Is 'rock' itself an inherently masculine genre? ... The label Riot Grrrl typically applied to a US sub-genre of 'alternative' rock performed by female artists and groups that emerged in the early 1990s. ... Riot Grrrl paved the way for wider recognition of women artists and groups in alternative rock genres (whether or not explicitly 'political' in nature). ... The conclusion that might be drawn from this writing on rock and sexuality is that rock is a genre that has been sexed in a very particular way, and as such its generic codes and conventions can present ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In England alone King Solomon's Mines sold 31,000 copies during the first year and established Haggard as a writer of the adventure fiction genre (Butts 7). The aim of this thesis is to prove that despite the fact that the stories of the adventure fiction genre usually focus on the male characters and their power1, the female characters in Haggard's novels turn out to be the very opposite of passive. ... In my thesis, I will first examine the historical background of the novels and the definition of the adventure fiction genre into which most of Haggard's works belong. ... His...

• Word Count: 1410
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Virginia Woolf used the pretense of universality in her writing as a front for her struggle for women's liberty. Despite her rejection of the feminist label, Virginia Woolf's goal in writing To The Lighthouse and Mrs. ... Woolf's goals in writing To The Lighthouse and Mrs. ... Woolf was not writing for universal equality when she conjured these plots. ... She used brilliant logic in fighting for women's rights and in writing about men and women. ...

• Word Count: 2233
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Instead of a recognizable genre, lesbian literary narrative, is in reality, a disputed form, dependent on various interpretive strategies." Marilyn Farwell offers a detailed response to the complicated genre of lesbian literature. Farwell recognizes the need to "read against the grain" in order to establish the encoded meanings and forms in lesbian writing that are not clearly placed across a fictional tale. ... Cather's choice to use a male voice in narrating her story was perhaps because she was essentially writing about male orientated feelings and events. ... " Cather does th...

• Word Count: 2062
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From here, subsequent French Feminist critics focused on language as a tool of male domination, analyzing the ways in which it represents the world from the male point of view and arguing for the development of a feminine language and writing. ... According to Elaine Showalter (in 20th Century Literary Theory, p. 216 - 220)3, gynocriticism is concerned with "woman as the producer of textual meaning, with the history, themes, genres, and structures of literature by women. ...

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

The context of the articles written in FHM is delivered in terms of the genre style of the magazine. ... This metaphoric way of writing has given the city animal attributes, creating a sense of urgency and impending danger. ...

• Word Count: 1938
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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", which included reading, writing or taking care of her new baby ("The Yellow Wallpaper" 277). ... The Yellow Wallpaper was read on its first decade as a piece of horror fiction, situated in the Gothic genre (Shmoop). ...

• Word Count: 2447
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