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…, or victimized in her work. This is because she did not experience herself or other African Americans in those ways. This helped bring about much of the criticism she received. In the 1940's the naturalism of Richard Wright and the naturalist-feminism of Ann Petry…

…through the social, economic and political arrangements which motor the life impulses of love, hate, sex and death.' Much of her text questions the viewer about feminism, classicism, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire, although her black-and-white…

…the same pay as men for the same work. The 70s and 80s was an era dominated by women's liberation movement, commonly known as feminism. The first feminist movement in Australia was the establishment of a feminist group called the Women's Electoral Lobby…

…Plath skillfully connects the theme of feminism and mental health in her book. Women are able to see the outside world of exciting work and self-determined men, but unable to live it. People suffering from emotional illness are living as if under a bell jar…

…Atwood's concerns about political groups and aspects of feminism; 'The Handmaids Tale' illustrates how declining birth rates could lead to a state where women are forced into bearing children. In contrast, '1984' depicts a terror state where poverty is rife…

…or population. Those objectives range from distrust of the government, to hatred of a specific type of person or people or their beliefs. They organize around civil rights, war, feminism and other political themes. The threat to the United States from domestic…

…reasonable (and perhaps more feminized) social order. She forces us to ask what ideals we are being sacrificed to... patriotism? Maintaining appearances? Maintaining patriarchal standards? Smiley speaks for all who have been marginalized when she states…

…and begin to feminize herself.…

…of feminism, as is her triumphant spirit afterwards and the ensuing sisterhood she feels with Melanie: "Her eyes went to the stubby hairy hand on the floor so close to the sewing box and suddenly she was vitally alive again, vitally glad with a cool tigerish joy…

…of prisoners from his victory against the Scots at Holmedon. After disobeying the King's orders, he blames his reaction on the effeminate messenger that Henry sent to relay the message. Hotspur was so disgusted by his feminity that he refused to obey whatever he had…