The regimen prescribed by her husband and brother was one of the myriad acceptable treatments recommend for hysteria. ... It follows, then, that the treatment; submission; anti-intellectualism; and relegation to women's' domestic sphere, was only a husband and a doctor's word away. ... She is there to show us how John's ideal woman behaves. ... The narrator has been denied her own humanity, by her husband, her brother, even by other women to the point that, finally, she denies it herself. ...

• Word Count: 845
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Campion again destroys the active/passive split when Ada's husband locks her up after witnessing her have sex with Baines. ... Campion shows the extent of patriarchy in the confused ideals of Ada's daughter Flora. ... However, as Flora begins to feel ostracised from her mother she starts to adopt patriarchal ideals, criticising her mother in her attempts of self fulfilment. ... Campion's film leads up to this moment, providing insight into patriarchal control and the oppression of women and aiming to challenge this notion through a reconstruction of ideals....

• Word Count: 1029
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Husbands and wives have unlimited sexual access to each other, and in all societies, there are norms concerning sexual activity outside of marriage. ... The family reproduces the attitudes, ideals and expectations essential for the reproduction of ruling-class values and this is not a positive thing, (Taylor et al, 1995). ... Marxists argue that this function of the family, particularly the wife, is to provide an emotional safety valve absorbing the husband's frustrations created by the capitalist system. ... They say that from an early age girls are trained to become emotionally skilled ...

• Word Count: 2090
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Even Abigail Adams, who would later be our second First Lady, spoke to her husband on the rights of women as the United States was being founded. ... Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. ... In a world ruled by men, these ideals will never change unless we stand up and silence them. ...

• Word Count: 1218
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Amanda Portefield writes that "while Bradstreet's poems testify to her dependency on her husband, to her feelings of insufficiency without him, and to her worship of the potency he represented, they also reflect her power to establish the context of his authority and her efforts to control his behavior."" ... In contrast, Jeffery Hammon proposes that for Puritan women, "social expectation coincided more closely with theological ideals of humility and self-deprecation, and this congruence of spiritual and behavioral norms may have permitted women to internalize the selflessness of the humb...

• Word Count: 886
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Amanda Portefield writes that "while Bradstreet's poems testify to her dependency on her husband, to her feelings of insufficiency without him, and to her worship of the potency he represented, they also reflect her power to establish the context of his authority and her efforts to control his behavior."" ... In contrast, Jeffery Hammon proposes that for Puritan women, "social expectation coincided more closely with theological ideals of humility and self-deprecation, and this congruence of spiritual and behavioral norms may have permitted women to internalize the selflessness of the humb...

• Word Count: 887
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is noteworthy that the fathers of Isabella and Lady Nijo are architects of their repression, as well as their husbands (particularly the Emperor in Lady Nijo's story and Griselda's Marquis Walter, whom she had to obey in all things, even to the point of giving up her two children at his request). ... It would seem therefore that Wasserstein's play, The Heidi Chronicles belongs to the 'female' phase of 'Gynocriticism'[Kat15], which refuses to defend feminist ideals. ...

• Word Count: 3095
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The spouses of civil servants - their husbands were needed to know what could be the level of difference between the answers of males and females and what do husband consider his wife to be and what are the ideological constraints do they both have in participation of women with men. ...

• Word Count: 5989
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She gives an example, "My schooling followed the pattern which Elizabeth Minnich has pointed out: whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow 'them' to become more like 'us'. ... Many women are believing that when their husband physical abuses them, they deserve it. ...

• Word Count: 1950
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate