Women's suffrage

In the year 1967 16 year old Susan Eloise Hinton wrote the cutting edge book the Outsiders. During this time female authors would be looked down upon which is why Susan used the name S.E HInton, which are her initials. The book tells us about the unpleasant relationship between the Greasers and the Socs. The Socs are westside's elite and privileged, they would always get away with illegal actions and they have always gotten what they wanted, but there is something most of them don’t feel loved…

The novel narrates the lives and struggles of the picture brides of the early 20th century whose lives surround the concept of Omiai. The word constitutes of two words mi meaning to see or look and ai meaning to meet. So, the word literally translates to looking and meeting. Omiai is a matchmaking tradition in Japan wherein the marriage partners are chosen often through an intermediary known as Nakoudo. The Nakoudo can be a parent, relatives, friends or even a matchmaking company. The parties…

forbidden ground? A few weeks ago the headlines in the Dutch papers shouted that ‘we’ had failed to realize a minimum of 30 percent women occupying positions on boards and in the top of corporations. Despite significant commitment to the advancement of women’s careers, progress appears to have stalled. The percentage of women on boards and senior-executive…

can we say that girls are worth more than their looks or that society should treat women with respect when there are pageants proving the exact opposite? Some may say that it provides women a chance to become somebody in our society or that it is a women's choice if they want to be a pageant queen or not, but at what cost. Beauty pageants are the problem keeping us from any feminist progress by sending the wrong message to young girls, women and society as a whole. The first step to any…

In history, society has shaped how certain people should behave and what rules one must follow. The act of one breaking away from societal expectations in any period of history was considered out of the question and unheard of. In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening the main character Edna Pontellier goes through trials where her gender limits her freedom. Society’s unrealistic expectations drives Edna to perceive death as a form of rebirth and a way of achieving freedom from said society. As Edna…

the Western woman because of the "perpetual masquerade" of their veil, which allows them to walk safely in the streets, and protects them from men's prying (96-97). She sees the veil from the Arab Muslim women’s point of view, and thus, negates its stereotypical image as a metaphor for Muslim women’s oppression. She narrates how the Muslim women in the bathhouse persuade her to undress and bathe, and when they see her corset: "they believed I was so locked up in that machine that it was not in…

For millennia, human societies have mostly been patriarchal. Men have always been in dominant leadership roles where they have all of the power. Women, on the contrary, have been typically portrayed in literature as they would be in normal society: subordinate and weak. This is no different in 17th century England; however, The Tempest contradicts this. William Shakespeare wrote The Tempest in the early 1600s when this cultural stigma was present. The Tempest is a play about a former Duke, named…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is often considered a feminist classic. Evaluate this claim. THESIS STATEMENT: The yellow wallpaper is a short story that describes the attitude towards women's physical and mental health in the 19th century. By writing this short story the author likely attempts to shed some light on being mentally ill women in male-dominated society. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wallpaper” www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescript…

Throughout history, females have been subjugated to the will of men and forced to live as second class citizens. Women that have tried to break from these stereotypes and advocate for their own rights and equality have often faced even harsher consequences at the hands of powerful, domineering men trying to preserve the social construct. In Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, Ophelia, a young women ambivalent of her own position in society, shows moments of outright submission and resignation, while…

The research paper aims to explore the elements of feminism in Anita Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting. The paper seeks to study the work of Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting as a text of feminine writing and deals with number of problems that are faced by the women characters in the novel Lessons in Forgetting such as female feticide, gender discriminations, love and dependence on family members, and explains briefly how they overcome such problems to move on in their lives. As per the title, the…