policies have made things worse. As Kenneth Minogue said: The first wave of feminism was rightly about equal opportunity. Women rightly demands to be admitted on their individual merits ot the activities men had previously monopolised - politics, higher education, the professions and so on. There's no doubt this created considerable problems about how to combine female aspirations, conventions, even dress, with what was necessary to be one of the boys. One unfortunate result of this development, however, was that it slanted aspirations away from those areas where women had previously excelled - style, grace, domesticity, the cultivation of intimacey - towards activities where male strength and competitiveness gave men an advantage (Haste 268). Unfortunately such reactive critics failed to ppreciate the difficulties of fighting those very past battles. The Book of Eve of Constance Beresford - Howe was very descriptive. It was basted on women in the past-approximately the 1950's. Eva played the role of a slave,a care giver and a robot that just kept going in an monotonous way of life. She lived the life of what others expected of her. Like many other women, Eva was raised to come second to men. This lifestyle was normal to her and to her family. She finally came to realization; so she decided to put a stop to the kind of life that made her unhappy. She decide to leave this life behind; without knowing where she was going. She wanted to begin a new life of her own but didn't know how. Slowly, it all came together for her. She began to realized she was her own person and she could think and do what she pleases. This was a shock for her son and husband because they could no longer control or manipulate her and her thoughts. The symbol of the clock through out ...
