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On Feminism and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Gilman On the "poet's forum" Feminism is based on the assumption that women have the same human, political and social rights as men, furthermore, that women should have the same opportunities as men in their personal choices regarding careers, politics and expression. A feminist text states the author’s agenda for women in society as they relate to oppression by a patriarchal power structure and the subsequent formation of social ‘standards’

control. Sanger fought these restrictions through bringing birth control to the general public who suffered from poverty due to large families. Others, like Charlotte Perkins Gilman, wrote social critiques in her texts “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Herland to bring attention to how society treats women and ideally how motherhood should be. Both of these women believed motherhood was a responsibility of women and they should take it more seriously to create better future generations. This goes beyond

Thomas more’s “Utopia” was clearly the back bone for all modern day utopian writings. There were many factors and ideas which were pulled from this novel as a guiding light for many others. In the time this novel More was living in a war stricken society which was not conducive to happiness. When describing the utopia to his peers he was able to use the discourse of his “real” society to create a more “perfect” society which did not have to deal with these issues of war, greed, discourse, and discrimination

In the late 1880’s to 1920’s Americans were starving, diseases were being spread, and social problems rose from the effect of modernization of cities. These effects caused many people to think about what the future would be like and hoping it would be a better world. Many authors wrote utopian novels imagining what the future holds hoping for a perfect society in which they are criticizing the inadequate society they live in. During the 19th century authors wrote about feminism, and issues that the

Throughout the 19th century social constructs such as gender dominance was accepted widely in a patriarchal society. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prolific writer who made a huge influence in her time and continues to today. Feminism, an advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes that is a common motif in Gilman’s work. Gilman was best known as a women concerned mainly with practical tools in making the world a better place and a reformer. She worked diligently in shifting

The revolutionary hashtag sweeping across all platforms of social media, primarily Tumblr and Twitter, causing an uprising of bold fearlessness within is the #bossbitch. The #bossbitch respects themselves and others, with the goal of equal respect in return. They are firm, direct, and treats everyone with equality. They offer their sincerest support and help. A #bossbitch is in control, genuine, and takes themselves serious. However, this twenty-first century term has been refined over the years

can look up to. Even though I am not a typical hero there are times when my life follows the hero's journey with archetypes such as the herald, loyal companion , threshold guardian. A herland is someone who usually appears in the beginning of the story and to announce the need for change in the hero's life. The herland invites the hero to accept the call to adventure. My herland’s were my parents. All my life all i could ever remember was being in Brooklyn New york . It was my home, my safe place.

the LGBT community different opportunities where they can meet other members without being surrounded by alcohol and drugs. Two main organizations are specific geared towards lesbians. Herland offers social and educational services that focus on lesbian issues but is offer to all women (Herland, 2008). Herland is an excellent organization to recommend to lesbian clients located in Oklahoma. The second organization is known as OKCLesbian. Additionally, OKCLesbian offers substitutions for socializations

It is difficult to point out that religion, though very significant, was an issue accounted for among each of these novels. Because of the societal corruption within the author’s realities, they were given the opportunity to recreate the religions, the beliefs, and values their utopians strove for. Sargent states that many Utopian communities “have been religious and they tried to lead a way of life that their members believed their faith required”(Sargent 35). Utopia offers its readers a sense of

In t.v. shows the display how rich kids are the talk of the party, everyone evese rich kids and if someone wasn’t rich the where kick to the curb or even bullied. According to the news page on University Herland, they did a study on how the kids that had parents that made over 160,000 are found to be more likely to be depressed and have high anxiety. The reason why they found kids that had the rich parent to be depressed and have high anxiety is because their parents thrust unnecessary pressure