Essays about: "Victorian gender roles"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words Victorian gender roles.

1. 1. Cultural Clash and Gender Roles : Exploring the Quest for Equality in Jane Eyre and Things Fall Apart

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Anne M Johansson; [2024]
   Keywords : Gender; cultural clash; equality; religion; colonialism; Genus; kulturkrock; jämställdhet; religion; kolonialism;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to analyze the intersectionality between themes of cultural clash and gender roles within the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, accentuating their common quest for equality. This essay offers a historical and cultural analysis, divulging the gender norms prevalent in Victorian England and pre-colonial Nigeria, serving as a backstage to the characters’ adaptations and struggles. READ MORE

3. 2. Privilege and Poverty under Patriarchy : An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of the Portrayal of Wives and Mothers in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Louise Olander; [2021]
   Keywords : Elizabeth Gaskell; North and South; the Victorian novel; feminism; intersectionality; marriage; motherhood; class; gender roles; angel in the house;

   Abstract : Building on previous feminist literary criticism of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (1854-55), this essay analyses the portrayal of wives and mothers in the novel from an intersectional feminist perspective. It examines how the narrative shows that gender and economic status or class intersect to create varied representations of Victorian women's marginalisation. READ MORE

4. 3. Coming of age in Victorian America : challenging gender roles in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

   University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Lina Killmer; [2021]
   Keywords : Gender roles; feminist criticism; femininity; nineteenth-century literature; coming of age; Little Women; domesticity;

   Abstract : This essay argues that Little Women does not promote breaking stereotypical gender norms and nineteenth century gender roles, contrary to what several critics say. This paper will be using feminist criticism and analyzing two of the novel’s main characters, Meg and Jo, and examining their behavior towards stereotypical gender norms and rules. READ MORE

5. 4. A Contemporary Victorian Patriarchy : A Gender Studies Approach to Gender Nonconformity as a Response to Patriarchal Oppression in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2021]
   Keywords : hegemony; gender nonconformity; bildungsroman; Victorian society;

   Abstract : This thesis examines female gender nonconformity as a behaviour in response to Victorian patriarchal oppression in the female protagonist of Charlotte Brönte's bildungsroman Jane Eyre. Gender nonconforming behaviour is depicted as behaviour that does not obey gender roles or expectations, linking the responsive quality of such behaviours to the traits of hegemonic masculinity exerted by the male characters who represent and perpetuate a patriarchal system: St John Rivers and Edward Rochester. READ MORE

6. 5. Gender Construction in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre : A Comparison

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Julia Uusitalo Kemi; [2021]
   Keywords : gender; gender construction; Wuthering Heights; Jane Eyre; gender norms; Emily Brontë; Charlotte Brontë; identity; gender roles; Victorian gender roles; Victorian gender norms; sex; gender; femininity; masculinity;

   Abstract : This essay analyses and compares gender construction in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The focus is on the construction of the female and male gender of selected female and male characters. READ MORE