In Victorian England marriage was essential. If a woman did not marry well, then she did not receive the benefits that a married woman received. Married women had financial security. Married women had a place where they could host guests. Married women had children, and could fulfill the role of motherhood. Unmarried women did not have these benefits, so from a young age girls learned how to become suitable wives. A suitable wife needed to know how to cook, clean house, sing, dance, play an instrument
Lysistrata is about a sex strike and describes women working around their inferior status in society to fulfill their primary duty to their country by putting other duties to the side to persuade men to end the war. This illustrates the duties of both women and men with an emphasis on the duties of the woman while also detailing a few key differences between genders. While these duties and differences are described throughout the entirety of the play, the interactions of Lysistrata, Myrrhine, and Kinesias
of the key points female readers would have extracted from these chapters include the idea that as a Christian, a woman should prioritize other members of society above herself. The chapter entitled “Economy of Time” instructs women to plan carefully what they are going to do every morning and not waste the valuable time of men. The next chapter warns against sacrificing feminine duties by
the Victorian Era, the right to a proper education for women was at the forefront of politics. Although England has Queen Victoria in parliament, nevertheless woman face oppression daily on the basis of their gender; primarily through the lack of education they receive throughout their lifetime. The struggle for education causes men and woman to compose multiple types of literary critiques to argue the social structure that currently exists in their society. The main statement made in political works
HOMEBIRTH Homebirth refers to the act of a woman giving birth at home and is typically attended to by an independently practising midwife. The midwife plays a vital role throughout the experiences associated with homebirths such as embracing a cooperative partnership between women, infants and families. Such features are expressed by a midwife throughout a woman’s pregnancy, labour, birth and postnatal experience, therefore emphasising the importance of continuity of care especially for those women
sections; every section addresses a different tone. In the first paragraph of the story ‘Guest of Nation’ captors become friends and the lines of duty, humanitarianism and sympathy are blurred. However, even though these lines become blurred in the end hostages remain hostages and captors remain, captors, as both men are killed. This death leaves behind mixed emotions in two of the men and a sense of duty and pride within the other. The first paragraph also talks about the good and friendly relationship
like being a woman and what expectations and regulations are constantly being imposed on them by living in a patriarchal society. Much like in Jack and the Beanstalk by Joseph Jacobs. Jack’s mother, a nameless woman who is either referred to as the “poor widow “ or “Jack’s mother”, is one of the two women in the story who has undoubtedly been astronomically reduced to this weak and emotional character whose sole purpose is to be a nurturer to Jack and fulfill her motherly duties at home while
courtship, or child rearing. While many individuals argue that romantic love, for much of history, has been a byproduct of marriage, while in current society, if one is lucky enough to find ‘the one,’ love often proceeds marriage. “The Theoretical Importance of Love” by William J. Goode argues that the relationship of love to marriage is correlated with the ability to chose ones mate in the society and the degree to which husband-wife solidarity is the “strategic solidarity: of the social structure
Since the early 1900s, women have been able to take great strides in ensuring that they have the same rights as men do. It was certainly not easy because many people at that time believed that women exist solely to serve and please men. One woman instrumental in this movement toward equality was Virginia Woolf. In fact, in her speech, Professions for Women, she details her own story about becoming a writer and her realization of the hidden struggles that female professionals have to face. She states
in ancient literature, they often reflects certain social values of female and emphasize the importance of gender role. In the play, “Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection”, by Kalidasa tells about an Indian romantic love story that while hunting in forest, king Dushyanta encounter with his destined mate, Shakuntala, an young female ascetics who live in the hermitage and falls in love with her at the first sight. Likwhile, in Virgil’s epic poem “The Aeneid”, Aeneas, the Trojan hero who is destined