Essays about: "The Feminine Mystique"

Found 5 essays containing the words The Feminine Mystique.

  1. 1. The Feminine Wasteland: Gender Roles and Women's Mental Health in Joan Didion's Run River and Play It As It Lays

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Hanna Jyrinki; [2023]
    Keywords : Joan Didion; Run River; Play It As It Lays; Betty Friedan; The Feminine Mystique; Gender Roles; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The American author and journalist Joan Didion was especially known for her non-fiction that pertinently described the culture she lived in, but her novels also offer a frank and realistic perspective on American society. In her two first novels Run River (1963) and Play It As It Lays (1970) Didion portrays the respective main characters, Lily Knight McClellan and Maria Wyeth, as fragile women who are failing to live up to the gender roles that were imposed on them. READ MORE

  3. 2. Seeing Double : Rhythm, Domesticity, and the Uncanny in Shirley Jackson’s "The Renegade"

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Emma Wramsby; [2022]
    Keywords : Shirley Jackson; Jackson; The Renegade; short story; Lottery and Other Stories; postwar; uncanny; rhythm; rhythms; forms; Levine; domesticity; domestic; Friedan; feminine mystique;

    Abstract : By using the concept of forms in this analysis of “The Renegade,” postwar domestic life is analyzed for the uncanny. By locating repetitions in domestic life, between characters, and in speech, situations are identified where the uncanny moves into the domestic. As a result, the perception of reality of the protagonist, Mrs. READ MORE

  4. 3. "I was my own woman" - Breakdown and Recovery in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Karolina Kitanoska; [2013]
    Keywords : women’s role in the 1950’s and 1960’s; Individuality; identity crisis; housewife ideal; depression; eating disorder; objectification; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : During the 1950’s and 1960’s an unexplainable phenomenon arose amongst middle class women in North America. Women in the suburbs experienced a feeling of emptiness even though they believed they had everything they could ever ask for in life. READ MORE

  5. 4. Women in New Turkish Cinema : An Analysis of “Climates”, “Three Monkeys” and  “Once upon a time in Anatolia”

    University essay from Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Öykü Peksel; [2012]
    Keywords : new Turkish cinema; women; patriarchy; femininity; masculinity; film; feminist film theory; Mulvey; Semiotics;

    Abstract : This study investigated the cinematic representations of women in ‘Climates’ ‘Three Monkeys’ and ‘Once upon a time in Anatolia’ created by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. It explored the image of women and the ideologies that affects them in the aforementioned films. For the analysis, semiotics is used and feminist film theory is applied. READ MORE

  6. 5. The struggle between individuality and gender conformity : A literary study of Joyce Carol Oates' The Falls

    University essay from Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Susann Adolfsson; [2011]
    Keywords : Femininity; Joyce Carol Oates; Alienation; Literature; The Falls; Identity;

    Abstract : This essay investigates the gender roles in Joyce Carol Oates' The Falls. The novel concentrates ona family who live by Niagara Falls in the US, but the novel's main focus is on a woman namedAriah. READ MORE