An Unmarried Woman

settlers were ordered to Victoria as a result to the labour shortage. Women were outnumbered by almost 7 to 1, this meant they very often made up a small and vulnerable proportion of the population. The majority of Port Phillip's women were initially unmarried free settlers. House servants were often single women and the government paid for them to travel to Victoria “safely” with married couples of families Living and working conditions: During the 19th century most women in Victorian England…

The Right to One’s Body by Margaret Sanger serves as a call to action for women to take control of their bodies and make the decision as to whether or not they want to be mothers, without the input or persuasion of a man. Sanger believed that “The basic freedom of the world is woman’s freedom,” and that ultimately, using birth control was a woman’s decision. Sanger was born in 1879 and lived in New York for a majority of her life. She was one of eleven children, and her mother unfortunately had…

Calm Down, Dear. Name the odd one out: A boat, a fridge, a stapler, a woman, a colander, a spoon. The objectification of women is everywhere. Not just in the ubiquitous images that inundate the media of photo shopped woman, dolled up to meet the laborious requirements of today’s beauty standards. Or the bizarre advertisements for such things as yogurts where the women are dressed in very little clothing for no apparent reason but the male gaze (I don’t need the camera to linger on a woman’s…

to the man. I hope that Japanese women aren’t constrained by their past. Having already achieved a dominant role in issues involving the household it will only be a matter of time till women start acquiring public power. While the modern japanese woman still enjoys cooking, cleaning, flower arranging, and raising children, she can still aspire to do greater things outside the home. Like most roles of women, there are some traditions that should be left in the past. I should be the women’s…

interest in internal medicine, which served her well when she opened her own hospital in Peiping, as her expertise was desperately needed (Chao, 1947, 158-159). Even more impressive, Chao held both positions, as a principal and a doctor, as an unmarried woman. She took control of her own life, breaking the engagement with her cousin because she did not want to be married, though her use of self-deprecation in her letter illustrated that she did not simply completely disregard ideas about gender…

American Colonization Society In North America’s early republic, the rights of women were governed by the state’s law instead of federal law. The state law’s authority implied that a lot depended on exactly where a woman was living more so her region’s social circumstances. During this time, women were greatly discriminated against, and they were also denied so many rights that made them look like second-class citizens in a country that they called home (Foner, VOF, 42). This essay is seeking to…

Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) is the first selected woman poet in this study. Writing in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, Mew’s poetry straddles the fin de siècle and early modernist periods. Thus Victorian and feminist approaches are used in examining her poetry. Mew's poetic voice is an integral link in women's writing from the end of the nineteenth century into the first two decades of the twentieth century in that it enables contemporary…

The Queen’s statement implies that her sex is an exception on account of the God and since there is no one superior to God, this factor influenced her people to open up and accept her. This example is clear that antinarcissistic rhetoric enables woman to access the patriarchy despite their inequality in the society. Furthermore, antinarcissistic rhetoric is demonstrated and crafted in varies ways to outreach the society and address social inequality. A similar story that illustrates this…

The Anglo-Saxon people relied heavily on numerous values and ideals. Strangely, women in the community had more powers than they would in later time periods. They thought boasting was essential and were known to seek revenge. They believed in the concept of fate and everyone immensely valued loyalty and codes of honor. Oral poets, also known as scops, were an imperative part of loyalty, codes of honor, and revenge. Most people could not read or write, so the reciting of poetry was the only way…

received very little formal education. Although some learned to read and write, many were illiterate. Girls typically learned the skills needed to manage a home from their mother. It was thought that a woman didn't need an education as she was supposed to work in the home. The main job of the woman during colonial times was to manage the home. They were responsible for raising the children, cooking meals and sewing clothes. Women worked extremely hard during colonial times and there was always…