A Woman from Willendorf - fat lady with penis boobs Venus of Willendorf 25‚000 BCE made of limestone Goddess‚ no face Woman from Willendorf‚ c25000 BCE. oldest sculpture known. anatomical exxageration. possible fertility idol. paleolith representation of women B Lion Human from Germany- 30-000-26000 BCE‚ mammoth ivory‚ tactile (cannot stand on its own) seen from all sides. not life like or found in nature. C Loacoon and His Sons‚ 1st century CE. 2 sculptors‚ Athanadoros‚ Hagesandros
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Woman Warrior Throughout the collection of memoirs in Woman Warrior we are able to observe the cultural clash the protagonist faces. Kingston has to cope with cultural backlashes pertaining to her Chinese traditions and adaptation to the new American customs.Although Kingston being a young teenage girl‚ she is forced to become accustomed to old traditional values imposed on her by her mother. Ultimately‚ Kingston shows what it is like to live dealing with cultural clusters thus creating confusion
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to the poet‚ all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same; no theme is inept‚ no past or present preferable.” In literature‚ a theme or motif is the central topic educated throughout a text. In the book‚ Woman at Point Zero‚ Nawal El Saadawi exploits the consistent themes of power and choice through character development by building different relationships between the characters. When people think of power‚ they often visualize a leader or a person who holds
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Shen Te’s male “other” in Brecht’s “The Good Woman of Setzguan” Brecht’s “The Good Woman of Setzguan”‚ with its intense surrealist element‚ cruelly unveils the immense ugliness of a capitalistic society‚ displaying aspects of exploitation and materialism through the prism of each of the two genders. Providing his heroine with a male “alter ego”‚ Brecht remarkably places the female in a male dominated society projecting women’s need to adopt male characteristics to survive and their endeavor to preserve
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all her flaws”. Reist correctly states‚ Marie Claire inaccurately pins her ‘flaws’ as ‘impediments’ and immediately tags Miss Universe 2004 as ‘the Elephant Woman’ for owning hips. (Cite) Outrageous! Hawkins‚ size zero‚ pouncing around‚ nude with supposedly all her ‘flaws’ is meant to make me feel better? Well‚ no. It’s not like every woman possesses this slender figure. Magazines need to lessen their focus upon the “stereotypical thin‚ hot‚ sexy cult” and introduce more real‚ natural women.
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The modern woman can be perceived to be the product of the woman before the 1950s. The woman before the 50s-experienced plenty of struggles when it came to exercising her rights. She did not have the freedom to vote‚ take part in the technical field or be involved in leadership. Furthermore‚ the woman from the minority group were the ones mostly affected because of racial discrimination. The woman was confined to her household; responsible for keeping the house in order and taking care of the children
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The image of woman in fiction has undergone a radical change in the 21st century. The Indian woman writers have moved away from portraying a traditional self-sacrificing woman toward a self-expressive individual woman. The chaste‚ patient‚ self-denying‚ dependant woman is no longer a female lead. Instead‚ the female characters are projected to be successful in their quest for identity and individuality. A number of women writers have made their debut in 1990s‚ generating novels which revealed the
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The Woman Warrior‚ Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts‚ combines myths with autobiography in order to explore Kingston’s identify formation in relation to her mother and female relatives. Kingston uses the first person to narrate five distinct short stories. Each of them contains a central female character. The unique feature of this book is the rearrangement of the traditional Chinese myths‚ legend of Fa Mu Lan and Ts’ai Yen. The combination of fact and fiction and the combination of reality and
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of the “New Woman” in the 1920’s-1930’s. Mia embodies the modernized women conceptualized in Germany post-World War I. Her aspirations to climb the bourgeois social ladder stem from a society obsessed with aesthetic beauty‚ and related pressures from being a woman in a high-class society. She mimics the display of the “New Woman” and therefore is driven to bear the weight of all interrelationship problems related to this identity‚ including the alienation from others. The “New Woman” is “appealing
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The literary works of Gail Godwin’s “A Sorrowful Woman”; “How to Date a Browngirl‚ Blackgirl‚
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