She clings to Jim and feeds his self-image by stating how brave he is. ... She refused to hide the world that was exclusively a part of her. ... Although the women of My Antonia did follow the typical roles of woman drawn by society, they also created new women's roles of their own. ...
There should be more story lines depicting a woman president, and how she would handle the likes of Osama Bin Laden and world terrorism, or how she governed the efforts of the latest space shuttle mission that failed, and saved the lives of all of the passengers on board. ... Susan Isaacs writes about this very thing in her essay entitled, "Brave Dames and Wimpettes". ... They are either about some form of terrorist activity, and a beefy hero that saves the world, or about some busty bimbo running along the beach in a thong bikini. ... Maybe young people would see it, and be inspired to con...
The forefather (scratch that, make it "foremother- even though this feminine term is not found in Webster's New World Dictionary) of the Women's Rights Movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, pointed out, "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her- (Eisenberg 2). ... On the topic of chivalry, a lot of old fairy tales have men, brave knights or charming princes, who will do heroic deeds and sacrifice their lives in order to rescue a damsel in distress. ...
