These days even though the majority of women have jobs and are working these expectations still exist; women find themselves choosing between job, career, and being "Mommy"." ... She doesn't play into the many stereo types given to women these days; acknowledging that times have changed and people's views and attitudes have changed accordingly. ... She still works as a private tutor to special needs children, although she retired years ago. ...

• Word Count: 1263
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there, not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it - The above are thoughts and conventions that we have ingrained in our children since the days of yore. ... [The first act of a feminist critic is] to become a resisting rather than an assenting reader and, by this refusal to assent, to begin the process of exorcizing the male mind that has been implanted in us."1 On the thematic level, then, the reader rejects stereotypes and examines woman ...

• Word Count: 1975
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In literary works the reference to shadows represents the prediction of death and the west signifies death, which in turn symbolizes Sylvia's dying as a little girl and being resurrected as a woman. ... Even though she used a child to discuss this subject, in those days young girls coming of age journeys typically started at around age eight or nine because of untimely advances made by men. ...

• Word Count: 1287
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Edward is a high class business man who grew up in wealth whereas Vivian is a high school dropout who works the streets as a way of survival. ... Mostly all women now days have their own sort of income and have their own stable jobs and do not need men to help them get ahead in life and instead of waiting for men to make life decisions, women make their own life changes. ...

• Word Count: 1499
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

Gone were the days when Maria Clara used to nest in home and sweat for her family needs in day-to-day life. ... Thus in return, a million thank you may not be enough, but a single love and care plus respect for them will repay their hard works and unconditional love. ...

• Word Count: 1650
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Jess identifies with the men she works alongside in the factories and warehouses for years, rather than with the middle-class feminists who exclude butch, and lesbians from their organizations. ... Indeed, butch presentations tend to be more visible than other varieties of lesbian presentation these days. ...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This essay will demonstrate and examine how the selected works of Sylvia Plath, Diane Di Prima, and Suzanne Collins, challenge the standard depiction of the twentieth century's female gender roles by defying the patriarchal belief of women's domestic position within society. ... The woman in the story spends the majority of her adult days painting, drinking beer, stealing small amounts of food from a local grocery store, and hanging out with what seems to be her lesbian neighbors. ...

• Word Count: 2160
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Givings spends his days giving other women a kind of satisfaction that he denies his wife, which leads Catherine to experience jealousy, even though she isn't completely sure what she is jealous of. ...

• Word Count: 1862
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School