While remaining in the domestic sphere she struggled with wartime shortages and inflation, ran a farm with least of help and educated her four children when their formal education was interrupted. ... Rational religion was her base for morality and guide to proper conduct. ... Influenced by Joseph Adison's Spectator and its promotion of "moral decency and rational religion" she tended to prefer reason and judgment over fancy and invention. ... In her marriage to Lincoln, "individual expression of power" was part of their union, which was very uncommon to the values of submissiveness and d...

• Word Count: 1568
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Clearly, she, like Arat recognizes the cyclical problem with these development policies in that they set up a pretense to help women when really they are omitting more control for the good of the state. ... Leahy writes: Where significant information on women as a distinct category was to be found--generally in industrial, "developed" nations--there was little and limited evidence to suggest that government proclamations in support of women's equality had found appreciable expression in government practices or in significant progress toward women's equality. ... Also at the...

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

(Hansen 275) I believe that once again Chaucer is using the Wife as an expression of his antifeminist agenda by showing how this answer to what women want is the perceived answer of a male author trying to personify his thoughts in a woman fictional character. ... Throughout her prologue, the Wife of Bath makes it clear that she intends for the reader or listener to view her as a rational, independent woman. ... God help me so, I was to him as kinde As any wif from Denmark unto Inde, And also trewe and so was he to me. (828-31) She thinks that she has achieved mutual power and respect....

• Word Count: 1773
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School