Besides various marches, women wrote books and other types of literature to state the ignorance of women in society. ... Crosby, who published a novel, The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families, affirms in her literature that, "intricate experiments by researchers say that children from affluent homes cared my mothers and nannies still displayed significant insecurity in their attachments."" ... I wanted to see if I can get a hold of literature from the late 1800's and women's opinion about working in those times. ...

• Word Count: 2200
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Background of Study Contemporary English literature has produced a plethora of novels dealing with the everyday lives of people within the context of their place of origin and their unique culture. ... This theory, according to Carol Pajaron of the Ateneo de Manila High School English Department, compares and contrasts females in literature with common female stereotypes. In a personal note to this writer, she adds that the theory "also looks at male stereotypes but always paralleled with the female stereotype." ... The male stereotypes to be used are stereotypes resulting from feminist res...

• Word Count: 2791
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Readers view texts in perspective, to enable them to understand the books they are reading. Gender roles have been prevalent in our communities for centuries now and they are unfortunately still common; in today's society. The novel Speak , by Laurie Halse Anderson paints a vivid image on gender rol...

• Word Count: 1774
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School