131 1 3.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

The problem of gender in three fairy tales by Angela Carter.

sex, the daughter of a journalist. She was removed by her grand mother, a working class domineering feminist granny of the north of England, to Souh Yorkshire during the war years. It was not surprisi ... e, and eroticism. Her work represents a successful combination of post-modern literary theories and feminist politics. Carter died in 1992 at the age of fifty-one.Since Angela Carter has been seen as ...

(16 pages) 195 0 2.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Role of Black Women in Southern America in "Their Eyes Were Watching God".

they were "de mule uh de world." In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston epitomizes the feminist goals of black women to become an equal to that of their male counterparts through Janie's ...

(3 pages) 56 2 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Canterbury tales- The wife of bath.

The Wife of Bath was an anti-feminist that opposed single marriages. Although one would imagine the Wife of Bath to be ashamed of ... s by withholding sex until she got what she wanted. Her behavior is a demonstration of all the anti-feminist accusations that she falsely claims her husband(s) of leveling to her. However, the Wife of ...

(1 pages) 29 0 0.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers