Few women have any power in the book aside from a few exceptions. ... Kaede's experiences are ideal to parallel representations of women in the book. ... Hence why men are seen as the ultimate decision makers. ... Women in the book also comply with the term 'emphasised femininity' used in the book "Gender and Power," by R.W Connell. ... Throughout the book the representation of men and women in the book has not been equal. ...

• Word Count: 1182
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It portrays the father as the sole incomer-earner and decision maker, while the mother is the homemaker, economically and socially dependent and the children are dutiful and respectful. ... Just as Ellen recognizes other aspects of her mother in the formation of the book club, Ellen also recognizes what her mother gave up for her father, that she has always "deferred to him-, in order to safeguard the marriage for the sake of her family. ...

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

It portrays the father as the sole incomer-earner and decision maker, while the mother is the homemaker, economically and socially dependent and the children are dutiful and respectful. ... Just as Ellen recognizes other aspects of her mother in the formation of the book club, Ellen also recognizes what her mother gave up for her father, that she has always "deferred to him-, in order to safeguard the marriage for the sake of her family. ...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Science fiction genre has interested film-makers since the earliest days of the cinema, though not often to the benefit of the film or of science fiction. ... The earliest film to treat fantasy, if not science fiction proper, was Le voyage dans la lune(A Trip to the Moon), created by the French film-maker and magician Georges Mélies in 1902. ... Both films can perhaps also be seen to refer back to some of the original concerns od Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein, first published in 1817, in the way in which they both question the role of man in a new scientific age and the dan...

• Word Count: 2213
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Catherine Scott's book, Gender and Development: Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory, she writes about the World Bank and its theories. ... Similarly, Margaret Leahy, in her book, Development Strategies and the Status of Women, she discusses United Nations conferences where information on women's status" economically, politically and socially were looked into. ... Also at these conferences, "conferees ascertained that women were rational decision makers when it came to determining family size; women's decisions were conditioned not only by the availability of contra...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He is portrayed as the decision maker. ... A woman, according to the gender roles of the society in the time in which the book was written, is supposed to be helpful in and around the house: "I mean to be such a help to John, such a real rest and comfort, and here I am a comparative burden already"(94). ...

• Word Count: 1039
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This is taken from the book - "I made the breakfast, took her to work, did the hoovering, washed the floor downstairs, and changed the furniture round. ... The book then goes on to say there is a considerable loosening of gender stereotypes in the family and both of them have joint responsibilities for the money. ...

• Word Count: 2707
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

As Rosemary Evans comments in the book Women: Changing Canada: "Emily Murphy [was] the woman at the centre of the Persons Case."" ... Macphail was also a pacifist, she was against war, she opposed armies, gun makers and military parades she said that it was "stupid to make little boys dress up in military uniforms and strut with guns and swords it was foolish- (Brown video). ...

• Word Count: 2902
• Approx Pages: 12