Marriage defined social class for women during this time, so it was important for girls to get married so they could have an acceptable life. ... Beatrice knows that she is happy without a husband and tells Leonato that she refuses to get married "till God make men of some other metal than earth" (2.1.59-60): This is an extremely bold statement for a women in this time period. ... She doesn't want to fall back on her words of not getting married, but as she thinks about the situation more, she starts to grow feelings for Benedick. ... In the end, Benedick wins her over, as well ...

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It was obvious that every woman's dream was to get married and have children. ... When asked what she wanted to do after college her response was getting married. ... At the end, however, Joan cannot do both because her boyfriend swept her they could secretly get married. ... She is traditional a virgin getting married to the man of her dreams. ... In a conversation with one of her friends Giselle says, "Women like Katherine don't get married because they choose not too." ...

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Instead, women are beginning to focus on their own education and career before getting married, and therefore getting married at a later age after completing two to four years of college. In 1960 the median age for women to get married was 20.3 years old, in 2010 that median age rose to 26.5 years old (Cohn, Passel, Wang, Livingston). ...

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Chopin married and moved to Louisiana where women were considered their husbands lawful property. ... Also in The Awakening the main character who is a woman gets pleasure from a man who is not her husband. ... Mallard is finally getting to experience freedom after her husband's death, but little does she know her husband is not dead. ... Gilman was married and had a daughter and after giving birth she had what we call postpartum depression. ... The wife has let her husband get in her head and do all the thinking for her. ...

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This seems to reinforce the fact that it was very difficult for women to remain economically stable if not married. ... When a woman married she lost all legal status. ... Elizabeth Wolstenholm Elmy who was on the Married Women's Property committee helped this along. In America women were given legal status when married in 1848 under the Women's Property Act. This Act meant that married women were able to acquire and retain assets independently of their husbands. ...

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Everyone believes that since there are a few womon holding high ranking jobs, and women getting PHD's in several differnent fields that the problem is gone. ... He refused and told me that I was only going to get married and have babies. ... Not only was I not going to get any help, I was also tagged as selfish because I wanted to go to college. ...

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Not to offend anyone but women are getting encouraged a little too much. ... Don't get me wrong. ... ideology is getting a bit out of hand. ... Presidential Commission on Child Family Welfare, "If they can forecast all these benefits, why stay married?- (Akers) Why stay married, indeed, or even file for a divorce when one can purchase a million dollars' worth of insurance for a spouse instead and then kill him or her off? ...

• Word Count: 1987
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Overall, the rights and status of women have improved considerably in the last century; however, gender equality has recently been threatened within the last decade. Blatantly sexist laws and practices are slowly being eliminated while social perceptions of "women's roles" continue to stagnate and e...

• Word Count: 733
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In addition to these inequalities, once a woman was married she would have to surrender her property rights, thus becoming the property of her husband (Legates, 2001: 17). ... Therefore it is necessary for society to get away from this model in order to achieve equality of the sexes. ...

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They try to get an equal gender between man and woman. ... She gets an information that her husband, Mr. ... If they are married, they should be a mother. ... Mallard who struggle to get her free life for her husband after his death. ... Finally, she gets her real "free" life with her death....

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Leaders must be able to inspire a vision and get others to act upon shared visions in order to accomplish a set goal. ... Women could not vote, own property, run for office, get an education nor make their own decisions. ... Whether married (90% were) or single, a woman's life was confined to taking care of the house and family members (Michelle, n.d).Women at this time were seen as property to men. ... It seemed like they were not getting anything accomplished, but Stanton changed that with her proposal. Circumstances constantly conspire to undermine our esteem and we need leaders to hel...

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Both rebel against powerful men who impose an injustice on them "Antigone defies Creon's law, Medea gets revenge on Jason. ... She wants revenge for Jason's crimes in order to defend her own honor: "[I] must not invite Laughter from Jason and his new allies - (409-410) But her action goes beyond getting revenge for the injustice Jason committed against her, and serves the secondary purpose as a protest against the broad injustices of men against women. ... Then the great question; will the man We get be bad or good? ... Women, she says, can do nothing but marry, and once mar...

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meaning "Get out! Get out! ... Pontellier wanting to get out of her cage or her surroundings and home to awake. ... Pontellier decided to escape from her boring married life to a more exciting and less materialistic life. ...

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Statistics released by the Official National Statistics show that in May 2013, lone person families became the second highest household in today's society, with 7.7million citizens living alone, linking to the rise in divorce and fall in married people. ... Also, the state encourage cultural capital for parents who cannot afford private nursery tuition, with free membership to organisations such as Sure Start, helping children to get involved in activities enhancing their psychical and cognitive developmen...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Decades ago, the married couples stayed together through thick and thin (the good as well as the bad ) times of life. ... Families barely get a start and one or both of the parents are out the door and ready for divorce. ... Affirmative Action as well as other laws and benefits to single parent households have in certain terms said come and get it, education, career, daycare, home, and society will assist. ... That is where the foundation for respect and direction derives from, without that this is what we get ,a broken society with havoc and confusion. ...

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. To be Australian What is "being Australian"? This intricate question is always a hard term to define when discussing the Australian culture. Due to the formation of groups perceiving similar qualities, this often results in categorizing or labelling...

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Gender equality is when women and men enjoy equal rights, opportunities and entitlements in civil and political life. Accepted, but not always fully understood. For some, the stumbling block is the word "gender", a relatively recent concept in social science. "Gender" refers not to male and female, ...

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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. Dalloway was to fight for feminist causes, not universal equality. "It seems to ...

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Oftentimes, the reasons males are chosen over women are ridiculous such as they are not aggressive enough, they may be married and thus have husbands who also provide so the extra money isn't needed, they are pregnant and this is a restrain to the company financially, and they will use sex as a way to get what they want. ... To carry this research, the first step would be to gather all resources needed to get an understanding of the topic and to decipher what answers may be gotten from the subjects. ... Women make the "choice" to quit work as a last resort when they couldn'...

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Overall, the rights and status of women have improved considerably in the last century; however, gender equality has recently been threatened within the last decade. Blatantly sexist laws and practices are slowly being eliminated while social perceptions of "women's roles" continue to stagnate...

• Word Count: 2036
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Abstract The research question of my extended essay is "How patriarchal and colonial oppression is expressed in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple?" The essay explores the themes of colonial subordination, gender oppression and the representation of gender relations of the male dominated early 20th ce...

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According to Rob, the best song ever recorded is "Let's Get it On" by Marvin Gaye (Hornby 237). ... I"m asking you baby to get it on with me. ... Let's get it on! ... Though technically they weren't married, Rob expected Laura to serve the function of a stereotypical wife. ...

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Communication and Popular Culture BUST magazine is meant to be an alternative outlet for women who are sick of the images given to them in the more established and conventional women's magazines. BUST offers quite a different set of values than most young women's magazines. BUST values the wom...

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In order to grasp the underlying concept of feminist theatre, its successes as a genre and the challenges it faces in contrast with mainstream theatrical forms, it is essential to begin with a definition of terms. What is feminist theatre? Is it concerned with women as performers, women dramatists o...

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Men who witness abuse while growing up as a child, who have been unemployed, who are married in a common law relationship, and those who have a low family income are more likely to adapt a patriarchal ideology which in turn is more likely to lead to an abusive male partner. ... More work is needed to establish the causal sequence leading to re-victimization since it is unknown how childhood experiences of violence gets translated into adult aggression. ... Marital status measures grouped widows, married and common-law women together. ...

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