Barbie Doll clearly displays a strong sense of feminism It specifically attacks the modern day pressures that women are faced with as far as appearance goes The author seems to have the opinion that women are pushed to make themselves perfect in the eyes of society I think this is why this poem has a very negative and almost angry tone to it Barbie Doll has a few main themes that can be easily recognized the main ones that Piercy addresses are the pressures of being a female and the desperate a
Consider the Position of women in J M Synges The Playboy of the Western World In Playboy of the Western World Synge sets out to dismantle Yeats construction of self sacrificing and pious Irish womanhood the revivalists had encouraged him to portray in The Countess Cathleen Irish nationalism sought land reform and Home Rule for the Irish and encouraged the Irish revivalism in theatres as propaganda for their cause They promoted the ideal of a unified Irish peasant whose women were Christian Hist