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Good Citizen Nora

and demure, that he will take care of her. But as the play goes on, it becomes clear that she is far stronger than he is. She has ...

The Stigma Borne by Muslim Women

Muslim women who are living in mainstream US society in many cases struggle with a definite societal stigma....

Abuse of Women in Muslim Societies: The Cultural Contributors

society, women are often subjected to a variety of abuses, both physical and psychological. Sadly, nowhere is this form of abuse m...

The Impact of Religion on Women in Post-Colonial Literature

minority writers are rife with issues of postcolonial interest. It is commonly held that the literature of colonial societies refl...

Music and the Sexualization of Women

The number and diversity of those involved in the debate surrounding the sexualization of women is overwhelming. Research abounds...

Objectifying Male Dominance Over the Female in "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning

How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...

Nineteenth Century Patriarchy and Kate Chopin

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

"A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen

This essay asserts that Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" presents a convincing argument that a woman could be herself, that is, an au...

Women in Today’s Society

groups and from culture which would clearly alter who or what women and men were/are. One author notes elements of this be...

Women: The Other

the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...

Beatrice C. Mosionier/In Search of April Raintree

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

A Reading of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...

Influence of Women in American History

her from his pulpit, accusing her of being more "Husband than a Wife and a preacher (rather) than a Hearer; and a Magistrate (rath...

Koran, Bible on Women

and 1 Kings 11:3 indicates that the monarch of Israel had "seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines." There is a gr...

Women’s Refusal in Euripides’ Medea and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...

Women's Suffrage Movement In Canada

women voting was by no means in the best interest of the country at large and the family unit in particular. Clearly, at the foun...

First American Woman Elected to the Royal Astronomical Society, Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming

did. In order to prove his point he actually brought Fleming into the lab, and later hired her in a clerical capacity. In 1881, m...

Equal Pay

The past molds and conditions us yet few of us have an understanding of women's struggle for equality. Beginning in the early- to ...

The View of Women in Jane Austen's Society

This paper examines the roles played by male and female characters in the society created within Jane Austen's literature. This f...

Treatment of Women in Islamic Societies

repressive, male chauvinistic tribal era Islamic society were compelled to do what they had to in order to survive. Unfortunately...

Gender Roles in American Culture

beyond the domestic sphere into virtually every profession and job category from which they were once barred, they have had to con...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman/The Yellow Wallpaper

A 6 page essay that discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which continues to capture and fasci...

Ancient Society and Women

In five pages this paper examines gender during ancient times as portrayed in The Golden Ass by Apuleius. Three sources are cited...

Individual, Society and the Social Adjustment of a 74 Year Old Mixed European and Cherokee Woman

In nine pages this paper presents an interview with an elderly woman of mixed Native American and European blood in a consideratio...

Society and Women in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!

In five pages this paper examines how social outcasts were influenced by an independent and strong woman in an analysis of O Pione...

Perceptions of Women in Chaucer's Society and In The Canterbury Tales

20). This type of arrangement led to the "courtly love" romances of the high Middle Ages, which were not tremendously popular wit...

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Society

artist and a dutiful woman creates conflict and pushes the boundaries set by nineteenth-century American society" (Sparknotes). ...

American Society, Interactions of Malaysian Women, and the Impact of Cultures

being considered is observation. Direct interview techniques can be important as well, however, in analyzing why these women cont...

Handkerchief Significance in William Shakespeare's Othello

good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...

Should Gay And Lesbian Couples Be Allowed To Adopt?

Accordingly, each parent represents a much-needed entity in the growth of a child: The mother provides stability and sanctity, whi...