She felt that her son should marry a woman of royalty, unlike Assouoite who was the daughter of a goldsmith and was poor as a child. Once the time was right she present young Nabou to him stating that if he did not wed her it would bring great disgrace to her and the family. ... Lastly, what really tested her views on the lowering of traditional standards was her daughter Rama becoming pregnant. ... Instead of disowning her daughter, she accepts that her daughter is pregnant and decides to help her devise a plan to hide the pregnancy. She learns from the mistake of her young daughter Assatou a...

• Word Count: 1737
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Unfortunately in that time period the slave owner was usually in control what happened in a slave marriage. ... With their children, especially their daughters, they had their most enduring and cherished relationships. ... It was the duty of the mother to make sure their daughters don't get caught up with any of that. According to White, "A slave mother's uneasiness during her daughter's adolescence also grew out of her desire to protect her daughter from the responsibilities of adulthood. Mothers seemed to want girls to grow up slowly, and so they tried to limit their daugh...

• Word Count: 1114
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The daughter Rosa, complains about her early curfew, but the moment the Herr is used as a threat, all protests cease - which tends to indicate that the violence is not limited to the Frau alone. ... There is a strong binary opposition of the masculine large and feminine small threading throughout the story, demonstrated in this scene, by Herr Brechenmacher not having enough room to dress in the kitchen with his wife, where previously she had been working in there with her daughter and no sense of it being too small. ... The Herr is portrayed as being brutish, coarse and animalistic; the "bre...

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

Sarah Hale was born in New Hampshire in 1788 and grew up, like most people of her time, on a farm. ... The magazine was much higher in original content than any other in publication at the time, and the lion's share of the material was written by Sarah herself, with contributions of poetry and fiction from other women. The primary messages that the Ladies Magazine gave to its readers were to be better wives, mothers, daughters, and housekeepers. ...

• Word Count: 837
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

How women behave, their roles in society, their roles in a marriage, what types of freedom they have, how they spend their time, the education they receive, and many other things have been debated for hundreds of years. ... The suppression of women through marriage, lack of education, and how they were raised to act and expected to behave all created a monster of depravity and corruption that was expressed time and time again by and through different people of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. ... "Would men but generously snap our chains, and be content with rational fellowship instead o...

• Word Count: 2740
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate