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The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In this project, you will conduct a literary study based on the The Awakening by Kate Chopin. You will analyze life during the Victorian era, the age of the "New Woman", and how women's identity and roles have changed over time.

Full Text: The Awakening by Kate Chopin (LitFinder)
Full Text: The Awakening by Kate Chopin (MackinVia eBook)

Gender

Full Text: Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft (LitFinder)

Overview: Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women
Literary Criticisms: Vindicating paradoxes: Mary Wollstonecraft's "Woman"

Biography: Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (from The Longest War)

Freedom vs Imprisonment

Painting: Evelyn de Morgan "The Gilded Cage"

Biography: Evelyn de Morgan (Google Arts and Culture)

Marriage and Motherhood

Historical Background: Daily Life of Victorian Middle-Class Women

Historical Background: Gender: Separate Spheres for Men and Women

Historical Background: Marriage in the 19th Century

Historical Background: How Victorian Women Were Oppressed Through the Use of Psychiatry (The Atlantic)

Literary Criticisms: New Woman and Feminist Literature

Domesticity, the Role of Women, and Education among the Classes

Contemporary Voices

Where #MeToo Came From, and Where It Is Going (NewsBank)

Pay Equity (Gale in Context)
Nine Women Leaders on What Gender Equality Means to Them (NewsBank)
Men Supporting Women (EBSCO Host)

View below Emma Watson's Speech to the United Nations on Feminism

Self-Awareness

Paintings: Explore the Works of Frida Kahlo

Biography: Frida Kahlo

Opinion Article: Frida Kahlo's Gruesome Imagery in Paintings Makes People Feel Her Pain

Dependency vs Autonomy

Full Text: A Pair of Silk Stockings

Literary Criticism: Kate Chopin's A Pair of Silk Stockings: The Marital Burden and the Lure of Consumerism

Literary Background: A Pair of Silk Stocking: An Overview

Historical Background: Women and Family 1861-1899