THE ROLE OF THE WOMAN IN THE RENAISSANCE “Two of far nobler shape‚ erect and tall; Godlike erect! With native honour clad in naked majesty‚ seemed lords of all; and worthly seemed; for in their looks divine the image of their glorious Maker shone‚ truth‚ wisdom‚ sanctitude‚ severe and pure‚ whence true authority in men: though both not equal‚ as their sex not equal seemed; for contemplation he and valour formed; for softness she and sweet attractive grace; he for God only‚ she for God in him.”
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Ain’t I a Woman? Sojourner Truth gave her famous "Ain’t I a Woman?" speech at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention in Akron‚ Ohio. (The women’s rights movement grew in large part out of the anti-slavery movement.) No formal record of the speech exists‚ but Frances Gage‚ an abolitionist and president of the Convention‚ recounted Truth’s words. There is debate about the accuracy of this account because Gage did not record the account until 1863 and her record differs somewhat from newspaper accounts
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More often than not‚ his idea of a woman is represented as a flower. Although a woman is made of many parts that a flower does not contain‚ Williams still manages to illustrate the concept of body and soul as a flower. A piece of work written by Williams that compares the female to a flower can be seen in “The Young Housewife.” The speaker of the poem informs the reader of what meets his eye while passing a house one early morning. He observes a woman who is “in negligee/behind the wooden
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is about black females and the experience from society. The short story‚ “Country Lovers” was written by Nadine Gardiner in 1975 (Clugston 2010). The story is about a black female named Thebedi and white boy named Paulus‚ who grew up together in South Africa on a small farm and lived in a discriminative environment. From childhood‚ both grew up on a farm‚ where interracial was harsh for the lovers. Paulus was very afraid of the community knowing about his relationship with Thebedi. Paulus goes off
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death of woman Wang----a picture of real lives The death of woman Wang is written by Jonathan D. Spence‚ a famous scholar of East Asian studies. This book is focus on the early days of Qing dynasty‚ when Qing dynasty had only been established for about 20 years‚ the government‚ even though the whole society‚ are in their infancies. The author discusses issues of a small county in northeastern China ---T’an-ch’eng‚ which is in the province of Shantung. The genre of this book is difficult to
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enjoyment of her friend‚ but‚ a wild woman‚ kept rollicking company” Kingston continues‚ “Imagining her free with sex doesn’t fit‚ though. I don’t know any woman like that‚ or men either (8).” This story and her portrayal of the events that led to her aunt’s suicide were the beginning of Kingston’s path to ending the silence and discovering her own identity. Kingston recognizes the injustice that her aunt‚ who she named the No Name Woman‚ received. Being a woman‚ she would have been blamed for the
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is more often than not regarded as a purely political treatise. However‚ like Plato’s Republic and Rousseau’s Emile‚ it can be seen as both a political and an educational treatise. It is above all a celebration of the rationality of women. It constitutes an attack on the view of female education put forward by Rousseau and countless others who regarded women as weak and artificial and not capable of reasoning effectively. Mary Wollstonecraft rejected the education
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Diotima‚ Socrates’ great teacher from the Symposium‚ a work by Plato was one of the most influential women thinkers of all time‚ whether she was a real person or a literary fictional character. She related to Socrates the theory of love that he described to the partygoers at Agathon’s banquet‚ a celebration of Agathon’s victory at the competition of Dionysis in Athens and of Eros. Before we search for the idea of why Diotima is a woman‚ we should first discuss a little about her. We know that‚ if she
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In her essay Woman in the Nineteenth Century‚ Margaret Fuller discusses the state of marriage in America during the 1800s. She is a victim of her own knowledge‚ and is literally considered ugly because of her wisdom. She feels that if certain stereotypes can be broken down‚ women can have the respect of men intellectually‚ physically‚ and emotionally. She explains why some of the inequalities exist in marriages around her. Fuller feels that once women are accepted as equals‚ men and women will be
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Woman at Point Zero In the book‚ Woman at Point Zero‚ the character Firdaus seems to be a woman that has endured a tremendous amount of suffering and discrimination in a society that victimizes women. Throughout the story she has experienced several incidents which bear a strong effect on her feelings towards men. Her confrontations and observations of men as a young girl influence the way she is as an adult. Firdaus seems to be a woman with little control over her destiny and is really looking
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