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    husbands and all males legally and socially. The day-to day lives of men and women were quite clearly divided during the late 1800s. Woman in the late 1800s were treated inhumane because of society, class, and their rights. The first reason women were treated inhumane was because women were expected to perform specific duties and fill certain roles based on society. Woman were much more restricted in their movements than men. Most of women’s work was

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    Self Recollection

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    include the daughter to take care the husband as well is too far, that what the mother is there for! How I view this quoted by men are just the provider of the household, and woman are the backbone of the family. There are only 24 hours throughout day that still not enough for a woman that have a family. For instance, woman work none stop by making sure the kids are good, making sure the house is clean, make sure that there is a meal is cook, make sure your husband is okay, and if you time for yourself

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    Woman And The New Race

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    the literature of ‘Woman and the New Race’, Sanger challenges the extent of the use of birth control and questions whom it will benefit aside from women should it become available. According to Sanger, birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defective . For Sanger, “in compliance with nature’s working plan, we must permit

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    Many arguments on why woman should be paid less, claim that woman can’t do the same jobs as what men can do. The article “The Branding of Learning: Ads in Schools and Universities” the author Naomi Klein explains how everything is given a label. “In a corporate climate obsessed with finding the secret recipe for cool, there are still more in-school resources to tap. After all, if there is one thing the cool hunters have taught us, it’s that group aren’t just lowly consumers: they are also card-carrying

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    “Women are extraordinary creatures”- Roman Payne. This is certainly true when discussing O-Lan from Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth. The Good Earth published in 1931 during which time a woman was to be obedient and take care of the household. While O-Lan does meet the criteria, she also goes against the customs by working in the fields. O-Lan has often been viewed as a tragic hero because of her silence, the fact that she is virtually unchanging throughout the novel, her ability to handle verbal abuse

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    Kelley’s speech she states ”Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through, in the deafening noise of the spindles and the looms spinning and weaving cotton and wool, silks and ribbons for us to buy”(Kelley 18). She delivered this speech in front of the National American Woman Suffrage Association to bring attention to the two million children who are working in order to help support their family. Kelley continues to point out the flaws within

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    woman’s labor force participation. In contrast Shaw (1992) argues that it is possible that a wealthy husband negatively affects the wife's participation in the labor force. She states that because of spousal income being above average it gives the woman economic stability to not join the labor force. Using the Current Population Survey March Supplement, Park (2010) finds that as

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    Feminism is an important issue in our country. Not only is it important for woman to be aware of the theory that has pushed this movement forward, but also (if not more importantly) men to know the theory behind this work and try to help the cause towards oppression in our country, and the rest of the world. As it relates to the Postructural Feminism, Luce Irigaray struggled with how philosophers viewed woman. In other words, how these oppressed ideas have trickled down from generation to generation

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    Feminism did not exists, woman were not allowed to vote, work and contribute to society, Feminism is a movement that shares a common goal of equality,political,sexual orientation,race, and economic status. Feminism are in many forms including liberal feminism, socialist feminism and radical feminism. Liberal feminism is a form of feminist theory, that focuses on a woman's ability to maintain their equality through their actions and their choices, society may believe a woman are by nature less intellectually

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    Comparative analysis of Jamaica Kincaid's “Girl” and Dorothy Allison's “I'm Working on My Charm” Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” is the story of a girl whose mother advises her daughter on different aspects of being a proper woman. The mother has antiquated even repressive ideas about what a woman is supposed to be. The mother focuses on two main categories in her guidance, social manners and domesticity. “The mother does most of the talking; she delivers

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