Category: Gender Roles

The exquisitely decorated Ellesmere Chaucer is considered to be one of the most significant and high quality illuminated manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales, currently owned by the Huntington Library in California. Chaucer wrote the Tales during the fourteenth century, a time when the social structure was rapidly progressing. He addresses this change of events…

My Antonia by Willa Cather is a famous novel that takes place in the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. It has been read by numerous classes through out the twentieth century and continues to be a famous piece of literature to this day. This story has been interrupted in multiple ways and continues…

In the fairy tale Snow White by Jacob Grimm, In order for Snow white to obtain protection and shelter, the Dwarfs forced her to perform the traditional roles of a woman inside their house, such as cooking and cleaning. Why is every little girls dream to be a housewife like Snow White? Snow White is…

In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen established the impact of how social class and gender roles are influenced by the expectations of the society. Jane Austen classified social class and gender roles as a hierarchy group set by society, in order to limit the freedom of lower class and women. Explaining how one class was…

As a girl, have you ever been told that you should never initiate the first move because men should do that? Or that you should not be too loud because its improper for you to do so? Personally, Ive heard these lines countless of times. These are believed and practiced by majority of Filipino families…

Through history, women have always been the homebody. The typical housewife: always cleaning, cooking, doing what women are supposed to do. In the 1950s, it was not rare for a woman of a small town to do basic housewife chores. That was a womans identity at the time. Known for nothing else, women succumbed to…

In Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Macbeth by Shakespeare, we see to extraordinary lady that are fundamentally for the two disasters. In Oedipus Rex, we’ve Jocasta and in Macbeth, Lady Macbeth. These two ladies have some various viewpoints and other where they’re indistinguishable. Three focuses can be: their demises, characters and as spouse. A first…

Various authors have developed studies aimed at assessing the issue of gender equality. In every society, there is a suggestion that men and women should be different in terms of roles, motivation, and masculinity among others. Different objects and practices pass different messages regarding gender equality. Such messages can encourage accommodation or resistance to gender…

Women have played a significant role throughout history, from Dido of Carthage to Wilhemina of the Netherlands. However, they have been overshadowed and confined to the home by societal norms since, well, the dawn of humanity. But during World War one and two, unique circumstances allowed for women to be temporarily emancipated from their domestic…

Throughout William Shakespeares time during the Elizabethan Era in the late 1500s, societal standards and gender roles were not like how they are in most of the world today. Women in the Elizabethan Era were raised to believe that they were inferior to men. The Church enforced this, quoting from the bible to ensure that…