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A 6 page research paper that examines Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours, which focuses on the stories of three women who each face enormous struggles against sexism and societal preconceptions of gender. In so doing, his novel is rather like a thumbnail sketch of the history of feminism in the twentieth century. Therefore, by first examining the scenarios in The Hours, one gets an overview that facilitates an examination of how women in today's society are facing similar struggles. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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so doing, his novel is rather like a thumbnail sketch of the history of feminism in the twentieth century. Therefore, by first examining the scenarios in The Hours, one gets
an overview that facilitates an examination of how women in todays society are facing similar struggles. The Hours moves freely in time and space between the stories of its
three protagonists, with each story following the life of a woman over the course of a single day. The first story if that of Virginia Woolf, the famous writer, and
pictures her in 1923, when she had recently begun writing her novel Mrs. Dalloway (Schiff, 2004). In fact, The Hours pays homage to Woolf and Mrs. Dalloway throughout its entirety.
The second story, "Mrs. Brown," is set in 1949 in Los Angles and focuses on the domestic routine of Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife and mother who gains emotional support
for her life in reading Mrs. Dalloway (Schiff, 2004). The third story focuses on the life of Clarissa Vaughn in the 1990s. A literary editor and "latter-day version of
Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway," she is --like Mrs. Dalloway--planning a party for that evening to honor her friend and former lover, Richard Brown. Each of these stories is representative of
the one of the "waves" of feminism in the twentieth century. The first wave of feminism is associated with the womens suffrage movement, which culminated in American women receiving the
right to vote in 1920 (Daniels and Bowen, 2003). Despite this advance, gender equality was still a distant dream in Woolfs lifetime. Womens lives were defined totally in relation to
that of their husband and in regards to their families. Women, such as Woolf, who struggled to be artists in a mans world faced incredible frustration--a situation that eventually drove
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