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    society because a lot of reports show that many women are killed by bias on all over the world every year and women are hard to find a job in some places nowadays. Under this background, the “team” of feminist becomes stronger and stronger. In‘’ ‘I’ve been pondering whether you can be a part-feminist’: Young Australian Women’s Studies student discuss gender”, Kate Hughes presents the changing of students who has different gender perceptions . He mentions: “The background to this study is one Women’s

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    Ideas that come into mind when comes to would be broken down in 3 parts a woman perspective, the male perspective, the role of sexuality. A women perspective is complicated due to the fact of how man preserve it. Lady Macbeth uses her intelligences to undermine her husband. Women and men have different idea of each other in their relationship. They tend to believe that they know everything about each other. A part that would be useful would be time that Lady Macbeth enraged in power and is wanting

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    Running Head: “THE AWAKENING” FROM A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE In Kate Chopin’s novel, “The Awakening”, Edna finds herself in a society where women were socially confined to be mothers and wives. This novel embodies the struggle of women in the society for independence along with the presence of women struggling to live up to the demands that their strict culture has placed upon them. A part of Edna wants to meet the standards of mother and wife that society has set, however her biggest desire

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    Feminist Perspective Theory in Wild by Cheryl Strayed. “Wild” is a memoir by American author, Cheryl Strayed, documenting her journey of self-discovery as she traverses along the Pacific Crest Trail. In the book Cheryl documents her own personal journey in 1995 after her mother’s death, the book was published in 2012. This paper seeks to explicate the feminists’ perspective in the book, through analysing events, occurrence and thoughts as documented by the author. At the age of 22 Cheryl’s mother

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    From a feminist perspective, write an essay about the role of Lady Madeline in the story. “The Fall of the House of Usher (1939)”, arguably Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous short story, is a tale centered around the mysterious House of Usher and its equally indiscernible inhabitants. These subjects are plagued with physical and mental degradation – the Usher siblings suffer from various abnormal ailments and unexplained fears, while the house itself seems to be tethering on the edge of collapse. The

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    When examining The Little Mermaid from a feminist perspective, it becomes clear that the little mermaid is a misogynistic tale that glorifies a woman’s dependence on men and the objectification of women. After seeing the prince once and saving his life, the little mermaid developed an obsession with the prince. She would go up to sea level everyday to see if the prince was there and once she figured out he was not there, she would be sorrowful and distraught. The little mermaid’s happiness depended

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    The passage below from The Feminist Local and Global Theory Perspective Reader suggests that biological terms of male and female are not self-determined but pre-assigned. Once a person is assigned an anatomical category (in this case only being male or female) what they do with this information is how they are pre-determined to act. This cycle perpetuates the reoccurring gender roles that have been inevitably causing both males and females to be oppressed. Consequently, this is unlikely to change

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    The Anti-Feminist Perspective of Shakespeare It is believed that many women do not speak, they do not have a voice because they are taught to respect the beliefs of society more than themselves. Whether reading a play or novel the reader is introduced to many female characters that portray this belief. In Shakespeare’s Othello this belief is represented through the three female characters in this play, Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca. Women are objectified as possessions, they are thought to be submissive

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    Much literature explaining women 's homelessness in the United Kingdom, have argued from a feminist perspective which highlighted that the market dominated housing policies disadvantage female-led households based on a gendered division of labour, (Watson and Austerberry, 1986) . Furthermore (Pleace, and Quilgars, 1996), asserted that dominant family model assumes domestic roles for women, such that family care, child care and other domestic duties as solely that responsibility for women. (Razzu

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    Feminist Perspective Restriction causes pain, but freedom brings relief. Similarly, in the short story The Yellow Wallpaper the narrator is suffering from what her husband interprets to be temporary nervous depression. Although her husband John is a doctor, his methods to aid her prove to be insufficient and harmful. It is clear that he loves his wife and wants her health to improve but, his controlling ways are of no help. He believes that he knows best since he is the “doctor”, which only heightens

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