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    As I walked into the glittery ballroom once again, trying my hardest to remove the white cat hair from my black sweater, I noticed that almost everyone had heels on and ignored the Panhellenic letter that suggested we wear “church attire.” I was already nervous about having to wear an overly conservative dress that didn`t match my style for the second day of sorority recruitment, so seeing that everybody else looked like runway models only added to my nausea. However, when I looked around the room

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    options for girls. By learning the household work and being perfecting on it, it was believed to be the way to be a good woman or an acceptable woman in the society. Women were treated like a machine, expected to do the work with a less expectation, just like the machine needs fuel, oil to work and handled by an operator, in the same way, women would work with less or no expectation but the acceptability in the society and handled by the society itself. The

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    Catharine Maria Sedgewick's Hope Leslie The title character of Catharine Maria Sedgewick’s novel, Hope Leslie, defies the standards to which women of the era were to adhere. Sedgewick’s novel is set in New England during the 17th century after the Puritans had broken away from the Church of England. Hope Leslie lives in a repressive Puritan society in which women behave passively, submit to the males around them, and live by the Bible. They allow the men of their family to make decisions for them and

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    of dominance over women. Chaucer makes this point, and also the point, through Alison’s tale, that if women are given what they want, then they will be obedient and faithful to their men.      The worldliness of

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    Canterbury Tales, both women in the story are fighting to save their kingdom. In Thousand and One Nights, Shahrazad volunteered to stay with the king hoping to change his ways. In Canterbury Tales, the wife is standing up for the women in her kingdom and teaches the Knight a lesson. These women are very important in both stories because they step up to make a change in their kingdom. In Thousand and One Nights, Shahrazad has volunteered to marry the king, knowing that he kills the women he sleeps with

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    Girl, By Jamaica Kincaid In the story Girl, The author Jamaica Kincaid uses point if view to show how the mother teaches her daughter how to be the proper or perfect woman for a man. She also uses” This is how”shows how the mother teaches the daughter how to be sophisticated. In the poem Jamaica Kincaid use the Point of view of the mother teaching the daughter how to clean, prepare clothes and prepare food for the husband so the daughter can be a perfect wife for the husband. “ Wash the white

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    This goes to show to the reader how men in the 19th century treated their wives as possessions, they had a firm hold on their wives which was supported by society. Women who decided to think or act for themselves were seen as bad mothers and wives, being ostracized completely by all. Edna slowly begins to realize that she is treated and seen as a piece of property, and a part of her awakening is her realization that she as an individual, as a woman with desires and needs, is more important than her

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    is an exclusively male society with laws drafted by men, and with counsel and judges who judge feminine conduct from the male point of view.’ The female protagonist in Ghosts, Mrs Helene Alving, has been influenced by the society’s need of forming women that are first, obedient daughters, then, obedient wives, dutiful mothers, but in general, obedient individuals of that society’s ideals, conventions and traditions. In Plenty, the audience gets to examine years of Susan Traherne’s life, ‘from her

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    Women of early to mid 1900’s were oppressed by the man’s perfect view of what a woman should and should not be. Hastily after they were given the right to vote in 1920, men pressured women to stay in the realm of expertise they had already participated in for centuries, domesticity. Sylvia Plath the writer of, The Bell Jar, uses the life of Esther Greenwood to show how cultural views of women disabled women from reaching their highest abilities. Women who sought a higher education or an occupation

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    Art Deco Vs Art Deo

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    The “modern woman” developed a façade (also known as a masquerade) that allowed them to appear like a typical woman — perhaps deemed narcissistic, to use the words of Sigmund Freud — but in fact they were exploring their personal sexual intrigue and ignited the female gaze; which was something to counteract the male gaze, which they had felt the pressure of for centuries (or even millennia). An example of this could be a successful and intelligent working woman after showing her ‘worth’, deciding

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