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  2. Styles and themes of Jane Austen - Wikipedia

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    She uses parody and burlesque for comic effect and to critique the portrayal of women in 18th-century sentimental and Gothic novels. Austen extends her critique by highlighting social hypocrisy through irony; she often creates an ironic tone through free indirect speech in which the thoughts and words of the characters mix with the voice of the ...

  3. Hatstand, Table and Chair - Wikipedia

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    The sculptures were exhibited in 1970 and met with an outcry from feminists, who objected to women being made into items of furniture. The Guardian newspaper suggested the works should be banned from exhibition. Spare Rib magazine suggested the sculptures showed that Jones was terrified of women. [citation needed]

  4. 1970s in fashion - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] von Fürstenberg's wrap dress design, essentially a robe, was among the most popular fashion styles of the 1970s, would also be credited as a symbol of women's liberation. [6] [7] The French designer Yves Saint Laurent [8] [9] and the American designer Halston both observed and embraced the changes that were happening in the society ...

  5. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    It ain't over till/until it's over; It ain't over till the fat lady sings; It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so; It goes without saying; It is a small world; It is all grist to the mill; It is an ill wind (that blows no one any good) It is best to be on the safe side

  6. 1900s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    Women moving out of the Victorian era and into the Edwardian era were starting to dress for a more active lifestyle. The evolving times brought a new fashion trend known as the "New Woman". Active lives required less constricting clothing and more simple and streamlined garments. The new woman was highly encouraged by women's suffrage.

  7. Standpoint feminism - Wikipedia

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    Distinctive tenets of contemporary black feminist thought include: (1) the belief that self-authorship and the legitimatization of partial, subjugated knowledge represents a unique and diverse standpoint of and by black women; (2) black women's experiences with multiple oppressions result in needs, expectations, ideologies, and problems that ...

  8. Elegance - Wikipedia

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    An elegant solution may solve multiple problems at once, especially problems that are not thought to be inter-related. [6] Elegance can arguably be measured for engineering problems as the ratio of problem complexity to that of solution complexity. [7] Thus a simple (low complexity) solution to a problem of high complexity is seen as elegant.

  9. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep - Wikipedia

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    The book's preface stated that "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" was "the unexpected poetry success of the year from Bookworm's point of view"; the poem had "provoked an extraordinary response... the requests started coming in almost immediately and over the following weeks the demand rose to a total of some thirty thousand.