Women's Hunger Starvation is defined as a state of extreme hunger resulting from the lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period. Being deprived emotionally, physically, and psychologically by dominating forces are some of the restraints endured by humans, especially women of the nineteenth century. In a male-dominated society, men subjugated the women, who were forced into a life of confinement and limitation. Nora from Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House and the narrator from …showed first 75 words of 1512 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1512 total…broken away from male supremacy. Apparently, as these women were confined to isolation, their appetites for independence and self-control grew. The eventual goal for women results in self-reliance, and though at times it may come with consequences, the benefits are worth it. During the nineteenth century, men felt that women were fragile and over-stimulation would be a woman's eventual downfall. This idea has been extinguished as women continue to break away from men's control everyday.