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African American Women Playwrights

In five pages the ways in which black female playwrights confront sexist behaviors and conventional stereotypes in their female ch...

The Novel Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

the determinedly conventional housewife role that her best friend, Naomi, so enthusiastically adopts and righteously defends. The...

Young Woman with a Water Jug by Jan Vermeer

In eight pages this paper examines the the life and art of Jan Vermeer with the primary focus being this painting and the female i...

Feminist Movement, Middle Eastern Women, and Gender Discourse

In twelve pages the regions of Iraq, Palestine, and Jordan are examined in a discussion of gender discourse and the feminist movem...

The Arts and Women

In five pages this paper examines female artists and their views on feminism. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Ancient Society and Women

In five pages this paper examines gender during ancient times as portrayed in The Golden Ass by Apuleius. Three sources are cited...

Overview of the Italian Renaissance and Women

spirit, in which desires intrinsic to human nature, generally repressed under medieval feudalism, burst forth with new fervor and ...

Victorian Literature and Women

In five pages this paper discusses how social commentary during the Victorian Age was expressed through female characterizations i...

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Joy Jarjo

In five pages this Native American poetry collection and its consideration of isolation and individuality are analyzed. Three sou...

Rights for Women in the 19th Century Play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

In 9 pages the feminist manifesto characteristics of this social drama by Henrik Ibsen are analyzed. There are 3 sources cited in...

Janet Wilson James' Women in American Religion

This text is reviewed in five pags. There are no other sources listed....

Odysseus and His Relations With Women as Compared with Penelope's Relationship in Homer's The Odyssey

This research report compares Penelope's relationships with that of Odysseus. How the marital relationship comes to fruition and i...

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and Classism

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Collins' representation of social class is discussed in terms of his disdain for title and rank p...

First American Woman Elected to the Royal Astronomical Society, Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming

did. In order to prove his point he actually brought Fleming into the lab, and later hired her in a clerical capacity. In 1881, m...

Crime and Women from a Feminist Perspective

This paper takes a feminist approach to female criminal behavior in five pages. Three sources are cited in the bibilography....

William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard the Third and the King's Treatment of Women

In seven pages this paper considers Queen Elizabeth, Queen Margaret, and Lady Anne in terms of how they are treated by Richard III...

Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

In a paper consisting of six pages this book is examined not only in terms of its reflection on Munro's career and style but how i...

Patriarchal Society and Violence Directed Towards Women

is an unacceptably high level of violence against women due the social structure though a patriarchal system, in the legislature a...

Patriarchy, Women, and Desdemona in Othello by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper examines the patriarchal oppression Desdemona experiences in the tragic play Othello by William Shakespear...

What Women Want

womanhood itself. Our thesis statement, for this discussion, is that the definition of womanhood is a flexible one that allows fo...

Depiction of Women in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Hippolytus by Euripides

This paper contrasts and compares the depiction of Phaedra by Euripides in Hippolytus and Penelope by Homer in 'The Odyssey' in fi...

Puig's 'Kiss Of The Spider Woman' and Laura Mulvey's 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'

the notion of female spectatorship. Psycho is a good example of this, inasmuch as Norman Bates only appears to exist secondarily ...

The Brooding Woman of Paul Gaugin

In five pages this paper analyzes the famous painting by Paul Gauguin with style, gender, social implications, and the artist's re...

Justice, Human Rights, and I, Rigoberta Menchu, An Indian Woman in Guatemala

In ten pages this paper considers justice and human rights concepts within the harrowing context of Roberta Menchu's testimony. T...

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

person who engages in the sexual fantasy "vulnerable to ideological contamination at the very moment they promise liberation" (Nor...

Feminist Utopian Literature Represented by Women on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

destroyed, and that in its place, a society based on equality and not by the limitations imposed by gender. Piercys radical views...

A Review of A Woman of Independent Means

This 7 page essay analyzes world and personal changes and eventsthat affect the character Bess Steed Garner. 1 source is cited....

God as a Woman in The Great Mother by Erich Neumann

In six pages this research paper considers the religions in which goddesses were worshipped within the context of Neumann's work w...

Family Substance Abuse, Violence, and Women

In ten pages this paper examines these issues from a social work perspective. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Intimate Strangers Men and Women Together by Lillian B. Rubin

(48). In order to become individuals in their own right, every child must make the psychological break with their mother that es...