In the 19th century women were expected to live in the home and be constrained to the affairs of the household and family (children, her husband). The average woman had no political influence she was dependant on her husband for nearly everything she needed or wanted to do. ... Often the ideals of femininity which were popularized by writers and poets drove women to change during this time. ... In fact the middle class glorified the ideal of domesticity. ... Some believe that it was the ideal of birthcontrol that played a key decision making role. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the last half of the nineteenth century, Victorian ideals still held sway in American society, at least among members of the middle and upper classes. ... Mallard feels upon hearing of her husband's death through third person narration. ... Connected to their husbands, marriage became prison to many women; the only means of breaking free from these bonds was the death of a husband. ... While sitting downstairs, Mrs.Mallard grieves over the loss of her husband, and over her freedom. ... Mallard allows her emotions over her husband's death to flow freely. ...

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The play revolves around two characters, Nora and her husband Torvald. ... With his symbolic writing and bold attack on the conservative ideals of his time, he served as the stepping stone for women of today. ... Torvald proves himself a petty philistine, a bully and a coward, as so many good husbands when they throw off their respectable cloaks. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Within these two television shows you can see how mainstream ideals and masculine and feminine personalities have changed but the general principles are the same. ... Finally we can compare their relationship with their husbands and vise-a-versa. ... The biggest comparison that we can make is within the husbands and wives relationship. Darren and Samantha show the "old fashioned" view of a husband and wife. ... You can see the same principles of life carried out through the decades, but the mainstream ideals of masculine and feminine personalities have cha...

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• Grade Level: High School

" she is put forth as a feminist, her views evidence of Chaucer's feminist sensibilities- (Fleming) The Wife of Bath is a feminist; she revolts against the traditional role of women by gaining complete control of her husbands, as seen in her prologue. ... The tale illustrates that the ideal marriage is one with the women having all control. ... The husband is a chauvinist who has complete control over his submissive wife. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Athenian women were kept in seclusion and rarely talked with their husbands. They pursued respectability as an ideal which means they were supposed to marry and stay indoors overseeing their households and performing domestic chores. ... They have an ideal role of being equals in this society....

• Word Count: 492
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• Grade Level: High School

It requires time to abandon long-held traditions and attitudes and adopt more unifying and equal ideals. ... They were taught to respect and obey their fathers first, then their husbands and finally their sons (Shinotsuka 1989). ...

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The ideal Victorian woman is represented as someone who is devoted to taking care of her family and is home-loving. She is kind, extremely sympathetic and will always obey her husband. ... A woman's entire life was controlled by the male gender whether it be father, husband or even son. ... Ibsen's play attempts to display the gender inequalities of The Victorian Era through the martial relationship between Nora and her husband, Torvald The main character, Nora, strives to be the perfect wife who her husband, Torvald, wants her to be. ... Nora plays the role of the submissive wife w...

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Even though Brady is being ironic, I believe she describes the ideal wife a man dreams of. ... Brady describes a wife as the person who stays home and takes care of everything so when the husband comes home everything is put in its place. ... A wife should never complain about her duties and should always be there and support the husband. ... The wife should also understand her husband if he feels depressed and try to make him feel better if needed. ... Toward the end, Brady says that a wife should understand if the husband "wants the liberty to replace the present wife with another one" (...

• Word Count: 865
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• Grade Level: High School

Advertising, being one of the most powerful and influential means ever, has encouraged us to mould ourselves into this ideal vision of how men and women should exist in society. ... However, in our modern world today, these ideals are no longer essential in gaining acceptance into society and have altered significantly but they still may be prevalent. ... Despite the facts that over the past decade, an increasing amount of house husbands have been emerging and more and more women have either been stepping away from housework altogether or combining it with a career, they still stand as the pre...

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Wives, as the author says, "were expected to help with the supplement of their husbands' public activitie." ... In a way they thought God designed women to serve their husbands. ... Anne Hutchinson was a natural leader, a passionate Puritan with radical ideals. ...

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The ideal image of the harmonious marriage was the idea of husband and wife living as co-workers in a special God-appointed community of the family, sharing equal authority within the household. ... According to them a nunnery was not at all a place for a woman to be, as the male clergies who listened to their confessions made their lives as unpleasant as any offensive husband. ...

• Word Count: 697
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• Grade Level: High School

George is drawn as a traditional husband, charismatic in the workplace but insensitive and generally unemotional at home. ... As befits the 1950s patriarchy, he appears to have the ideal life. ... Her relationship with her husband is based on compromise and forgiveness as well as love, as her willingly principles has permitted her to understand and not judge her adulterous spouse and accept her self-seeking daughter. ...

• Word Count: 844
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A man's position in this world is to fit the role of a husband and a father by providing a secure, stable and comfortable home for his family. ... In her essay, Sandra wrote about how her father had wanted her to find a great husband and have children. ... Parents, being the most influential and looked upon role models, should teach their children to be happy and chase their dreams, not to be caught in the ideals of society. ...

• Word Count: 907
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

George is drawn as a traditional husband, charismatic in the workplace but insensitive and generally unemotional at home. ... As befits the 1950s patriarchy, he appears to have the ideal life. ... Her relationship with her husband is based on compromise and forgiveness as well as love, as her willingly principles has permitted her to understand and not judge her adulterous spouse and accept her self-seeking daughter. ...

• Word Count: 834
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The ideal was for men to act as the sole providers and women to work in the home and distribute the husband's income to the various household needs. ... Joe's own husband. ... Joe treats her husband as another child, one whose mouth needs to be rinsed with tar-water (pp 12), and who endures physical outrage as much as Pip. ... Joe represents the type of housewife who thinks she is indispensable to the household, constantly nagging at her husband and making too much fuss about little things. ...

• Word Count: 1179
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Ever since the golden age of television had sprung upon American culture, television has tried to mimic the ideal North American Family through it's programming. Even as early as the 1950s, television producers made programming that would represent what exactly the ideal North American family was. ... Since most viewers regard the Simpson show has being the ideal family in North America, some people have begun to question if the family will eventually return from the modern day family to the traditional family. ... She told me that during her childhood, she was not allowed to play with bo...

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Homer Simpson also shows how he fit's the ideal male gender role of our society by showing his aggression by going after and in some cases choking his son Bart. ... Marge is always solving the problems of her children and her husband Homer. ... This is a very typical consequence of the female gender role, because society has set in our minds that women with older children usually stay home and take care of the house while their husbands go out and earn the income for the family. ...

• Word Count: 973
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• Grade Level: High School

Homer Simpson also shows how he fit's the ideal male gender role of our society by showing his aggression by going after and in some cases choking his son Bart. ... Marge is always solving the problems of her children and her husband Homer. ... This is a very typical consequence of the female gender role, because society has set in our minds that women with older children usually stay home and take care of the house while their husbands go out and earn the income for the family. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Ideals such as strength and competence are associated with masculinity, whereas weakness and fragility are traditionally associated with femininity. ... Advertising and marriage in the 1950's-60's and beyond: - Advertisers of the time played into the heightened emotional role held by marriage - i.e. for women: how to be a good wife, mother, housekeeper and "keep your man," happiness through pleasing your husband - Identity and self-worth tied to housewife role. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She is not crying or weak, and her face is unaffected by what we can imply is the death of her husband. ... Cassatt broke down this ideal, and created a true indulgence of independence for both subject and creator....

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Fitting into their role, women would goes through dieting to gain society's ideal of a woman. ... As for the husbands, Pollitt says that are sports fans, yet the wives accept it and still love them. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

" The Hindu psyche is filled with ideals installed in it by the lessons of The Ramayana, presented by motives, actions, and reactions. ... The most iconic woman in The Ramayana is Sita, and her husband Rama is the patriarch she faces. ...

• Word Count: 701
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Amanda Portefield writes that "while Bradstreet's poems testify to her dependency on her husband, to her feelings of insufficiency without him, and to her worship of the potency he represented, they also reflect her power to establish the context of his authority and her efforts to control his behavior."" ... In contrast, Jeffery Hammon proposes that for Puritan women, "social expectation coincided more closely with theological ideals of humility and self-deprecation, and this congruence of spiritual and behavioral norms may have permitted women to internalize the selflessness of the humb...

• Word Count: 886
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Luring man from his flawless and noble behavior, women are presented as the lustful corrupters of 1950 ideals. ... As a women, she is working against her own husband and the entire patriarchal society that supports him. ...

• Word Count: 846
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate