Rational religion was her base for morality and guide to proper conduct. ... Influenced by Joseph Adison's Spectator and its promotion of "moral decency and rational religion" she tended to prefer reason and judgment over fancy and invention. ... (Akers 11) reflects Abigail Adams" attitude of rational acceptance of life and its polarities while Mary Todd often overlooked this kind of reasoning and concentrated on her own self. In her marriage to Lincoln, "individual expression of power" was part of their union, which was very uncommon to the values of submissiveness and dependency of both...

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Because the doctor's decision was based on no physiological or proven psychological difference between man and woman, the doctor's rational is not merely medical, but sexist. Society supported the sexist idea that did not believe a woman should enjoy creative expression, mental stimulus, or access to things that fulfill her. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Because the doctor's decision was based on no physiological or proven psychological difference between man and woman, the doctor's rational is not merely medical, but sexist. Society supported the sexist idea that did not believe a woman should enjoy creative expression, mental stimulus, or access to things that fulfill her. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Leahy writes: Where significant information on women as a distinct category was to be found--generally in industrial, "developed" nations--there was little and limited evidence to suggest that government proclamations in support of women's equality had found appreciable expression in government practices or in significant progress toward women's equality. ... Also at these conferences, "conferees ascertained that women were rational decision makers when it came to determining family size; women's decisions were conditioned not only by the availability of contraceptive dev...

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" The majority of Hemingway's short stories overly demonstrate masculinity, but "Hills Like White Elephants" displays a much more rational viewpoint from that of a woman. ... Hemingway's comparison between the white elephants and, figuratively, the unborn child also brings up the expression "the elephant in the room," a phrase for something evident that nobody wants to consider talking about. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate