“A Doll's House.” Literature: a portable anthology. Ed. Janet E. Gardner, Beverly Lawn, Jack Ridl and Peter Schakel. Third edition. New York: Bedford/St. Martin, 2013. 850-908. Print.This source provided a unique perspective of what was thought to be the perfect household, with a man who worked and a woman who cooked and cleaned. However, it also showed that a woman could also do what a man can do, and in some cases, she could do it even better. This work is appropriate to use in this essay because it shows how men denigrated their wives as if they were children. This work shows the gradual progression of women's equality and how a woman is able to make her own decisions without input from her husband.Thornton, Margaret. “Feminism and the evolution of the State: the case of sexual discrimination.” Australian Feminist Studies 21.50 (2006): 151-172. Academic research completed. Internet. May 19