She is expected to teach the children such things as responsibility and morality while the husband has only to worry about providing the funds to support the family. ... The second event that helped keep women in the home was literature and books urging women to subordinate themselves to their husbands (Epstein/Easton 93). ... Television sitcoms of the fifties portrayed the husband leaving for work and only returning to make decisions that the wife knew was beyond her ability to make. They showed the wife, always, neatly pressed with not a hair out of place, fixing dinner while the husband ...

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• Grade Level: High School

If she is unable to bring sufficient dowry, this woman is therefore harassed and all control is issued to a husband. ... It was a changing mindset that led to such atrocities; as having a girl became a burden, more work than it was worth.7 The inhumane experience of Sati best personifies the injustice, where the wife burns herself alive in the funeral pyre of her husband. ... 'On September 4, 1987 in the northern village of Deorala, Roop Kanwar learned that her husband had passed away. ... After being found by her husband's family, she was dragged to the funeral pyre, where her hus...

• Word Count: 2806
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The ideal woman in the Victorian Age had to stay at home, lack any sexual initiative, be selfless, and be morally accountable. ... In this age, the ideal woman was to be pure and free of any sexual aggression. ... This idea of the ideal Victorian woman was widely witnessed in various literary works of the Victorian Age. ... "The Lady of Shalott" demonstrates the ideals of the Victorian Age on how men and women faced division regarding public and private life. ... The lady in the tower gets the portrayal of the ideal Victorian woman with an untainted, appropriate and housebroken prese...

• Word Count: 3387
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Shakespeare accepts these medieval ideals of a hierarchy of nature in which woman is second to man. ... Kate realizes that although she disagrees, her husband's opinion is dominant, and she needs only to agree. ... She even speaks in the third person, signifying that she is not longer number one, but second to her husband. ... Kate declares in her famous last speech, "Such duty as the subject woes the prince, / Even such a women oweth her husband" (5.2, 159-160). ... Beatrice, unlike Kate in some ways, is completely sure of herself and confident that she does not need a husband ...

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Under the superficial story of adultery and husband's jealousy, we conclude it is about conflict between men and women. ... In other words, her action shows a possible ideal coexistence with men. ... She represents the ideal feminine image and acts as a model as the possible harmonious coexistence between man and woman. ... Reflecting in her relation with Florizel, her enthusiastic love with Florizel represents the most ideal harmony between men and women. ...

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The protagonist Celie is diminished and isolated by the men in her lives, first by her father and later by her husband, Mr.________. ... The ideal role of a man or the qualities of a 'real' man would be defined by a man having a well paid job and him driving a Cadillac, and any man lacking these qualities is less of a man. ... The term "patriarchy" can be defined as "the rule of the father, including the rule of older men over younger men and of fathers over daughters, as well as husbands over wives....

• Word Count: 3403
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• Grade Level: High School

It took an in-depth look at the ideals of the new tradition and how gender was considered. ... This obviously would come in handy for the newly married woman who knows nobody when she arrives to the village, sometimes that also includes her husband, it is an action she can contribute the everydayness of life within the household. ... But regardless of its back burner treatment of women at times the tradition does help the women of Japan succeed in binding themselves to their husbands' family and village. ...

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The spouses of civil servants - their husbands were needed to know what could be the level of difference between the answers of males and females and what do husband consider his wife to be and what are the ideological constraints do they both have in participation of women with men. ...

• Word Count: 5989
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate