According to White, "if a man married abroad it meant the he wouldn't see his wife [but] only about once a week. ... The husband is obviously not present enough when he's married abroad. ... It was the duty of the mother to make sure their daughters don't get caught up with any of that. ... For instance in today's society a lot of teenage girls in a patriarchal family are stereotyped or called, "daddy's girl," where the father looks after and makes sure the daughter doesn't get caught up in any trouble, especially sexual encounters with males. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In addition to these inequalities, once a woman was married she would have to surrender her property rights, thus becoming the property of her husband (Legates, 2001: 17). ... Therefore it is necessary for society to get away from this model in order to achieve equality of the sexes. ...

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This is achieved by viewing the attitudes of people in various stages of their relationship: A newly married couple at their wedding, Frau Brechenmacher's own marriage and that of a three-times widowed old woman. ... Following on from this, we then see Frau Brechenmacher banished to the dark, while the husband basks in the warm and light of the kitchen to get dressed, a visual indication of their relative importance, echoing sun/moon imagery. ... They had to get the priest to her." ...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Ere row forth, Noah, whither thou list, and get thee a new wife ("Noah's Flood " 73). ... The wife, being married five times " which already has her viewed upon as strange " admits that her first three husbands, all of whom she considered good, were old, rich, and submissive. ...

• Word Count: 1394
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• Has Bibliography
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One of the worst possible inconveniences , that a hard working married woman should never have to deal with, is the burden of an unsatisfying husband who lacks the ability to please their beloved wives. ... The story clearly shows how desperate she truly is when she is sexually aroused by the tinker's interest in the Chrysanthemums she works on by stating that her voice grew husky afterwards her breast swelling passionately (Sullivan).This clearly shows the severity of the issue as Elisa has to resort to the tinker who she just meets as opposed to her husband, to get some sense of excitem...

• Word Count: 1174
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate