She tries unsuccessfully to tell her husband and with time sees the images more and more frequently. ... In 1894 when the story was published, Charlotte Perkins divorced her husband. Did she feel released, did she found a cure for her depression, and is this the beginning of the rise of feminism as many feminist groups will say to support their ideals, or is it another fogged glass case? ... She could have written books to express her anger, her rage, and still not know that she was writing feministic novels and supporting the feminist ideals today. ... Yet again, Charlotte was recently ...

• Word Count: 1267
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

As hard as her poor husband tries to help her, he unknowingly drives her mad. ... The mother sinks into a still-deeper depression invisible to her husband, who believes he knows what is best for her. ... ("Guide-) That her husband, John, opposes her writing because it was not considered, to be the proper way a woman should act. Throughout the story, her sister- in-law, Jennie, seems a perfect example of a man's ideal woman. ... Her husband, John, is a well-known physician that uses his power to make his wife to believe she feels the way he thinks she should feel. ...

• Word Count: 1530
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Anything wanted by women, or exemplary of their individualism was shunned in fear that one day these feminist ideals would grow and overcome the once subservient gender. ... In which, he impregnates her mentally-retarded daughter only so Yasuko could have the closest thing to an heir that her deceased husband Akio, could not give her. ... She uses her intuition, her female intuition, to catch her husband in the act. ... It is not only advanced for the Japanese culture, but for the western ideal as well, where there are still less heroines as opposed to heros. ...

• Word Count: 1363
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An ailment her husband and brother has diagnosed. ... This shows how controlling John is over her as both husband and doctor. ... Her husband refuses to accept that she may have a real problem. Her husband suggests enormous amounts of bed rest and no human interaction at all. ... The husband and Jane were symbolic of society. ...

• Word Count: 2055
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Their only obstacle in life was getting a husband and even that was an obstacle easily surpassed. ... One teacher stated, "the grade that was the most important was the one their husbands would give them." ... Her husband is insensitive to her ambitions and desires only his are important. ... Her husband is cheating on her. ... Conforming to the ideal was expected being an individual was not. ...

• Word Count: 1701
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

(Bell p. 144) However, what sets her apart from other writers of the modernist or feminist genre is her denial of her namesake, Woolf shed it and believed that a feminist label bastardized the ideal of struggling for equality, not only for women, but for men as well. ... The husband to Mrs. Dalloway, the protagonist, is a pseudo-antagonist who subjects his wife to the passive abuse of neglect as does the husband in Kate Chopin's The Awakening. ... Dalloway's husband, as Woolf and other feminists believed, was depriving Mrs. ... Dalloway can fantasize about leaving her husband. ...

• Word Count: 2233
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Today most feminists commonly depict the Wife of Bath from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, as the ideal model for the feminist literary figure. ... She wants to be seen as a woman who is granted freedom and liberty from her husband, and not as one that has to manipulate in order to get it. ... She uses her body and her husband's money against her them to get what she wants. After the Wife struggles with her fifth husband Jankyn, she gains the "maistrie" that she has fought to acquire, but she does not utilize it. ... So by gaining the power and not using it the Wife becomes...

• Word Count: 1773
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Husbands and wives have unlimited sexual access to each other, and in all societies, there are norms concerning sexual activity outside of marriage. ... The family reproduces the attitudes, ideals and expectations essential for the reproduction of ruling-class values and this is not a positive thing, (Taylor et al, 1995). ... Marxists argue that this function of the family, particularly the wife, is to provide an emotional safety valve absorbing the husband's frustrations created by the capitalist system. ... They say that from an early age girls are trained to become emotionally skilled ...

• Word Count: 2090
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Followed by the traditional idea of the 'American Dream', the 'ideal' way to live became to be the nuclear family. ... Furthermore, women's domestic work is unpaid, which again benefits Capitalism as the female is keeping the working husband and future labour generation healthy and strong. ...

• Word Count: 2016
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Communication and Popular Culture BUST magazine is meant to be an alternative outlet for women who are sick of the images given to them in the more established and conventional women's magazines. BUST offers quite a different set of values than most young women's magazines. BUST values the woman as an independent person that does not need to answer to the prescribed cultural values usually given to them. The woman who reads BUST is not getting advice on men or how to lose weight. She is reading about other women and issues related to women. ...

• Word Count: 2194
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

She gives an example, "My schooling followed the pattern which Elizabeth Minnich has pointed out: whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow 'them' to become more like 'us'. ... Many women are believing that when their husband physical abuses them, they deserve it. ...

• Word Count: 1950
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate