An Unmarried Woman

has depicted unmarried black women through a lens that paints them as adulterous women who can only reach the pinnacle of success through a inner hardship. She has affairs with admittedly married men. She is flawed and she wipes clean the image of the whole black wife. She portrays a “black female sexuality that [does] not fit the traditional standards of respectability” (Tounsel 86). Her sexuality is defined by terms like “sidechick” and “hoe” and because of this her success as a woman has…

“Older men are far more likely to be married than older women” ( Span, Paula) Throughout the article “The Gray Gender Gap: Older Women Are Likelier to Go It Alone” written by Paula Span. While reading this article, one is able to understand the many difficulties that females undergo as they age if they decide to start a relationship or remarry. Span also highlights the drastic statistics that show the percentage of men married at a specific age in comparison to female at the same age. Overall…

A Rose For Emily is a short story written by William Faulkner. It revolves around a woman who lived her entire life in solitude in a small town. The yellow wallpaper on the other hand, by Charlotte Perkins, depicts the struggle of a woman with psychosis who is deprived treatment due to ignorance of her doctor husband which leads to deterioration of her health drastically. These two stories are interrelated in that both represent plies of women in a sexist society where men impose decisions on…

Realism in Chopin and Freeman Women in the 19th century, married or unmarried, were expected to stay at home all day taking care of the house and cleaning up after others. So it is no surprise that with nowhere else to be but home, many women began to purchase novels and read in their spare time. Many women took an interest in realist works of literature that were written by women, and about women much like themselves. Middle-class, homemaking women enjoyed reading about snapshots of…

Genuinely at first Louis was shaken about Brently’s death, who is Louis’s husband. It is apparent that she is greatly saddened over the death of her husband, but through the hour she thinks he is dead, she realizes the freedom she will have as an unmarried woman. She almost has a sense of joy that she can do what she pleases, now that her husband is gone. Independence, openness, and powerless all play key roles in how the theme is developed throughout the story. In the beginning of this story…

persecutions, an idea of what witches were supposed to resemble was circulating around the masses. Most of these charactersitics were considerd as possible warning signs of witches, and most of these warning signs targeted women e.g women who were unmarried, women who had premarital sex, women of lower class. Although it wasn 't unheard of for a man to be convincted of witchcraft, it was a scarce occurance and it mostly applied to men that were seen under these same 'female ' qualities that…

rights until the Women’s Rights Movement in 1848. All colonies viewed women as the weaker gender. In early New England colonies, the typical woman raised eight to ten babies. The women usually did household chores and took care of children as a living. Consequences for woman were different from men living in early New England Colonies. For example, if a woman committed adultery she would have to wear the letter “A” on their chest if they were caught. Men would not have to do this.…

In 1789, “the French revolutionaries issued their Declaration of the Rights of Man. It was only a matter of time before a woman published a “Declaration of the Rights of Woman.” (Perry 112) The Declaration of the Rights of Man would go on to include lines such as, “Men are born, and always continue, free, and equal in respect of their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only on public…

The Women of Sparta Spartan women in the 5th Century BCE were in many ways completely different to other Hellenic women during this time. Their role as mother, wife and woman were all far beyond what was expected of an every-day Athenian woman. Their way of living was foreign to the rest of the Hellenic world as their roles in society, upbringing, marriage and motherhood all heavily differed from those experienced by women in other poleis lifestyle. However, most evidence of what women’s lives…

Set in the 1950’s, the film follows Katherine Watson, a socially progressive and unmarried 30 year old college graduate, who takes a position teaching “The History of Art” at Wellesley College, a conservative women’s private college in Massachusetts, and her struggles to make a difference, both in the lives of her students and generations to come. In this paper I will examine how the film challenges gender stereotypes, investigates the sexist values of society at the time, and how it illustrates…