The sexual imagery attached to the description of the snake also highlights its place as a phallic symbol within the novel, "His abdominal muscularity, his loathsome, fluid motion, somehow made me sick." Jim's revolution towards the snake further accentuates how the idea of the male is treated within the novel, opening up a space for a lesbian narrative to be formed. ... Cather also perhaps expresses how her sexuality does not make her unequal to men or heterosexual relationships in this particular line in the novel. Farwell notes how "Feminist literary theory has been eager to...

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After noting the extravagance of a luncheon at a men's college, Woolf depicts the inadequate dining at Fernham, a college for women, presenting a drab meal consisting mainly of aplain gravy soup.? ... In the July 1998 issue of Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources editors Linda Shult and Phyllis Weisbard give evidence of the denial of entire acceptance of women writers by showing that only eight women made the list of Modern Library'sone hundred best twentieth-century novels in English.? ...

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Title: An Investigation into Sexist Language. Name: Andrew Verrijdt One of the most important political and social movements of the twentieth century has been the drive towards achieving complete equality for all people regardless of race, colour, class, gender identity, mental state or physical impairment. One area that has remained resistant to change is language. While it is has been widely accepted that some aspects of language are clearly sexist, for example the use of "he" as a genderless pronoun (Cameron 1998, Wardaugh 1992, Pauwels 1998), there is still argument as to whether or n...

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James Carson, from "The Story of One White Woman,"" and Jake Barnes, from The Sun Also Rises, fail to embody the traditional characteristics of masculinity. While James lacks honor and does not represent a protector, or a provider, Jake remains physically emasculated. Despite the seemingly impo...

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