Women's writing in English

In ancient times women's rights varied from one century to another where females exposed to many changes over time, where some consensus emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries designed for women's freedom and attempted to share the women in several areas of work. But, all the attempts failed because the prevention of exit and participation of women in working life as well as inhibition of Education which leads to exposure of female prey to ignorance and unawareness. With the…

In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, he also advances an understanding of gender and of women’s place in eighteenth-century English society, but does so in a manner that is curious about the ramifications of beauty and the diminished power women had at the time in the process of flirtation and romance. While the poem begins with a description of Belinda and her…

Occupational segregation is a reality in the labor market and one of the significant reasons that explains the persistent wage gap between men and women. While some occupations, specifically those in healthcare and education, have become increasingly integrated over time, others remain highly concentrated by either men or women. Women are overrepresented in teaching and nursing, while men dominate the industries of business, engineering, and construction (source 1). This occupational segregation…

Reality in the Sarcasm (A Discussion on Chaucer's usage of Satire to Meet His Agenda.) Geoffrey Chaucer was known as the father of the English Language. During Chaucer's time in the late 1300’s, he had many issues with the state of how people lived. He used his writing to criticize the societal issues he noticed during his time. He uses Satire in his writings to get his message across to the common people during the 1300’s. Satire is defined as the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or…

policies. Thomas Hobbes believed in absolutism, he thought that people are naturally cruel, greedy and selfish, but John Locke was against absolutism, he believe in equality, freedom and natural rights for all men (Esler 545). Both men were 17th century english thinkers that gave ideas that became key to enlightenment but they had very different ideas on human nature and the government (Esler 545) this shows that it is not obvious that all…

A genre of written prose fictional narrative… is characterized by a strong interest in plot; by a degree of psychological and/or social realism, and frequently by the presence of elements of moral, political or social comment. (Robert 150) The English Novel, from its beginning in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to its great popular flowering in the nineteenth, had been essentially what might be called a ‘public instrument’, basing its view of what was significant in human…

Shange’s use of language is also important to examine in the context of writing against the grain. The English language has been used to oppress black women for centuries. The stereotypes we see regarding black women in the spoken and written word, and the power that language has in shaping the way we think and act are impossible to ignore. Shange, in her interview with Luster, discusses the idea of “[l]anguage as a liberator” in conjunction with how women are oppressed through language, stating…

been seeking for the equality for decades, however, women’s lives always seem to somehow be connected to men around them. Females around the globe are not receiving appreciation for their accomplishments as much as men and that is count as a sort of inequality. Many articles and books have been written about genders’ inequality and Virginia Woolf is among those writers. Virginia Woolf, an English writer, is known for her modest feminist writings such as “A Room of One’s Own”. Virginia Woolf’s…

often involves danger, and alluding women. Since its publication in 1929, Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon has been used throughout English classes in grade schools and universities as a way to explore the theme of greed and deception. Despite this, The Maltese Falcon can also be studied in other branches of academic discipline. A student taking a women’s studies class could benefit from reading The Maltese Falcon as a way to learning about the depiction of women from a male author in the…

conditioned definitions of 'success' and 'happiness'; shape the narrative through their contradicting definitions. According to Bronte, women have the same capacity for success and Independence as men. However, her subconscious cultural belief that a women's success is to be married is a contradiction of her first definition of success. This results in a struggle between these two beliefs in Jane Eyre. Furthermore, the culture expectations of a women deeply embedded in Bronte's novel creates a…