Gender in Literature Essay Examples and Topics

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 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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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

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.

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 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.

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 [...]

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.

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 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 [...]

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 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 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 [...]

In this case, Aristophanes is trying to express the idea that the world of women and the meaning of their existence is determined only through the presence of children and a husband.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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.

The Feminist Movement, also called the Women's Movement and the Women's Liberation Movement, includes a series of efforts by women in the world to fight for the restoration of gender equality.

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.

The author highlights the severe inequality in his story by restricting the number of female characters and limiting the development of Cunegonde, the Old Woman, and Paquette as active participants in society.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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.

Maracle's Ravensong is a story of who a number of Natives were treated by Whites in the late 1950s; it is not about some general facts and events, it is a lesson that some Natives [...]

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 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.

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

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

I do not hope to reveal every layer, but I would like to point out several patterns, in which I would pay attention to the educational relationship between the girl and the mother with a [...]

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 [...]

This paper explores how two stories from the Orange World collection present male and female relationships by viewing them from the perspective of the altered reality and how the stories reveal the conflicts people face [...]

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 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.

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.

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

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

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 [...]

It is for this reason that Joss decided to live a double life; as a man to the judgemental world and as a woman to Millie.

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

Thesis Statement: The homoerotic, or homosexual, nature of the plot in 'Death in Venice' by Thomas Mann is a fair representation of classical Greek homoeroticism and how homosexuality was viewed in a very conservative manner [...]

The narrator sees him as the first and the last one to be in the office and assumes that Bartleby is devoted to his job.

The action of the story takes place in a limited space, which is determined by the content and meaning of the work: the heroine is at home, in the kitchen, and the hero is outside, [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Ingersoll in his article "The Stigma of Femininity in James Joyce's "Eveline" and "The Boarding House" analyzes the image of Eveline from the point of view of feminity and oppression of women in those times [...]

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

With the help of her mistress who tried to raise Catherine's self-respect "with fine clothes and flattery," the character changed her manner of dressing.

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

Whereas, the former is being concerned with the promotion of the idea that men and women are thoroughly equal, in the social sense of this word, and that they should treat each other with respect, [...]

Moreover, the third-person narration helps to avoid confusion and explain the hero's feelings, which is vital regarding the theme of the story and its enhanced understanding. In such a way, the theme of identity is [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 theme of the story is to present the character of a "lady" and her behavior in society, her actions, and justifications for them.

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.

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 [...]

He cannot alter his nature, his passion, and because of that, he tries to fool himself and the people around him with a mask to hide his true identity.

In the comedy, a woman was falsely accused of infidelity, and the role of the "unfaithful woman" was represented by Hero.

Through this book, the reader is brought to the realization of the role that the white man played in the destruction of the bonds which existed in the African culture.

It is important to note that the gender theory has its roots in the feminist theory's analysis of gender roles. Eve Sedgwick is a highly influential writer in the field of queer and gender theory.

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.

In the first chapter of the novel, the novelist uses Soledad to express her views of what she wants in marriage, i.e, to get a man that she loves, to be independent, and to lead [...]

Current paper aims at discussing masculinity and femininity in Chinese culture on the examples of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Kuan-Chung and Javanese ideologies as a possibility to comprehend the roles of the [...]

In the article, Enloe explains the construction and reconstruction of masculinity by the local military and the US military to maintain the high morale among their soldiers.

The author's unconventional approach to representing female development provides me with clear understanding of how society and upbringing can influence the development of the self.

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.

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

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 [...]

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.

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 patriarchal practices embraced by the Indian community and the subsequent system of governance humiliated the writer; hence, the use of Cogewea in the passage was aimed to imply the abilities that were bestowed upon [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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.

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

The core of the problem related to the protagonist's health is undefined in the short story. Thus, as the protagonist decides to free the woman in the wallpaper at the end of the story, she [...]

The author managed to subtly and in details notice the changing nature of the surrounding her individuals, which is curious to read because her background is captivating.

To begin with, Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" partly reflects realism, as it tells an everyday life story and describes the episode of the life of the Valmonde family.

By using carefully and masterfully constructed characters experiencing the difficulties of the era, Alcott portrays the core changes that the Industrial Revolution made to women's role in society.

Journalist Ken O'Brien depicts the struggle of 5 brave women who were among the first representatives of their sex to receive a pilot's license and competed on an equal footing with men in a profession [...]

There are disputes about the sexual desire of men and women and how it is applied, and the use of physical strength of men on women.

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.