A hundred years after Bradstreet pushed the boundaries with her captivating poetry and paved the way for future women to take over, Judith Murray broke through with her use of unfiltered literature and she continued the fight for women's equality. ... (Bradstreet 549) This line in particular highlights her radical views; she looks honestly at her own abilities and then notes that the culture she lives in will disregard her success by calling her a thief, which is slander, or saying she just got lucky. ... Murray takes this radical avocation for female education to another level, almost hi...

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The play, she argues is told in the rhetoric of the commercial world, even, she notes, in Belmont where life is generally free of direct commercial involvement, but the love alliances forged there are a representation of exchange in the commodity of women. ... The first essay Newman names is that of Marcel Mauss who notes that one of the most significant exchanges is that of gift-giving. ... The main subplot, Bassanio's acquisition of Portia, strengthens homosocial bonds between the ghost of Portia's father and as it is precluded by financial agreements between Antonio and Bassani...

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Throughout the entire life of English literature, sexism has suppressed the works of women as it still somewhat apparent today. ... 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.? ... Amidst progressive times for women, an unpleasant indication of sexual inequity in literature can be pointed out from just several years ago. ... Proof of literature's continual acclimation towards women writers? ... The notion of gender equity in literat...

• Word Count: 1264
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The source notes that it could also mean "a feminine, or a woman's word or expression- (Oxford English Dictionary 246). ... In the monthly magazine Christian Science Monitor, Marilyn Gardner uses the word as follows: "Daisy Hernandez, a recent college graduate who is co-editing a book on feminism by young women of color, also notes mixed signals- (Garnder 1) (Italics editor). ... The word feminism is also viewed many times in today's literature. ...

• Word Count: 911
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As Perry Miller explains, in an era that subordinated women to men and men to God "women who stepped beyond their domestic defines through literature "by reading or writing "were considered dangerous to themselves and to society Puritans expressed considerable scorn for women who wrote or published- (360-61). ... Wendy Martin and Ann Stanford each note the subtlety with which Bradstreet has to write and practice feminism to avoid Puritan censure. ...

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As Perry Miller explains, in an era that subordinated women to men and men to God "women who stepped beyond their domestic defines through literature "by reading or writing "were considered dangerous to themselves and to society Puritans expressed considerable scorn for women who wrote or published- (360-61). ... Wendy Martin and Ann Stanford each note the subtlety with which Bradstreet has to write and practice feminism to avoid Puritan censure. ...

• Word Count: 887
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Moreover, Stephens et al. (1998, p. 205) note that marxists assert that education is used to distinguish between middle and upper class workforce entrants from those of the working class. ... Such fragmentation of the workforce, notes Van Krieken at al., makes it difficult for the employees to unite against the upper reaches of the hierarchy because " control can be maintained because of the principle of divide and conquer" (2000, p. 194). Students are socialised to believe that equality of opportunity exists and that the system is meritocratic; however, available marxist literature suggest...

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." (# 3) A letter written by Master Kenneth Burke to Dear Mom and Lewis on August 8 1908 is the earliest of nearly 1,100 notes and letters by Burkes himself. ... It is important to consider the timing of Black feminist emergence to counter the model-making tendency in the literature on the second wave, which makes white women activism a form which Black feminism deviates. ...

• Word Count: 1926
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