Reviews for Business Law The Legal, Ethical, and International Environment

The average rating for Business Law The Legal, Ethical, and International Environment based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-08-14 00:00:00 Tracey Mackay Was hoping it would help me but nope didn't.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-06-03 00:00:00 Wea Lee In the class I read it for, there was quite a healthy debate over who The Coquette actually is. Eliza, while initially labled a coquette for showing attraction to more than one man, never acts coquettishly. She's always forthcoming with her intentions; from the beginning she tells Boyer she doesn't want a loveless marriage, and then tells Stanford she wants no love without stability. It's the men who constantly change their minds and use Eliza's emotions as a ploy. Boyer threatens to stop wooing her if she keeps up friendships with other men. Stanford plays the "I love you. Never mind, I hate you" game the whole book to get her into bed. So it only seems natural that the label should apply to them. Except it doesn't. The group casting Eliza as the coquette was quick to point out that the term itself is designed to insult women. Etymologically, it comes from the French word for a small cock (the double entendre existed even back then) and the implication was that it was a woman who dared take a "man's role" during courtship. Of course it's likely Hannah Foster knew this. It's also likely that Hannah Foster was upset at this idiotic double standard. Stanford, after acting the exact same as Eliza does, gets treated like a lost soul, everyone hoped for his reform, whereas Eliza gets tossed aside and labelled as a broken woman. It's fascinating to see all the reversals that take place in The Coquette. In its 169 pages, passions are repeatedly ignited and stifled. Eliza first views marriage as a necessary evil, but when no man wants to settle down with her, she views it as the highest honor she could have hoped for. Stanford thinks of love as an unwanted byproduct of getting laid and getting rich, only to realize that human connection is all he finds valuable. But the most thought provoking reversal is the real life one. Eliza was based on Foster's distant relation Elizabeth Whitman, whose story scandalized a young America. Although she came from a wealthy background, she slept with a married man, and died in childbirth. Whitman was fond of reading romance novels, so the narrative became that her love of books resulted in her having sex which resulted in her death. Conservatives of the time used her tragedy as an indictment on women's right to an education. Foster hated that explanation, so she flipped the script. She instead wrote that Eliza's lack of choice in her own future made her bored with the idea of marriage, which got her into a strange man's bed and caused her death. Is this change perfect? Of course not. Elizabeth/Eliza's worth as a human being is still too heavily tied into her hymen in Foster's story. But the rebellious nature, and the refusal to submit to norms certainly justifies The Coquette's place in the canon. In fact, it's amazing how relevant the whole "women should hope to be independent, especially in marriage" theme still is today.