Woman

is indeed a woman, at times she shows the characteristics of a male. Acknowledging the fact that Lady Macbeth was a female, at times in the play she held the most man like features, for example, when she questions the manhood of Macbeth, “when you durst do it, then you were a man/and to be more that what you were, you would/be so much more the man”(1.7.56-58), and this event happens more than once. Lady Macbeth disrespects Macbeth with numerous lines making him seem more of the woman than her,…

Seventeen years ago, this past May, I lost one the most important to me, my mother, a “Phenomenal Woman”, in my book. The poem, “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou was my mothers’ favorite poem. Every time she did something that she felt was great, those very words would roll off her tongue, “Phenomenal Woman That’s Me”! Her death was sudden, no one even knew what happened or how it happened. Family members found her one morning on her floor laying there unresponsive and pale in color.…

The Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol F. Karlsen is about the similarities, reasons, and differences of the victims of the Witchcraft trials in colonial New England. The characteristics of society in New England during the 1600s led to many accusations of witchcraft. The Puritans who had settled the area were not found of people who were different or had different ideas compared to them. This led to many of the people who the Puritans felt were off or strange to be accused of witchcraft.…

In the opening of the first chapter, “No Name Woman”, we can see how Kingston lived in a continual conflict between messages, sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle, of two cultures. How could a bridge be built on this terrible emptiness with socialization within a framework of expectations on the one hand and acculturation on the other? The lack of public voice, the silence, the secret kept, formed the loose threads of the story of the aunt who committed suicide and whose name was erased from the…

Femininity as a Norm When asked to describe the average American the most common description given is of a white male. If you consult statistics 50.8% of Americans are Women, yet a men are still the representative. In her essay There is No Unmarked Woman Deborah Tannen claims that the preference for men as the norm, is both unreasonable, and harmful to women. She bolsters this accounts of her with personal experience, and a discussion of language and science in regards to gender. Tannen opens…

One book, The Only Woman in the Room, focused on not only the author’s individual experiences within the realm of physics academia, but also on other individual’s experiences and how they were affected by their mentor’s encouragement, or lack thereof, as well as familial and peer encouragement (Pollack 2015). Eileen Pollack, author of The Only Woman in the Room, says that her abandonment of physics and her goal to graduate school…

"The yellow woman ." A short story written by Leslie Marmon Silko about a woman who meets a man while she was traveling along the river whom she believed was the "katsnia spirit" . The woman was told stories by her grandfather about a "yellow woman" who was taken by a spirit in the night , she lived with him until she was able to leave and return to her village . The young woman in the story is referred to by the man whom she believes to be is a spirit as "yellow woman". In the opening of…

The scent of a Woman, a truly touching film that has many different virtues throughout it. From something so basic; a college student helping a disabled person. To something so deep; someone wanting to end their own life. Either way, this film has many different themes and messages. There are over 100 different themes that can be included in a movie, however a few main themes that fit just right in Scent of a Woman is loyalty, friendship, and justice yet the dominant theme is loyalty. The theme…

The Story of Old Woman Johnson Old Woman Johnson lived two miles away from her son, Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson was a world-renowned inventor who created flying cars, floating schools, and robot teachers. Everyone in the city of New Rock had metal, floating houses; silver lawns, and a floating car garage-everyone except Old Woman Johnson. Old Woman Johnson had a small brick house on the ground with a green lawn and no garage. She believed that technology ruins people life. However,…

and Daly. Luce Irigaray is a well-known and well-respected French feminist theorist. She works as an interdisciplinary thinker in linguistics, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Irigaray’s recognition came from her writing of Speculum of the Other Woman, in which she explained her theory of the exclusion of women by men philosophically and psychoanalytically. Her main goal is to help create a world where a subject for females exists when not conforming to the male subject. (Internet…