Homesickness can be defined as the distress or impairment caused by an actual or anticipated separation from home. The frantic attempt to recreate the previous life leads to depression and a loss of identity. Distraught and alienated in America‚ Ashima pushes her Bengali heritage upon her children‚ Gogol and Sonia‚ in an effort to lessen her homesickness throughout The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. Ashima completely rejects the bewildering American culture that is thrust upon her and becomes depressed
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Separate Spheres or “Cult of Domesticity”‚ was the idea that women and men were polar opposites by biological factors in 19th century America. Women were expected to stay at home and perform housework such as cooking‚ cleaning‚ maintaining the fire and caring for the children. Men were the financial providers of the family‚ outside of the home doing “dirty” work in factories or other means of employment. The Great Depression was the economic stock market crash beginning in 1929 that affects all classes
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teachers and gained a new and more important role in the home. This helped foster the emergence of the cult of domesticity which gave women the task of taking care of the home and being the center of the home. Republican motherhood revolved around women being educated. Republican motherhood and the cult of domesticity would not have been achieved without the issues of race and class. In addition to the documents‚ women were thrust into the war as they took over positions that were vacated by men and
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most prominently she equates sex with motherhood. After seeing the childbirth with Buddy‚ she is terrified of having to go through something so seemingly torturous for something so “insignificant” as a baby. “I stepped from the air-conditioned compartment onto the station platform‚ and the motherly breath of the suburbs enfolded me…it smelled of babies. A Summer calm laid its soothing hand over everything‚ like death.” (Pg. 113). She does not view motherhood in a very positive light‚ relating it
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According to Linda Alcoff in her essay Cultural Feminism Versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory‚ a woman in society ‘…is always the Object‚ a conglomeration of attributes to be predicted and controlled…’ To what extent can this theory be applied to the presentation of woman in feminist literature? With reference to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood and ‘The Bell Jar’ by Sylvia Plath. Stein suggests that the preliminary and concluding material of‚ ‘The Handmaid’s
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young girls’ summer empowerment camp‚ Truth Without Fear‚ explores five general problems women face in the 19th century. Each day‚ the camp chooses one problem to focus on for five days. Three needs Truth Without Fear identifies are independence‚ motherhood‚ and sexuality. The camp meets these needs through facilitating talks with 19th-century feminists as well as related activities. As part of the Victorian era‚ a woman is considered the property of her husband or her father. This is shown in The
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characters are going through and also the importance of motherhood throughout the novel. The complexity of this brief chapter starts immediately within the title. The two dissimilar connotations of the words “magnanimous” and “warrior” convey a contradicting nature that is also noticeable in many of Cliff’s characters’ identities. The intricacy of the passage continues to be expressed through the two contrasting tones used in the
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The image portrays a girl who appears to be pregnant. She is leaning back with her knees bent and her right hand on her back. There is a lit cigarette in this hand and also in her mouth. In her left hand she carries a white wicker basket with a frill and some dolls legs sticking out from the top. Her hair is piled on top of her head and her eye make-up is dark. She is wearing pink shorts‚ a white dotty blouse‚ a blue gingham jacket and a pink band on her wrist. Her eyes are almost shut as she looks
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Birth control as a movement in the US has had a very uneven relationship to movements for women s rights. Discuss early birth control reform efforts in relationship to issues of gender and class power. Birth control was an early-twentieth-century slogan‚ but it has become the generic for all forms of control of reproduction. With the spread of agriculture and the economic advantages of large families‚ religious and in some cases secular law increasingly restricted birth control‚ with the result
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Social Construction of Teenage Pregnancy in the United States: Race‚ Class and Gender In the United States‚ an estimated forty five percent of all female teenagers have premarital sex. As a result‚ about forty percent of all female adolescents become pregnant at least once before age twenty; and about four-fifths of these pregnancies are unintended. Twenty percent of these female adolescents bear a child‚ and about half of them are unmarried (Lawson and Rhode‚ 2). In a society that associates
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