Study Questions 1. ... Wife/mother role idealized in art, literature, poetry, etc. ... Male gender role was that of patriarch, head of household, provider *note that women have always also contributed to household income or have worked alongside men in farming and other types of work. ...
A hundred years after Bradstreet pushed the boundaries with her captivating poetry and paved the way for future women to take over, Judith Murray broke through with her use of unfiltered literature and she continued the fight for women's equality. ... In similar inquisitive behavior, Murray felt cheated when she observed her brother preparing for Harvard College and studying subjects that she did not have access to as a woman. ... Simply by studying subjects usually allowed for men only, they proved that women were capable of equal intellectual footing. ... (Bradstreet 549) This line in...
As Perry Miller explains, in an era that subordinated women to men and men to God "women who stepped beyond their domestic defines through literature "by reading or writing "were considered dangerous to themselves and to society Puritans expressed considerable scorn for women who wrote or published- (360-61). ... Wendy Martin and Ann Stanford each note the subtlety with which Bradstreet has to write and practice feminism to avoid Puritan censure. ... Wendy Martin, in "A Study in Subversive Piety,"" and Ivey Schweitzer, "The Work of Self-Representation-: Lyric Poetry in Colonial Ne...
As Perry Miller explains, in an era that subordinated women to men and men to God "women who stepped beyond their domestic defines through literature "by reading or writing "were considered dangerous to themselves and to society Puritans expressed considerable scorn for women who wrote or published- (360-61). ... Wendy Martin and Ann Stanford each note the subtlety with which Bradstreet has to write and practice feminism to avoid Puritan censure. ... Wendy Martin, in "A Study in Subversive Piety,"" and Ivey Schweitzer, "The Work of Self-Representation-: Lyric Poetry in Colonial Ne...
Background of Study Contemporary English literature has produced a plethora of novels dealing with the everyday lives of people within the context of their place of origin and their unique culture. ... This theory, according to Carol Pajaron of the Ateneo de Manila High School English Department, compares and contrasts females in literature with common female stereotypes. In a personal note to this writer, she adds that the theory "also looks at male stereotypes but always paralleled with the female stereotype." ... The male stereotypes to be used are stereotypes resulting from feminist res...
World is made of men and women. They are the two pieces of a puzzle without which life would be impossible. What is it exactly that makes the division between men and women? Scientifically, one responsible factor is a proper chromosome. But the truth is that it is not so much the matter of physical appearance as the matter of one's psyche. ...
