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stereotypical and patriarchal societal norm of the way a mother or woman must pass on the feminine traits or cultural belief, in which a girl should follow. Throughout the story, the woman accentuates on the cultural traditions that are done by the women. The mother explains to the girl how to prepare the traditional food, that’s been pass down from generation to generation. For example, “cook pumpkin fritter in very hot sweet oil” (“Girl”, 2012). The mother later explains how she should make salt

demonstrating how being a female should be liberating, and women should not feel held back by their gender. In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros speaks of a similar idea. As Malala indicates, Cisneros also indicates how being a woman can be empowering; however, Cisneros also establishes how being a woman raised in a marginalized community can have adverse mental and physical repercussions. Through countless stories and the motif of women sitting by windows, Cisneros ratifies how draining it

sett off the mouse traps, so imagine penniless women having to tiptoe around circumstances almost everyday of their lives that would get them sucked into bad situations. In Sandra Cisneros’ book, “House on Mango Street”, well thought out motifs and symbolisms become very useful in order to convey the expectations of women in a poor community make the women more susceptible to becoming trapped inside this environment. The expectations of the women in “House on Mango Street” repeats throughout the

Misogyny is not only visible in the Miller’s tale, but also in the Wife of Bath’s tale through the very superficial standards set for women by men. The old woman asks that the knight marries her in return for giving him the answer to the riddle and he reacts in disgust and horror, “‘...to take me as your wife…‘Alas and woe is me!...I am ugly and poor…my damnation! Alas, that any of my birth should ever be so foully disgraced!” (Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” 199-213). The knight is visibly distraught

Esperanza and the people she encounters during her time on Mango Street as she struggles to find herself as an individual/her identity. During the story, Esperanza discovers how her culture and social class affects her, how she relates to the roles of women in her community, and how to process her hopes and dreams as she matures. These pieces eventually come together in order to help Esperanza form her identity. The shabby old house on Mango Street is all that Esperanza and her family can afford at the

will say that women are equal to men and should have careers, social life’s, and their place is no longer merely in the home. Submissive, quaint Desdemona from the Shakespeare play Othello is a prime example of the “ideal wife” for that time. While on the other hand, feisty and ambitious Brooke Davis from the TV show One Tree Hill is a prime example of the “new ideal wife”. In many ways, the concept of an ideal wife since Shakespeare’s days have changed. The comparison of these two women clearly and

In “Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power,” Sandra Bartky utilizes Michel Foucault’s concepts about power to help explain femininity. Throughout the article, she details how society forces women to fit within the confines of this construct and how it affects them. Sandra Bartky begins her piece by explaining Michel Foucault’s ideas about modern power dynamics. Unlike in the past, power in modern society focuses not only on controlling the products of the body but, rather

rather than her internal beauty, intellect and strengths. The older women in the novel have a more realistic view of their own bodies and even find value in their aging bodies. On the other hand, the younger women struggle with negative body image as well as their sexual power as they begin their journey as women. Men in the novel define women heavily based on their sexual worth, which forces unrealistic expectations on women and limits their worth to just their physical appearance. This is seen

As well as feeding off of the sources and material presented earlier in this paper, the analysis to come will also use Erving Goffman’s categorisation of gender to analyse how the women (and some men) are depicted on the front covers of Playboy and Good Housekeeping within said timeframe. In his study Gender Advertisements (Goffman, 1985), Goffman gathered hundreds of advertisements from magazines in various positions and poses and analysed poses and how they portrayed masculinity versus femininity

ways based on gender and age. The men in the novel view women’s in terms of their sexual worth. The older women in the novel have a more realistic view of their bodies and even find value in their aging bodies. On the other hand, the younger women struggle with negative body image as well as their sexual power as they begin their journey as women. In Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, men define women