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Merlyn French's "The Women?s Room", 2005.
This paper discusses Merlyn French's "The Women's Room", which describes the progress and changes in woman's consciousness that occurred in the second half of the twentieth century, a period of women's right activism.
1,740 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 39.95
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This paper explains that, from the very first lines of Merlyn French's "The Women's Room", the reader understands that French's personal experience influenced the novel. The author points out that the struggle for the nineteenth amendment of Constitution is already a forgotten event. The paper relates that French's primary purposes were to describe the history of woman's consciousness change, to make a chronology of this period and to show that it is quicker to change gender issues though juridical reforms rather than by changing
people's stereotypes.
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"It didn't happen at once, Mira and others came to it gradually, as it was an individual reaction towards the events that took place in the country, I the minds of people and which were reflection of modernity and growing demand for liberties. They were the pioneers in their own way in fighting for personal happiness and independence. Of course it brought to the contradictions with existing beliefs and existing social norms and their behavior was deviant, but already the fact that they had overcome themselves tells a lot. They became freer and more respectful at least by themselves, removing them from the list of unhappy marriages and unhappy broken lives, as they found potential and energy to build their new life, according to their personal ideas and aspirations."
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"The French Lieutenant's Woman", 2002.
An analysis of how Darwin's theory of Natural Selection relays themes in John Fowles' "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and reflects the characters.
1,142 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 27.95
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A paper which details how theories from Charles Darwin's "Origin of the Species" conveys themes discussed within the lives of the main characters in the novel, "The French Lieutenant's Woman" by John Fowles. The paper explores Darwinism and how it pertains to Charles, Sarah and the narrator. It also demonstrates societal evolution within the context of Darwinism.
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"The narrator discusses Darwin and relates his ideas to the condition of the characters. Fowles suggests that despite evolution, every species struggles and often loses the same kinds of fights fought and lost centuries before. To Fowles, evolution, in essence, means both change and no change. In the novel, the narrator says himself: "Darwinism, as its shrewder opponents realized, led open the floodgates to something far more serious than the undermining of the Biblical account of the origins of man; its deepest implications lay in the direction of determinism and behaviorism" (pg. 120)."
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The French Lieutenant's Woman, 2006.
A discussion and analysis of John Fowle's 1969 novel, "The French Lieutenant's Woman".
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, £ 31.95
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This essay takes a look at John Fowle's 1969 novel, "The French Lieutenant's Woman". This is a novel set in Victorian times that features many Victorian values and mores. Yet by dissecting the novel's two main characters, this paper makes the argument that Fowle's bridges the gap between the past and modern times by infusing said characters with modern worth and values.
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"The old saying "Hindsight is 20/20" is applicable to no better theme than literature. As readers of literature, we are settled firmly in the present, whenever that present time might be. Yet the object with which we interact, on which we ponder and ruminate, the text, the physical book that we read, is firmly planted in its own time, whether it was written centuries ago or merely yesterday. The reader has no choice but to apply and compare his or her present circumstances, attitudes, and social mores to those present in the text, making judgments on both periods as to right or wrong, advanced or dated. Be it the bawdy and rambunctious behavior of Chaucer's travelers or the tragic and un-emancipated treatment of Twain's Jim, present values cannot help but be taken into account when understanding what was written, and what was. In his novel "The French Lieutenant's Woman"..."
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'The French Lieutenant's Woman' and Categorization, 2007.
This paper discusses John Fowles' exploration of categorization in 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'.
2,911 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 9 sources, APA, £ 61.95
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In this article, the writer notes that the traits of order and categorization, without which society cannot function, are especially prominent in the Victorian society in which 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' is set. The writer points out that the Victorian era is an outstanding example of when categorization was taken to the extreme, almost completely suppressing the socially and scientifically inexplicable instead of incorporating it into a system as had been done in religion and superstition. The writer discusses that Fowles' experimentation with the most fundamental elements of the Victorian novel (for instance with their endings) clearly indicates that he actually uses his image of Sarah to highlight the limitations he suffers in his own position as author with an equal weight. The writer notes that Fowles shows, through his exploration of the categorization of the individual and the external world, and his evasion of authorial convention, that the problems of excessive categorization are just as much of a problem for the author himself - not just the world around him.
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"That which makes The French Lieutenant's Woman most radical and arguably post-modern, however, is that Fowles goes beyond the implicit existentialism of modernist literature and becomes directly self-reflexive. He tackles the idea of unnecessary categorization far more directly by exploring it in his own position as author. Fowles demonstrates this in his unwillingness to be limited by basic premises of narrative of the conventional novel. Interruptions to the narrative, denial of authorial omniscience, moving backwards and forwards in time as easily as in the imagination - these are all attempts by Fowles to avoid being pinned down. The Victorian crusade of categorization, it seems, was still evident in the need for a 'second wave' of feminism in the 1960s - excessive categorization, while already established as a problem by some Victorians, required a 'second' wave for the internalization of this change in attitude."
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"The French Lieutenant's Woman", 2002.
This paper discusses John Fowles' novel, and Harold Pinter's film, "The French Lieutenant's Woman".
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 69.95
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This paper relates this story about a woman named Sarah who fabricates an explanation of her estrangement and isolation. The author points out that she falsely represents herself as the victim of an absent man, and by doing this, she frees herself from certain constraints and bonds. The paper concludes that the film amplifies her mystery with images, but the novel explores her complexity with detailed substance.
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French Feminism - Woman in Language, 2004.
A discussion on how the political and theoretical work of French feminists has been much misunderstood owing to the reader?s failure to distinguish between their use of the terms ?feminine?, ?woman? and ?women?.
3,576 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 70.95
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This paper begins with an overview of the problems facing feminist theorists regarding terminology, such as the persistent risk of 'essentializing' woman's culturally specific situation into an immutable truth. It then discusses Kristeva's conception of the culturally and temporally specific woman in "Le Temps Des Femmes" (Women's Time) and compares it with Cixous' work in 'La Jeune Mee' (The Newly Born Woman) in terms of the theorists' similar approaches to the constructed, 'symbolic' woman. It then looks briefy at Simone Beauvoir's early work, "Le Deuxieme Sexe" (The Second Sex), adding her conception of ontology as a perpetual state of becoming and political analysis of woman's situation to the constructivist debate. Finally, it examines Irigaray's more post-structuralist work (including "Speculum" and "Ce Sexe Qui N'en Est Pas Un") in order to discuss the further complication of housing the material aspect of woman within langage.
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"Kristeva?s thought on feminism provides a useful point of departure for a discussion of how a useful feminist understanding of the term woman, especially if taken from an ?essentialist? point of view, is far from simple. In her 1982 essay Le temps des femmes , Kristeva postulates that the concept of ?woman? desiring men and desired by them is created in the symbolic by the concept of desire founded on a lack with the penis as its major referent. She believes that the ?meaning? of the woman object, the female body only exists in the symbolic and that any attempt to deny, or re-traverse the separation between this symbolic nature and something contained within the physical nature of ?woman? merely magnifies this separation and perpetuates the myth which allows oppression to occur."
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The Women of the French Revolution, 2004.
A look at the role of women during the French Revolution.
2,166 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 47.95
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This paper examines how one of the most significant aspects of the French Revolution was the incredible momentum the women?s movement achieved during this time. It looks at how, during a time of intense suffering and turmoil, women came together to fight for a common cause and how ,in the wake of the Enlightenment and the French Assembly issuing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, French women rose to the occasion and courageously demanded freedom and equality. While many of these women did not live to see the equality they fought for, their efforts proved to be a constructive force during the French Revolution.
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"Olympe de Gouges was another influential woman who fought for equality. In 1791, Olympe de Gouges wrote a Declaration of the Rights of Women. She demanded that women be looked at as citizens as well as mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters. In her declaration she also argued that women have the right to own property. She also argued for equality in marriage and education. She encouraged women to ?wake up; the tocsin of reason is being heard throughout the whole universe; discover your rights? (de Gouges). Her declaration demonstrated how the rights described in the Declaration for the Rights of Man and Citizens created basic rights for everyone, including those that it did not cover."
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Women in the French Revolution.
This paper discusses the participation of women in the French Revolution and its effect on them.
2,645 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 56.95
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This paper explains that some women had been able to vote for deputies of the First and Second Estates before the Revolution, but the r?glement royal (royal decree) of January 24, 1789, took those voting rights away; women could only vote through a male representative. The author points out that professional and working women joined in the fight from the storming of the Bastille in 1789 through the many years of revolt that followed. The paper relates that, even as they worked diligently for liberty, women were not considered citizens of France and did not win the right to vote until 1944.
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"Most of the women who championed and worked for the Revolution believed in the rights of women, and that the Revolution would create a new age for women in France. One of these women was Th?roigne de M?ricourt, a single woman and singer who worked tirelessly throughout the Revolution, and was awarded a couronne civique for her activity in the August 10, 1792 attack on the Tuileries. She gave numerous speeches about the Revolution, started a club for both sexes called the "Amis de la loi," a club who hoped to inform the populace in political matters and to drive out fear and ignorance. She traveled to Belgium to incite revolution, where she was jailed in Austria until 1791. "She described her persecutors as abominable and hideous liars, saying 'not only is their goal to incriminate and defile an innocent woman, but they tend also to compromise and dishonour persons who are respectable and deserving of the esteem of the public.'" When she returned to Paris after her release, she was greeted with admiration and applause. De M?ricourt is representative of women who worked for the Revolution in many ways."
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The Roles of Women in the French Revolution, 1995.
This paper compares "Blood Sisters" by Marilyn Yalom and "Rebel Daughters", Eds: Sara Melzer & Leslie Rabine: Two literary portrayals of the roles of women in the French Revolution.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, £ 27.95
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" "Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's History" by Marilyn Yalom presents the views of women who took part in the revolution. What makes the book special is that Yalom lets the women speak for themselves in their own words, from dozens of preserved accounts. Their personal histories record their own role in that revolution. We learn the essential roles of women in the transformation of France at the end of the eighteenth century, and we learn that women were treated unequally by men who led the revolution, despite women's many minor and major contributions.
At the same time, most importantly, the accounts and Yalom's interpretations make clear that women were hardly passive victims of male manipulations during the revolution, but took active roles in both advancing it and protesting its injustices."
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Women In French Art, 1875-1915, 2000.
An examination of painters' depictions of women, clothing, sexuality, physicality, class and family.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 5 sources, £ 56.95
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Representations of women in painting of the period 1875-1915 feature women revealed in one of three ways; they are either nudes or semi-nudes, working women (urban and rural) in relaxed or revealing clothing, or fashionable women (respectable or otherwise) whose adherence to the strange costume of the bourgeoisie contorts and reveals their bodies in bizarre ways.
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"Representations of women in painting of the period 1875-1915 feature women revealed in one of three ways; they are either nudes or semi-nudes, working women (urban and rural) in relaxed or revealing clothing, or fashionable women (respectable or otherwise) whose adherence to the strange costume of the bourgeoisie contorts and reveals their bodies in bizarre ways. The implications of bourgeois dress for women in this period are manifold and painters' various approaches to costumed women bring out the range of meanings in this form of attire. The varieties of objectification of women, anxiety over the status of their virtue, and attempts at control are manifested in hundreds of paintings that present vivid contrasts between elegance and discomfort, sexual availability and utter respectability. The figure of the Parisienne (respectable or not) dominated European..."
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Women Mentoring Women, 2000.
A brief historical overview of women and their past legal, as well as an analysis of the unique influential process of mentoring and the problems that have resulted from this process.
6,535 words (approx. 26.1 pages), 52 sources, £ 106.95
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This is an exhaustive paper examining the way that women mentor women in modern American professional society. Examines the history of the phenomenon, and gives information on how mentoring should be given and received.
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"Women mentoring women in the workplace is a relatively new phenomenon. Woman-to-woman mentoring encompasses circumstances and rules that are specific to a female style and representative of a female culture. The workplace puts demands on our priorities and our energy that bring new factors into woman-to-woman relationships. Our identity as professional women with career responsibilities affects our interactions with other women who are also committed to improving their performance and achieving greater success. Women learning from women at work, women mentoring each other as career professionals with job and personal lives, is an emerging opportunity with enormous potential to change work and women's lives for the future (Duff, 1999, p. xv & xvi). Mentoring begins with an influence that someone has upon another person. It also can help to shape and develop a person's personality and thoughts. In research, it has been proven that women need role models that help them to pursue and conquer future endeavors in the workforce. Discovery into the differences between males and females might be a way to unlock strategies to aid in diversity counseling as well as provide positions in organizations that are solely devoted to mentorship."
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Women's Poetry and Women's Politics, 2002.
A comparison between the poetry of Muriel Ruckeyser and that of Adrienne Rich, and an exploration of their feminist messages.
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 25.95
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This paper analyzes the poetry of Muriel Ruckeyser, as found in her book ?The Book of the Dead?, and that of Adrienne Rich, using her work entitled "Twenty-one Love Poems". The paper gives a biographical background on each of the poets, stressing their importance to the contemporary women?s movement and to American poetry. Rich?s poems are explored for their ideas on the relationships between women, and Ruckeyser?s are studied in terms of their comparison to a documentary and in relation to her strong political view.
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"To many, Poetry is the voice of women. It is the way in which women can express their inner thoughts and feelings, to write the things that they can not say. Poetry is more than words on paper but someone?s feelings and life poured into the readers mind. Poets let the readers climb inside their heads and taste what the poet feels, sees, and thinks.
Two major women poets that are in the inner ring of American feminist poets are Muriel Ruckeyser and Adrienne Rich. Though their poetry may be different in content, many of their messages are the same: we need to be heard. Ruckeyser?s ?The Book of the Dead? describes conditions and feelings of the Gauley Bridge tragedy through actual courtroom testimonies to words from actual citizens of the town. Adrienne Rich?s ?Twenty-one Love Poems? describes in many ways, her love of her companion as well as their struggles and times together."
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Wallace Stevens and Desire: Woman Lost--Woman Ignored, 2005.
A psychosexual and archetypal study of feminine figures in "Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens".
5,141 words (approx. 20.6 pages), 33 sources, MLA, £ 90.95
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This paper examines the "Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens", America poet. The paper shows that desire and desired denied in this work may be interpreted through the archetypal psychology of Carl Jung to disclose the reason for Stevens' preference for places over people and to explain his ambivalence toward the abstract feminine figures in his poems.
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"Feminine archetypes reconstruct the distant attitudes in Stevens' poetry by figuring-forth embedded emotions. First, they provide an archetypal perspective on individual poems. Second, they illustrate how, ranging from Harmonium (1923) to The Rock (1954), clusters of motifs influence the poet-hero's psychic development. Although their appearances change to fit their ambiguous roles, these singular feminine figures determine the poet-hero's canon-long struggle to achieve a regulated unity of self. Two categories need to be distinguished: (a) feminine figures and (b) the interior paramour. Their protean capability makes scrupulous demarcations between exterior feminine figures impossible, but three forms or combinations prevail: the summer maiden (Kore or lover), the universal mother or earth mother, and the maiden-mother (an overlapping maid and mother figure). The interior paramour represents a climax to the poet-hero's experience with exterior feminine figures."
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Women Reporters in Locker Rooms, 1994.
An analysis of the bias and harassment of female sports journalists including the reactions of athletes, owners, readers and colleagues.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 8 sources, £ 44.95
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"More and more women have been making inroads into traditionally male-dominated occupations, and one of these is sports reporting in all its forms--writing, broadcasting, interviewing. The response shows many that professional sports players and coaches have a good deal to learn about equality, but at the same time the intrusion of women into the locker room raises a number of questions about proper conduct on both sides. The experiences of a number of the women in this profession will illustrate the matter.
Mariah Burton Nelson works in this arena, and she has found that women sports writers and sportscasters are often made the brunt of sexual jokes in the locker room and are treated as less welcome than male reporters. She asks why this is so and offers one opinion when she writes that the locker room culture is a..."
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