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    Is Barbie the ideal woman? For generations she’s been the doll that little girls have aspired to be–a party girl‚ career woman and bathing beauty all wrapped into one . In Marge Piercy’s poem entitled "Barbie Doll‚" the title underscores the theme of the poem‚ which is that girls are ultimately and fatally entrapped by society’s narrow definitions of feminine behavior and beauty. By comparing the young lady in the poem to a Barbie doll‚ the author reveals the irony of the title. In the poem‚ the

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    Lorna Goodison states in her poem “Guinea Woman”‚ “Great Grandmother was a guinea woman”(Goodison). This statement can be interpreted in many ways as guinea has multiple connotations. For example‚ Guinea is a country in West Africa‚ but it is also an ancient coin and name for a witch or wise-woman. Creolization‚ as a term‚ also has multiple meanings. These meanings are based on different aspects of the mixing of cultures. This can be a mixing or change in religion‚ music‚ food‚ and skin color. The

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    The Wife of Bath is not an admirable woman. Allison is a manipulator‚ picks her husbands based on their looks and money‚ and possibly murdered husband number four. An admirable woman is one who respects‚ not only herself‚ but her husband‚ too. Also‚ one must love their mate with a love that can never be denied. In the story‚ Allison shows characteristics of being a manipulator. She waits for her mate to get drunk and falsely accuses him of cheating the next morning‚ knowing that everything is a

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    women as the vulnerable group that lack of self confidence and dominated by others. At the same time‚ they still need to face many problems by themselves‚ and the most important thing is to find a way to live. Like the story “The Woman in the Dunes” by Kobo Abe‚ the woman‚ whose husband and child bury in the sand and die‚ lives in the dunes along. The only way she contacts to the outside of the world is a rope ladder hangs from the top of the dunes by the villagers. Meanwhile‚ she has to keep shoveling

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    I am very intrigued by Lepore’s article about feminism in the United States and how she shadows its evolution with the birth of Wonder Woman. The way Lepore provided an informed timeline of feminism in combination with the visual images of vintage Wonder Woman that vie seen so many times‚ in her bustier top and enormous breasts in her powerful comics‚ and then provided historically accurate instances of the treatment of women really made me take a step back and realize how monumental the invention

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    Nuoning Zhang Professor Cabral ESL 5 9 July 2015 A man‚ a woman‚ just friends? Yes. Different cultures hold different perspectives toward a relationship between a man and a woman. Some people say that a woman and a man cannot be plainly friends; however‚ others do believe in the existence of such relationship. In the article written by William Deresiewicz‚ “A man‚ a woman‚ just friends‚” some opinions root out in the support of one idea. In the article‚ William Deresiewicz uses an example of a

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    Amelia Pencilo Dr. Claire Senior LIBS-3002-01 28 November 2013 What It Means To Be a Man and a Woman in the Media The gender roles for men and women are constantly being implemented throughout the years in various forms of media; men are the dominant figure and women are subordinate to men. With that reason‚ there are many female figures that have been forced to hide their real identity in order to appeal to the general public. For example‚ Virginia Woolf wrote about her struggles in her speech

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    Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman‚ with on Political and Moral Subjects (also known simply as A Vindication of the Rights of women) is thought by many to be the real beginning of feminism. This is considered to be the first written example of feminist ideas. However‚ before Wollstonecraft‚ others had written about the need for more women’s rights. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is the first complete statement about the necessity for women to be taught and educated‚

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    Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Gail Godwin’s “A Sorrowful Woman” are similar pieces of literary work. Both stories offer a revealing glimpse of extremely unhappy marriages due to being forced into stereotypical roles. Both stories portray women‚ who are trapped in their marriages and trapped in their socially expected matriarchal characters. They are identified by their role as a wife and mother. In "A Sorrowful Woman" the wife is depressed with her life‚ so much so‚ "The sight of them

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    Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman‚ published in 1792‚ and is often referred to as the founding text or manifesto of Western feminism. Nineteenth-century American feminists revered its author as their founding mother and read and spoke about her works everywhere. Wollstonecraft’s first major work‚ The Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790)‚ was a response to Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) by Edmund Burke. Burke was one of many British writers and polemicists

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