Women's suffrage

The research paper aims to explore the elements of feminism in Anita Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting. The paper seeks to study the work of Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting as a text of feminine writing and deals with number of problems that are faced by the women characters in the novel Lessons in Forgetting such as female feticide, gender discriminations, love and dependence on family members, and explains briefly how they overcome such problems to move on in their lives. As per the title, the…

Divakaruni is one of the primo voices of the diasporic writers.She has a pinch of autobiography in all her novels. Her novels are frequently rooted in the complexities of the home. Divakaruni feels that the sisterhood relationship is an eternal bond in women’s life. She fits in all the qualities that a narratologist should possess. She” looks at individual narratives seeking out the recurrent structures which are found within all narratives” (ref.1) She conveys through her protagonists that…

FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF “TIP DRILL” Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. popularly known in the American music industry as Nelly came out with “Tip Drill” on his 2003 remix album Da Dertty Versions, he featured the St. Lunatics on this song. The expression tip drill is a slang vulgar expression, describing a well-known ugly girl with a nice body, hefty breast and backside. The lyrics of “Tip Drill” describe a girl who can only attract the opposite sex with her body and not her face, she is cheap and ready to…

Women empowerment refers to the creation of an environment for women where they can make decisions of their own for their personal benefits as well as for the society. Rabindranath Tagore has mentioned in his novel, The Home and the World,” For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.” These powerful words of Rabindranath Tagore themselves explain the importance of women in our society. The wisdom of a woman in a family binds it with a feeling of…

“Free! Body and soul free” (66)! This flashy quote helps to demonstrate the symbolization of a woman who just experienced her most triumphant victory over her oppressor. With her “body and soul free” (66), she is expressing just how great of an oppression that had consumed her soul. In “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, which represents the element of symbolism through seasons, freedom, and death to convey a message of the oppression of a woman’s soul. The seasons play an important role in…

Arousal of feminism 钟楚君 Lexi 1509853G-B011-0343 D01 Although Elizabeth Fox-Genovese of Emory University claims”Kate was neither a feminist nor a suffragist”, in my own conceit, I strongly agree with the claim that Kate Chopin was a feminist author which is revealed in “The story of an hour ”. The followings are the evidence I have detected from the story. To begin with, perceiving freedom. It’s easy to find in the paragraph that Mrs. Mallard said it again and…

Benjamin Franklin is the first American citizen that is recognized by the people of the United States with excellent writing and very self-educated. He used to be involved with printing business, electrical experiment, and political interest. Benjamin Franklin and the Women, edited by Larry Tise, talks about women point-of-view that are related to Franklin; however this mainly explains that Franklin is the first person who enjoys flirting with women in many aspects such as love letters,…

A. Plan of the Investigation This investigation analyses the role and how significant Eleanor Roosevelt was in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). To asses the role that Eleanor Roosevelt played in the drafting of the UDHR, this investigation will focus on “her appointment as U.S. representative to the United Nations from December 1945 until January 1953”(Beasley 214) and how this “led to her leadership of the Human Rights Commission, which produces the Universal…

what is the “HeForShe” campaign all about? The “HeForShe” campaign is a solidarity campaign initiated by UN Women for gender equality for gender equality. It’s intention is to involve men and women as intermediaries to achieve gender equality and women’s rights encouraging them and extending them an invitation to take action against the daily inequalities faced by women and girls in our society. Gender equality had been a fight led by women for women in which men now are standing up for the…

Women in Society During the 1800’s, women were typically regarded as an accessory for men. They bore no worthy importance as their stereotypical duties were to assist their husband with housework and to labor a child. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne sets to change the perspectives on women who were treated as insignificant. The novel empowered women in various yet peculiar ways for it revolved around the life of the protagonist, Hester Prynne. Hester is a woman shunned by society due…