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Women's Rights, Working Hours, and the 1908 Case of Muller v. Oregon

law passed in 1905 that prevented the women working for more than ten hours a day. Muller argued that this was unconstitutional, a...

Women in Politics and the Effects of Culture

to winning. One can imagine that it would take a great deal of effort for a female Buddhist or Muslim or Jew to get anywhere in p...

Trafficking of Women Yesterday and Today

gain. There are a variety of factors which impact trafficking and an understanding of a few of them will highlight the point that...

'How to Remember the Forgotten War' by Stanley Weintraub

inadequacies compiled by Weintraub is impressive. While Weintraub portrays the US as narrowly avoiding another "Dunkirk" -- tha...

'War on Drugs' and its Negative Societal Impact

that the crime that goes with it is only relevant because drugs are illegal. If drug use was decriminalized, then there would be n...

Women and Depression

by genetic make-up" (Dobson, 1997, pp. 44-45) -- and this lists but a few of many such manifestations. Depression related to eati...

Stress Resistance and a Conflict in a Women's Work and Family

included the authors need to modify the job stress portion of the study in order to separate the overlapping measures of "other ke...

African Americans and the Civil War's Effects

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

Prejudices Women Face in the U.S.

levels of power and position. It would be foolish to argue that women havent made progress, because they have, but it would also ...

Women's Struggle in the Workplace

were once again going to work for their country (not for themselves). It was during this war that women started working in the arm...

Effects of 1960s Women's Movement

today for young women, which includes access to any public format and choice of profession, is because of the success of the Women...

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...

The Evolution Of Women - Feminism

in terms of political and economic equality. We can also say that political feminism officially began with the suffragette movemen...

Political Discourses and Ethical Approaches That May Impact on Environmental Issues

capitalistic hegemony. Mainstream models such as socialism and feminism given alternative view on the political and ethical issues...

The Ideals of Feminism

This paper discusses the ideals of feminism. The author defines the movement as an act to enhance womens' quality of life by chan...

Nineteenth Century Social Movements and Christianity's Role

In five pages this paper discusses how Christianity and the Bible were used in 19th century women's suffrage and slavery movements...

Feminine Relationships in 'The Girl' by Le Sueur

In four pages this essay discusses the feminist movement in terms of the story's portrayal of women's relations and mother and dau...

Women's Movement and 'the New Feminism'

In seven pages this paper discusses the redefinition of feminism in this consideration of recent changes in the women's movement. ...

Coaching Across the Gender Gap

New ideas on gender roles espoused by the feminist movement have resulted in women taking positions that were heretofore denied th...

The Women's Movement and Abortion

This is a paper that contains five pages and discusses in an essay form the women's movement first through a brief history chronic...

Themes of the Mona Lisa Painting by Leonardo da Vinci

In five pages this paper discusses how this painting represents the 16th century European treatment of women in a consideration of...

Change Through Protest

In eight pages this paper examines social change through protest in a consideration of the civil rights and women's liberation mov...

Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

In five pages this paper examines the women's suffrage debate both in support and opposition and how the movement eventually led t...

Differing Perspectives on Russia's 1919 Women's Movement

This paper examines the 1919 women's movement in Russia from different perspectives in eleven pages. Six sources are cited in th...

Feminine Mystique of Betty Friedan and Changes in the Women's Rights Movement

mothers, others were determined that women would now enter the workforce. This struggle continued for at least a decade, subtly ma...

I've Got the Light of Freedom by Charles Payne

did extraordinary things, and were promptly forgotten or left out of the history books. Without Hamers help, hundreds of black vot...

'The World's Oldest Profession' as a Degradation of Women

degrading 5. Throughout history we have evidence of right versus wrong; of morality versus immorality 6. In this way, it...

1905 to 1918 US Women's Suffrage Movement

a place in the trades and professions... is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty" (Cullen-Dupont and Frost, 1992, p. 287)...

How Did the New Left Lead to the Rise of the New Right?

support one another, and as a result, there was great social change. Perhaps the greatest success of the New Left was the Brown v....

Women's Rights Movement Pioneers

in society. Admittedly, each of these women lived during a time in which, as Elizabeth Cady Stanton so aptly observed, men sought...