In Fuller's essay "The Great Lawsuit" which she later expanded into Woman in the Nineteenth Century, she produces her insurrectionary thoughts and ideas about the inequality of women. ... The role of women in the nineteenth century was no different from what it had been for centuries before. ... In nineteenth century America, small groups of Americans were involved in great conflicts and arguments in regards to the inhumane treatment of many of their brethren. ... The role of women in the nineteenth century was to sustain the domestic realm by being the ultimate nurturer of the family ...

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The First Wave of the feminist movement began in the nineteenth century with the suffragettes' fight for political and legal equality. ... The feminist movement has been fighting for this change in society since the nineteenth century, and many accomplishments for the female gender have been achieved in the process. ...

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In "A Doll's House" Ibsen's bourgeois character Nora is suppressed by the nineteenth century patriarchy by which her husband Torvald and money lender Krogstad exercise against her to their advantages. ... Mrs Linde did not embody the traditional values of the nineteenth century patriarchy; rather she challenged them and this resulted in her becoming to some extent a social outcast. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At the end of the nineteenth century, America moved from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era where the social activists, politicians, and professionals called for social reforms in order to deal with the social problems associated with the rapid industrial growth. ...

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For instance, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar affirm in The Madwoman in the Attic that "the predominance of confinement is a recurring phenomenon in the works of nineteenth-century women writers that indicates their feelings of confinement in a literary world ruled by men"1. ...

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For instance, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar affirm in The Madwoman in the Attic that "the predominance of confinement is a recurring phenomenon in the works of nineteenth-century women writers that indicates their feelings of confinement in a literary world ruled by men"1. ...

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Gilbert and Gubar[7] suggested that Bertha's entrapment is symbolic of the attitudes of and towards female writers of the time period, "the intensely powerful, passionate, and talented woman who is seen as crazy and in need of confinement by the world represents the nineteenth-century woman writer"[8]. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate