Few women have any power in the book aside from a few exceptions. ... On the other hand men in the book are commonly seen as leaders of clans, tribes etc. ... Kaede's experiences are ideal to parallel representations of women in the book. ... Women in the book also comply with the term 'emphasised femininity' used in the book "Gender and Power," by R.W Connell. ... Throughout the book the representation of men and women in the book has not been equal. ...

• Word Count: 1182
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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

One factor that men served in Toni Morrison's book Sula was their ability to change the women around them. For example, two of the men in the book, BoyBoy and Ajax, had a strong effect on two of the most unimpressionable women in the book, Sula and Eva. ... The constant trend the men employ in the book is abandonment. ... Ajax is another man in the book who holds a strong influence over women. ... Ajax's interest was short lived, however, and as is the theme of the men in the book, he took off. ...

• Word Count: 994
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This chapter of the book, "Of Woman Born," opens with the author's journal entry. ... The book, on the other hand, was pointing out and questioning these stereotypes and assumptions I held. ... Was this book hoping to motivate women to step out and break away from their gender roles? It led me to think of the intention the author has while she wrote this book. ... Also, I was forced to question my perception of a woman and a mother many times while reading this chapter, leading me to think that the purpose of the book was to generate more awareness of the situation many women were during ...

• Word Count: 578
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After reading The Woman Warrior, you get the impression that she worked hard to put together her book. ... The major explosion comes when Maxine tries to tell her mother her secrets and the screaming dialogue that follows ends the middle of the book. ... Kingston, in the book climax, lashes out at her mother, when she is finally claiming her own identity. ... The book was not with out flaws though. Though the fantasy material was excellent, it came too early in the book. ...

• Word Count: 715
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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 character of Judith (name meaning "Jewish woman", "Jewess", "woman from Judea") in the book bearing the same name is a complex person with many contradictions. ... This is a dramatic and fast moving story once we meet the main character in Judith, half way through the book. ... While the book may be considered historical, at best it is fictional since many of the historical details in this story are incorrect. ... The city, Bethulia, meaning "house of God", referred to in the book is only mentioned in this book at nowhere else. ... In this book, the woma...

• Word Count: 1014
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• 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

She is to blame for eating the forbidden fruit and the separation between her and Adam in Book Nine. ... One of the first scenes Eve appears in Paradise Lost, is when she is drawn to her reflection in the water in Book 4. ... Because of John Milton's relationships, his readers and researchers believe that his representation of Eve is biased in his book and writings. ... At the lake in Book 4, God tells Eve that she is made from Adam and she will be the mother of humankind. ... In Book 5, Eve awakens Adam from a deep sleep to tell him about a dream she had. ...

• Word Count: 1176
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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

This book was incredibly good. ... Hurston gives you a great detail and descriptions of women in the book. Overall Zora Neale Hurston did an outstanding job of portraying woman and how in this book and how you can overcome the stereotypes of being a woman. This is a book that you can read over and over again and I'm quite sure that each time you read it you will find something new and interesting each time. It's definitely a book that I will find the time to not only read again but also encourage women and of all backgrounds to take the time to read as well....

• Word Count: 982
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The women in the book are tied to the men, as they directly or indirectly try to escape their lives on Mango Street and try to find a better future for themselves which is also why the book is dedicated "to the women." ... The only exception to the brash, uncaring and almost disgusting men of Mango Street appears to be Esperanza's father in cries in the book, jokes with Esperanza, does not physically harm his wife or kids and works hard. ... In other words, the actions of the men are more important than their individual names which generalizes the characteristics of men in the book. ... S...

• Word Count: 1139
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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

The book provides an up-close and personal account of the lives of these individuals. ... The book's central focus are two female protagonists by the names of Mariam and Lalia who represent the historical impact on women in this primitive society. ... The book is about the evolving relationship between both women and reveals that both of them are little better than animals. ... Nana's role in the book is as a mentor to Mariam who tries to instill in her values and self-belief. ... Benard in her book writes that when a woman gives birth to a baby girl, not one comes to collect her a...

• Word Count: 1256
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• 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