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    Abigail Adams: “Remember the Ladies” Analysis: The Feminist Perspective Equality is a concept that humanity fails to completely grasp even to this day. While the battles for racial equality have been championed profusely, the fight for gender equality has hardly started. In contrast to their male counterparts, women are seen as inferior and overly sexualized in many forms of entertainment such as movies, novels, even classic literature; the “feminine” stereotype is associated with weakness, fragility

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    In the media women are portrayed unequal to men. For example Cole Gamble talks about a commercial that stood out to him where a woman was being portrayed as being less than a man. Cole writes “In the '60s, Folger's was the king of sexist commercials. In this one the dutiful wife waits on her man with skin-crawling obsequiousness. The man tells her she makes crappy coffee and she

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    display the imprisonment and disregard of the woman in the story. Throughout the story the woman's opinion is brushed aside for what is “best for her” even though she could perform menial tasks around the house. Although her husband could be seen as the villain of the story, he is simply a reflection of the society of the time. The narrator’s desire to have more in her life than John and her child does not correspond to the social expectations that a woman fell under. Her love of writing and creativity

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    The woman that was likely to be the mortal wonder woman of her times and a woman who knew how to fight despite all the betrayal, hardships and treachery she has experienced. It somewhat promotes feminism in a way that Joy faces all the struggles that life has brought to her by wearing the most

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    delicate/discretion/ diplomacy/ tact/ sensitivity/ skill/ flair/ refinement/ make short shrift of) {Proverbs/ quotes} The great question … which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “what does a woman want?” {Sigmund Freud} A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own

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    Long ago, 33 years ago, to be exact, a man and a woman met on a Halloween night. The woman was short, loud, and quite excitable when it came to life; in contrast, the man was tall, slender, and very much reserved. The two were very different in many ways, both through their demeanor and heritage. While the woman’s family history stemmed from the Amish/Mennonite culture, the man’s family history was rooted in the foothills of West Virginia. Despite these differences, the two fell in love and decided

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    Females in books Females have many big roles in majority of books. For example in the graphic novel Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman is portrayed as really strong and as the person you can count on. On the other hand,in books like Running Girl, there’s women like Chloe Dow who get scared quickly and aren’t considered strong. In the Odyssey, Homer shows these females has really strong or powerful instead of weak and easily scared. To begin with, one female who had a big role in the Odyssey was Penelope

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    While growing up in a white, male dominated, heterosexual society I sometimes struggle to find comfort in being a woman. Even though I grew up in an affluent neighborhood, I felt uncomfortable walking home late at night, putting my drink down at a party, or being with a group of female friends, unescorted by a man. Not only is safety is an issue but also balancing the social ideas of “skinny” vs. “curvy,” and “bitch” vs. “sweetheart.” Even though I am coming from a point of privilege, women have

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    encounters and explains the insecurities he has developed with his age and his experiences. After learned the thoughts and hearts of women over the years, he fears rejection and wonders if pursuing romance would be worth the trouble. Furthermore, Prufrock contemplates his chances of winning a romantic relationship with a woman and concludes that perhaps he is not meant to find love and that it would be a waste of time to attempt love because of his age and overall irrelevancy in the eyes of the vain

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    characters and actions; but where does symbolism take place? It is everywhere in the story. The woman, the key to her bedroom, the bars, and the bed are all major symbolical items that explain the full meaning of the story. The woman in the wallpaper is the major symbolical character of the story. She symbolizes the narrator, but in a different light. The short story states on page fourteen, “I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did? But I am securely fastened now by my well-hidden

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