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chase, affable, pure, and polite (Gilbert and Gubar 23), while being “slim, pale, and immobile in a porcelain-like manner (25). However, men are prepared to be competitive, authoritarian, and power-hungry (Zipe 3). In the story of “Mulan”, a young woman cross dresses as a man to join the military, in each version, her reasons for joining are slightly different. Many readers view Mulan as a symbol of women empowerment, however it can be argued that Mulan is another representation of the enforcement

The Woman Question The social constructs of masculinity and femininity have always been in flux. Due to the inherent social disparity between these titles, women by and large became the first to openly challenge the arguably inferior role that had been forced upon them, prompting the mass social discourse referred to as “the woman question”. At it’s core, the woman question asked society what a woman should be, and what should the ideal woman do with her life. This historical turning point resulted

death of woman Wang----a picture of real lives The death of woman Wang is written by Jonathan D. Spence, a famous scholar of East Asian studies. This book is focus on the early days of Qing dynasty, when Qing dynasty had only been established for about 20 years, the government, even though the whole society, are in their infancies. The author discusses issues of a small county in northeastern China ---T’an-ch’eng, which is in the province of Shantung. The genre of this book is difficult to

Today’s Woman magazine 1. The largest difference in editorial content from the recent issue of Today’s Woman magazine compared to Frieden’s list is the indication of female accomplishment. Frieden’s concerns and critiques described situations where housewives would have metaphorically traded brains for brooms which is reflected in the title of her piece, “Happy Housewife Syndrome”. The majority of content in Today’s Woman displayed women who took initiative and early action in order to achieve their

society creates forces women to conform to the expectations of society through their appearance, education, and domestic life. Deborah Tannen discusses how a woman’s appearance always reveals something about her personality in “There is No Unmarked Woman.” She says that men have styles that are considered unmarked, meaning that they do not stand out in any way, but women do not have this option. For women, something as simple as whether they wear stilettos or tennis shoes

Formal Analysis on the Running Horned Woman On the caves in Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria, around 6,000-4,000 B.C.E of the Neolithic Period, an artist created an example of parietal art called The Running Horned Woman. Although the artist remains unknown, most historians believe that the Running Horned Woman emerged from the Tuareg, the nomadic indigenous people of the region who farmed and shepherded. Through the artwork and the Tuareg culture, many historians suspect the land of Tassili n’Ajjer transformed

standards of the dominant culture.” As she has explained, the author wrote a list of what a woman/girl has to do based on the standards of the dominant culture. The dominant culture is when women have to follow the rules men make, which is to serve men. Which would be cooking, cleaning, taking care of the kids and anything else he says. In the list, there was a recurring message that was a rule about how a woman/girl shouldn’t become a slut. At the beginning, she talked about not becoming a slut, but

A common theme in both stories “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “No Name Woman” by Maxine Hong Kingston is sexism and how some women struggle to find voices in chauvinist societies. The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” has a husband that is very controlling and she must fight against the rigid role of housewife imposed upon her. In “No Name Woman” the narrator describes her aunt who is severely punished by her village for being impregnated by a mysterious man. Both stories

portrait called 'Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet' was not painted by Rembrandt. However, the professor explains why a panel of experts has concluded that the painting was indeed created by the famous artist and, hence, casts doubt on the conclusion of the reading. First, the lecturer argues contrary to the passage that the clothing in the original painting was inconsistent. While the reading claims that the painting was not by Rembrandt because the fur collar worn by the woman does not match to her

Kingston, or the narrator, happens to be the most imaginative, curious, and conflicted character in The Woman Warrior. She may be the only character who knows what she wants and needs in life in order to be satisfied with her own life. Everyone else in her family keeps the never ending tradition going to not disappoint their elders. They all have misery that would have been resolved if they had done what made them happy. Temptation indulges in the urges that are not necessarily meant to be addressed