Any woman noticed pushing the domestic convention of the period was harshly ridiculed and always reminded of her inferiority within the "man's world". ... Several brave female writers came forth during this period, to speak out against their oppression through the means of poetry, the application of atypical female characters, and the use of symbolism embodying monarchy and oppressive patriarchy. ... In Just a Housewife by Glenna Matthews, a housewife life is defined as "suburban housing patterns (which) reinforced a woman's isolation from most of the world of adults. ...

• Word Count: 2160
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Only the new service Women's Wire, with a mere 1500 subscribers, is predominantly female at 90%. ... The Internet is not in a vacuum from the world of its subscribers but is a world created by these subscribers who do not lose their attitudes towards race, sexuality, politics, or gender when they log on. ... As in the concrete world, sexual harassment is not foreplay but a power play. ... The women who have already entered theinvigoratingly new yet often hostile world of cyberspace havenot only bravely entered the male dialogue on the Internet butcreated their own alternative feminine di...

• Word Count: 1797
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One study found that children at two and a half years of age use gender stereotypes in negotiating their world and are likely to generalise gender stereotypes to a variety of activities, objects, and occupations (Witt 1997). ... However, at that moment my teacher told me that I was a brave boy, and how amazed she was that I was not crying. ... He talks of the initiation rites of the Sambia of New Guinea saying, "Initiation rites begin when boys are seven to ten years old and include oral ingestion of older boys' semen and painful bleeding by sticking grass reeds up the nose. ...

• Word Count: 2340
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography

The forefather (scratch that, make it "foremother- even though this feminine term is not found in Webster's New World Dictionary) of the Women's Rights Movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, pointed out, "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her- (Eisenberg 2). ... On the topic of chivalry, a lot of old fairy tales have men, brave knights or charming princes, who will do heroic deeds and sacrifice their lives in order to rescue a damsel in distress. ...

• Word Count: 1987
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The world of male chauvinism was appreciated on that century, where men believed that the "proper sphere for a woman was the house" (Thomas). ... This story was published in 1892 in the New England Magazine and was considered as Gilman's best work of short fiction ("The Yellow Wallpaper" 277). ... The story is about a young mother's mental deterioration, postpartum depression, in which she is advised, based on medical theories that her husband, as a high standing physician, gave to her, "to abstain from any and all physical activity and intellectual stimulation&qu...

• Word Count: 2447
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography