In looking at "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman, we will consider the tone and narrative structures in each story. ... Gilman's and Chopin's stories are stories of women who feel "trapped" by the men in their lives. ... As the story ends, even though she is "crazy", she has become strong and assertive, unlike the woman we met at the opening of the story, who believes that there is nothing she can do to change her fate. ... In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," Mrs. ... Women have traditionally been known as the less dominan...

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Kate Chopin's literary work "The Story of an Hour" is a feminist literary study. ... Simone De Beauvoir in her book The Second Sex argues and questions the superiority and condescendence of men toward women. She introduces the concept of the "second sex" to refer to women who are regarded as nothing but men controlled the secondary sex in the world. ... The story is about a woman, Mrs. ... In the end of the story, Mr. ...

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The Portrayal of Females in Society: Sex Sells You have to wonder who exactly Pepsi is trying to sell to when they put Britney Spears in a half shirt with suspenders and low-slung, ripped jeans in a commercial with Bob Dole at the end staring lewdly at the television screen. ... But Pepsi is just one of many advertisers who think that sex, or women dancing around in slinky clothing, sells their product. ... So why do these advertisers use women and sex to sell their product? ... The ads might appeal to a specific social class or to a specific sex. ... In this particular insert the...

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There are many different types of sorrow shown or hidden in many different ways in multiple stories, and is sometimes overcome. A Secret Sorrow is a story about a woman, Faye, who is sorrowful that she cannot have children. ... At the beginning of the story, he is happy. ... This shows that Edgar is sorrowful with his married and sex life because if he was not sorrowful about it, he would not get the prostitutes. ... Mariana does not show signs of sorrow in this story, but she will be unhappy when she goes to call him to get her car fixed. ...

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Myth of the Latin Woman The principal notion about life revealed in this essay is that in Western societies the Latin Women are viewed stereotypically as a sex object or selfless housewives and obsequious workers. ... The author recalls stories that she heard in her house during her childhood about sexual harassment that Puerto Rican women endured in factories where they were seen as if sexual innuendo was all they understood. ... I would like to tell about Rita Morena, the actress who played in the mentioned above movie "West Side Story" and who received Oscar for Best Supporting Actr...

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They both display clothing, hygiene products, and stories of life. ... There were few articles on sex, but a good amount of profane language. There was a story on Iraq, but not on the devastation and sadness of the people. ... The story was very lengthy, it continued for about six pages. ... There was another article on Kobe Bryant's sex problem, which was told in no other special way than just telling the readers about his trial. ...

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How do nature and nurture influence the definitions of sex and gender? ... Sex is biological while gender is socially constructed. Genes produce sex. ... Gender is the meanings that society assigns to sex. ... Take for example the story which Susan Baxter tells in her article "The Last Word on Gender Differences?...

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Using this metaphor to illustrate the commonly occurring conflicts between men and women, Gray explains how these differences can come between the sexes and prohibit mutually fulfilling loving relationships. Relationships with the opposite sex have been one of the hardest things to handle nowadays. For teenagers, it is normal be a story of trial and error but for adults, it is a big deal. ... According to relationship counselor John Gray, difficulties in relationships between a man and a woman lie in the lack of understanding and acceptance of the differences between the ...

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"A Rose for Emily": Battle of the Sexes In his short story "A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner relates to the reader the life of Emily Grierson, a remnant of the past. ... It is quickly evident that the author makes distinctions between the sexes in this story. ... The women in this story seem to be quite unkind. ... The female characters in the story continue to be portrayed as nosey and unkind as the story unfolds. ... The distinctions that Faulkner makes between the sexes in "A Rose for Emily" are clearly visible to the reader. ...

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The novel "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Attwood tells the story of a near future oppressive society governed by an elite group - men. ... Words such as Commander, Guardian, and Angel name men's varying ranks of power, but the words themselves do not reduce individual men to their sex alone. ... They use only certain parts of the Bible, for example the Rachel and Bilhah story, which serve as justification for the men's rigid control of the avenues to satisfy desire. ... There, we experience the juxtaposition of the Handmaid (Offred) used for procreation and the Prostitutes...

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Also, a woman has no say on when she can and cannot have sex. ... As with the Tiwi aborigines, a woman who does not get any pleasure from sex will not want to have sex. ... The bible is filled with stories that demean women and make women seem to be the evil half of the human race. ... As a result of stories like this, a catholic woman may feel that her only purpose is to serve her husband. She may also feel a lot of guilt since Eve is blamed for the sin of Adam in the creation story. ...

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When their husbands return from battle, the women reject sex and stand guard at Acropolis. The sex strike, portrayed in risqué episodes, finally pressure the men of Athens and Sparta to consent to a peace treaty. In Lysistrata, Lysistrata defies the system of the oikos as represented as sex and attacks the privilege of war. Because of the sex strike, the male world is forced to end the war. ... On first glance, the play seems to be no more than a simple, comical story. ...

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Sexual Promiscuity Sex, it is a beautiful thing, an experience reserved for a man and woman who are in love. Love is often made in lust, and when lust takes over, sex becomes and act of pure pleasure. ... The story reads, "[Heile] ofther made love, for a price." ... IN conclusion, Sex cannot be treated as an act of pure pleasure, for when it becomes that, the essence of love disappears from the act. ... Women in history have always beeen subject to a mans decisions and the reputations that men place on them, and it is in stories like these where women allow themselves to be taken adva...

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The movie "Boys Don't Cry," narrates the true life story of Teena (AKA Brandon), which clearly shows that gender and sexual orientation are independent of biological sex. ... Wood wrote that "sex is a designation based on biology, while gender is socially and psychologically constructed" (19). ... Gender identity starts with the recognition and awareness that one belongs to one of the sexes. ...

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In the story "The Werewolf", Angela Carter uses descriptions of beastliness to direct the story toward a person's resolve with hatred toward those who are different. The story written by Angela Carter is very odd and awkward in its writing. ... This event parallels to a mother finding out that her daughter is of same-sex orientation and disowns her for that very reason without a single word to that daughter. ... This is very similar to a person with same sex presence committing him to "keeping under the radar" of the public for fear of having to deal with the hatred and defeat he or she...

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He wants to please his father so much that when he pushes John to push his morals aside to have sex with a strange, older woman he just goes along with it. ... This makes his story more interesting than him just telling it in their voices he uses his body to tell a more complete story. ... He sees the way his father abuses women and prioritizes sex. ... He pushes John to push his morals aside to have sex with a strange, older woman. ...

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Feminists recognized this and pushed for equality within the sexes. ... In Ortiz Cofer's essay, "The Story of My Body," she illustrates the hardships she dealt with growing up as a "white" person in Puerto Rico, and a "dark" person in America, being the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and Caucasian father. ... This can be seen as the most primitive notions of the sexes; the woman is after security and the man is after sex. ... Career women have also been big supporters of the equality of the sexes. ... Feminism's goal was to establish equality amongst the sexes. ...

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Sophocles: The role of Women in the Sophoclean tragedy Every Society differentiates among its members on the basis of sex and almost everyone assigns women an inferior status. ... In the story of Antigone, Antigone disobeyed Creons orders not to bury her brother, Polynices. ... In the story of King Oedipus of the Sophocles Tragedy, his wife Jocasta keeps a haunting secret from him. ... The roles of women of every society does depend on what sex you are. ...

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This essay will use a close analysis of a perfume advertisement (still image) to look at the denotations and connotations in order to find out the "myth", as Fiske, reflecting on Barthes, explains "A myth is a story by which culture explains or understands some aspect of reality or nature". ... The night again is part of nature, as is sex and the desire to reproduce: fulfil basic human instinct. ... That they will ooze sex appeal and be irresistible to the opposite sex. ... "Sex sells" (Holmberg: 1998: 27). Sex is a massive industry, organizations and companies use this widely known fact to ...

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Sexuality seems to be the main focus of many events of nearly every character in this story. This period in history was indeed marked with a peculiar fascination for the opposite sex. ... This was shown through the book by flirting, daydreaming, or actually engaging in sex. ... The only woman I believe him to truly love in this story is his own mother. ... Grace Marks was a real person, though her character in this story may only be fiction. ...

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The relationship between the man, Dmitri Gurov, and the young lady, Anna Sergeyevna, is very intriguing when looking at the roles and the development of each character throughout the story. The change in attitude towards women shown by Dmitri shows the role of relationships and love in determining the feelings of one sex towards the other. ... Another explanation for Dmitri's feelings may be the social norms at the time which this story was written in. ... No longer does Gurov feel that women are inferior to him; in fact, he now seems to look up to the opposite sex. ... It can be con...

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There wisdom, strength, creativity and courage as shown in a story called "Mother Catherine" by Zora Neale Hurston and this essay "Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" by Leslie Marmon Silko. ... Also what brings this story and essay together is the belief of courage and strength a woman has to over come her obstacles or even pain. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit "Yellow women is my favorite because she dares to cross traditional boundaries of ordinary behavior during time of crisis in order to save the pueblo; her power lies in her courage and uninhibited sexuality, which the...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (Women and Economics) wrote "We are the only animal species in which the female depends on the male for food, the only animal species in which the sex-relation is also an economic relation. With us an entire sex lives in a relation of economic dependence upon the other sex, and the economic relation is combined with the sex relation. The economic status of the human female is relative to the sex relation." ... There was another strong minded and brave writer I may say, her name was Kate Chopin, there was a time when publishers felt her work dealt too explicitly with ...

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Often literature can be used as a historical reference, illustrating the ways of life in a culture though stories set in a particular time period. ... The Wife of Bath holds a high intelligence and an overwhelming ability to manipulate and control the opposite sex. ... Some may interpret the Wife of Bath's story to only consist of sexual revenge. ... She is given the opportunity to voice her opinions and beliefs disguised as a story. ... We can assume that due to her negative attitude towards men, her tale is not aimed at an audience of the opposite sex but primarily women. ...

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In reading both female and male stories of the realities of daily life as a slave, there are many differences with the way life was portrayed based on the gender of the individual. ... He borrows another slave and makes them have sex every night, until she becomes pregnant. ... While both genders were beaten and forced to work, the women were actually looked upon for sex and to keep the families in order. ...

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