This article is of a fictional matinee performance of the 'Doll's House', in the West End Theatres, London, late 1893, post the period where the play was drumming up quite as much scandal due to Ibsens other contributions, such as 'Ghosts', which provided fresher objects for the public's ir...

Hamlet infamously declared 'Frailty, thy name is woman' (1.2.146). To a modern audience this may seem deplorable, however Elizabethan philosophy relied heavily on the grossly misogynistic Great Chain of Being. Gertrude and Ophelia, as the only female characters in the play, provide us wit...

Sex and the Wife of Bath Sexual relations between men and woman have created issues of life and death from the beginning of time. In most classic Western beliefs it began when Eve with the help of the Devil seduced Adam thus leading the downfall of humanity into an abyss of sin and hopelessness. ...

Ran Chen's A Private Life, is a monologue written in autobiographical format that reflects on the coming of womanhood in its female heroine from the time period of the mid 1970s to the mid-1990s. The novel explores the main character's individuality of existence, her desires and sexual ide...

Sex and the Wife of Bath Sexual relations between men and woman have created issues of life and death from the beginning of time. In most classic Western beliefs it began when Eve with the help of the Devil seduced Adam thus leading the downfall of humanity into an abyss of sin and hopelessness. Thi...

"Mona Lisa Smile" The movie "Mona Lisa Smile" explores life through themes of feminism, marriage, and education lead by a modernist teacher at the end of a traditional era. This film explains the idea or women's liberation, which was about women being able to do what th...

Representational Essay How women are represented in the media Sex and gender studies Throughout history women have been allocated particular restrictive roles by the media, mother or sex symbol, virgin or vamp. Within the media women are commonly represented as either sex symbols or as mothe...

Abortion A Controversial Topic Many have pondered about the meaning of abortion, The argument being that every child born should be wanted, and others who believe that every child conceived should be born. This has been the most controversial topic for years. Many people want to be able to deci...

Sadeq Hedayat's The Blind Owl is one of the most important literary works in Persian language. The central theme of the story is an attempt toward the resolution of the writer/narrator's dualistic experiences of the real versus unreal, the sensual against the spiritual and death as opposed to life. ...

The character of Orlando stands in front of a mirror and we see her obviously female form reflected back. But the film Orlando, named after its main character, is more than half over, and up till now Orlando has not just portrayed a man, but has been a man. And as she, for Orlando is undoubtedly s...