Some of these visiting women lectured on the political rights of women, while some brought with them the ideals and expectation of how to be a lady. ... "A child of four years was married to a mature man, the husband leaving for the mines immediately after the ceremony" (Ward 93). ... A married woman was subject to the legal abuse of her husband but if a woman did not have a husband or was without a father, her chances for economic success were slim at best. ... Piety was one of the three ideals that the Cult of True Womanhood was based upon, the other two being purity and submissiveness, un...

• Word Count: 1651
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Precisely, such is the case of Heidi's character since, in pursuit of her ideals, she permits reason and thought to dominate her life, not allowing her emotional side to reveal completely. ... Still, her adopting a child does not mean that she abandons her ideals regarding a woman's self-independence; instead, she fits into what Young defines as a spinster, that is, "a woman not defined by her lack of a husband but rather as a woman with a trade, an independent woman- (357). ... Such belief is even more evident when she tells Scoop that she does not want to spend her life preparing s...

• Word Count: 1473
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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
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• Grade Level: High School

Alcohol companies knew that if women had the right to vote, they would vote in favor of Prohibition, because they didn't drink themselves, and were hurt by their husbands who did. ... The Prohibition movement emphasized the moral purity of women, and this positive attention put them at an ideal place to begin asking for the vote. ... All of this positive attention put women in an ideal place to begin asking for suffrage. ... Women were the most affected by the alcoholism in America, as their drunken husbands would become both abusive, and unable to provide for their families. ... But wo...

• Word Count: 2008
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abigail Adams helped plant the seeds that would start women and men thinking about women's rights and roles in a country that had been founded on the ideals of equality and independence. ... Like any wife would do, she basically supported her husband's decision and not prevent him from reaching his highest potential. ... She wanted to give some rights to women by using her husband. ... Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. ... She did not meet these people just because of her views on woman's rights; she met them because of her husbands" dealings wit...

• Word Count: 1735
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Her life becomes worse under the soviets and she is abused increasingly by her husband. ... For the two women, the arrival of Taliban in Kabul, was not first instance of suppression, it was rather final nail that set them off on the path of their ideal for gender equality. ... Usually she only is allowed to take part in the immortalization of the male ancestors of her husband through birth of a son. ... Benard in her book writes that when a woman gives birth to a baby girl, not one comes to collect her and the baby; this is because the family and husband are angry with the woman for giving bi...

• Word Count: 1256
• Approx Pages: 5
• 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
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• Grade Level: High School

Maria's mother, like Wollstonecraft's, had an 'extravagant partiality' for her older brother, (125) and Mary's sister Eliza left her husband and went into hiding, as Maria tried to do. It is shown in the novel however that a wife is 'as much a man's property as his horse, or his ass', (158) so neither Maria or Eliza had any legal rights to leave their husbands. ... (Kelly 214) Wollstonecraft formed her view of marriage in a time when a husband and wife were 'one person in law; that is the very being or legal existence of the women is suspended d...

• Word Count: 2221
• Approx Pages: 9
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What are Mustafa's motives for this attempt at revenge against European ideals, and women in particular? ... Repeatedly, the picture is drawn of the woman lying with open thighs awaiting her husband. ...

• Word Count: 2060
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School