The Styles of Six Women Writers It is not surprising that most of the female writers we have enjoyed this year have written largely about gender issues, particularly (and obviously) women's rights to equal opportunity and equal treatment. However, almost every writer that we've read th...

According to Laura Schnell, a sex-discrimination lawyer, for most of Wall Streets history women were not on the trading floor. Even today women make up less than 15% of brokers, and fewer than 10 percent of managing directors at major firms (Barrett, 1997). But discrimination remains hard to fight...

One of the main objectives of authors is to depict the society in which they live and relate the challenges that individuals of that time period face in their daily lives. Through literature, it is possible to understand and even to sympathize or empathize with the characters as they struggle to fin...

The Semiotics of Utopianism National Lampoon's European Vacation(1985),though almost certainly produced as "pure entertainment" in Richard Dyer's sense of the term, presents to the careful reader much more than simply ninety-five minutes of farce. Underlying nearly every scene and every...