As Patricia Gourlay has mentioned in her essay about The Winter's tale, the position of men and women in Shakespeare's society is as follows: That society is, of course, masculine, with male and female roles, in general, conventionally defined. ... What Shakespeare wants to talk is how to build up the real harmony in a society which is composed by men and women. ... However, what strikes him most is the betrayal of his friend. ... In retrospect, in ActI, when Polixenes is asked about his relation with his child by Leontes, he answers: If at home, sir, He's all my exe...

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• Grade Level: High School

Women were encouraged to support the Revolution by assuming the duties associated with being a good Frenchwomen, not by forming legions or social clubs that argued for equal rights. ... 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 f...

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Throughout my essay I will be discussing the roles of three extraordinary women in Canada's history and how they struggled to overcome the barriers to achieve the significant experiences that they accomplished: Emily Murphy, the first woman judge in the British Empire, and the important position she had in the Persons Case, Agnes Macphail and the struggles she had as Canada's first female to be elected into Parliament and the career of Kim Campbell, Canada's first female Prime Minister of Canada. ... Macphail was also a pacifist, she was against war, she opposed armies, gun ...

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