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Gender, 19th Century Medicine and "The Yellow Wallpaper"

How patriarchy influenced the treatment of women in the 19th century is the focus of this analytical paper based on Charlotte Perk...

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...

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...

The Qualities of a Citizen by Gardner

country of origin in respect to whether or not they might be breaking the law. Likely, women who might go to bars or have "loose" ...

Significance of Nineteenth Century Women

romances, and their association with violence discloses the cultural anxieties about nation-making. Samuels reads the figure of wo...

Women Leaders in 2009

to the post in 2002 for a second five-year term (Arenson, 2002). This means that at the time Arenson wrote her article, more than ...

How Women Lived in the 17th and 18th Centuries

essentially the same as they were in the colonies, aside from the fact that slaves were far more important in the colonies, or bec...

Analysis of Greek Funerary Statue

intended for this statue (Woodford, 1986). The initial response of this writer/tutor to the statue was that I was taken with the...

Separate Spheres and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Benita Eisler’s The Lowell Offering

wives of plantation owners, while the majority of them were well educated, rarely left their manicured grounds without their husba...

The Pros and Cons of Women in the Military

of things from a military perspective. There is not only the integrity of the individual and the integrity of the military but al...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Article Analysis: Women and Power

the same qualities that society considers intrinsic to, and acceptable in, women. This goes back to something that Freedman says ...

Bahrain; Women’s Rights

all elections and public referenda and [be] eligible for election to all publicly elected bodies" (quoted Sakr, 2000). Therefore, ...

Flaubert/Emma Bovary

romanticism prevents her from seeing Charles realistically prior to marriage and her failed expectations cloud her perception of h...

Representations of Black Women in Media

black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

The Value of Women's Studies

women as opposed to men. Women it seems are on the whole more interested in legislation involving the family and such issues as e...

Treatment of Women/17th Century New England

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

Discrimination Against Women in the Workplace in the Twenty-First Century

the right to vote. During the twentieth century, equality was the issue and in fact, some claim it is still an important fight. Th...

Lowell System

single location" (Francis Lowell, 2001). Contemporary commentary on the way in which Lowells first factory seemed to spring up ov...

Islamic Influence on Medieval European Women

Europeans were studying at Muslim universities, located mostly in Spain, by the 13th century (The Islamic world to 1600). Even aft...

Evolution of Women’s Roles in Society

for the most part they were not really considered citizens and were truly at the mercy of men for their survival. It was not rea...

Discrimination Of Women In Law Enforcement

so as to ensure women pass. The discriminatory nature of this approach to officer training has long fueled the debate over whethe...

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...

Women and Discrimination in the Workplace

to help the society survive, not to gain positions of power. Womens work, however, was considered just as crucial as that of the w...

Loving Differently? Men and Women

that they are to blame and are being criticized since the woman is not happy. If a woman expresses an emotion, she usually wants r...

Women in Caribbean History

women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...

Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

Women in Ancient Greece

conceive was thus a serious problem" (Women in the Ancient World). Now, of course one could also argue that this was a patriarch...

DOUBLE STANDARD BY ELLEN WATKINS HARPER

girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...