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The paper examines how in his brilliant satiric novel, "Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes", Norwegian novelist Gerd Brantenberg crafted a culture and society based upon familiar gender characteristics and stereotypes in Western culture and society.

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"In his brilliant satiric novel, "Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes", Norwegian novelist Gerd Brantenberg crafted a culture and society based upon familiar gender characteristics and stereotypes in Western culture and society, but reversed those characteristics and stereotypes in order to make a powerful thematic statement about the fundamental cultural importance of gender roles and responsibilities, to examine how they function in society, and to demonstrate how and why they effect..."

Tags:egalia's, daughters, analysis

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This paper explains the prevailing theme of mother-daughter relationships in Amy Tan's novel, "The Joy Luck Club," and looks at the novel's focus on the need for Asian-born mothers and their daughters to reconcile the past with the present.

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"One way Tan came to terms with this was embracing multiple perspectives and dual identities, Chinese and American. "I think that the other reason that I've become a storyteller is that I was raised with so many different conflicting ideas that it posed many questions for me in life, and those questions became a filter for looking at all my experiences and seeing them from different angles. That's what I think that a storyteller does, and underneath the surface of the story is a question or a perspective or a nagging little emotion, and then it grows." (Giles, 1995) The multi-layered narrative structure of The Joy Luck Club generated by this upbringing is striking, as it alternates past and present, between the different perspectives of the members of the club and their daughters."

Tags:future, prodigal, daughter, jing-mei, woo, china, suyuan, twins, abandoned, storyteller

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In this essay, the writer discusses Shakespeare's work, while examining the way in which he portrays the relationship between fathers and daughters. The writer looks at the plays "King Lear" and "The Tempest," in which the daughters pursue a certain course in life due to their fathers' patriarchal actions. Further, the writer discusses the play "The Tempest," in which the character Miranda follows, although somewhat rebelliously, the eventually advantageous path set out by her father. The writer also looks at "Romeo and Juliet" in which the bonds between Juliet and her father appear to be much more loyalty bound than love oriented and patriarchy constraints are to the extreme. Using references from literature discussing Shakespeare's writings, the writer presents this view of the roles of fathers and daughters in Shakespeare's work.

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""Romeo and Juliet" is naturally one of the first Shakespeare plays that comes to mind when considering the role of fathers and daughters, because of the work's popularity through the years with its many modern renditions. However the bonds between Juliet and her father appear to be much more loyalty and dutiful bound than love oriented, and patriarchy constraints are to the extreme. Although Cordelia does not actually say the exact words her father, Lear, wants to hear, it is because of love not fear. Likewise, Miranda and Prospero have a very loving father-daughter relationship from the very beginning of "The Tempest." Although "Romeo and Juliet" does definitely show how a daughter's actions are set in place by her father's behavior, "King Lear" and "The Tempest" are even more interesting due to the additional conflicting relationships that exist due to this strong love between father and child."

Tags:paternal, female, patriarchy, women

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This paper looks at how Jerrold Packard's "Victoria's Daughters", examines the lives of the five daughters of Victoria, Queen of England: Vicky, Alice, Louise, Lenchen, and Beatrice. It examines how the book tells about each daughter and their families and concludes that it is a good book to read for learning more about the royal family in the 1800s, and the tragedies that can befall anyone, even the royal family.

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"Packard focused on how even a royal family cannot escape tragedy. Tragedy will strike even the Queen of England, the most powerful woman in the world in the late 1800's. Her husband was taken from her on December 14, 1861, and then her third child, and second daughter was taken from her on December 14, 1878. Once Prince Albert died, Queen Victoria lived the rest of her life in a state of mourning, and allowed her days to be consumed with self-pity. Her sometimes aloof ways in raising her children would lead to her eldest daughter raising her children in the same aloof manner. This action would lead to Vicky's eldest son, Willy, to become quite harsh with his parents. "

Tags:Vicky, Alice, Louise, Lenchen, and, Beatrice

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The story of "Egalia's Daughters" by Gerd Brantenberg depicts a society that is significantly different than traditional social orders throughout the world. Whereas men have historically been the leaders of society by creating laws, running governments and controlling their homes, Brantenberg reverses the situation, placing women as the leaders throughout every facet of the social order. Additionally, as societies within the world have evolved, laws and policies have historically been created to protect the rights and needs of the male population to a greater extent than the female population." This paper examines the statement about gender divisions Brantenberg makes in this work.

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The story of Egalia's Daughters by Brantenberg depicts a society that is significantly different than traditional social orders throughout the world. Whereas men have historically been the leaders of society by creating laws, running governments and controlling their homes, Brantenberg reverses the situation, placing women as the leaders throughout every facet of the social order. Additionally, as societies within the world have evolved, laws and policies have historically been created to protect the rights and needs of the male population to a greater extent than the female population. Because men have been the creators of such laws this has been the "natural" inclination of judicial systems throughout the world.

Tags:social, movement, literature

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This paper discusses the novel the novel, "Egalia's Daughters", by Gerd Brantenberg and how the author creates a version of society known as Egalia in which gender roles are different than the norm, reflecting ideas of gender from more modern times. In this society men must wear clothing that is uncomfortable and restricting much the way women in our society have done for a long time. The men are also required to be housebound, meaning they stay home and take care of the home much the way women were long expected to do in Western society. The paper explains that the novel satirizes current gender differences by switching many of them, showing men as if they were viewed as women, and women as if they were viewed as men. The story is told using the experience of the child Petronius as the individual who is coming of age and learning about gender and society.

Tags:novel, review, character

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This third year sociology paper is an article review on the social effects of DES on mothers and daughters. The paper further examines conflict and feminist theory on the subject.

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"In the article Woe The Women: DES, Mothers and Daughters Deborah Davidson looks at the impacts of diethylstilberstrol (DES) on mothers and their daughters. DES was an anti-miscarriage drug that was fast tracked on to the market before it was proven safe. The result was a number of cases of premature labour, infertility, Adenocarcinoma (CCA) and a range of other health problems (Davidson 161). Although a medical examination of DES would be quite interesting Davidson decides to look at the social effects on mothers and daughters who were exposed to DES."

Tags:health, society, models

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This paper reviews three novels by Canadian women authors as a way to compare and contrast their writing styles, and how these styles work to convey the complex relations of mothers and daughters. All three stories, (Hetty Dorval, The Swamp Angel, The Fire-Dwellers) deal with issues of language, silence, and the value of symbols and metaphors to express what is often inexpressible for women. This essay explores these themes through the writing of the authors, Ethel Wilson and Margaret Laurence, who portray a relation of writer with subject, where the ambiguities of understanding women in society become a shared project of story and writing.

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This paper will focus on the autobiography entitled: "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" by Jung Chang and express the life that she lived through the scope and influence of Chinese communism that was around at the time. Her family will also be analyzed within the scope of her life, but the main focus will be how the history of the country that she lived influenced her personal life and the way her family was changed by these political issues. In reflecting her life the period from Mao Zedong, when he ruled in the nineteen forties will be covered, to the end of the dynast dated around nineteen seventy-six.

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This paper describes this film about black families that have lived in virtual isolation for generations on a small, coastal island of the coast of Carolina called Edo Island. The paper explains that the film, "Daughters of the Dust", examines how memory keeps the lessons of the past alive and provides a sense of continuity and community for the family.

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"The time frame is revealed through the clothing worn by both men and women, and there is reference in the dialogue about Theodore Roosevelt. At the movie's opening the date is specified as 1902, but the story is not linear and is told in flashback, and it is necessary to reinforce the time frame visually as well as verbally."

Tags:nana, poussaint, oldest, member, family, survivor, slavery, idyllic, existence, mainland