1. Women in the Works of Joyce and Swift
According to the Oxford English Dictionary; Feminism is an advocacy of equality of the sexes and the establishment of the political, social and economic rights of the female sex. ... This is evident in 'Nausicaa' when Gerty MacDowell 'revealed all her graceful beautiful shaped legs like that,'(329.Joyce.1932) Joyce plays upon the idea that women are irrational and unable to participate in intellectual disciplines, that they are merely an animal who buckles under their sexual desires. ... Women were the weaker sex, so they were subordinate to the desire and force of men. A...
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