“Advertising is the witchcraft of the twentieth century. It has its incantations, it’s how-to recipes,…its priests and priestesses, its temples whores and secret languages”(Barthel, 1998: 18). Strict gender roles are ubiquitous in our society and affect a myriad of issues and food is not exempt from gender classifications and stereotypes. Food advertisements are imbued with ...
In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novel Herland, a main cultural aspect that is often discussed is motherhood and the role of women in their respective time period. It’s important to understand the role of woman in the Herland country that the men in the story discovered, and what it was really like during the United States. ...
Over the centuries, there have been several women who have made monumental contributions to the rights we enjoy today as citizens of the United States. From Louisa May Alcott’s progressive writing, to Lucy Stone’s decision to keep her own name to Susan B. Anthony’s fight for women’s suffrage there have been hundred’s of women that ...
The history of feminism is divided into three waves: the first wave spanned from late nineteenth century to early twentieth century, the second was in the 60’s and 70’s, ant the third began in the 90’s and extends to the present day. The first wave began in the nineteenth century. It was a time when ...