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Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

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 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...

Pleasure and 19th Century Women in the Paintings of Mary Cassatt

In seven pages this research paper examines the jouissance or pleasure artist Mary Cassatt exhibits in her 19th century Impression...

Men's and Women's Earning Power in America

that these girls and women were paid were considered high at that time. As long as labor was scarce, workers were too valuable to...

Commedia del'Arte and Cycle Plays

Noah, for example, might exhort the men on the audience to establish control over their wives whilst Noahs wife would...

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...

Labor and Public Activism of Women

duties of men" (Craik 5). Craik argued that women already had a position, a role, and a work-based duty, that was the underpinnin...

Pride and Prejudice and Women's Rights in the Nineteenth Century

There is little affection shown between the couple and one gets the distinct impression that theres was a marriage of convenience ...

'True' Womanhood Visions

who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She w...

Rebellious Femme Fatales in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

come in direct conflict with conservative convention (Bennett 219). The so-called new woman became symbolic of what the Victorian...

'Absalom and Achitophel' by John Dryden and Honesty

17th century way of saying "God told him to do it." But one of Davids progeny stood out, this being the brave...

Women and Men in the Sciences: Is There Any Difference in Ability?

cant say for certain, simply because women arent given the same opportunities as men to find out for sure. Women and Opportunities...

'The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer and Themes of Women's 14th Century Social Position

discontent with societys lopsided gender scale. The tale begins with Queen Guinevere pondering the fate of a knight who has been ...

Three Daughters of China by June Chang

became very disenchanted with what she saw. His policies stifled an entire nation, and Changs family was no different. Chang wit...

Review of Cotton Belt to Sun Belt by Bruce Schulman

in Southern states, rather than Northern ones). But Roosevelt wasnt helping the South out of the goodness of his heart - h...

Post 19th Century Indian Women and How They Have Progressed

a degree. Indian women too, however, are slowly gaining momentum in terms of equal rights. While in nineteenth century Ind...

A Century of Progress for Women from 1890 to 1990

attempt to attend Womans Medical College in Pennsylvania further supports the notion that there were areas of society in which Jan...

Comparison of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

the womens circumstances and the move to change those circumstances. Rochesters dismissal of Antoinette, her family and her commun...

Women in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell

expected to appear in the public sphere, being confined to the household, Blundell notes that they do appear in the artwork and li...

Older Women and Fertility

much wider range of lifestyle choices, and were no longer automatically expected to marry young and embark on a primarily domestic...

Hindu Society and Women's Roles

are not to be allowed any form of independence - they cannot even undertake religious fasts on their own initiative, but must join...

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...

Current Prejudices against Women in the U.S.

stereotypes about lesser female competence" (Swim et al, 1995, p. 199). Modern sexism, however, is characterized by "the denial of...