Her letters to Franklin belie a thoughtful introspection that Franklin seems incapable of entirely. It is Franklin who is oblivious to the role of father. Eva is expected to take control of all nurturing activities in the family, leaving daddy to be playtime manager. Kevin likely loses respect for his father, who becomes so completely distant emotionally as to never assume an ounce of responsibility for his son's behavior. Eva, on the other hand, is like Atlas bearing the weight of the world on her shoulder. Kevin is serving time, but so too is Eva.
e Need to Talk About Kevin therefore highlights key feminist theories of motherhood. Motherhood has become the province of patriarchy, as Adrienne Rich points out in Of oman Born. Midwives, roles fulfilled my females, have been steadily replaced by physicians, a role unfortunately filled primarily by men. hen men are in control of women's bodies,…...

mla

Works Cited

Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born W.W. Norton & Company, 1995.

Molly Ladd-Taylor Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Schmadeke, Steve. 'Bad mothering' lawsuit dismissed. Chicago Tribune. 28 Aug 2011. Retrieved online:  http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-08-28/news/chi-bad-mothering-lawsuit-dismissed-20110828_1_mothering-emotional-distress-lawsuit 

Shriver, Lionel. We Need to Talk About Kevin. Harper Collins, 2004.

While in "Who's the Boss ?" one of the most important aspects of the female character in terms of establishing a personal life was the relationship with the male character with her children, in modern sitcoms, this is not the main case anymore. By comparison, in "The Gilmore Girls," the personal life of Lorelai is by no means influenced by the personal preferences of her daughter. Furthermore, in deciding to have a personal life, the character of Lorelai did not consider choosing a "father" for her child, therefore, the nature of the relationships her character established was not related to creating a family environment for her daughter. Therefore, it can be visible the fact that the perceptions on family and the need for a traditional family have changed in real life and these are reflected in sitcoms as well.
Another aspect that can be noted in comparing 80s sitcoms on…...

mla

Reference list

Rabinovitz, L. (1989) Sitcoms and single moms. Representation of Feminism on American TV. Cinema Journal. Vol 29, no 1, Autumn, pg. 3-19.

Single Mother guide. (2012). Single Mother Statistics. Online at  http://singlemotherguide.com/single-mother-statistics/#footnote_0_13

Mercy Otis Warren "wrestled valiantly throughout her life with the problem of finding time for writing and reflection," Kerber explains on page 256. Warren had four children and a "large, elegant household," and while recognizing that the claims on her time - verses her own desire to write - presented no simple answer for her. That said, Kerber claims that Warren took the issues of republican motherhood "more seriously" than "virtually any other woman of her generation."
What are some of those republican motherhood issues that Warren took so seriously? For one thing, Warren envied unmarried women who, she said, were "...free from those constant interruptions that necessarily occupy the mind of the wife, the mother, and the mistress" (Kerber 256). That said, it was apparent that not only did Warren spend a bit of time being envious of those who didn't have as much domestic work to do as…...

The fantasies of motherhood mask the true experience women go through in bringing up children. Wee pictures of happy Moms, smiling and holding their angelic babies and their husbands constantly supporting them, in magazine covers, tabloids, movies, and even documentaries. But once a woman embarks on a path of motherhood, she realizes that it involves "morning sickness" that lasts days and nights, mental stress, disruptions of daily life, sacrifices on jobs and private life, and much more. Then comes the excruciating pain of labor, followed by months of recovery, more pain and nausea, sleepless nights, thousands of diaper changes, mood changes, constant disruptions of breakfasts and lunches and dinners -- not to mention frustrations in the face of baby crying because of colic or reflux, quarrels with the spouse because of the couple's inability to fix these problems easily and quickly -- as had been the case before the beginning…...

For example,
Shante represented herself (falsely) as Dr. Roxanne Shanteb, a psychologist with a graduate degree from Cornell University. In reality, she attended only a portion of one semester at Marymount Manhattan College. She had claimed to have attended Cornell under a different name because of a domestic violence situation but never provided any evidence to suggest that she actually attended the university.

Lauren Hill provides a much more positive and legitimate image of urban motherhood and community consciousness. She has been actively involved in charitable organizations and causes and is a recipient of a 1996 award by Essence magazine for her involvement in various initiatives such as founding the Refugee Project, for supporting voter registration efforts in Harlem, and for helping to build clean water wells in Kenya and Uganda. Ultimately, all four of these female artists have contributed to the empowerment of females with respect to overcoming male subjugation…...

mla

Other female Hip Hop artists besides Queen Latifah have also presented conflicting personal contributions toward the cause of female empowerment, mainly because they chose to do so in a fraudulent manner instead of honestly. For example,

Shante represented herself (falsely) as Dr. Roxanne Shanteb, a psychologist with a graduate degree from Cornell University. In reality, she attended only a portion of one semester at Marymount Manhattan College. She had claimed to have attended Cornell under a different name because of a domestic violence situation but never provided any evidence to suggest that she actually attended the university.

Lauren Hill provides a much more positive and legitimate image of urban motherhood and community consciousness. She has been actively involved in charitable organizations and causes and is a recipient of a 1996 award by Essence magazine for her involvement in various initiatives such as founding the Refugee Project, for supporting voter registration efforts in Harlem, and for helping to build clean water wells in Kenya and Uganda. Ultimately, all four of these female artists have contributed to the empowerment of females with respect to overcoming male subjugation in the Hip Hop genre as well as in the reality of urban communities. For this, they all deserve commendation regardless of their own troubles and imperfections.

Awakening
In today's culture it is sometimes easy to forget the progress women have made in regards to determining their own future, personal freedom, and changing the definition of their societal roles. Women can run for president, take charge of multi-billion dollar corporations, decide to pursue (or not) motherhood; modern culture embraces feminism and a woman's right to choose. The freedom women have today is inherited through a long series of struggles, women slowly breaking down barriers. Kate Chopin is an early advocate for altering the role of women in society. The Awakening is an honest portrayal of an 18th century women dissatisfied with her life, and more urgently trapped by the constraints of society. Chopin demonstrates to her contemporaries that women are not defined by the societal expectations, some women can and do want more than motherhood and wifehood. This paper will argue that Chopin believed that women were held…...

1297). Another study referenced by Correll in the article claims that female consultants are rated "less competent" when described as being "a mother" than women who have no children at home. In our culture, Correll continues, fathers are not discriminated against because "…understandings of what it means to be a good father are not seen in our culture as incompatible with…what it takes to be a good worker" (p. 1298). But when women are mothers, they are seen as less "committed" than women without children.
Brown, Alan S. "Study: Women Are Putting Family Before athematics." echanical

Engineering 131.5 (2009): 10-12.

In this article two Cornell University professors conducted a study by researching "400 studies and analyses of women in math-related professions"; the results of their research shows that twice as many women as men "drop out of math-intensive careers, including engineering" Brown, 2009). Why do women leave engineering and math-intensive careers? "The…...

mla

Mason, Mary Ann, and Ekman, Eve Mason. Mothers on the Fast Track: How a New

Generation Can Balance Family and Careers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

In this book, the authors present -- in a positive light -- a wide swath of issues that face working mothers, but the sum and substance is that "Mothers who persist do remarkably well" (p. 53). In fact, mothers with children "under six" earned more "and were promoted more quickly than women without children." Indeed, "successful mothers get the workplace to work for them," the authors report (p. 54). They get the work done well and completely, but they do it in a different time frame than men. One reason female lawyers and corporate executives who are also mothers succeed, the book explains, is that they have "the ability to say no" (p. 54). They refuse evening meetings, and to stay strong mothers in corporate positions have "physical stamina, an ambitious nature, and just plain luck" (p. 53).

Feeding Baby
Motherhood conjures up images of a plump round female body surrounded by plump round babes playing about at feet while another suckles at breast, much as one sees in Victorian paintings. It is a common belief that bottle-feeding is a modern phenomenon, and although most images of motherhood do depict breastfeeding, it seems even in the Victorian era and earlier, substitutes for nursing babies was not uncommon.

The horn, which was commonly used as a drinking vessel for adults during the Middle Ages, was used to feed infants by tying a soft leather scrap to it to make a teat (History pp). In 17th Century Europe, leather or wood feeding bottles were used, then later pewter bottles and pap boats, most of which were flask shaped with screw on tops to form a hard round nipple (History pp).

Over the next four hundred years, the materials and design of bottles…...

mla

Work Cited

The History of Baby Feeding

http://www.babybottle-museum.co.uk/main%20intro.html

Breast Feeding

http://www.babymd.net/breastfeeding.html

Stacey's inner-monologues, which make up a majority of the narrative, illustrate how cut off she has become from intimate and meaningful relationships with those around her. Unable to speak in more than superficial terms with her husband, Mac, and facing a distant relationship with her sons and eldest daughter, Stacey only truly reveals herself through conversations with two-year-old Jen, who is non-verbal and thus unlikely to either interrupt or challenge her mother's rantings. Left with no one to talk to, Stacey has no choice but to retreat into memory and fantasy and her conversations with the God she is no longer certain that she believes in.

The cumulative effect of her isolation is that Stacey no longer recognizes herself. She is certainly not the vibrant teenager that she distantly remembers, nor is she the patient example of motherhood that she sees on television or in the lives of other women that…...

mla

Works Cited

Laurence, Margaret. The Fire Dwellers. Toronto: New Canadian Library, 1988.

Mother Who Never Was
The story being covered in this report was written by Lisa Buchanan and is entitled The Mother Who Never Was. The story centers on a woman who became pregnant and gave her child up for adoption at the age of eighteen. The actual narration and depiction of the story zeros in on the feelings, thoughts, actions and experiences she is going through nowadays given that the time that has passed since that fateful day. To be sure, Anna's motherly pangs and thoughts are still present even though she is not raising her birth daughter. However, the situation is obviously a lot more complex and involves a lot more people than just her and her daughter. Indeed, while the main character is the birth mother of child, Anna gave her up for adoption and she still greatly regrets that decision.

Analysis

It becomes quite obvious from the onset of…...

Different Types of Mothers: A Classification EssayThe idea of motherhood is one of the most sentimentalized and celebrated roles in many cultures. But the definition of motherhood is often contested. Some classify motherhood as the individual who gives birth to a new human being. But there are also adoptive mothers, who bear the primary responsibility for caring for the child. Some figures may like a mother to a child, whether it be grandparents, teachers, or even a father assuming a single parent role. Mothers can parent singly, with a father or another mother, or simply take on a caretaker role. Foster mothers may temporarily take on a mothering role. While there are biological, psychological, and social ways to classify motherhood, precisely how to do so remains hotly debated.From a purely biological perspective, a mother is an individual who provides 23 chromosomes to the child, according to The Hemophilia, von Willebrand…...

mla

Works Cited

Li, Pamela. “4 Types of Parenting Styles and Their Effects On The Child.” Parenting for Brain.  https://www.parentingforbrain.com/4-baumrind-parenting-styles/ 

The Hemophilia, von Willebrand disease, and Platelet Disorders Handbook.  https://www.hog.org/handbook/section/2/basic-genetics 

" Emecheta uses metaphors, similes and allusions with appropriate timing and tone in this book, and the image of a puppet certainly brings to mind a person being controlled, manipulated, made to comply instantly with any movement of the controlling hand. In this case Ego seems at the end of her rope -- the puppet has fallen nearly to the floor and is dangling helplessly.
The Emecheta images and metaphors are sometimes obvious, as this one is, but always effective. The reader is clearly aware of Ego's initial identity, and Ego's swift feet of lightness and intensity running in the misty darkness, presents a fluid sensation -- a hoped for escape. She is running towards a new identity and when she hits the gravel road the color is of blood and water and she runs like this will be her duty forever, like someone is following her. The image of anyone…...

mla

Works Cited

Derrickson, Teresa. "Class, Culture, and the Colonial Context: the Status of Women in Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood. International Fiction Review 29.12 (2002):

40-51.

Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994.

Fishburn, Katherine. Reading Buchi Emecheta: Cross-Cultural Conversations. Santa Barbara,

Gender Identity/Male-Female Roles and Power Relationship. In a discussionof characters from "The Awakening" by Despite the fact that there are numerous differences existent in the novels The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Light in August by illiam Faulkner, and Their Eyes ere atching God by Zora Neale Hurston, there are some poignant similarities between these three works of literature. They were all written in the years directly preceding or occurring subsequent to the arrival of the 20th century, and they all deal with issues related to race (albeit extremely indirectly in Chopin's book). Moreover, all of these pieces chronicle definite challenges presented to women due to notions of gender and society that were pressing during this historical epoch. Some of the more salient issues affecting women during this time period, such as marriage and motherhood and the degree of autonomy (or dearth thereof) women had in living their lives is explored…...

mla

Works Cited

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Project Gutenberg. Web. 2006.  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/160/160-h/160-h.htm 

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: Harper Collins. 1937. Print.

Faulkner, William. Light in August. New York: Vintage. 1972. Print.

A also consider that a proper legislation should protect the surrogate mother, in order to avoid situations in which her rights would not be respected. Therefore, she should be paid her medical expenses and, as a sort of benefit for her act, she should be granted a free medical insurance and the right to free medical analyses. Moreover, the legislation should stipulate that the surrogate mother should be of the same nationality - American in this case - as the future parents, in order to avoid situations as those which occurred in the Indian women case, who have thought to have been abused, a thing they have accepted because of their poor material status.

All in all, it seems that gestational surrogacy is not among the best surrogacy practice, and this is because of the ethnic, legal and cultural misunderstandings it might generate. In addition, I consider it should be replaced…...

mla

Bibliography

Ciccarrelli, John K., and Janice C. Ciccarrelli. "The Legal Aspects of Parental Rights in Assisted." Journal of Social Issues 61 (2005): 127-137. Tufts Library. 17 Mar. 2007.

Baker, Brenda M. "A Case for Permitting Altruistic Surrogacy." Hypatia. Bloomington 11.2 (1996): 34. Alt-Press Watch. Tufts Library. 17 Mar. 2007.   tId=28972&RQT=309&VName=PQD>.http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/pqdweb?did=9766076&sid=1&Fmt=3&clien 

Ciccarrelli, Janice C., and Linda J. Beckman. "Navigating Rough Waters: an Overview of Psychological Aspects of Surrogacy." Journal of Social Issues 61 (2005): 21-43. Tufts Library. 17 Mar. 2007.

Douglas, Carol Anne. "Women as Wombs." Off Our Backs Jan. 1994: 12. Alt-Press Watch. Tufts Library. 17 Mar. 2007, at  http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/pqdweb?did=592569041&sid=11&Fmt=3&clientId=28972&RQT=309&VName=PQD .

As such, she fails to address the central problem of feminism in the Pontellier perspective, namely the impossibility of female individuality and independence in a patriarchal world. It is only in isolation that Edna can find any happiness, and she must make this isolation more and more complete in order to maintain her happiness, as the patriarchy has a means of encroaching on all populated areas, and Wollstonecraft's feminism does not offer an alternative to this need to escape humanity.
A final snort of disgust might be distinctly heard from Edna Pontellier upon her reading of this line of Wollstonecraft's, afterwards she might likely have flung the text aside (or into the fireplace, depending on the season): "Pleasure is the business of woman's life, according to the present modification of society" (ch. 4, par. 10). What Wollstonecraft means is that women are thought to be so fragile, so emotional, and…...

mla

References

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. 1899. University of Virginia E-Text Center. Accessed 28 May 2012.  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ChoAwak.html 

Hammer, Colleen. To Be Equal or Not to Be Equal: The Struggle for Women's Rights as Argued by Mary Wollstonecraft and Christina Rossetti. UCC [working paper].

Heilmann, Ann. The Awakening and New Woman cition.

Horner, Avril. Kate Chopin, choice and modernism.

1. The theme of race and racism in "Desiree's Baby"
2. Gender roles and expectations in "Desiree's Baby"
3. The use of symbolism in "Desiree's Baby" to convey deeper themes
4. The role of societal expectations and pressures in shaping the characters' behaviors and decisions in "Desiree's Baby"
5. The significance of the setting, particularly the plantation, in "Desiree's Baby"
6. The portrayal of motherhood and family relationships in "Desiree's Baby"
7. The tragic element in the story and its impact on the characters
8. The use of irony in "Desiree's Baby" to highlight societal contradictions and hypocrisies
9. The role of love and betrayal in the story....

## Literary Analysis Essay Topics for "Désirée's Baby" by Kate Chopin

1. The Role of Race and Identity in "Désirée's Baby"

Explore the complex racial dynamics at play in the story, considering how they shape the characters' identities, motivations, and relationships.
Examine the significance of the baby's ambiguous race and how it reflects societal prejudices and the fluidity of racial categories in the antebellum South.

2. Desire and the Destruction of Innocence

Analyze the destructive power of desire in the story, particularly in relation to Désirée's desire for motherhood and Armand's desire for a white child.
Consider the ways in which their....

1. The changing role of women in East Asian societies: A comparison of traditional gender norms and modern feminist movements
2. The portrayal of East Asian women in Western media: Stereotypes and misrepresentations
3. The impact of Confucianism on women's rights and gender equality in East Asia
4. Beauty standards for women in East Asian cultures: The pressure to conform and the rise of the beauty industry
5. Intersectionality and the experiences of East Asian women: Examining how race, gender, and nationality intersect in shaping women's identities and experiences
6. The rise of feminist movements in East Asia: Challenges and successes in advocating for gender....

1. The gender pay gap and its impact on female workers
2. The challenges faced by women in male-dominated industries
3. The underrepresentation of women in leadership positions
4. The societal expectations and pressures placed on women that hinder their progress
5. The intersectionality of gender and other factors, such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and class, in creating additional barriers for women
6. The impact of motherhood on women's careers and opportunities for advancement
7. The lack of support and resources available for women in various fields and industries
8. The psychological effects of discrimination and bias on women in the workplace
9.....