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Ar'n't I a Woman? and White and Enslaved Women

womanhood was physically weak and dependent on a man for support. African women, however, were judged to be strong enough to earn ...

Analysis of Two Poems by Sharon Olds

her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...

Women's Emotions in the Works of Kate Chopin

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

Women in Athens During the Fifth Century

dilemma for his children, Orestes and Electra, who have to choose between not avenging their father and murdering their mother (18...

Two Novels on Female Relationships and Power

that is part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away from me since" (T...

Canto 2 of Dante's 'Inferno'

forest, having lost his way from the "true path." One night, when half my life behind me lay, I wandered from the straight lost ...

Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, and Early Feminism

(Woolf, 2002). Written for a largely female readership over a hundred years after Wollstonecraft, Woolf can afford to be more cri...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker, A Critical Analysis

This essay offers critical analysis of Alice Walker's The Color Purple. The writer draws on supporting sources to argue that siste...

Mi Vida Loca, An Overview

This essay presents a comprehensive discussion of Allison Anders' 1993 film Mi Vida Loca, a movie that focuses on a group of young...

Psychology of Mormon Women

This research paper/essay discusses the Mormon women's psychology by focusing on the issue of abortion and using this issue as an ...

The Women in Ministry Debate

This essay summarizes and analyzes a wide scope of Christian literature for the purposes of describing the women in ministry debat...

Pro and Con: Are Professional Women 'Opting Out" of Work by Choice?

1. Strengths and weaknesses associated with the Pro side of the issue Linda Hirshman maintains that despite the increased opportu...

Women's Participation in Traditionally Male Sports

of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...

Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman

her text Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft takes direct exception with the story of creation in the Book of ...

Portrayal of Women in Two Play by G.B. Shaw

that there is little, if any, true relationship or familial feeling between the two women, as Vivie tells Mr. Praed, "I hardly kno...

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

the way in which females, both girls and women, use their bodies as a means of protesting both the restrictions of patriarchy and ...

Mulan, Within the Context of Early Chinese Poetry

Allen 6). This poem clearly indicates the focus of cultural focus on women that stresses their role in terms of sexual desire an...

Socioeconomic Status of Women in A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

In six pages this paper discusses how Woolf's education and high social status influenced her views regarding working class women ...

Gender Identy as Affected by the Media and Video Gaming

A 16 page essay exploring gender roles as they are affected by the media and by video games. These influences promote aberrant vi...

Forgiveness Therapy

Forgiveness therapy is relatively new as an intervention for treating emotionally abused women. The essay provides a summary of a ...

An Early Religious Movement

The Second Great Awakening has typically been identified first as a Christian evangelical movement but it also had an impact on al...

Virgil's Aeneid and the Cost of the Roman State

Carthage queen, to fall in love with Aeneas. The entire story of Dido and Aeneas brims with fire imagery that demonstrates both Di...

Women's Roles in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Wife makes it clear that she has always enjoyed sex and this verifies the Churchs depiction of women as licentious. In fact, t...

1930s' Views on US Society and Women

proof! Look at the inroads that are being made in regard to the problem of racism! Look at the growing realization that beauty i...

Women's Rights in On Liberty and The Subjection of Women by J.S. Mill

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

Prisons and Women

placed in prison primarily for economic crimes (Anonymous, 2002). These crimes can include check forgery and illegal credit card u...

Maslow, Neuroscience and Emotion

This essay discusses several different theories and theorists include Maslow's hierarchy, Vroom's expectancy theory, Schachter and...

"The Story of an Hour," Effect of Patriarchy

This essay pertains to "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The writer presents the argument that the principal point that Chopi...

Women Earn Less Than Men

Laws were passed five decades ago that mandated equal pay for equal work. That goal has not been realized. Women still earn about ...

Culture and Illnesses

This essay discusses the most common diseases and illnesses among Muslim women. The writer points out that many of the illnesses a...