Violenta's fall from a reputed paragon of feminine virtue and subsequent turn to violent measures is portrayed as a fatal consequence of a flawed social system rather than, as was the belief of the time, a violence innate to the female body. ... Violenta reiterates the conventional belief of the time: the notion that the value of a woman's life is linked irrevocably to her virginal status, and, that a loss of the latter implied a loss of the former as "modesty is rarely or never to be regained." ... As such, after more than a year of fruitless pursuit, Roderigo decides to marry...

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In this essay I will study trends in the modern historiographical trajectory of this once scholarly and socially peripheral demographic. ... Davis claims that although the black woman performed jobs that "expressed the socially conditioned inferiority of women" she was still exempt from designations of femininity that would have otherwise sheltered her from carrying out more arduous, "manly" tasks. ... Here, slaves were able to "take pleasure in their own bodies" through social interaction and various forms of entertainment. ... Accustomed to wearing tattered, p...

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Grimke drew and compared the legal status of slaves to that of contemporary women. ... Furthermore, men who had the advantage of education, contemporary male peer groups and/or male literary forefathers, they could learn and work from, only served to reinforce the exclusively male dominated medium that produced the literary icons of the time One can see that Woolf's argument substantiated by studying the inequalities in educational, financial and social background by comparing herself with another nineteenth century writer, William Wordsworth. ... In order for women to shed their p...

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Therefore, in terms of Eisenstein's argument that women's girl bodies determine democracy; free from violence and sexual abuse, free from malnutrition and environmental degradation, free to plan their own families, free to not have families, free to choose their sexual lives and preferences, I agree with this view; that is, "democracy" [from this perspective] would examine a freedom, liberty, or independence of women and girls in order to gain access; such as, to have reproductive freedom, a secure , qualitative life and their own chosen life, the same social position comparing to me...

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(Barberet, 2010) In essence, feminist victimology concentrates on the social construction of gender, and heavily focuses upon "uncovering, assessing and responding to the victimisation of women and, in particular, men's violence against women" (Newburn, 2013, pp. 322). ... According to Smart, (1989) in a research analysis of the criminal justice system, both radical and social feminists observed that the law was biased against women and in favour of men. ... Still, radical victimology has drawn attention to the theoretical victimisation of the powerless by exposing the structura...

• Word Count: 1596
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• Grade Level: Graduate