It is also interesting to note that the percentage of Americans who favored abortion for career women dropped considerably from 1989 to 1998 (56% opposed in 1989; 70% opposed in 1998). ... If an abortion is induced by a form of medicine such as the morning-after pill and not by a surgical procedure, the process is viewed totally different. ... The president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Gloria Feldt may be a conservative republican, but her personal views regarding a woman's reproductive rights fall among the majority of Americans who believe that the government should not...

• Word Count: 1232
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As opposed to Woolf's whose emphasis is on women's insufficiency of material space to express and create their own authenticity. ... This approach gives an open point of view to the problems Woolf addresses. ... These constant interruptions lead Woolf to consider why many women of her time wrote novels as oppose to poetry or other literary works. Women according to Woolf are essential to men as opposed to men to women. ... In conclusion both writers emphasize two important points of views. ...

• Word Count: 1227
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This basically applies to women as it is the gender representation of female to be looking clean and fresh all day as opposed to male who is stereotyped as dirty and quite uncaring in their appearance. ... Such colour is also a representation of a stereotyped female as opposed to male where they are associated more with dark colours. ... It can be seen that advertisements employs technical, symbolic and written code to present ideas or views of stereotyped gender. ...

• Word Count: 953
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is women who desire the equality of all humankind, a relationship which challenges between the status or men and the statue of women, as well as to and oppose any hierarchical structures, laws and customs that cause women to lose individuality, to be subordinative and inferior. ... Their standing is only considered from the point of view of men. ...

• Word Count: 425
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Without rebuttals or opposing arguments, the reader is only presented with one side of the story. ... On page 479, Kaplan does provide a short paragraph of opposing views, but I think that this paragraph should be expanded more thoroughly to enhance her case. ... This article touches on a very controversial topic, but takes a different view, by looking at abortion from a liberation point of view. ...

• Word Count: 1384
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Medea is an epic tale of a struggle between two characters, an opportunistic, deceitful man and a barbaric sorceress, opposed by gender and capabilities. ... Therefore, the use of this apparatus, the foil, by which to judge Medea, as the play seems to want the audience to view her character, can lead to a misleading or unjust view. ... One way to view Medea and Jason is through their challenges with the same head-on approach. ... Another approach to view the "wrinkles" within the play is through Medea's differences as a foreigner and a woman, almost as if she is "doubly" different to Jaso...

• Word Count: 1150
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to Chopin's view of the human condition, persons cannot arrive at a satisfactory sense of who they are unless they fulfill three basic needs (Skaggs 112): a definable place in social order, the fulfillment of human love, and the sense of independence. ... In the Victorian era, women were viewed as lesser beings, whose role in society was to give birth and to take care of children. ... Edna's intense feelings and emotions strongly opposed this late 19th century societal thinking but was even more outraged by the laws which enforced and upheld such treatment. ... Leonce ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bud, though originally opposed to altering their "pleasant" way-of-life, commits man's first sin when he accepts a bite. In this scene his girlfriend is very literally viewed as a parallel to Eve and an instrument of corruption. ...

• Word Count: 846
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gloria Steinem and Virginia Woolf are two very prominent female figures that are influencing their readers to view women in a different perspective, bringing new concepts to the idea of a workingwoman, or how they are perceived in society. After reading three very powerful interpretations about women and by women - The Importance of Work, Life on the Global Assembly Line, and Professions for Women - it is important to point out the social expectations of women, how men view women, and more particularly, what women expect or aspire from themselves in a developing society. ... Woolf descri...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Wollstonecraft opposed segregation in education, arguing against girls" boarding schools, which promotes such "subjects" as needlepoint4. ... Mary Wollstonecraft embraced religion with new views surrounding a woman's position and drew attention to the ratification of women's rights in the church. ... Mary Wollstonecraft's views even shocked fellow radicals and caused many religious outbursts. ...

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The result is a battle of how females feel about their history versus how they allow society to view them. ... Jayanthi, an American Indian woman from Bells interviews recalls "[getting] confused [and] freak[ing] out and feel[ing] [the need] to settle down" (33) when her actions opposed her parents and community's expectations of her. ... A satisfying personal history is useless as well if the view society has on a woman oppresses her. ...

• Word Count: 1299
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Amelia Lanyer, like Isabella Whitney, uses her talent as an author to attempt to change the view of women in society, and she uses radical thoughts for her time to make her works empowering. ... Looking at the situation through this view, Lanyer suggests that one could not persecute woman with persecuting man, considering that it's at least equally sinful, if not more so for man. ... While Whitney strives for women to take responsibility for themselves and attempt to make and follow through on decisions based on what they desire and want, Lanyer takes the opposing perspective and by using...

• Word Count: 1037
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This novel is also a prime example of Behn injecting her personal views and experiences into her literature in response to the world around her, which is a common thread amongst her works. ... In the late sixteen hundreds, Britain found itself in much turmoil, divided between two opposing political parties. ... At a time and place when men controlled everything, one could see the hesitancy of audiences in accepting a woman as a valid author or viewing Behn herself as a serious writer. ... Most people view this novel as an anti-slavery effort, however Oroonoko ends with the vicious death of ...

• Word Count: 2238
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With Murray's strong feminist views and Bradstreet's tenacity to see change for the female role in society, they were able to begin the process of change for all women. ... "Unlike those of her male precursors and contemporaries, Bradstreet's voicing of the humility topos discloses the dilemma of female poetic subjectivity: finding a voice in a tradition that denies women voices" is one possible explanation for what seems to be opposed underlying messages in "Prologue" (Scheitzer 293). ... She isn't trying to completely dismiss the cultures views on wo...

• Word Count: 2469
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In her society women are viewed in a stereotypical way, expected to marry as early as possible and then live a domestic life. ... Many people view education as an essential investment for the future. ... Although some may be opposed to universal feminine education, both morally and logically this right should be sought after worldwide....

• Word Count: 1554
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This suggests that males are powerful and dominant and woman are subservient and less than men which is furthers the sexist views of the advertising industry. ... It seems the ideology of the perfect form of a woman is controlled and dominated by the advertising industry and in turn implants itself into the minds of all those who view said advertisements. ... The use a female body to entice men to buy a product as opposed to the perfect male form is far more common. ...

• Word Count: 1800
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Compare and Contrast the representation of female characters in Snow White and Mulan. To what extent can Disney be said to have moved with the times? Disney is an international film company that dominates full-length feature animations. Two feature long cartoons, Snow White (1937) and Mulan (199...

• Word Count: 2236
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With the article chosen through our Southwestern College library, I am able to see deeper into the lives of the indigenous people who lived through the Spanish Conquest, with a particular view, but not subject to, the female aspect during this time. ... Using rape as a symbol for subordination – of women and/or of a people – can be powerful but misleading, especially when the social dichotomy opposing 'subordination' is 'resistance'" (646). ...

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This androcentric view of a woman, measured only by her ability to stimulate and satisfy the male's sexual appetite, continues to perpetuate three specific aspects of our modern Western society: male's dominance over females, the phenomenon of eating disorders among women and the increased amount of violence against women. ... This objectification, which manifests itself in the extraordinary emphasis on a woman's physical attractiveness in American culture, as well as in the almost continuous display of the nude or seminude female body in art, advertising, and the mass media,...

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He then goes on to explain that as opposed to the role of a man, his duty being intellectual, "for speculation and invention" and physical, "for war" and "battle", (Para 2), the wife's place is in the home to "secure its order, comfort, and loveliness", (Para 6). ... John Ruskin's lecture, in which he gives his views on how women should behave, (those who he considered to be the weaker sex), and the song which tells the tale, (with the use of irony) of how male dominance, money and selfishness can make an effect on a woman's good name and on her life, are just two examples of t...

• Word Count: 1599
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Clearly, Scoop's statements foreshadow the life of Heidi, for she remains faithful to her feminist views, but at the end has to adopt a child to reach the self-fulfillment and happiness that she lacked all her life. In spite of this piece of advice, Heidi still does not let her emotional side to come out completely; she maintains her "reason-ruled- position of rejecting the role that she is supposed to play in society, as opposed to other characters in the play, for instance, Lisa, who explicitly states that she always wanted to have children, or Denise, who says that she "can't imag...

• Word Count: 1473
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The twentieth century was a century dominated by a patriarchal society; women were viewed as a human subtype and their voices were disregarded and unheard. ... Within "Lady Lazarus", Sylvia Plath presents an opposite depiction of the patriarchal female gender role by posing the woman within this poem directly against her oppressor as opposed to remaining cheerful, enduring, and quiet. ...

• Word Count: 2160
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"The exemplary female prototype in advertising, regardless of product or service, displays youth (no lines or wrinkles), good looks, sexual seductiveness, and perfection (no scars, blemishes, or even pores (Cortese 2008, 59)." It's a difficult point to argue; in looking around, what's gleaned is how...

• Word Count: 2240
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate