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Ancient Societies' Marital Customs

This paper contrasts and compares the marital customs and women's roles in various ancient societies in 5 pages. Five sources are...

Japan and Traditional Women's Role

This paper discusses Japan's society in terms of the role women have traditionally played such as wife, geisha, and also examines ...

Identity and Gender Reflections in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Characterizations of Ophelia and Queen Gertrude

the throne of Denmark. This is why Hamlet frequently verbally attacks his mother. Gertrudes role was expected to be that of wife...

Roles of Women in Albert Camus' Les Justes and Jean Paul Sartre's Les Mains Sales

he must assassinate Hoederer. Hoederer is a admirable Communist leader whom Hugo likes and respects for his political ideas. Hugo ...

William Shakespeare's Othello and Women

with trouble as he holds Desdemonas handkerchief. Bianca notes it and states: "O Cassio, whence came this? This is some token from...

Comparative Analysis of Women in Kung and Islamic Cultures

of the book over and over and over again. The sense of modesty is important to the people and while it is especially true for wome...

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf and Voice as a Literary Device

stone, but by the relation of human being to human being" (71). She then takes on the voice of an advocate for the rights of wome...

Women and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville

Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...

Feminist Accomplishments in Erin Brockovich and Chocolat

for how its members would be perceived -- in order to create the fervor that was ultimately produced from its presence. Thr...

Dhammapada's Social Lessons

In nine pages this paper examines women's role as conceptualized by Dhammapada in a consideration of the Buddha's 'five beauties' ...

Movies of Federico Fellini and Women's Roles

In six pages this research paper discusses the narratives in 3 movies by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini in an analysis of the ...

The Cultural Messages of "Beauty and the Beast"

to "active" and "aggressive" pursuits. This is not the model we find in Beauty and the beast. In the fairy tale itself (this expl...

Women in the American Revolution

was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...

'Hedda Gabler' and 'Phaedra'

In this 5 page paper, the heroines of the respective works are compared and contrasted particularly in terms of how they depict wo...

Women's Changing Roles and Movie Remakes

In five pages this research paper examines 3 motion picture remakes and how this reflects women's changing social roles. Six sour...

Victorian Age and Changing Women's Roles

The underclass practically disappeared (1995). While this is the case, one has to understand how gender played a part in comprehe...

Victorian England and the Differences Between Men's and Women's Roles

era was a time of cultural renewal that saw significant declines in crime and social vices ("The Big," 1998). She also notes that ...

Women's Roles in William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

husbands duty to lead his wife toward proper behavior. Inherent in the relationship between God and humanity, which the marriage ...

Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and the Role of Women

has been a "very big thing" (Axelrod, 1995, p. PG). Even just a decade ago, a Jewish womans place was still in the home, although...

Roles of Women in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

who is equal to them or perhaps wealthier than their families. Elizabeth is a woman who is not concerned with these things and fee...

Frances Heidensohn's Women in Control?

the treatment received. The work examines, as would be imagined, both the United States and Britain. According to one review of...

Contrasts and Comparisons between Medea and Clytemnestra

In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...

China and Women's Roles

but isnt any longer. As the Cultural Revolution had its impact upon Chinese society, the role of women was forever changed...

Women's Roles in India and China

have come from and where they are going. There is bound to be more change in the future for these women as barriers continue to b...

Discontent and Domesticity

their children for the world (May). This was then their own contribution to the workplace and to the national effort (May)....

Yuan Tusng Chen's The Dragon's Village

be restored to its former glory and she wants the internal civil wars to end. It is because of this constant strife that Ling-ling...

3 Works on Women's Social Role

out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...

Gertrude Stein and the Advancement of Women

of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...

Women and Buddhism

"Buddhism is horizontal or human-oriented, not vertical or God-oriented"....