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Essays 1801 - 1830

Women's Role and the Concept of Marriage

In eight pages this paper examines writings of St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and others in a consideration of the marriage concept an...

Former Yugoslavia and Globalisation's Political Influence

In sixteen pages this paper discusses how globalisation has influenced the former Yugoslavia with changing women's roles the prima...

Fairytale Modernization

In ten pages this paper examines the modernizing of Charles Perrault's fairytale classics including Little Red Riding Hood, Sleepi...

Gone with the Wind, Patriarchy, and Gender Roles of the Antebellum South

also of the survivors of the overall destruction of this exclusive caste system. Shortly after the initial publication of Gon...

Women's Subservience in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, and William Shakespeare's Othello

In six pages this report compares women's subservient status in each of these literary works. Eight sources are cited in the bibl...

Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days Compared

In five pages the heroes in these classic works are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Post 1970's Roles of Women

Resnick Sandler, while examining a presidential footnote on a Civil Rights amendment from 1968, discovered that President Johnson ...

Customs and Culture Associated with the Creek Indians

In twelve pages this paper discusses the detrimental cultural impact on the Creek Indians following European contact in a consider...

Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Women's Role

Christian religion is being discussed. In Catholicism and the Lutheran faiths, women are not allowed to be priests or reverends. I...

Victorian Age Hypocrisy and Advice

In five pages the hypocrisy of advice and attitudes in America during the Victorian era pertaining to women's sexuality is discuss...

Female Protagonists in God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousbane

In five pages this novel is examined in an overview that focuses upon the women's roles in the Senegal railway workers strike as w...

Symbolic Women in the Perspectives of John Stuart Mill and Melinda Vadas

In five pages this research paper assesses John Stuart Mill's attitudes about women as expressed through his writing and then disc...

Colonialism and 'Wealth of Nations' by Adam Smith

In six pages this paper examines colonialism as portrayed by Smith in his classic economics text. There are no other sources list...

Provisions of the 1998 Welfare Revision Act

In eight pages this Act is examined in terms of how it addresses rural women's needs and temporary aid to needy families. Six sou...

Popular Culture and Media Portrayals of Child Abuse

The ways in which popular culture and the media publicly portray child abuse are considered in this literature review consisting o...

PLO and Women's Role

In ten pages this paper examines the PLO in an overview of women's roles and also considers feminism. Seven sources are cited in ...

Diversity and Women's Studies

do this, do you? She would have been frowned upon, and asked, "You arent a feminist are you?" To some the thought appeared more ...

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Symbolism

In six pages this paper examines the importance of imagery and symbolism in Hurston's 1937 classic novel. Six sources are cited i...

Resistance and Stereotypes in the Poems of Grace Nichols

In five pages Grace Nichol's poetry is examined in terms of the images of resistance and stereotypes they employ with a discussion...

1958 Film Touch of Evil by Director Orson Welles

drug-trafficking case. Heston, covered in unconvincing dark makeup and no audible Mexican accent, assists Welles in the car bomb c...

My Fight for Birth Control by Margaret Sanger

In five pages this essay by Margaret Sanger is evaluated in terms of its significance regarding women's issues. Two other sources...

The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop

part of the agrarian economy (Bishop, 1987). As this brief synopsis of the beginning of Bishops test indicates, the beauty of t...

Kate Chopin Tackling Taboo and Controversial Subjects in 'The Story of an Hour, 'A Respectable Woman,' and 'Desiree's Baby'

This paper examines how women's sexuality, divorce, and miscegenation are addressed by Kate Chopin in this trio of short stories i...

Women's Roles in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

In seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...

Maternally Assessing a Pregnant Woman

This paper consisting of five pages considers such relevant pregnancy issues as breastfeeding, expectations, medications, physical...

An Overview of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the central themes of The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's classic novel about life in the Chicago ...

Societal Influence of Queen Nefertiti of Egypt

In eleven pages this paper discusses Nefertiti's influence on society in a consideration of women's roles, politics, religion, and...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Women

In five pages Circe, the Sirens, Nausikaa, Helen, Calypson, Athena, and Penelope are examined in this discussion of how women's ro...

Mozambique and the Roles of Women

This paper considers women's roles in this impoverished part of the world in five pages. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Roles of Women in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale' and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'

This paper contrasts and compares the women's roles in these two stories featured in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer in 5...