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Female Stereotypes in Post-Modern and Current Media

careerist (brunette), who slug it out on a veranda, in a lily pond, or during a mud slide .... A metaphor for the struggle between...

Social Struggles and Women in Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Charles Dickens' Hard Times, and Sarah Orne Jewett's A White Heron

Jewetts Sylvia is not far removed from the oppressive social structure Louisa is forced to endure. For Sylvia, the white heron ex...

Japanese Workplace, Opportunities for Women, and Josei Sogoshoku

In twelve pages Japan's 1986 legislation providing for equal opportunities is examined in terms of what this meant in terms of Jap...

Detrimental Factors of Females in Combat

general unpopularity of the concept of an integrated military and demonstrated problems that could result from such an integration...

Science Fiction and Gender

In eight pages this paper examines how gender influences science fiction tastes in terms of male and female preferences with a dis...

Women in Medea and Electra

This paper examines the female characterizations in Medea and Electra in five pages. There are 2 sources cited in the bibliograph...

Discovering the Women in Slavery Edited by Patricia Morton

1817. While a master could lawfully punish a slave, using his own discretion and judgment, state law established a limit and that ...

Cosmetology of Ancient Egypt

as iron oxides for cheek blush and malachite for eye shadow - a green copper ore that represented fertility - was to avail oneself...

Hormone Replacement Therapy's Risks and Rewards

hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, has its own risks associated with it (Hormone Replacement Therapy, 2002). Therefore, it is i...

Female Plantation Slaves and Deborah Gray's, Aren't I a Woman

the world. Their identities were constantly negated and they were devalued for nearly everything which they were. Contra...

Medea, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Gender Roles

dynamics of the power relationship between them is more complicated than a simple balance between active and passive: at the start...

Frida Kahlo's Colors and Artistic Intimacy

as well as her physical problems from contracting polio as a child and injuries that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925...

Computer Games and Gender Prejudice

conspicuous, while at other times remain quite subtle; however, one thing is certain: the formation of these variations originates...

Literature Review on Stress Agents

often takes more than 20 years for the effects of cigarette smoke to develop into a detectable malignancy" (p. PG). II. ADOLESCEN...

Psychoanalytical Approach to Sexual Harassment

a great factor in psychological processes, however, gender should always be of underlying notice in psychoanalytical situations. ...

Politics and Women Throughout History

that is only one aspect of politics. Again, women had smaller roles. Jeanette Rankin of Montana was elected to office in 1917, and...

Independence in 3 Works of Literature

his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 2). Women - wives, rather -...

Comparison of The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan and Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon

were women who had achieved positions of social respectability. There is admittedly little in the way of biographical information...

Female Relationships in The Color Purple

experiences with her stepfather, has a warped and hurtful view of her own sexuality. The very definition of love is foreign to her...

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...

Marion in On Tidy Endings by Harvey Fierstein and Nora in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

are both controversial in these regards. Where "A Dolls House deals with the themes of a woman fulfilling her dreams and her disho...

3 Religious Issues

women being "accepted in the diaconate which is a part of Holy Orders" (Womens Ordination Conference, n.d.; also see The Campaign ...

Motherhood According to Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...

Female Sexuality and Racial Differences

female sexuality. This fact is universal. Female sexuality threatens the male on a fundamental level. First and foremost, human be...

Comparision of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure

modest eyes" (Hardy, 2002). As this suggests, Sue was highly conflicted over gender roles from the time she was first aware them. ...

Essays on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Video, and TV

at a blackboard writing words. As soon as he completes the "d" in the last word the tape is over. The running time for the tape is...

Female Slaves and Double Prejudices

and foreign individuals felt that such conditions were powerful realities, it comes as no surprise to see some of the opposite in ...

Abortion and 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

they write: attempting to arrive at some truth about a topic. In Hemingways case, a good argument can be made for his attempt to u...

Incarcerated Women with Children and Correctional Programs

For countless numbers of women, their crime and subsequent incarceration are the outcomes of other painful life experiences. Lopez...

Harassment in the Workplace

of which include creating a more productive work environment, reducing the ever-looming threat of legal action and building a foun...