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Media's 1950s Housewife, 2005.
The feminist view in the movie "Far from Heaven".
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, $ 62.95
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An essay critiquing the movie "Far From Heaven" from a feminist's perspective. The paper examines the director's use of color, frame, lighting, and dialogue. Other work of the director is mentioned. Special attention is paid to the protagonist, Cathy Whitaker, and her plight as a 1950s American Housewife. Furthermore, a comparison of the media's view of a 1950s housewife and what they faced in real life is included.
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"This paper discusses a feminist's view of the 2002 movie Far from Heaven, and its depiction of the plight faced by the average American woman during the 1950's, with emphasis placed on the director's use of colour, lighting, frame, and dialogue. The movie Far from Heaven was made as a homage to the director Douglas Sirk, who made a number of melodramatic and colourful films during the 1950's, including; Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, and Imitation of Life ("Douglas Sirk"). Far from Heaven follows the character Cathy Whitaker, as she struggles with a number of issues, including racism and her husband's homosexuality."
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The Housewife's Work, 2002.
Looks at how little domestic work is valued and how it oppresses women economically and socially.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 71.95
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This essay discusses how the housewife's work generates scant social reward, and no economic gain. This issue is very much connected to how domestic service does not really help women at all. It pretends it is solving the crisis of female inequality, but it actually develops into a larger issue of the oppression of women of color and poor women.
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Poems by William Carlos Williams, 2005.
This paper discuss the poems "The Young Housewife" and "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper analyzes the poems "The Young Housewife" and "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams, which reflect domestic desire and the problems of intimacy that lie hidden within American suburbia. The author points out that Williams shows an abstracted form of simile, allusion and symbolism to reflect the frustrations of couples trying to live with each other in divided homes. The paper contends that, by actively revealing his own lack of sexual fulfillment, Williams is able to convey these messages in these simply written, yet cryptic poems.
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"This poetical analysis explores the theme of domestic desire within the two poems: "The Young Housewife" and "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams. By revealing William's poetry related to domestic desire through simile, allusions and symbolism, one can learn why these two poems reflect isolation and the romantic problems within 20th century American suburbia. In understanding William's poems through the theme of domestic desire, one can assume unfulfilled sexual and romantic energies that reside within his verse. The poem "The Young Housewife" reflects the barriers and sexuality of the suburbs in the way that Williams present both the woman and the doctor in the poem."
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Families in Modern Day Society, 2002.
A review of two books: "The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families" by Stephanie Coontz and "All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community" by Carol Stack which emphasize the position of the family in today's world
1,410 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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The first book "The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families" by Stephanie Coontz presents an effective summary of the history of the family and of the state of the modern family compared to the 'traditional family' - working father, housewife mother as the norm. It discusses the breakdown of family values caused by women needing to work because of economical changes in society. The second book "All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community" by Carol Stack describes in detail the family units and social support systems within the community of the African-American ghetto and compares the importance of family in the ghetto with that in other communities.
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"Coontz looks at the family from a historical perspective and argues against the common notion that the modern family is in trouble. Instead, Coontz argues that it is the media that has made us expect things of families that may never have been achievable. By looking at the history of the modern family and relating this to modern life, Coontz shows that it is not the family that is in trouble, but that society has not been able to accept and support what the family really means. Coontz argues that society must accept the reality of the modern family, rather than place unachievable expectations on it."
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The Election of Suicide by Women Writers, 2002.
An analysis of selected poetic works of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, including "The Mirror", "The Death Baby", "Housewife", "Young", and "Fever 103."
790 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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Poetry analysis of selected works of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath focusing on recurring themes of suicide and rebirth. Specifically, the paper analyzes the loss of self-worth experienced by aging women, fears related to predetermined gender roles and how these influences and expectations hinder spiritual connectedness.
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"Women writers often use suicide as a vehicle of escape for female characters who find themselves trapped within a restrictive and domineering masculine centered society. Tragically, many of these same writers materialize their fascination with freedom through suicide into the reality of their own lives. Although the confessional poetry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton delivers successive examples of this terrifying fascination, the horrific reality of their repetitive attempts to take their own lives taints the eloquence of this body of work. Loss of societal worth and independence for aging women, reservations with predetermined domestic expectations and, most significantly, repetitive attempts at identification with the spiritual and natural world are all relevant themes in Plath and Sexton's poetry. Clearly, both authors were plagued with a variety of fears born in the conflicting expectations of a male dominated society."
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"The Gossamer Years" by Anonymous, 1994.
An analysis of the Japanese housewife's diary focusing on her grief and rage in the face of an unhappy life and her husband's abuse and infidelities.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"The author of The Gossamer Years is determined to tell the story of her life no matter how negatively she might be perceived by the reader. She is the wife of a man who has had numerous affairs, and she sees herself and her life in far from positive terms. Her determination to record her life, her thoughts and feelings in as brutally honest a way as she can is reflected in the opening paragraph of the book, the only part of the book in which she speaks in the third person. The opening paragraph gives us a number of clues as to the reasons the author wrote the diary.
Apparently, the opening paragraph was written after the diary itself, for there is a wistful resignation about that paragraph which is not hinted at in the book itself until the final section. It would be unlikely that she wrote the opening..."
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Marriage and Divorce, 2006.
This paper discusses the changes in the traditional family unit, and as a result, how divorce is more common today than it used to be.
3,800 words (approx. 15.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 104.95
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The writer explains how ideas about marriage have drastically changed in this century and consequently the concept of divorce. The writer portrays the traditional family with the father a breadwinner, the mother a housewife and nurtured children and shows how society now questions the roles in families, with the result that divorces have become increasingly common. The writer shows how the stigma of divorce has been taken away and how therefore it has become much more accepted in society.
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"This report looks at the subject of marriage and divorce from several perspectives, and advances the argument that divorce has become a much more common occurrence in society than it used to be, due to the fact that divorce has gone from something that used to be considered aberrant and looked down upon by society, to something that has become considered normal and looked upon as normal by society, since it is so common in the present. In fact there is now a whole industry that is devoted to divorce, including lawyers, therapists, and self-help authors, and in a way, this industry sustains the normalization of divorce in society. People are more likely to get a divorce today than they were in the past because there is no longer a specific focus on the shame of divorce, and more of a focus on the so called positive aspects of it. "The normalization of divorce has brought us a long way from the stigma that accompanied divorce up until the 1960s. No longer is being divorced a deviant status, or an indication of pathology. Non-pathological therapeutic models of divorce now predominate, requiring management of sentiments and resources, rather than professional application of therapeutic practices to families in need to prevent divorce" (Varnis, 1997). Although the media image of the nuclear family still has its advocates, increasing divorce rates and changing patterns in the mass-media presentation of families as being effectively non-traditional (and the continued presence of their real-life counterparts) have made the modern family more open to gender-role malleability and extension to second-generation and blended-family
patterns, along with the acceptance of divorce as something normalized in society, as mentioned above. "While there may have been fewer divorces in the 1950s than today, there were undoubtedly many more unhappily married people" (Talbot, 1997). Couples today feel more free in both their gender roles and their attitudes towards a lifelong commitment that may not account for the fact that people change and may become irreconcilable. "
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Domestic Technology, 2002.
Uses historical evidence to examine the use of domestic technologies and how they impacted women's lives.
3,085 words (approx. 12.3 pages), 23 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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The process of industrialization in the home monumentally changed the quality of life for most people living in First World countries. For many, this was a slow transition, each generation slightly more advanced than the preceding one. For others, a rapid industrialization took place in the home with the dawn of electricity which later brought numerous electrical appliances. This paper shows that these new domestic technologies transformed the quality of life, as it was then known and greatly affected the efficiency of the work performed by a housewife. However, these technologies also brought with them many social implications. The paper shows that instead of reducing household labor, the new domestic technologies actually increase the complexity and time women spend on housework.
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"Many social implications arise when one questions the notion of female labor in the home. In a male-dominated society, most domestic technologies are invented by men. However, "technology itself does not determine outcomes; the impact is determined by society's use of it."1 For instance, labor saving devices such as a washing-machine are usually considered to reduce the time spent on laundry. Instead, standards of cleanliness have escalated which impacts the amount of labor to be spent doing laundry. In addition, women throughout history have realized their inequality with their male counterparts. An evaluation of eighteenth century literature exemplifies the dissatisfaction of women with their role in society."
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Nora's Development in "A Doll's House", 2005.
A consideration of Nora as a developing character in Ibsen's "A Doll's House."
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper examines the character of Nora as a developing character in Henrik Ibsen's play, "A Doll's House". In particular, it examines how Nora deceives both herself and Torvald as she realizes she is more as a person than just a housewife.
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"In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House the character of Nora undergoes a transformation during the play as she develops from a supposedly happy but unaware house wife to a woman who comes to understand her potential as an individual in her own right ."
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The Female Characters, 2007.
This paper compares Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler to Tennessee Williams' Stella Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire."
1,285 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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The paper portrays how Henrik Ibsen's character, Hedda Gabler, shares some similarities with the oppressed housewife, Stella Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' play, "A Streetcar Named Desire." The paper shows how in spite of the vast differences between the two plays, Stella in 1947 is no more evolved as an individual than Hedda in 1891 in terms of her autonomy, her honesty, or her ability to handle her own life. The paper demonstrates how both plays identify the inferior position held by women in society for hundreds of years.
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"Stella Kowalski has made a major concession in marrying Stanley Kowalski, a working-class, brutish sort who is far beneath the aristocratic social class of people with whom Stella was raised. Stanley has none of the manners, social skills or money that someone of Stella's station would customarily have married. However, from the beginning of the play, Stella seems to exhibit an underlying lack of confidence, and settling for her less-than-perfect marriage to Stanley is one more indicator of that. As the play progresses, we see that perhaps Stella has always felt inadequate as compared to her more glamorous sister, Blanche. Stella asks Blanche to try not to compare Stanley to men "that we went out with at home" (Sc. 1, pg. 17)."
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"Trifles", 2008.
An analysis of the female gender role stereotypes of Victorian society within Susan Glaspell's "Trifles".
1,209 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper analyzes the feminist issues that arise within American patriarchal Victorian society within the play "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell. It looks at how the play revolves around the murder investigation of Mr. Wright's wife in relation to her husband's murder and how the various stereotypical female gender roles in the play deny an accurate and unbiased account of the murder through the men and woman that collect evidence for trial. In essence, the paper shows how the gender role of the housewife and the alienated female in Victorian society are the central aspects of stereotypes brought forth by Glaspell in her feminist drama: "Trifles".
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"The general plot of Trifles is centered around the mysterious murder of Mr. Wright, a local farmer. His wife, Mrs. Wright, never appears in the play, but is constantly referred to in relation to her possible involvement in the crime. The investigation and ensuing court case revolves around the gender stereotypes that the male officials provide when discovering Mrs. Wright's strange behavior after the death of her husband. In the case of Lewis Hale--who had discovered Mr. Wright's body--his own descriptions of Mrs. Wright infer a strong Victorian sense of the "nurturing" housewife when he had initially questioned her."
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Literature: The Chance Encounter, 2007.
This paper compares the use of the chance encounter as a literary device in John Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" and Tayama Katai's "The Girl Watcher".
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This paper explains that, although John Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" and Tayama Katai's "The Girl Watcher" are written by authors from two different cultures, they share a literary device called the chance encounter. The author points out that the chance encounter enables the protagonists to reflect on their unfulfilled desires, allowing them a medium to channel their frustrations and to develop a greater awareness of their self-hoods. The paper relates that, in both stories, the chance encounter comes as a break from the routine nature of the protagonists' everyday lives, leading them to reflect on their unfulfilled desires. The author suggests that both characters not only feel unfulfilled in their roles in society, one as a housewife and the other a male magazine proof-reader, but also in their sexual relationships.
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"In Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums", the protagonist Eliza reaches a point in her life whereby she is left feeling unfulfilled, particularly in her relationship with her husband. The chance encounter she has, with a traveling male stranger, leads her to imagine an alternative life as she contemplates acting upon her desires. At the start of the text, we get the feeling that Eliza feels lonely and isolated in her country town. The author uses descriptive language to convey Eliza's sense of isolation in the Salina's Valley,..."
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Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves".
This paper discusses the concept of feminism as presented by Angela Carter in her short story "The Company of Wolves".
1,100 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 38.95
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This paper explains that in Carter's short story, "The Company of Wolves", displays her feminist point of view by comparing men to beasts who crave sexual encounter and by explaining women's role in society. The author points out that the women in her story are stereotypical; the young girl is pretty, the mother is a housewife who cooks and cleans. The paper relates that another issue, which Carter expresses, is discrimination: Women are discriminated against because of their sex and because of their looks everyday in America.
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"The idea of men being compared to wolves is shown throughout her story by anecdotes where men are turned into wolves, either by a witch's spell or the devils potion. These anecdotes assume that every wolf was once a man. In the first pages of her short story, an anecdote explains how wolves are something to fear, an animal that is cunning, ferocious and out to kill. Toward the end of this anecdote Carter explains, "Fear and Flee the wolf; for, worst of all, the wolf may be more than he seems." In many instances, men are something to fear and flee because of their manipulative ways, and often men are more than they seem."
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American Authors, 2006.
This paper discusses three periods of American literature: the early colonial time throughout the 1700s, the seventeenth century and the eighteenth century.
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This paper explains that, in "Journal of the First Voyage to America", Christopher Columbus describes the process of exploration and discovery and shows how the most significant part of his voyage is his encounter with the Native Americans. The paper also reviews Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and explains that Paine writes strong and clear arguments to justify why New England should be free of Great Britain. The paper then relates that, in the mid-nineteenth century, Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton) stood up for women's rights in her book "Hints to Young Wives". The paper explains how, in this book, Fern provides examples of how a young housewife must cater to her husband's every need and then points out that the more a woman caters to her man's every need, the more her man will take her for granted. The paper includes quotations.
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"Lastly, was the Nineteenth Century. The Nineteenth Century lasted from 1801-1900. The time period of the Nineteenth Century was one of social change. I view this period as the period of "voice". Women's rights, for example was one of the leading issues that faced this period. Women of this period were not at all treated as equal as the men. In the mid-nineteenth century the pertinent questions were whether women should be able to vote, keep control of their property even when they were married, have access to a wider array of jobs, and cast off some of the stays and multiple skirts that encumbered their twenty five pounds of clothing."
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Play: "Death of a Salesman", 2005.
This paper analyzes Arthur Miller's classic play "Death of a Salesman".
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper is an essay about the play "Death of a Salesman" on the toxic nature of the American Dream. The author focuses on the roles of women in the play. The paper states that typically women in the play are either a dutiful housewife or a whore.
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"There is only one woman who has a major role in Arthur Miller's classic drama about the toxicity of the American Dream "Death of a Salesman". Willy Loman's wife Linda is a devoted and hardworking housewife who tries to ..."
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