Sure, within the last couple of decades women heroes are starting to show up more but the history of writing contains male heroes. ... People believed Hawthorne to be against feminism, but then he goes and creates "a powerful woman character, a character that feminist critics cannot help admiring" (Murfin, 275). ... Hester is an indirect heroine to the future females who would walk the earth because she started a belief that woman are and should be treated as equals of males. ... In reality Hester is a heroine because she is female, but why there are two different words to describe males an...

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Their actions have helped women in Canada take steps towards becoming equals. ... She didn't have a full part in politics until an event happened which helped triggered her interest. ... With Murphy becoming a judge it was a starting point for women to become more actively involved in society and a few months later two other women also became magistrates, one in Calgary and one in British Columbia (Cochrane 46). ... Her involvement with the Senate Campaign helped lead her into the political atmosphere. ... She succeeded in many of the things she believed in and she helped to set a st...

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In the Essai sur l'admissoin des femmes au droit de cite (Essay on the admissions of women to the rights of citizenship), published in July of 1790, he argued the need to expand the principals outlined in the Declarations of the Rights of Man to include the rights of women. ... Condorcet was the largest male advocate of women's right in the Revolution; his arguments embodied what women were striving for and his actions helped ensure a place for women in political societies and in demonstrations. ... In 1788 she published a pamphlet expressing the hope that women would play a key r...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate