Precisely, such is the case of Heidi's character since, in pursuit of her ideals, she permits reason and thought to dominate her life, not allowing her emotional side to reveal completely. ... Still, her adopting a child does not mean that she abandons her ideals regarding a woman's self-independence; instead, she fits into what Young defines as a spinster, that is, "a woman not defined by her lack of a husband but rather as a woman with a trade, an independent woman- (357). ... Such belief is even more evident when she tells Scoop that she does not want to spend her life preparing s...

• Word Count: 1473
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With that definition of a "good woman " in mind, when one looks at Noah's wife in "Noah's Flood ", one cannot help but observe her initial defiance and write her off as an opposition to the ideal woman. ... The wife has disorderly defied her husband and ultimately God by declaring to stay behind and gives, what some consider to be an irrational reason to defy one's husband, which is to remain with her friends. ... Because she stays and makes no attempt to depart the ark, her eventual obedience to her husband and God makes her, by definition, a good woman. ... "My fifth husband,...

• Word Count: 1394
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

George is drawn as a traditional husband, charismatic in the workplace but insensitive and generally unemotional at home. ... As befits the 1950s patriarchy, he appears to have the ideal life. ... Her relationship with her husband is based on compromise and forgiveness as well as love, as her willingly principles has permitted her to understand and not judge her adulterous spouse and accept her self-seeking daughter. ...

• Word Count: 844
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

George is drawn as a traditional husband, charismatic in the workplace but insensitive and generally unemotional at home. ... As befits the 1950s patriarchy, he appears to have the ideal life. ... Her relationship with her husband is based on compromise and forgiveness as well as love, as her willingly principles has permitted her to understand and not judge her adulterous spouse and accept her self-seeking daughter. ...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If she is unable to bring sufficient dowry, this woman is therefore harassed and all control is issued to a husband. ... It was a changing mindset that led to such atrocities; as having a girl became a burden, more work than it was worth.7 The inhumane experience of Sati best personifies the injustice, where the wife burns herself alive in the funeral pyre of her husband. ... 'On September 4, 1987 in the northern village of Deorala, Roop Kanwar learned that her husband had passed away. ... After being found by her husband's family, she was dragged to the funeral pyre, where her hus...

• Word Count: 2806
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Most often, this is an ideal or an unobtainable idea of what the male and female role should be. ... As Nancy Mairs states: "Today's ideal woman, who lives on the glossy pages of dozens of magazines, seems to be between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five; her hair has body, her teeth flash white, her breath smells minty, her underarms are dry; she has a career but is still a fabulous cook, especially of meals that take less than twenty minutes to prepare; she does not ordinarily appear to have a husband or children; she is trim and deeply tanned; she jogs, swims, plays tennis, rid...

• Word Count: 1690
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The ideal woman in the Victorian Age had to stay at home, lack any sexual initiative, be selfless, and be morally accountable. ... In this age, the ideal woman was to be pure and free of any sexual aggression. ... This idea of the ideal Victorian woman was widely witnessed in various literary works of the Victorian Age. ... "The Lady of Shalott" demonstrates the ideals of the Victorian Age on how men and women faced division regarding public and private life. ... The lady in the tower gets the portrayal of the ideal Victorian woman with an untainted, appropriate and housebroken prese...

• Word Count: 3387
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is due to the needs and issues that the working classes deal with being related to the baser hunter gatherer ideals of food and shelter. ... King discusses how it is the traditional gender ideals that result in the conflict that is central to the plot of Educating Rita. "The persistent demands of her husband and fa...

• Word Count: 1922
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" The Hindu psyche is filled with ideals installed in it by the lessons of The Ramayana, presented by motives, actions, and reactions. ... The most iconic woman in The Ramayana is Sita, and her husband Rama is the patriarch she faces. ...

• Word Count: 701
• Approx Pages: 3
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• 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

Luring man from his flawless and noble behavior, women are presented as the lustful corrupters of 1950 ideals. ... As a women, she is working against her own husband and the entire patriarchal society that supports him. ...

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• 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

The narrator does not show the slightest want or need for a life where she would become the ideal American housewife. ... She began to seem like a servant to her children as well as her husband,"(Matthews, 212). ... There is no mention of marriage or living arrangements between husband and wife. ...

• Word Count: 2160
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By the nineteenth century, industrialization was in full swing, as were the gender roles inaugurated by the historical turning point; but those gender ideals were short lived as female Irish immigrants flooded American streets in search of "men's" work. ... Huddled on the cold ground with your family, or what is left of it, as most of the men (fathers and husbands) had either perished on the voyage to America or had been a victim of some other accident. ...

• Word Count: 1071
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mattie in A Gathering Light does not conform to these ideals as she values education and asks all the questions no one dares to. ... In the context of A Gathering Light women were expected to be selfless and put their husbands and children before themselves and their wants. ...

• Word Count: 1463
• Approx Pages: 6
• 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