In this story couples demonstrate how spontaneous sex supplies sort term pleasure as well as long term stress. ... The Whore is so distraught trying to find a man who will look at her beauty on the inside, that she has decided to give sex away for free, praying that one day she can live a so called normal life with a family and a home. ... The husband cannot love her because he is gay. ... This dilemma has caused him to vacation where he can pursue a young man who seems ashamed about being gay. ... Not from the same sex, but from other women. ...

• Word Count: 982
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

While a male critic would see the stories as a romantic story, a feminist will see it as a story of oppression. ... Such a reader denounces and refuses to accept the cult of masculine virility and superiority that reduces woman to a sex object, a second sex, a submissive other. ... In her book, Lé Deuxiéme Sexe (1949; The Second Sex)2, Simone de Beauvoir argued that associating men with humanity more generally (as many cultures do) relegates women to an inferior position in society. ... However, the relationship between feminist and gender criticism is, in fact, complex...

• Word Count: 1975
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities would reach a height, of which, at present, we have happily no conception" (Greg 10). ... In this age, the ideal woman was to be pure and free of any sexual aggression. ... The poem represents the isolated Victorian woman as a submissive person that has agreed to her place in the home by runni...

• Word Count: 3387
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate