In Virginia Woolf's modernist novel To the Lighthouse, she explores various themes, and the theme of female gender role is just one of them. ... She likes to play the role of a matchmaker, and at one point she thinks that William and Lily should marry each other, and she thinks that this would be an "admirable idea" (Woolf, 2000, p. 42). ... (Woolf, 2000, p.13). ... Tansley, shortly" (Woolf, 2000. ... (Woolf, 2000, p. 130). ...

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The Gender Construction of Women in Early America Life was difficult in the early colonization of North America by the Europeans. The Native people were being forced off the land they had lived on for thousands of years, and forced to adopt they ways of the colonizers. The African people were b...

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Throughout history male writers have played a large part in prolonging progress towards men and women being considered equal. In male literature, numerous ways to keep unequal roles were to stereotype women and make it apparent that men and women play very different roles in life. ... But to a lesser or greater extent, every woman writer has written for men even when, like Virginia Woolf, she was supposed to be addressing women."... Rich's radical views to see that women are more equal than men will cause women many unnecessary hardships when women are already equalizing the literary pl...

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