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Some late-nineteenth century women, like Kate Chopin and Cha…

Some late-nineteenth century women, like Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, voiced their discontent with societal expectations for women. In Gilman’s semi-autobiographical short story dealing with mental health and contemporary social expectations for women, [BLANK-1], she attacked the “naturalness” of feminine domesticity and critiqued Victorian psychological remedies administered to women, such as the “rest cure.”

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[BLANK-1] was a political cartoon that appeared in Puck in 1904, which satirized John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil monopoly. The cartoon featured Standard Oil as an anthropomorphized octopus with its tentacles around the media, the White House, Supreme Court, and Capitol Building. The message was clear – Rockefeller’s monopolistic firm was so big and so powerful that it was even controlling the government and the media.