Female pirates

The smile; universally known as a symbol of happiness. However, for women, the smile means something much different. Women are expected to have a smile plastered on their faces at all times, despite what their true emotions are. Amy Cunningham, the author of Why Women Smile has a strong belief that smiles are used to oppress women and make them appear more docile. The smile has evolved into the symbol of the simple woman: kind, motherly, and overall powerless. Women should feel comfortable to…

Morggan Edelbrock’s Declaration of Independence From society's expectation for the way people should dress Society has their own visual on how everyone should dress. In my opinion, it's one of the biggest problems in society today. People need to stop harassing others for the way they dress. Many people get made fun of for not having “modern clothing”, wearing the newest shoes, or the most expensive jewelry. Not every child's parents buy them everything they want, many kids have one, two or…

Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is a book about one woman, Edna Pontellier, and about every woman in her society. Though it is not in itself a book of feminist teachings, its purpose was to enlighten---and hopefully awaken---its female readers to their selves and their humanity by showing the awakening of one such woman. Presumably, her intended audience was young to middle-aged women, both married and single, who were interested in love stories, art, scandals, or social analysis. As a young, single…

often leaving strong female characters in the shadows dependent on their male counterparts. Historically, there…

Works Cited Mardorossian, Carine M. Framing the Rape Victim: Gender and Agency Reconsidered. Rutgers University Press, 2014 “We live in a “rape culture” … not because U.S. culture is inherently in the business of normalizing sexual violence against women but because violence is an inherently sexualized phenomenon of which rape is the extreme form” (Mardorossian 8). In Carine M. Mardorossian’s, Framing the Rape Victim, the feminist professor voices how gendered crime continues to remain…

It is clear that the two female main characters suffered from male unfairness control and can be oppression and this limited their voices. In general idea, women presented as members of the inferior gender. So, men took advantage and control her in the bad way. This is really presents…

novels are women who are initially restricted by patriarchal limits and societal expectations. The attempt to break free of those restrictions marks the strength to gain freedom from their respective situations. What does it mean to be “free?” The female protagonists in Women Without Men, Sultana’s Dream, and Brick Lane fight against the societal restrictions placed upon them through asserting their own power and gaining agency over their lives to become “free”…

The prevailing answer comes from two critics; Carolyn Sylvander and Ann Stafford. Sylvander argues that Ellison’s female characters are not fully human, that “the narrator of Invisible Man in fact loses what slight recognition he has of woman-as-human at the beginning of the novel as he becomes more closely allied with manhood, Brotherhood, and his own personhood” (Sylvander…

Domina and her Gladiators There are many forms of media that distort and influence our perception of women. One in particular, is the television series Spartacus: War of the Damned;The show delineates women away from the stereotypical dreamy housewife, and defies the critical characterization that follows the meaning of being a woman. In the journal review, “Redefining Gender in Sword and Sandal” Anna Foka reevaluates “Actual power, though, as defined in the series, go[ing] beyond mere…

The short story, Hills like White Elephants, is essentially a conversation between a woman (Jig) and a man (unnamed, but referred to as The American) at a train station. Although this story is a conversation, neither of them truly communicate with each other, and they do not seem to care about the point of view of one another. The American is exasperatingly trying to convince the girl to have an operation. The nature of this operation is never clearly stated, but it is assumed to be an abortion.…