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This is an 8 page paper that provides an overview of patriarchal values in Homer and Shakespeare. An annotated bibliography is included. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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can reveal fundamental biases and highlight social issues that should be addressed in discourse. Feminist criticism of literature, for example, involves analyzing works for evidence of patriarchal values; that is
to say, values that perpetuate a submissive view of womens role in society, as fundamentally inferior to men. The reason why literary criticism of this sort is so valuable is
that one is often now consciously aware that such patriarchal values are being perpetuated until one makes the effort to find them. Therefore, studying them directly can help to ensure
that these viewpoints do not go uncontested. The "submissive" view of women in society is best known to Americans through the examples set forth by early colonists who not only
embraced a submissive view of womens "proper civic role", but also perpetuated a view of women as "the gentle sex", inherently "purer" and less prone to "the vilest impulses of
human nature" (Schloesser, 2002). Much has been written about the view that such a view of women is inherently restrictive, and seeks to project a morality of social control upon
women through defining their character for them, with no input of their own. To understand how women are continuously maligned and marginalized in both classical and modern literature, one must
first understand how the prevailing viewpoint of women as fundamentally separate entities emerged, at least in the West. Given that the majority of political and social power structures throughout western
history have been governed by men, it has been the case that gender bias was inherent in the management of these power structures, as seen in "womens inability to vote,
hold office, or have their ideas about politics taken seriously" (Schloesser, 2002). By the same token, women were not seen as socially valueless, but rather as "instrumental", occupying a hierarchical
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