Gender in Literature Essay Examples and Topics

The poet demonstrates that from childhood, the leading character is orientated to be a girl by being presented GE stoves and iron as symbols of womanhood.

One way it could be interpreted is as a list of "lessons" given by a mother to their young daughter, trying to teach her the skills she needs to function in the society of that [...]

The plot of the story follows the life and death of a Southern woman Emily Grierson, mostly in the period after the Civil War.

In her chapter, The Married Life, Pundita Ramabai Sarasvati illuminates the issues of child marriages and the violation of women's rights, exposing them to early traumatic experiences and constraining them in their independence and autonomy.

Maybe Loureen and Florence treat their problems a little differently depending on the fact of having children or the degree to which the husband's attitude can be tolerated. The general opinion about women and their [...]

Paul D declared Sethe "the best thing" because he was just a "man" in terms of gender, and he could not claim his manhood without her.

In this novel of manners, the author describes the character development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, and depicts the society of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century England with its values and flaws. One of the [...]

The story of Ama Aidoo In the Cutting of a Drink tells about gender inequality, which is expressed in the clash between the typical values of rural residents and the values of people living in [...]

For contemporary audiences yet delight in the satire of Lysistrata, the farcical comedy of manners in which the themes of national war and peace, and yes, even war and peace between the sexes, all receive [...]

However, one realizes that she is voiceless in the novel, which highlights the insignificance of role of women in Heart of Darkness.

In the story, the mother is assured that passing on valuable domestic knowledge to her daughter will save her from a life of ruin and promiscuity and empower her to be a productive member of [...]

Hochschild concludes that Peter is resistant in sharing housework due to his awareness of the role of men in his social world which emphasises that a man's role in the family is to provide for [...]

Hemingway does not hide the uselessness of Wilson in the eyes of Margot; she only uses him as a toy, and even after they have sex Hemingway still questions it.

Wright The unimportance of women in the play is a critical factor for the women should follow all the things that their men counterparts impose on them.

To illustrate, the theme of female subordination plays out in The Story of an Hour through Louise's confession that Brently's supposed death indicates freedom for the wife.

Racine view Phedre as in a trap by the anger of gods and her destiny due to the unlawful and jealous passion that resulted into the deaths of Hippolytus and Oenone.

Olsen, portrays the hardship and low status of women in society, poverty, and the realities of working poor women. Olsen's mother understands the aimlessness and pointlessness of her life caused by the necessity to work [...]

The transgression from one style to the other, and through the process of breaking the convention Virginia Woolf, in her essay A Room of One's Own and parodic novel Orlando: An Autobiography, reinstates for her [...]

The intent of the paper is to explore the recent Afghani history and social conditions while making connections to the events of the novel to address the question: to which extent women are affected by [...]

Whereas a girl is unable to alter her new appearance caused of a health condition, people around her expect that she bears the blame since they view her as a freak of nature that scares [...]

She gives the example of how a three year old may grow up knowing that the doctor is supposed to be male and the nurse is supposed to be female.

In "Play-by-Play", the omniscient narrator poses rhetorical questions as the narrator watches a group of men playing softball and analyses the secrete sexual thoughts and desires of the women nearby, as they secretly admire the [...]

Ability to work and/or supervise oneself as a woman is also quietly depicted through the girl who is able to work in the absence of her father. Cather depicts most of the women in her [...]

The reason is that many behaviors of these female characters are masculine in their nature, and they need to be further discussed with reference to examples.

The external plot is only a shell of the main idea, with the help of which the author expresses the vision of the problem.

The objective of this story is to discuss the role of fantasy/escape as it has been applied in the story, "The Faery handbag".

Thus, in the course of analyzing the powerful imagery in Chopin's work, the paper will also focus on the concepts of feminine roles and gender relations as they were perceived in the dominant culture of [...]

This essay is going to review gender and love and sexuality as the key themes that intertwined with Nel and Sula's friendship, while also explaining how these influenced each of the two main characters. On [...]

Munro's "Boys and Girls" is a story about a puzzled girl who struggles to find the balance between the battles of her inner female-housewife side, like her mother, and a boyish character who likes to [...]

The focal point of the paper is to discuss four female characters in The Tale of Genji and focus on women's social role, level of education, how much independence they enjoyed, their emotions, their love [...]

Wahl is of the idea that Hermaphroditism is a metaphor that enables Behn to describe the Lesbian desire while Frangos believes that there is a possibility of Clarinda being a hermaphrodite.

Tahar Ben Jelloun's "The Sand Child" is a novel that explores themes of gender and economic status and the consequences of patriarchy in Moroccan society.

In it she relates the story of Celie, a woman with a phenomenal rise from one oppressed and dependent and climaxes at the emancipated self at the end of the book.

The theme of gender roles is consistently present in the novel, starting with character origins and becoming the central concept as they mature to defy archetypal perceptions of feminine and masculine expectations in order to [...]

Beauvoir regards women as human beings but women are always portrayed as the 'other' opposite to a man."A man is in the right in being a man; it is a woman who is in the [...]

On the other hand, the unknown narrator; the main character in the novel A Room of One's Own addresses and criticizes the issue of gender inequality in her society.

In Blanche's opinion, beauty is the true value of a woman since it enables her to win recognition of men. The main tragedy of Blanche DuBois is that she was conditioned to act and behave [...]

The central idea of the essay is that the male body has a specific purpose of reproduction, as it is compared to a "delivery rocket" of children, and therefore cannot last forever.

Two major works of literature, 'Oedipus the king' and 'The Odyssey', provide some of the best examples of how the role of female characters is portrayed in different ways and how these women influence the [...]

It is possible to say that Murray's ideas presented in On the Equality of the Sexes are ahead of her time.

The phrase "The personal is Political" establishes the notion that most problems that women are said to have are not their fault.

The literature also reveals to the audience a gender picture of the world - the statuses of men and women at a certain period of time, their behaviors, stereotypes, and potential conflicts.

The woman named Felice, takes Cleofilas with her to San Antonio which aptly proves to Cleofilas that it is not necessary for a woman to have a man to survive in life, "...she did not [...]

The context of the story and the extra attention to the peculiarities of the written language of the diary further complicate the interpretation of the story.

The story depicted in the text takes place in the author's home country during the last decade of the 19th century. Throughout the story, Matilda is rewarded for her ambitions and independence, which leads to [...]

Othello is considered a subaltern play that illustrates the conflict between the moral voice and silence of female characters and the treacherous voices of male figures.

The story "The Drover's Wife" written by Murray Bail and Henry Lawson has several similarities and differences in the way the "wife" is presented.

She asserts that the man in the newspaper is a different man than the one she is married to because the one she is married to could never dream of being mentioned anywhere without having [...]

The comparison is expected to reveal the differences and similarities in the authors' manner of depicting women and the way they influenced the overall message of the plays.

The story begins with a depiction of Jesusa as an elderly woman with a rather harsh and rude character; this description is accompanied by the author's explanation of her relationship with the main protagonist and [...]

She is an embodiment of a great breakthrough in the fact that she rediscovers her new energy and point of view.

For centuries, the idea of human isolation and solitude has been considered a phenomenon that poisons a human being, as the sense of belonging to a community and family is frequently considered a pillar of [...]

Specifically, the author refers to the problem of being confined in the prison of gender stereotypes that can be experienced when reading Shakespeare's works.

The majority of the second chapter of the story is descriptive, and the author does an outstanding job of gradually setting up the affair.

Therefore, women in the novel have received a certain degree of power and equality when it comes to their relationships with men.

The distinct feature of this story, as well as other Rifaat's writings, is the fact that the author does not oppose the Muslim traditions of marriage and patriarchy.

Till the end of the story, Stella does not want to believe that her dependence on men is so similar to the same dependence of her sister.

By further analyzing the statement and the book as a whole through the cultural rhetoric and trauma framework, it becomes apparent that she is a victim of systemic patriarchy.

By focusing on the character, the book portrays the demand for feminism in society to allow females to have the ability and potential to undertake some responsibilities persevered by their male counterparts. The belief in [...]

Contextualized by the male gaze of the narrative hero of the short story, the girls in A&P, the story written by John Updike, are being observed from their very first appearance.

Thus the works of literature do not give the readers an image of the tidy government clerk or a young man in the way we got used to; the authors tend to give unnecessary descriptions [...]

In attempting to control the politics of the situation, the women take on the role of the men and effectively put the men in their place.

She is struck by the sound of the words and repeats the realization that she is "free! In one instant, the realization that she is not free enters her mind, and she wails a "piercing [...]

The pain of realizing the essence of life and disappointment in Torvald awakened Nora's irresistible desire to be herself and live her life to the fullest.

The setting is significant to the meaning of the work of writing as it influences its outcomes, the characters, viewpoint, and plot since it is connected to the principles, ideals, and feelings of characters.

The decision to show one's femininity in revealing clothes and photographs despite the dangers of Trans sexism is rather a sign of solidarity and courage against the same dangers.

The most evocative depiction of feminism and the plight of women can be found in the story The Wife of the Bath.

The book, which is the subject of this essay, namely "Tales of the field: On writing ethnography" is one of the most famous ones in the field of ethnography.

Two short stories were written by Chopin, A Story of One Hour and The Storm well as her brilliant novel Awakening should be regarded as one of the best examples of the feminist literature of [...]

The fact that the mother tries to teach her daughter suggests that she is not too bitter and disappointed in the girl.

One of the most interesting aspects of the book is how the sexual identity of the father affects the development of the sexual identity of Alison.

The purpose of this paper is to review Djebar's Children of the New World and discuss the various examples of the emerging female agency in the book.

The voice of the poem is male and protagonist is not the author, but a man who killed his lover to keep her forever.

While the chapter follows the narrative of Amy's letters to the family, the author had fewer opportunities to place valuable symbols in the text.

In particular, the women's power in the story was shown in their ability to influence significantly men, who were depicted as the wisest and most powerful beings.

The idea is that the author reveals how women impose patriarchy on other women, which enables their own oppression and goes against the postulates of feminism.

The declaration suggests that Conde believed the story of Tituba's maltreatment needed to be told to expose the truth she had been denied due to her skin color and gender.

Thus, the book is undoubtedly worth being nominated for the Quills Award as one of the seminal works in the analysis of the nature of prejudices against women in the East, as well as the [...]

The central figures of the novel, Lucy and Mina are not examples of a typical Victorian-era woman. According to Kistler, "Mina is a producer, and in this role she is integral to the success of [...]

In the past decades, a female child in society had to be prepared for the roles of a mother and a wife to help her take care of the family when she gets married in [...]

To understand the depth of Chekhov's vision it is possible to focus on the short story "The Lady with the Dog" considering the description of Anna's life and even appearance articulated by Gurov and Anna [...]

The men in the story have never accepted Minnie Wright's oppression as being the driving force of her killing the husband and how it led to a desperate act.

In essence, Evelina is written on the borders of most other 18th century novels, which took the form of a letter. This is especially helpful when it comes to observing the sensibility of the men [...]

In the story, male dominance and female oppression is clear from the beginning when men become the first to enter the house followed by women.

The themes of the wild animals, magical transformations of men into beasts and relationships between women and animals are developed in "The She Wolf" by Giovanni Verga, "Tale of the Mouflon" by Grazia Deledda and [...]

A good instance of this feature was the different perspectives of the characters towards the wedding of Doran to Polly under the duress of Mrs.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is one of the most influential books of the 19th century and continues to be popular today.

Though the women in the novel are depicted as careless, treacherous, and selfish, the author uses them to underscore the power of the will to rebel against societal norms in pursuit of happiness.

Benhabib's chapter, "Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism," highlights the connection between feminism and postmodernism in contemporary society. Nasrin examines the role of feminism in enforcing justice and human rights activism.

The authors of "The Trials of Girlhood" and "The Story of an Hour" use a variety of devices to transmit the message in compliance with the purpose of their writings.

The book Lean In Women, Work, and the Will to Lead offers timely and powerful insights that all career women should apply in their respective professions.

Addressing women's role in the society of New England, as it is described by Ulrich, it should be stated that it is traditionally connected to housekeeping and caring about children.

Instead, the role of the mother of the nation was widely discussed as the aim and goal of American women. In fact, the tone of the excerpt from Goethe translated as "The Sphere of Woman", [...]

First of all, the female author of the article considered by Cosh is evidently a supporter of the equality of rights for men and women, and her account on the women liberation movement in the [...]

In addition, the writer emphasizes that one of the main reasons for the migration strategy is the striving of men and women to be equal.

The Brothers Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm, were the first to put the age-old story of Cinderella to paper as a means of preserving the rich oral history of their German homeland in the early 1800s.

The story of The Last of the Mohicans was set in the mid-1700s. In the course of the effort to save the women, battles were fought, and relationships were formed and destroyed.

Yet, there are some distinctions Judy Brady believes that women are often viewed as unpaid house servants who have to take care of husbands' needs, whereas Glenn Sacks argues that gender roles begin to transform [...]

Morrison's fictional works are carefully crafted to enable the audience understand and question the standpoint of Afro-American feminism created in the writing. This kind of mystification, misrepresentation, and erasure stimulated black females to construct their [...]

In fact, naming and recognizing the difference, as well as acknowledging racial, class, and gender differences, is crucial for accepting the self and positioning in the world.

On the one hand, it represented a true social situation, and on the other hand, it helped to illustrate the life of Afro-American people at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Therefore, the mother is also the first person who can explain to her daughter the basic purposes and roles that a woman should perform in life.

One of the reasons supporting this claim is the choice and use of characters in this play. The author uses a male to be the main character in the play.

Green Butler uses the character of the grandfather to develop the theme of gender roles within the culture. The character of the grandfather is extremely sound for the cultural beliefs the author conveyed through all [...]

In both short stories mentioned, the main female characters Georgiana and Beatrice fall victims to the men that possess full control of their life: Georgiana is convinced by her husband, a man of science, of [...]

The women characters in the short story tell each other a series of tales, embedded within the story at different narratives, about the enticements and dangers they face when they were young.

Only in recent decades have U.S.historians begun seriously to evaluate the mobilization of women and to consider the ways in which relations between men and women changed in the era of the American Revolution.

As such, Maggie was not against the role of a caretaker at all, and she loved Tom and was, to some degree, submissive to him.

The author blends in different themes and situations in the story to bring out a clear understanding of the culture of the Afghanistan people.

In this story, the author managed to challenge the traditional views on gender roles and demonstrated the tragedy of a person constrained by the existing order."The Chrysanthemums" pictures individuals in the stagnant world and identifies [...]

The purpose of this proposal is to examine the detrimental effects of patriarchy in Susan Glaspell's play Trifles. The proposal aper will give insight into the workings of patriarchy and its detrimental effects on women's [...]

Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour presents one of the significant examples of literature where the format of the short story complements the plot and does not diminish the story's depth.

When one delves into the depths of "The Yellow Wallpaper," one finds a critique of the concept of marriage. Marriage, as it is presented in the narrative, is a conduit for the propagation of patriarchal [...]

Thus, the research delves into the historical context of the time when the short story was written to show the extent of the marginalization of women in the psychological field during the nineteenth century.

Upon analyzing the characters of Lady Macduff, the three witches, and Lady Macbeth, it is appropriate to conclude that the latter is the most powerful woman in Macbeth.

However, this situation began to change in the later part of the eighteenth century, especially after the Revolution that questioned many traditional practices and opened the way for changes.

The author demonstrates that the sanctity of life and the independence of negro women are rarely at the forefront of Black liberation movements.

Nonetheless, the attribute was appealing and inspirational to Mrs.de Winter, who wished to possess Rebecca's traits and power over her life.Mrs.de Winter and the housekeeper admired Rebecca leading to obsessing over her even after Rebecca's [...]

Kincaid introduces the monologue of the mother to her daughter through a list of instructions to follow. Distel says that Chopin uses shame as "a form of discipline" to monitor the woman's behavior and restrain [...]

This paper will discuss the implications of gender structures in the novel and find its representation in the current gender views.