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The Status of Women in Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale as Compared With Hindu, Biblical, and Muslim Women

This research report examines a novel written in 1986 by Margaret Atwood. How it relates in respect to the status of women of vari...

View of E.M. Forster's Room with a View

In five pages this paper discusses a young woman's healthy development as presented in E.M. Forster's Victorian novel Room with a ...

New Zealand and the Socioeconomic Status of Women

Justice are just a few of the high visibility positions now occupied by women. This accomplishment is, however, very limited by w...

1775 to 1840 Legal Status of Native Americans and African Slaves

bequeathed to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 came much sooner" (Holt, 2002). In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance m...

Militarization and How it Affects Women's Lives

minimum wages, and other stipends that directly affect women need to be considered. It is true that in some cases when the milita...

Islamic Women's Lives

Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the ...

Women's Roles in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

the strongest women in the piece are the goddess Pallas Athena and Penelope, Odysseuss wife. In addition, although her part was sm...

Women and Whether They Are Better Off Today Than They Were in the Last Few Decades

In five pages this research paper evaluates if women are better today than they were in previous decades and based upon literature...

Socialism and Whether or Not Women Are Women Better Off Under this Type of Regime

In seven pages the collapse of communism and the changes that resulted in Eastern Europe afterwards are considered in terms of the...

Women and Sexuality in Greek Life

In fifteen pages this research paper examines the time of Pericles and the status of gays and women in a contrast and comparison t...

Fatima Mernissi's Beyond the Veil Reviewed

In five pages this text on Islamic women's sexuality is reviewed....

Critically Reviewing the City State of Athens in Ancient Greece

In a paper consisting of seven pages the Athenian democracy represented by this Greek city state is considered along with an asses...

Observation and Self Definition in Women's Studies

that "ladder of success," or does that mean that they are not on the rung that they would like to be. Since they are the ones who...

La Morte D'Arthur, Beowulf, and Gender

time, Grendels mother is literally a monster, so one could in fact give Beowulf some slack in that he took on a woman. Can a monst...

Early 19th Century Single and Married Females

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the status of single women with their married counterparts in a consideration of Em...

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Women's Roles

is the world of the domestic. That is domestic in the terms of one who serves, as well as domestic in the terms of limited to hou...

Victorian Age and Changing Women's Roles

The underclass practically disappeared (1995). While this is the case, one has to understand how gender played a part in comprehe...

Victorian England and the Differences Between Men's and Women's Roles

era was a time of cultural renewal that saw significant declines in crime and social vices ("The Big," 1998). She also notes that ...

Article Summary/Critique

realized their overall hypothesis by finding "women in marriages characterized by high levels of satisfaction showed a health adva...

Role of the Feminine in Ancient Creation Myth

males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...

Women’s Liberation of the 1960s

taking place within and beyond our national borders" (NOW). In this statement one sees that the organizations aim was to fight for...

FreshStart for Women

children. Domestic Violence in America Domestic violence appears to be increasing. Whether that is actually the case is no...

Patterns Of Stereotypical Representation

stereotypes. However, the most pertinent scene where this bias gives way to an attitude change is when he meets her in the hotel ...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Case Study Effective CEOs

There have been and are many outstanding leaders, each with his or her own story to tell. This is a case study that gives examples...

The Marginalized Status of Women in Muslim Countries

in the West over the last decade. Unfortunately, much of the increased awareness of this religion has been marred by political age...

Emecheta/2nd Class Citizen

brother. As with all female orphans, she becomes a "servant" in her uncles household (Emecheta, 1983, p. 17). Her uncles family co...

Cisneros/”Loose Woman”

called a "beast," when she all along she thought she was a woman. This humorous beginning not only shows two diametrically opposed...

Life of Empress Wu

the cosmos and it was thought that human life also required such a balance.6 There was no strong indication in Chinese society, as...

Role and Status of Women in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton, Lysistrata by Aristophanes, 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer, and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

way to a jousting tournament rematch with the mysterious Green Knight, Sir Gawain is the houseguest of the absent Lord Bercilak, a...