New Woman

place to live or sue anyone as these things were for a man to deal with and were his right. Any income that a woman earned, if she was lucky enough to acquire a job, was considered her husband's property. To Susan B. Anthony, her purse was not for fashion as many our today but instead a statement, “purse of her own” became a nationwide symbol of a woman's financial independence. A woman must have a purse of her own, & how can this be, so long as the wife is denied the right to her individual and…

“Victorian fears about women's behavior evolved into a national debate known as "The Woman Question," which encompassed issues such as property ownership, marriage contracts, inheritance law, and female sexuality, among others.” A quote from an article called “Staking Salvation: The Reclamation of the Monstrous Female in Dracula.” The “New Woman,” concept which is used to describe Mina Harker in “Dracula is a woman who wishes to be educated, sexually, economically self-sufficient. This shows…

representation of women and attacks the “New Women”, through the voice of the main women characters, Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray, later known as Mrs. Harker. In the Longman Cultural Edition of Dracula, the term “New Woman” is defined as a “single urban young woman, often working in a new clerical job; she smoked cigars and rode a bicycle and ventured, scandalously into the world on her own” (Blake, Dracula 413). Mina is the epitome of the idealized virtuous Victorian woman who is also…

Pocket Knives and Sympathy: An Analysis of Modernist Male Anxieties Modernism is rife with experimentation and the challenging of norms as a way to experience the new world that is emerging post-war and post-Victorian Era. The majority of modernist authors wrote modernist novels to experiment with new forms and challenge the old ways of the traditional novel. Virginia Woolf experimented with form, but most importantly she used her novels as a platform to challenge the gender system that was in…

Mattel’s new line misinterprets a real-life woman’s body. Firstly, when you think of a Barbie you probably think, tall, skinny, nice make-up, and blonde hair, and that is exactly what original Barbie is. However, Mattel has come out with three new Barbie’s, curvy, petite, and tall, to join original Barbie. There is lots of controversy about whether or not curvy Barbie is realistic to a real woman’s body. To compare curvy Barbie to a real life body of a woman you can use the "play scale" a ratio…

and “A New England Nun” by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. Then leading into the modernism period and in the modernism period, the role of women changed to be more expressive and have more individuality. This was when women decided that they did not need a man telling them how to live their lives and what to do with it, so many women either lived by themselves or just thought for themselves while still having a husband. The stories from the modernism period is “A High Toned Old Christian Woman” by…

whereas her predecessor is symbolic of modernism that was evolving by adhering to the characteristics of the ‘New Woman’. Thus, by feminist interpretation of Daphne Du Maurier’s much acclaimed novel Rebecca, we get to know about the ideology of society of the twentieth century, in their treatment of woman from the idealised and suppressed ‘angel’ to supposedly independent and modern ‘New…

appears to be his first attempt, in taking a new car out for a drive and breaking it in. Cummings’ poem is sexually motivated, his tone reflects male dominance, using symbolism and metaphors to transforms his car into a sex act with an inexperienced woman. The title of the poem “she being Brand” gives readers the idea that Cummings’ might be speaking about a female. He also shows his male dominance in the title by expressing how he is turning her into a woman, taking her purity and innocence,…

Victorian woman. They were meant to have a sense of purity and have an education. Mina was the poster child for Victorian woman, while her friend Lucy was on the fence. In Chapter Five, after being presented many proposal offers by different men, she asked Mina “[w]hy can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble. But this is heresy, and I must not say it,” (Stocker p. 73). Lucy’s statement goes against the grain of how the traditional Victorian woman…

lover Bendrix display what love is. They adore one another. The problem with their relationship is the fact that Sarah is married to Henry. The love Sarah has for Henry does not compare to what she feels for her lover Bendrix. Her love for Henry is old news to her. Although, Henry still loves Sarah their relationship is shattered because of the love she possesses for Bendrix. There, however lies a problem with adultery. The women of Sarah’s time were focused on social equality, women’s rights…