Essays on Woman

Power is the underlying current that runs through both Webster’s ‘The Duchess of Malfi’, a 17th century revenge tragedy, and Williams’ ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, a 20th Century modern domestic tragedy. Both plays offer stark representations of power’s tendency to corrupt, a corruption that often...

In Harriet Jacobs’ historically renowned narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the story of Linda Brent’s struggles as a slave woman help to shed light on the unrealistic standards placed on women during the nineteenth century. As defined by Barbara Welter, the...

Freedom is an interesting concept, especially in the context of relationships and marriages. No one wants to feel as though they are being controlled or restricted by another, but in most cases with time, marriages begin to have a constraining effect. Additionally, there are certain...

In Belinda by Maria Edgeworth, portrayals of gender and womanhood have crucial and complex roles. In addition to the binary it asserts between Lady Delacour and Lady Anne Percival, the novel also provides a young generation of female characters, namely Belinda and Virginia, whose characters...

The evolution of terrorism has seen women play significant roles. The main reason has been due to the advantages that women terrorists have compared to their male counterparts. However, the best way to unearth this is by understanding the concept of terrorism as a whole....

Admirable qualities of men in Virgil’s The Aeneid include bravery, honor, and courage, but a woman’s value is based less on their power, wit and brains and more on their beauty, or lack of beauty. There are many instances within The Aeneid where both male...

Women in classical literature have been characterized as the submissives who lack the intellectual substance for lead roles. As the generations evolve into the modern culture, hints of sexist ideals latch themselves onto societal norms. Women’s bodies are not their own, but property of another...

The very form of the sentence does not fit her. It is a sentence made by men; It is too loose, Too heavy, Too pompous for a woman’s use Virginia Woolf, in her Collected Essays, ‘Modern Fiction.’ Eliza Haywood’s novels are important documents not only...

Most literary representations of the sexes include implicit and binary differences between women and men. Women are typically written as pure archetypes who strive to find constancy in their relationships. In contrast, men as seen as libertines who seek multiplicity, novelty, and otherwise rakish desires....

The corruption of innocence and the gaining of experience are common aspects of Carter’s stories in ‘The Bloody Chamber’, which are applied to many themes such as sexuality in The Tiger’s Bride and The Bloody Chamber, self-awareness in Wolf-Alice and horror in the collection’s namesake....

Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies is a book of philosophical and logical refutations and arguments. It is a direct response to several writings in which the male authors make claims against women’s purity. These books, according to de Pizan, slander...

The influential 19th century novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott expresses didactic tendencies, as well as qualities of sentimentalism, allowing it to be a compelling read for adolescent audiences. Following the story of the March sisters, readers track the growth and maturity of Alcott’s...

Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique ignited the onset of the second wave of feminism in the United States. This book is a sociological study about the roots of the feminine mystique and how it turned “into a religion, a pattern by which all women must...

Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique created a social revolution in the 1960s by addressing the role of women in society and its effects on their emotional and mental health. Her words opened the eyes of many American housewives who felt incomplete and lost. Friedan helped...

The people in one’s life are often more important in shaping one’s future than the choices of that individual themselves. In Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood, the protagonist, Toru Watanabe, encounters various women who influence him and alter his outlook on life as he progresses through...

The roles of women in Middle Eastern culture have varied throughout the decades, ranging from being delicate creatures in need of protection to becoming blind soldiers suddenly dedicated to a misleading cause. This is most noticeably depicted in the graphic novel Persepolis, in which author...

In psychology, one of the most frequently debated topics deals with the issue of environmental and societal impact on one’s upbringing. It is commonly believed that society plays a tremendous role in how one behaves and how one readily conforms to the environment he is...

The work of T. S. Eliot frequently presents society as degenerate and infertile. The deterioration of the post-war world is represented through the oppression and suffering of women – a concept explored most notably in Eliot’s 1922 work The Waste Land, but also in a...

Today women of all ages and backgrounds are part of every aspect of higher education. They comprise the majority of undergraduate students and represents significant numbers of postgraduate students, faculty members, and educational administrators. Women are found in every discipline, even though historically reserved for...

Achieving the balance between work and personal life is becoming increasingly difficult due to the pressure current society has placed on individuals. Social and demographic changes as seen in the increasing number of women in the workplace and dual career families have generated an increasingly...

For a long period of time, the Asian and Pacific Islander Culture and community has not been giving the female the required chance to show their potential. This is simply because that they believe that women are not able to act like men. Different reports...

A woman has an important role in deciding the nutritional level of the family which further effects society, a young female, she is more conscious about her figure and looks. Later on in life, she dies,emotions feeling during prenatal and postnatal condition and decide the...

George Etherege’s The Man of Mode is a play that utilizes humor, wit, and satire to criticize the foolishness and vulnerability of women. In this illustrative and vulgar play, Etherege examines the mannerisms, dialogues, and behaviors of different female characters, such as Mrs. Loveit, Bellinda,...

Fast Track Courts for Rape Cases The state has 13 special courts to hear cases of atrocities against women. The state government has decided to start 100 fast track courts in the next five years. The procedure of reserving 25 of these 100 fast track...

Victorians were very much concerned with the roles assigned to gender in society, particularly those roles that were customary for women. From this concern and fascination, the “Woman Question” arose, a debate that touched on issues of sexual inequality in politics, economic life, education, and...

African American women, in the course of seeking executive positions in organizations dominated by whites, often face restrictions. They always face discrimination based on their racial and gender statuses. Cain (2015), states in her research that women made up only 16% of the executive positions...

Past can be veiled but the fact is it is bound to haunt the present. Four years back, on 16th December 2012 India faced its own face as a monster that possessed the tendency to eat up the honour of female folk. Brutal gang rape...

The purpose of this presentation is to show the portrayal of powerful women in the media and to gain a perspective of different ways the media tend to elaborate and focus on gender issues than the public may think. I agree that powerful women are...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and can occur at any age. An awareness of symptoms is critical for detecting the disease as early as possible, especially in women who haven’t yet reached the age at which they have regular mammograms. The...