The book, which was written as both a novel and a statement, has themes such as the strength of the mind during hard times and powerful female roles. ... Cathers weaves her crafty persuasion for the cause of female equality throughout her book. ... She is the opposite of everything a "proper" woman should be, her skin is brown and her arms are muscular, yet throughout the book she never looses her "feminine" essence. ... The book, "My Antonia" is a deviant look on pioneer country life as much as it is a clever indoctrination tool for the women's rights movement during the early 2...

• Word Count: 821
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Book Review: Amelia Earhart by Carol Ann Pearce. ... This book does a good job of showing Amelia's life as a pioneer. ... As the book goes on, her drastic stunts just get more and more daring, which keeps you involved and interested in the book. ... I would definitely recommend this book to others. ... There are two important lessons one can learn from reading this book. ...

• Word Count: 998
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Sarah was also a prolific writer, however, and parlayed that into income through submissions to periodicals and literary contests, self-publishing a book of her poetry, and writing a successful novel. ... In 1837, Sarah and the Ladies Magazine were bought out and absorbed into Godey's Lady's Book, published by Louis Godey in Philadelphia. ... When Sarah was brought on board, the Lady's Book aspired to turn into a more literary periodical, and sought out fiction from male authors such as Edgar Allan Poe. ... Lady's Book differed greatly from Sarah's former pub...

• Word Count: 837
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A brief summary of the book The book is divided into 4 parts. ... The final fourth part of the book is devoted to a discussion of how shoppers psychologically react to shopping environments. Much of this discussion covers and reinforces ground that he dealt with in earlier sections of the book, but there is some additional material introduced. ... The book is worth reading for shoppers - to see one's own behavior - and shopkeepers. ... What I was most impressed and learned Why we buy is an excellent book supplement for studying about consumer behavior. ...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although he is not the hero of this book, Nick has all the qualities of being a hero. ... His relationship with Jordan Baker runs through much of the book. ... The events that take place in the book turn Nick into something of a philosopher and a moralizer. ... Of all the characters in the book, Nick remains pure to the end. ...

• Word Count: 480
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Laing The main characters' apparent madness or irrational behavior plays an important role in the book "One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest- by Ken Kesey. ... While the Combine undoubtedly contains both male and female workers, its main representatives in the book do appear to be women. ... In these parts of the book we can see possibilities of sexual equality the rest of the book seems to contradict. ... The insanity in the book differs from character to character. ...

• Word Count: 1132
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The main theme of the book undisputedly would be going against society to fulfill self happiness. ... Through her descriptive writing techniques, the reader can understand the book clearly and ultimately being on Edna Pontellier's side. ... Despite the harsh criticism she received for this book, she felt she was right. ... This book has an impact on everyone that reads it. ... Unfortunately, it was not until the 1950's when this book was brought out and republished. ...

• Word Count: 1384
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This book was written in first person narrative, which lets you become one with the writer and be able to connect with what she is putting out. I think that this point of view makes the reader look at the book with a more open mind and actually be able to feel what the narrator has felt at that moment. ... It is extremely disturbing within the book to acknowledge that Firadaus only finds true self-acceptance when she is put to death for the murder of her pimp. ... As the same in the book, these women face continuous physical and mental abuse through out each of their lives and will continue ...

• Word Count: 1223
• Approx Pages: 5

Having read the book "Song of a Hummingbird", I have had the privilege to read such a book with lots of ethnic, ethic, and religious issues at hand, and the struggle for a womans identity. ... This book explains just how Spaniards invaded the Mexicas and imposed their religion without real explanation and with high expectations especially from women. ... In the book, one of the positive outcomes of Huitzitzilin's confession is that Father Benito was finally able to hear the truth and not just the selected chronicles that were introduced to him but more that what he expected. The fact th...

• Word Count: 1163
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This book is about the women who live in the community of Brewster Place, a poor Neighborhood on a dead-end street. The book displays the struggles of all African- American women. ... For example, in the time this book was set it was wrong to have homosexual relationships. ... Throughout the book, we see that Brewster Place itself will die. ... The book itself, as you well know, is divided into seven stories. ...

• Word Count: 1933
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

She got a lot of her ideas from reading Richardson's novels, especially the book Sir Charles Gradison. The book "gave the woman of innocense the sheltered environment necessary ....realization of her full potential" (pg 12). ... Oscar Handlin supports and also disputes it , as in Abigail Adams being a revolutionary woman, throughout the whole book. ... I just do not understand why this has to be in the book. ... Book: Abigail Adams: An American Woman by Charles W. ...

• Word Count: 1735
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

"The Author to Her Book- takes on a very feminine manner of describing her book as a child, which illustrates it in a clear and unique way. ... This excerpt allows readers to perceive Anne's spirit and imagination as she compares authoring a book to having a child. It also clearly describes her book as both her creation and as her child, referencing both as a personal piece of herself. ... There, she expresses the book/child as fatherless because she is its sole creator. ... This is because, in reality, a book doesn't need a father, thus portraying the playful side of Anne. ...

• Word Count: 1953
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Written and set in the late 19th century, Bram Stoker's epistolary novel, Dracula, is a pivotal book in the horror/gothic literature. ... Victorian culture basically revolved around suppressing women and this is quite obvious in many scenes parts of the book. ... Thus the real fear in the book is not darkness and vampiric nature but the loss of female innocence, a trait apparently extremely valuable and important to men. ... One example would be Harker's first encounter with the three sisters early in the book. ... While the primary purpose of this book was of course to entertain, I...

• Word Count: 1338
• Approx Pages: 5

Many years later, author Linda Colley explored Elizabeth Marsh's life while researching for her book, Captives. ... Colley's book The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh is solely based on an interpretation of a female captive. Elizabeth Marsh's self-written book The Female Captive was a product of its time and also one of Colley's main sources. ... Furthermore, George Marsh's Family Book also provided some insight to Elizabeth Marsh's life and why she is an important figure of social history. The Family Book helped Colley to not only look at Marsh herself but also at h...

• Word Count: 1708
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

This book covers in detail the differences between men and women. Every couple should read this book together and then again separately to truly understand what the authors point is. ... There are four seasons of love discussed in this book. ...

• Word Count: 600
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In the book Candide, the author Voltaire points our the cruelty put on to females, makes the reader aware, and want to act upon it. ... Contrary to belief given in this book, women are not mere objects. ... Cunegonde and the old woman sometimes escaped from certain places within the book, making themselves runaways, when they decided they had enough torture, establishing their tolerance level. ...

• Word Count: 542
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Janie, the main character in the book, was raised by her grandmother. ... Now if I may go off the subject for a moment I would like to say how beautifully and descriptively the book is written. ... As the book shows the strong relationship between mother and child is important in the African-American community, and the conflict between Janie's idyllic view of marriage and Nanny's wis...

• Word Count: 608
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The main character of this book is Firdaus; Firdaus is a woman who has stood on her own since child birth and tries to find justice in a corrupt society. ... This book is the insight of a woman who sticks to the only means of survival she knows. ... As you are reading this book you wonder when will her life change and she will become somebody she is happy with, but the truth is she never reaches her potential. ...

• Word Count: 523
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Introduction and short summary Jane Austen began writing Emma in 1814, and the book was published anonymously for the first time in 1816. ... The characterization of Emma Woodhouse The first chapter of the book introduces the protagonist of the story, Emma Woodhouse, a twenty-one-year-old girl. ... This is also a bit where the book is about, the importance of marriage. ... Jane Austen almost immediately gives us an appraisal on the main character of the book, Emma Woodhouse. ... That's what the book is about in fact. ...

• Word Count: 906
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

She is in an extreme situation (being a doctor) where she must reject everything to do with being female in the culture; since the book takes place in Egyptian culture not American culture. If the book was set in American culture with the narrator's view on her body and marriage, I could see how the book would be considered misogynist. ... Throughout the book she has competed and won into her position to be up there with men on the social level because at times, she completely took on the characteristics of a man. ... I do not doubt the narrator because of a powerful statement she made ea...

• Word Count: 1095
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Spence assumes the role of social historian in his book The Death of Woman Wang. This book is written as a counter to the "depersonalization" of rural China so commonly seen in other historical portrayals of the land. This book is about the immense turmoil during the transition to the Qing Dynasty, told through one county, through the lives of the Chinese people who were so directly affected by the morals and customs of the time period. ... Spence makes the history of China sound like "hell on earth" at many points in the book. ... The role of men and women of 17th century society are d...

• Word Count: 1409
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

To the author, the book "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" portrays men or women in neither a good or nor a bad light, but in true light. It may make men or women sound like a good or bad deal to their partners, but according to the book, it is the only deal we get. ...

• Word Count: 404
• Approx Pages: 2

Genji, the son of the emperor and a concubine, is used in this book to represent males and their unchanging harshness toward females. ... He shows this through his many unfaithful, immoral affairs with females throughout the book. ...

• Word Count: 365
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

In the 50s, feminist activist and author Simone de Beauvoir, suggested in her book that the term "women" we use in everyday life today is different from the same term "women" used in her book. Until now, the concept/definition of "women" has emerged from the androcentrism of the patriarchic society,...

• Word Count: 425
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Young adult readers will honestly enjoy this book because this is the story about a young girl who the readers can really relate to. While reading the book, you feel drawn towards and close to our heroine, Mattie. ... The reader experiences everything and feels everything that Mattie does and by the end of the book, they"ll be proud of the little girl who matured into a refined young woman....

• Word Count: 655
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School