A Daughter of Han written by Ida Pruitt establishes an understanding of the workingwoman in China during the Qing dynasty. ... When the time came her parents arranged a marriage, and honoring her parent's decisions, she was married off to a man she barely knew, because that was her destiny and role in society. ... Caring for her daughter became Ning's primary goal in life, and she began to take control of her life. ... But with her beliefs as a Confucian woman, she felt she must marry off her daughter to establish the family. ... Ning has a hard time accepting the new and changing wo...

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Parents, realized or not, differentiate the methods of upbringing and raising their son to their daughter. ... On the other hand, their daughter is disallowed to play with gun toys for it is so-not-a-girl-type-of-toy. ... Parents tend to overprotect their daughter than their son. For example, I am not allowed to leave the house after 9 pm and must go back safely to the house at 12 pm, at most, whilst my brother, younger than me, has a free and unlimited curfew time. ... When a father cannot spare his time for his children, society still thinks that it is okay because the father is already tire...

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In which, he impregnates her mentally-retarded daughter only so Yasuko could have the closest thing to an heir that her deceased husband Akio, could not give her. ... Yasuko, the daughter-in-law and muse of Mieko, is the key pond in the novel. ... Harume, the mentally handicapped daughter of Mieko, is used in the worse way. ... To worsen matters, she is sent away to live as someone else's daughter, to protect Akio from leading a hard life. Mieko, makes the choice to ruin her daughter to save her son. " Harume's departure to live with her maternal grandparents had been due less to...

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For example, I am a daughter, student, sibling, and friend, so that is my social role. The way that I act as a daughter is a reflection of my values and may be different from the values and, therefore, actions of other daughters. ... However, I have been doing it for such a long time that I find it extremely dirty to not shower, brush my teeth, etc. even when I am by myself. ... After I get out of work, I go home and there I am the daughter and the sibling. ... As a daughter, my mom expects increasing domestic responsibility and self-direction with my physical maturation. ...

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Mary Matalin is a mother of two daughters, and wife to James Carville, who is a member of the opposing political party. ... This is something that can only be expected over time from holding three, such exhausting positions. ... In the article Mary Matalin recalls a trip to the Middle East, when she first called home to find out that both of her daughter's hamsters had died. ... This is a minor case of criticism, however when you look at the age of her daughter, you can see that this can easily develop into a major problem later in life. ... In the conclusion of the article, Matalin m...

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She feels like girls (particularly her daughter) should be concerned with how they dress and look. Many times we hear her telling her daughter to put something more feminine on. ... There is only one time I recall in the movie that Roy, after the transition began, was really aloud to do anything around the house, and that was when he was talking to his daughter, Patty Ann, while hanging laundry. ... Only in one case does Roy stand up for her, which I found strange, because of what he is going through you would think he would be more understanding of his daughter, however, Irma tells him t...

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Aside from keeping the masses informed about what is going on their world, the sitcoms and dramas from particular time paint an accurate picture of the cultural values of the time. ... Over time, seeing a thing over and over can desensitize the viewer, thus making the thing more acceptable to the audience. ... We allow our daughters to be emotional, and we discourage our sons from crying. We laugh at our sons' roughness, but expect our daughters to be gentle and nurturing. ... One can hope that the symbols these ideas carry can continue to get more flexible over time....

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In the Victorian era, wives, daughters and sisters were left at home all day to oversee the domestic duties that were increasingly carried out by servants. ... Even though this would make her daughter unhappy, she is still willing to follow it as it is the way it is expected to be done by society. ... This is a major gender reversal, as women of Gwendoline's class at this time were expected to be proposed to, not take charge and offer it themselves. ... This gives Lady Bracknell the upper hand as many mothers of this time would be ordinarily not be as involved in their daughter's mar...

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She examines the interior decorations of the house and complains to her daughter. ... During Antonia's struggle to raise her daughter alone, she did not show shame in having an illegitimate child. ... She takes her daughter to get pictures and insists on a frame worthy of her. ... Women did not usually own their own businesses at the time and still do not own many big businesses today. ... The town girls were the ones to marry well, while the hired girls were a way to pass the time. ...

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Particularly when focusing on the relationship between parent and child at the time of adolescence. ... This fact alone largely contributes to the void that grows between fathers and daughters and sons and mothers. ... This may cause young boys to demand freedom from their mothers and young daughters to grow distant and indifferent towards their fathers. In essence, relationships become vulnerable to drastic change in this short period of time. ... Television not only impacts our societal values; it also has a great impact on the relationships between fathers and daughters and mothers and...

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However the plays of that time do not reflect the evidence that we have about the women in classical Athens. ... In Euripides" Medea, Medea is constantly talking about the conditions that women face in her time. ... Medea is married to Jason, who has decided to leave her to marry King Creons daughter. ... In the beginning of the Trojan War, Agamemnon sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to please the gods. Clytemnestra had never forgotten or forgiven Agamemnon for killing her daughter and has been waiting ten years for her revenge. ...

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A father could sell his daughters into marriages and only a husband had the right to seek divorce. ... Your only ornament, the kind of beauty that time does not tarnish, is the great honor of modesty (Motto 94). ... Jewish tradition at the time did not allow women to be taught. ... Metzger also mentioned Jesus called a woman he cured the daughter of Abraham, thus implying that she had equal status with sons of Abraham (818). ... That is why since the emergence of Christianity women have been draw to it because it gives them unparallel equality unlike any time before in history. ...

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" I remember one of my favorite episodes was when Heathcliff and Clair's daughter Sandra moved out with her daughter and husband to a new home. ... The Cosby show challenged the typical stereotyping of television and challenged the dominant social values of its time period. ... Sondra, the eldest daughter, was a level-headed, hard-working student that ended up attending Princeton University. ... The show won an Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and ten other awards during its time. ... Every time I watch this episode I laugh. ...

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Because of this many artists have favored female subjects and many things they represent since the beginning of time. ... One artist of this time, Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, portrays a scene of a mother and her two daughters in the home, in his painting called Benediction (1740). http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?aid=85097&item=126293 In this painting, it shows a mother who has just prepared a meal and her two young daughters are sitting at the table, waiting. The older daughter watches as her younger sister pray. ...

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The Greeks had arranged marriages and often times the daughters, without a brother, would be married to a close relative such as a cousin or uncle. ... His daughters played no significant role in the play but he was worried about them and who would take care of them after he was gone. ... The author makes it known that during this time period male superiority and suppression of females was acceptable. ... In the time Chaucer was writing these stories, a questionable social standing for a woman could taint her. ... It appears as time goes on women get a little more freedom and r...

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The family was consisted of twelve members; eleven of which lived under one roof, at one time. ... Johnson was eleven years old at this time. ... When she started college she was a single mother and working full-time. ... A mother's influence has a significant impact on particularly daughters in regards to gender role. Research has shown that a mother's child rearing style as well as her own beliefs on gender roles has a major influence on daughters. ...

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It requires that she reject Pedro's, the man she is deeply in love with, marriage proposal so she can stay at home and take care of her widowed mother for the rest of her life since she is the youngest daughter. Rosaura, Tita's older sister, impose this tradition upon her daughter, Esperanza in which she conceived with Pedro, later in the film. The problem is if she turns her back on this tradition, she would not live up to what societies considers her responsibility to her mother, but at the same time Tita recognizes, however, that the tradition is unfair. Although Tita is repress...

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To what extent do Katherina and Bianca conform to the ideal of women and marriage in Shakespeare as time? ... Others have asserted that the roles of women in his plays were prominent for the time and culture that he lived in. ... We are shown how they should and should no­t behave, as a daughter, wife, and widow. ... In contrast to Kate, Bianca is a model daughter and women. ... In the case of Bianca, she has a husband whom she loves, more than many young wives at the time could ever have hoped for, and thanks to her father as bargaining, has all the wealth she could ever need. ...

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Parent-child relations also go through a transformation as a consequence of daughters who work the night shift in order to provide a 24/7 service to the American citizens (Patel, 2008). For younger girls, the shift in parent-daughter relations also rejects the foreseen climb in the familial status. ... Parents usually encourage girls' education as it improves their chances on the marriage market and often disagree with their daughter working the night shift, as a woman working in the call center industry is socially looked down upon (Patel, 2008). Patel explains: "Working in a call c...

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At the possibility of a daughter he recoil. ... Cheryl Benard highlights how the importance of having a son in the Afghani society is, when women are punished for giving birth to a daughter. ... But at the same time it also shows that if women do take a stand and stand up for their rights then no one is able to stop them, therefore women should always standup for their rights and causes and support one another....

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Abigail didn't have formal education-like most women of her time, but her intelligence was fostered by the many books she read and was reflected in the two thousand letters she wrote throughout her life. ... (Akers 8), as a daughter of a minister and because her family was well-off, Abigail was never short of books. ... In her marriage to Lincoln, "individual expression of power" was part of their union, which was very uncommon to the values of submissiveness and dependency of both her and Abigail Adams" time. ... (Baker 114) And while Abigail Adams concerned herself about educating daugh...

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During this time period of time, it is considered right for Sofia, a black woman to be a maid. ... Henrietta is Sofia's youngest daughter, whose father is not Harpo, but who is nevertheless Harpo's favorite. ... Eleanor Jane is Miz Millie's daughter, who loves Sofia like a mother and will not stay away from her even after she is free from her mother"s service. ... During Nettie's time in Africa, Samuel notes to her that the Olinka women have a strong relationship between each other. ... The women during this time are not allowed to wear pants. ...

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I would think that although Lavinia may be his daughter, it did not matter because Titus still had the mentality that he is in power. ... She is showing her feminine side by kneeling down and staying silent although she is his daughter. ... However, because of the use of words as well Titus having the choice of saving his sons, Aaron had the power to persuade Titus to listen to him even though, during this time period, no one would probably listen to a dark colored man, but the effect of Aaron's tongue made him powerful. ... Most of the time we only knew what was happening with him thro...

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It is not until she sees how her friends have moved on with their lives that she finally discovers her "emotional body-; she realizes of her unhappiness and decides to have a daughter. ... However, Susan's character evolves considerably during the play, since, by the time that they meet in a restaurant, she is no longer the woman interested in political activism that she was before: "I'm not political anymore. ... I'm afraid I haven't been happy for some time I feel stranded the point was that we were all in this together- (232). ... She realizes that she has one daughter t...

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At the same time she also seems submissive and rarely express her own opinions. ... Ramsay also believes that men deserve her protection and this is because they rule the world: "Indeed, she had the whole of the other sex under her protection; for reasons she could not explain, for their chivalry and valor, for the fact that they negotiated treaties, ruled India, controlled finance; finally for an attitude towards herself which no woman could fail to feel or to find agreeable, something trustful, childlike, reverential; which an old woman could take from a young man without loss of dignit...

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